The potential new owner of the Whakapapa ski field has expressed interest in operating the famous Chateau Tongariro hotel. The building located near Mount Ruapehu was shut indefinitely in February ...

Photo / Supplied Whakapapa Holdings is interested in reviving the shuttered Chateau Tongariro Hotel. The historic building is seismically unsound and has been empty and decaying for two years.

Ted Ngai is the Executive Director of Advanced Technology at Pratt Institute’s Technology Division and a Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Architecture. He has held teaching positions at ...