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Construction to start on Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangarei

Work will begin on the the Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangarei on June 11. The centre will incorporate the Wairau Māori Art Gallery. (Artists' concept designs)

How the Hundertwasser Art Centre will look in situ. The artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser first designed the concept on the site of the former Northland Harbour Board building back in 1993.

The Hundertwasser Art Centre would have an afforested roof.

The afforested rooftop of the Hundertwasser Art Centre. Architectural plans were first produced in Vienna and New Zealand in 2012, based on Hundertwasser’s sketches

How the Hundertwasser Art Centre could look at night. A binding 2015 referendum saw the project revived after earlier being rejected in 2014.

Austrian/Kiwi artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser was first invited by Whangarei Mayor Stan Semenoff to design an art gallery in 1993.

Grant Faber, chair of the Whangarei Art Museum

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