An artist launched a yellow blimp in Dunedin on Monday to show the height of a controversial hotel planned for the city's waterfront.
The five-metre blimp above Steamer Basin. Photo: RNZ
A decision on resource consents for the luxury 28-storey hotel and apartment complex is expected in June.
The five-metre-high blimp hung above Steamer Basin just across the road from the hotel site.
Artist Shane McGrath of Melbourne and half a dozen helpers spent the morning filling the balloon with helium and slowly letting it rise to the height of the proposed glass tower.
Mr McGrath said the work was not a protest, but a way of provoking more debate and discussion about the project.
During hearings the resource consent panel asked for a visual demonstration of the building's height of 96 metres, but the developers refused.
