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Otago Daily Times
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
'Flying theatre' thrill ride planned for Queenstown
An approved design for a flying theatre on Brecon St. PHOTO: SUPPLIED A theatre-style thrill ride is being developed for a newly consented complex in central Queenstown. Australian-based Upper Village Holdings is establishing a "flying theatre" in a three-level building on the corner of Brecon and Isle Sts — the company also developed the Upper Village entertainment precinct further up Brecon St. The development will replace two established houses on Brecon St. The resource consent refers to "an 'immersive theatre experience' involving a simulator-type ride". There's soaring demand for flying theatres — using motion-based platforms and large, curved screens to simulate the sensation of flight — in theme parks and other venues overseas, though it's thought this will be the first of its type in New Zealand. The building replaces these two established houses. PHOTO: PHILIP CHANDLER According to the resource consent application — the developer's refusing to comment at this stage — customers will first view a seven-minute "preshow", which will include a safety induction. They'll then continue in the theatre room, where the main show will also last seven minutes, during which there'll be noise from amplified speakers. "The theatre room will make up approximately half of the building itself spanning all three levels with seats at each level," the application states. Each viewing session will have a maximum 60 patrons, and the hours of operation will be 9am till 9pm seven days a week. The building design, by Warren and Mahoney Architects, doesn't have any windows or openings along Brecon St. However, interest will be created by patterned aggregate and copper fins along the facade. The glazed entrance is off Isle St and its corner with Brecon St.
NZ Herald
30-04-2025
- Business
- NZ Herald
Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZ Institute of Architects' Auckland area awards: Te Arai dune house a winner
Separately, the Herald reported in March how plans were approved for an entity linked to Rod Drury to build a partly-sunken home with a guesthouse, pool and surf shed among sand dunes at Te Arai. Those designs are also by award-winning Monk Mackenzie. That planned new home is to be built near the $200 million South Pacific golfing paradise. NZIA awards tonight also went to Hobsonville Point's new $150 million Catalina Bay apartments, the SeaLink Wynyard Ferry Terminal in the CBD and the interior of new hotel Horizon by SkyCity. All up, 36 awards were announced. Jury convenor Guy Tarrant said: 'This year's awards highlight the value architects bring to projects in response to constraints of site, size and budget'. 'These were all drivers for exceptional outcomes and a testament to the ability of architects to turn challenges into opportunities.' Winning projects also highlighted architects' continued commitment to exploring affordable housing solutions, featuring intelligent planning and innovative uses of new and sustainable materials, Tarrant said. He cited the Pocket Houses project by Dorrington Atcheson Architects. The architects had come up with a viable backyard housing model that challenged accepted norms of multi-unit housing design, he said. The Catalina Bay Apartments were praised for using the protected view shaft of a nearby trig station as the catalyst for a fragmented, stepped form that elegantly engaged its waterfront setting. Category award winners Commercial RTA Studio by RTA Studio and Jack McKinney Architects in association SeaLink Wynyard Ferry Terminal by Architectus 303 Remuera Rd by Fearon Hay Architects Horizon by SkyCity: Warren and Mahoney Architects and Moller Architects Education Pukekohe High School Learning Block by DCA Architects of Transformation AUT Tukutuku by Jasmax Manutara — Murrays Bay Primary School by Warren and Mahoney Architects Hiwa campus: University of Auckland Recreation and Wellness Centre by Warren and Mahoney Architects and MJMA Architecture & Design Toronto Heritage St Mary's Old Convent Chapel Restoration by Salmond Reed Architects Grey Lynn Public Conveniences by Matthews & Matthews Architects Housing Onetangi Cliff House on Waiheke Island by Herbst Architects Palimpsest House at Te Arai by Monk MacKenzie Sand Boxes at Piha by Herbst Maxcey Metropolitan Architects Palmers Beach House Aotea Great Barrier by Leuschke Group Architects Kawau Island House by Novak+Middleton Muriwai Farmhouse by Mercer and Mercer Architects Sefton House by Ashton Mitchell Prospect House by MAUD Bush Block by Patchwork Architecture Housing: alterations, additions Light Catcher by Jose Gutierrez Wainamu at Te Henga Bethells Beach by Bureaux Lava Flow by Pac Studio St Heliers House by Stevens Lawson Architects 19Q on Waiheke Island by SGA Strachan Group Architects Alberon by Jack McKinney Architects Housing: multi-unit Catalina Bay Apartments by Architectus One Saint Stephens in Parnell by MAP Pocket Houses at Avenue Rd by Dorrington Atcheson Architects Lightbox by Novak+Middleton Interior architecture InterContinental Hotel Auckland by Warren and Mahoney Architects Horizon by SkyCity by Warren and Mahoney Architects and Moller Architects Deloitte Auckland by Fisher Partners and Custance Associates Small project architecture Washworld by Lloyd Hartley Architects Karanga Changing Sheds by Pac Studio So Fresh, So Clean by W3 Enduring architecture The awards panel was Guy Tarrant, Andrea Bell from bell + co in Dunedin, Katrina Keshaw from Keshaw McArthur, Elspeth Gray from Roberts Gray Architects, and Jasper van der Lingen from Sheppard & Rout in Christchurch.
