dc.contributor.advisor |
Treadwell, S |
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dc.contributor.author |
Lim, Ji Hye |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2016-05-08T21:21:12Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2015 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
2015 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/28785 |
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dc.description |
Full text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only. |
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dc.description.abstract |
The recently proposed agenda of the hotel in Wynyard Quarter that aims to achieve “luxury on a scale never seen before in Auckland”1 was the genesis of my thesis on luxury. It is almost impossible not to recognise the prevalence of the label ‘luxury’ in advertising because, to the minds of public in general, the term ‘luxury’ is associated with exclusivity, instigating people’s desires. The word luxury has become so ubiquitous that it has lost its original meaning. This thesis tests the validity of the word ‘luxury’ in the current proposal of the hotel on Wynyard Quarter. Traditionally, hotels were a tool to make a forceful statement about power, status and social organisation. The concept of luxury played a crucial role in addressing those values of the rich. Luxury hotels of Gilded Age New York were considered “the material manifestation of an industrial society that encouraged the transitive quest for social status, comfort and happiness through ostentatious display and consumption.”2 Hotels are still, in many ways, the material manifestation of our seemingly neo-liberal, materialistic society, and luxury is a precondition for political, cultural and social engagement with the city. Hotels are “extremely complicated buildings – materially, socially and culturally.”3 Until the establishment of the Waldorf-Astoria, “the first class hotels of the 1890s thrived on a vision of excess and luxury.”4 Known as the mother of the modern hotel, the Waldorf-Astoria triggered the transition between 19th century ‘gilt palaces’ and 20th century commercial hotel architecture.5 With the development of hotel architecture, luxury has come to have a new meaning with our built environment in the 21st century. According to James B. Twitchell, our love affair with luxury is the natural behaviour caused by the Industrial Revolution, modern capitalism and marketing. |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Masters Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA99264847908302091 |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights |
Restricted Item. Available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/ |
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dc.title |
Auckland’s Love Affair with Luxury |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Architecture (Professional) |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The Author |
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pubs.elements-id |
527506 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2016-05-09 |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112909652 |
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