Idealog.co.nz | The Transformation Issue
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AOTEAROA’S CULTURAL GATEWAY:
Auckland Airport’s International Departure experience redesign hopes
to build for the passenger journey, represent our cultural identity,
and become a blueprint for modern airport design. The project
was completed in November and has been fronted by architecture
firms Jasmax and Gensler. It has doubled the size of the retail and
dwell component, which has been tied together by an overarching
design narrative: a journey from sea to the sky. Findlay Buchanan
chats about the new design with Jasmax architect and principal Nick
Moyes, Gensler senior associate architect John MacKenzie and the
artist behind the mana whenua narratives, Dr. Johnson Witehira.feature
how auckland international airport’s
departure experience redesign draws from
the past, while adapting to the future