A short documentary on Waihorotiu – the stream beneath Queen St
A watery portrait of our urban landscape reveals that when it comes to our cities, there is more than meets the eye.
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A short documentary on Waihorotiu – the stream beneath Queen St
A watery portrait of our urban landscape reveals that when it comes to our cities, there is more than meets the eye.
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What was once a clean, running stream…destroyed by the Pakeha. Sad.
If we don’t get some talented young Maori artists to design ‘Horotui’ Taniwha schemes for the trains when the CRL opens we will have missed the biggest marketing and identity trick after the SkyPath.
What are underground trains more like than subterranean dragons flying through their lairs?
We need the trains themselves to do a better job of contributing to our city’s new dynamic identity than simply following secondhand British health and safety yellow regulations.
That would be truely amazing, and as a bonus would annoy all of the “not my culture” relics.
If done well, It could be utterly spectacular and contribute a lot to ridership and Auckland’s identity. (I’m thinking less of trains and more of station and tunnel design, in the vein of the Stockholm underground.)
This was something I proposed a good while back on here. Agreed it would be a great initiative and hope it happens…