Whakatane Airport Terminal Whakatane

Flights between Auckland and Whakatane are serviced via Air Chathams. Other services will take you to view White Island.

Whakatane Airport is where you can find a Roger Walker designed terminal building providing a good example of his early style (1975). One of his characteristic towers is the control tower. In 2019 the building received an heritage listing. Heritage New Zealand provide a detailed story on the terminal and its place in New Zealand architecture and notes:

"It was Walker’s new architectural firm’s first commercial effort, and contains much of the architectural language that he used throughout his early career; the hybrid of colours, textures, small cellular forms, and features such as the circular block tower, the pipe windows and skylights and external cross-braces were all strong features of his work. It is representative of attempts by Walker and Ian Athfield to create a distinct and new form of New Zealand architecture, giving expression to each of the building’s multiple forms and functions, in an ergonomic fashion, unlike the open-plan model then in sway, which they pursued in both their domestic and commercial architecture."