The space between
Nov 07, 2021
4 minutes
Photography DAVID ST GEORGE
WHEN THE FIRST OF TWO KŌRIMURIMU was revealed in July, Mayor Phil Goff encouraged Aucklanders to lie on the flax-like surface and “breathe in the sea air, look up to the sky and hear the movement of the tide below”. Not the first thing that comes to mind to do in Te Wānanga, Auckland’s new waterfront public plaza beside the Ferry Building between Princes and Queens Wharves. But people are standing and sitting on it. Kids seem to love its bounciness. And some are lying on it – a sleeping bag was spotted in it recently.
What if a whole lot of drunken people climbed into it and went a bit crazy late
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