GROUP 70
Group 70 International will help redesign the Papeete, Tahiti, waterfront. In the area pictured below, a wooden pedestrian bridge, rendered above, will be added.
Designing Tahiti
Group 70 takes talent to South Pacific
The waterfront of Papeete, Tahiti, will get a completely new look under a master plan being developed by the Honolulu architectural and design firm, Group 70 International. The firm was chosen in a competition judged by a panel of nine people, including Gaston Flosse, president of French Polynesia.
Francis Oda, Group 70 chairman, said the design will draw on Tahiti's extensive outrigger canoe history, creating a beach park with numerous canoe shelters and a canoe launching place. The area will feature promenades, a yacht marina, restaurants and entertainment facilities.
Group 70, which is working with a Tahiti firm Architecture Raffin Teiva, said final drawings should be done soon. Construction should start in the first quarter of 2004, according to the firm.
