Five years ago, when funding for the Hundertwasser Art Centre was far from given, Guy and Sandra Bowden started growing trees for the roof. It was a labour of love culminating in gifting the trees to the art centre for planting this week. There are 30 varieties of trees including the exceedingly rare Pennantia baylisiana. […]
One of the exciting features of the Hundertwasser Art Centre is the unique tiling. TVNZ has just released new footage showing the progress on the building and the tiling
Hundertwasser project moving ahead with confidence
The fundraising teams led first by Prosper Northland Trust and now Whangarei Art Museum have raised money for the Hundertwasser Art Centre with Wairau Maori Art Gallery from government, as well as from private and public charities, businesses, personal donations and sales. The construction is at an advanced stage, with tiling and brick work underway. […]
Unexpected design changes and related costs are behind a construction budget over-run of $4 million on the Hundertwasser Art Centre with Wairau Māori Art Gallery, in Whangārei’s Town Basin. The $26.5 million project, which is run by the Whangārei Art Museum Trust, an independently governed Council-controlled organisation, is due for completion in March 2021, with […]
Kathleen Drumm, our new Chief Exective in the media
Kathleen Drumm has been getting her feet firmly settled under her desk as the HAC’s new chief executive. She comes to us from the Toronto International Film Festival where she had been the Industry Director leading a team of up to 40 staff working with film executives, media and filmmakers from the global industry. […]
Local photographer Sue Shepherd has been taking pictures of the build since the first sod was turned. One of her photos was recently selected to be included in the New Zealand Camera Book 2019… and we can see why! It was taken as the team were preparing to sink the piles for the building into […]
The HAC is not the only exciting building project going on in Whangarei right now. Work is about to begin on the interactive sculptural Camera Obscura project. Sited on The Hatea Loop walk near the award winning Te Matau ā Pohe Bascule Bridge, visitors will enter into a camera obscura room where the bridge and […]
Photos of the column production in Germany are beginning to pop up on our facebook page HundertwasserHQ. These columns are designed by Hundertwasser and produced by his partner of many years for all ceramic used in Hundertwasser architecture projects around the world. They are being hand produced by Ebinger-Schnass family enterprise now in their third […]
The foundations are finally completed! The final foundation work was done on the bottom of the ramp that goes to the café and the loading bay ramp (next to Dent St). You may have understood these to have been completed a few months back however what has remained are the ground beams that link the […]
The iconic nature of what will soon be New Zealand’s newest art gallery has lured home a globally influential arts executive, after ten years abroad. Kathleen Drumm is leaving her role as Industry Director for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), to lead Whangarei’s HUNDERTWASSER ART CENTRE with Wairau Māori Art Gallery. She will take […]
