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Announcement

A New Front Door

Thiago Amaral18 July 2026
A New Front Door

Tohu Heritage has a new front door. The homepage at tohuheritage.nz now opens with a short, cinematic sequence before settling into the map of places we're documenting, a first impression that tries to feel like the sites themselves: considered, a little quiet, and built to last.

The old homepage jumped straight into the map. That was useful, but it didn't leave much room to say why any of this exists. The new version does one thing first: it asks you to pause for a moment on the places we're trying to protect, before handing you the map to go explore them yourself.

Nothing about how we document a building has changed. What's changed is how we introduce it. You can still jump straight to the map if that's what you're here for.

Every place we document today is one future generations won't have to imagine. The new homepage is a small reminder of that, before you even get to the sites.

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