Designaz xWHAT_architecture Collaboration: The America’s Cup is the pre-eminent global spectacle of boatmanship, so why should the attendant architecture remain landlocked and ground-based? Embracing the same desire for innovation as that evident in the Emirates Team NZ boat, our stage for watching sailing allows for enhanced spectatorship. This is the Royal NZ Yacht Squadron demonstrating naval architecture. By re-cycling an offshore platform, NZ can once again innovate and provide a sustainable yet memorable ‘grandstand-on-the-sea’ experience complete with a hotel, bars, restaurants and of course a helipad.