Ōtāhuhu Station

Tihe mauri ora – Ōtāhuhu Station. It is a pleasure to congratulate the transport authority, local Iwi, and landscape architects, for their foresight to celebrate travel in such a symbolic and romantic fashion.

The design team expertly weaved together multiple cultural and historic narratives, all whilst navigating a raft of complicated technical planning issues required for this complex site. The offset diagonal in the landscape planning is a cleverly effective intervention; it sets up distance – and from there – the ability to provide this heroic and celebratory response to travel. From this vantage, multiple layers of meaning are peeled back, progressively, to add to the experience and excitement of visitors.

Article in NZ Herald, 19 April 2017 - click here to read