‘This is our beautiful castle’: the stunning new buildings expressing Māori pride
25-03-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com

‘This is our beautiful castle’: the stunning new buildings expressing Māori pride

From facial tattoos to TV stations, young Māori are enthusiastically embracing tribal cultural identity in Aotearoa New Zealand. Now a new wave of Indigenous architects are making their markA bright red ribbon of metal buckles out of the ground in suburban Auckland, ramping up at a sharp angle before cranking over in a lopsided arc. It frames a big glass wall, folded in a diagonal crease, whose striped surface is covered in a riot of patterns, with abstract motifs of waves, fish and stars s
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