Explore the Cultural Landscape

Olympic Park New Lynn

"Here’s what I like: people being awesome. Here’s what I hate: people stuck in boxes..."

Learn more from James Littlewood about Olympic Park.... 

The Tannery - Woolston Tanneries

The Tannery at Woolston could be held up as an example in architectural upcycling, the success of this abandoned industrial block as a shopping destination borne out in regeneration of the surrounding suburb. The origins of the tannery s...

Tepid Baths and Fitness Club - Auckland

Auckland’s Tepid Baths is a model of resilience, not only as architecture but as a meeting place and an amenity for the social good....

Birdlings Flat - Te Mata Hapuku

Wild, windswept and teeming with semi-precious stones and fossils... 

Mt Wellington - Maungarei

Young for a volcano (10,000 years old) but dormant just the same, Mount Wellington/Maungarei is the largest of Auckland's Volcanic cones. Visitors can go up Maungarei Drive in their vehicles or walk up the side of the cone. ....

Jacks Bay Blowhole

There is a blowhole here.

Queens Arcade

One abreast, just a tad slow, it gracefully takes you up just one flight, to a quieter level of offices, travel agents, tailors and an unexpected grand piano.

Tarikaka Settlement - Ngaio

The Tarikaka Settlement in Ngaio, Wellington, is where the humble New Zealand railway house has reached it's zenith, as a desirable ......

David Lange Memorial

Fittingly David Lange's memorial is in Otahuhu; the multi-ethnic area where he was born and which he represented in Parliament. Conceived as an outdoor room it includes a vessel (boat) form referencing the Otahuhu portage route between t...

Tophouse Historic Inn

A historic 1887 Inn in the scenic mountain town of St Arnaud. The reasons Heritage New Zealand have chosen this little button of a building as a category one historic place are many and one of the reasons is unusual and macabre. Being a ...