Thirteen architects from around the world will congregate in New Zealand this week to develop a concept hotel incorporating wool.
Thirteen architects from around the world will congregate in New Zealand this week to develop a concept hotel incorporating wool. NZ Herald
The 13 architects - from the US, Germany, Japan, UK, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark- will be joined by a New Zealand architect to take part in a challenge to design a concept hotel complex, which would incorporate wool in every possible respect.
The project was conceived by German-based AIT Online architecture magazine and would be hosted by the National Council of New Zealand Wool Interests.
National Council chairman Stephen Fookes said the project wanted to raise the profile of wool as an interior textile, "or re-introduce it as an interior textile, create awareness and increase the demand of New Zealand wool as an interior textile not only into existing areas where it traditionally fits but new areas as well."
Architects will work in small groups on specific areas of the concept hotel with a presentation in Christchurch on Tuesday.
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Architects need more wool too.
perhaps they could look at our waterfront while they are down here?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10636755
once they have done with their knitting and conquered the waterfront their is always the leaky building project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=658BroGG7lM
actually while in Christchurch they could take their yarn over to... http://www.soac.org.nz/
Yes ....New Zealand architecture needs more than a symposium on knitting to gain any kind of relevance.
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