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The on-again, off-again plan to build the controversial last Friedensreich Hundertwasser-designed building in the world in Whangarei is close to going ahead now much of the cost of the $20.97 million ...

Te Hononga, Hundertwasser Memorial Park, in Kawakawa took out the Innovation Award and a Gold award at the NZ Commercial Project Awards on Friday. Two Northland buildings dedicated to Austrian artist ...

The future of Friedensreich Hundertwasser's last unbuilt work -- a proposed Art Center for Whangarei, New Zealand-- hangs in the balance and will be decided next week by a referendum. The center, ...

The on/off Hundertwasser Art Centre planned for Whangarei got a giant boost yesterday when the government offered $4 million to help build it as part of a new Northland economic development plan.

Investigations into the proposed Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangarei by high-powered international consultancy Deloitte have shown it would create 32 jobs and make cash surpluses of more than ...

ART APPRECIATION: Whangarei artist Barbara O'Sullivan with some of the Hundertwasser-themed art on display at the former Northland Regional Council building. PHOTO/MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM Schools have been ...

JEJU ISLAND -- Before three-wheeled electric cars and its natural and unkempt landscape raised its profile as a go-to tourist destination, Udo -- a small resort island just east of Jeju Island -- had ...