Groundbreaking storytelling with a sculpture park you can drive through
Te Ahu a Turanga is a new $824 million 11.5-kilometre four-lane highway connecting the Lower North Island East to West. It opened this week.
And not only is it an impressive bit of infrastructure, replacing the old Manawatū Gorge Road, it is, in effect an enormous sculpture park you can drive through.
Through art, design, pattern and planting it places a cloak across the land, including references in sculpture to instruments of weaving.
Weaving is an apt metaphor because not only is the road a connector but Te Ahu a Turanga has seen five Iwi come together for the first time, and woth Waka Kotahi its involved a roading partnership touted as a benchmark for co-design.
The art itself is also a collaboration - between artists Warren Warbrick, Sandy Adsett, and James Molnar.
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In the rohe or area of iwi Rangitāne, their passion for history and placemaking is conveyed through music, performance, writing about history and significant public art projects.
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Groundbreaking storytelling with a sculpture park you can drive through
Te Ahu a Turanga is a new $824 million 11.5-kilometre four-lane highway connecting the Lower North Island East to West. It opened this week. And not only is it an impressive bit of infrastructure, replacing the old Manawatū Gorge Road, it is, in effect an enormous sculpture park you can drive through. Through art, design, pattern and planting it places a cloak across the land, including references in sculpture to instruments of weaving. Weaving is an apt metaphor because not only is the road a connector but Te Ahu a Turanga has seen five Iwi come together for the first time, and woth Waka Kotahi its involved a roading partnership touted as a benchmark for co-design. The art itself is also a collaboration - between artists Warren Warbrick, Sandy Adsett, and James Molnar. Our Culture 101 guests Warren and Virginia Warbrick collectively call themselves Toi Warbrick. In the rohe or area of iwi Rangitāne, their passion for history and placemaking is conveyed through music, performance, writing about history and significant public art projects.
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A monumental sculpture park you can drive through
Te Ahu a Turanga is a new $824 million 11.5-kilometre four-lane highway connecting the Lower North Island East to West. It opened this week. And not only is it an impressive bit of infrastructure, replacing the old Manawatu Gorge Road, it is, in effect an enormous sculpture park you can drive through. Through art, design, pattern and planting it places a cloak across the land, including references in sculpture to instruments of weaving.
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Auckland Airport Domestic Terminal in January 2022. Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly Auckland Airport has confirmed that an electrical fault impacted an airbridge last weekend, causing it to not connect with the side of an aircraft. However, the airport said it did not lead to any safety concerns and resulted in only a one-hour delay. On 8 June, an airbridge at the Auckland domestic terminal experienced an electrical fault, impacting the canopy at one end of the airbridge. No members of the public were on the airbridge at the time. "Passengers on an arriving Jetstar flight were able to exit the aircraft via stairs rather than walking directly onto the airbridge and experienced no delays," a spokesperson said. "The fault resulted in a one-hour delay for a later departing aircraft." Jetstar told RNZ that the airbridge was unable to extend and make contact with the side of their aircraft. "For safety reasons, customers disembarked the inbound flight and boarded JQ295 using the rear stairs." Jetstar will often board and disembark from both the front and the rear of some aircraft. The departure of a flight from Auckland to Queenstown was delayed by approximately one hour which flowed on to delaying a subsequent flight out of Queenstown back to Auckland. Auckland Airport said it was committed to maintaining its airbridges to high standards, and they were subject to frequent planned inspections by engineers with regular maintenance and upgrades being carried out as part of an ongoing programme of work. "We also have an established programme of airbridge renewal and replacement, with two new airbridges purchased in the last year." A spokesperson said when airbridges experienced faults, the airport's priority was ensuring the safety of travellers and workers, while working to fix the airbridges as quickly as possible. "Some of the older airbridges at the domestic terminal are planned for replacement when the new domestic jet terminal opens in 2029 and will be maintained in accordance with rigourous operational and maintenance standards until that time." Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
