Up, up, and away - build progress at Te Unua Museum of Southland

The structure of Te Unua Museum of Southland has begun to take shape, with a flurry of work on the western building – that will comprise the facility’s experience spaces – tracking well.

The western building will be home to a whopping 1408m2 of experience space, as well as staging, storage, workshop, and servicing areas.

About half of the concrete precast panels that will form the exterior of the western building have been installed – mainly to the north and south – while the bulk of its flooring has been poured, and reinforcing well underway.

Also looming on the horizon is work on the multi-storey building to the east which will be connected to the western exhibition hall with a foyer featuring the striking double-hulled waka – or te unua – that gives the museum its name.  

By Easter, all of the precast panels on the west building will be in place with all concrete floors poured. For the east building structural steel framework will be underway, which will start to show the shape of the upper levels to come.