Home FAQ Contact Search

Hawai‘i - Buildings and Structures

• subtopics
  • Telescopes and Observatories
  • Airports and Airlines
• related page: Art List

• typical buildings
  • it would useful to have a set of "typical" buildings, to be distributed onto the terrain in places where we know a building is, but don't know what exact type of building
  • one possible source might be to ask 3D-CAD enabled local architects for models

• archaeological sites?
  • possible resource: Virtual Worlds in Archaeology Initiative

• hotels?

• other unique buildings
  • the Frank Lloyd Wright Home in Waimea, housing the New Millennium Institute

• pictures of big island buildings from the Big Island Film Office

• parks
  • Waimea Nature Park, 'Ulu La‘au'

• lighthouses
  • book resource: "The Lighthouses of Hawai‘i", by Love Dean, 1991, amazon link
  • The island of Hawai‘i has around 9 significant remaining lighthouses: Coconut, Honokahou, Ka Lae Point, Kauhola, Kawaihae, Kbay, Keahole Point, Kumukahi, Mahukona.
  • May 2003 or earlier, assembled a quick little model of Mahukona lighthouse in MAX:
    
    Precise WGS84 location?
  • A few are on Lighthousefriends.com (photos, descriptions, travel directions, and GPS coordinates for lighthouses in the United States)
    • on the big island: Cape Kumukahi, Kauhola Point