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Chris Valenduuk and team architectural, MWD-PD.
Commissioned 1961. 112 MW for fifty years.
Now uncared for, the modern architecture was of remarkably leading design for the time. The emphasis on human values hand-in-hand with the industrial engineering, and the manipulation of scale as an architectural tool were important features of the design treatment. Care in large-scale landscaping integrated the man-made forms with the existing terrain and plant material. Eye-level windows, open balconies and walkways with an uninterrupted awareness of surrounding landscape, combined with the use of indigenous materials, produced a working architectural statement which fused technical engineering and human aspects. The architects were part of a professional multi-discipline team working in the long-term public interest. They were disbanded by short-term politicians two or three decades later. Today, buildings like Ohakuri and Huntly show sad lack of architectural care, with amateur building alterations and degredation. Irresponsible politics.
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1960/61.
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Penstocks from lake dam left.
Turbine Hall left-centre.
Admin/control far right-centre.
Discharge and Waikato River right.
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Copyright drawing.
Pencil sketch, architectural design detail, end corner of Ohakuri hydro power station, Waikato, New Zealand.
One of a series of hydro power-stations on the Waikato River. Designed in Wellington, Ohakuri commissioned in 1961. End of turbine hall.
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A dozen earlier photos of Huntly architectural in Set:
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Family of Forms over time:
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