Nyinkka Nyunyu Goanna Building

Nyinkka Nyunyu is a Warumungu cultural centre, and the site itself is significant – the centre takes its name from the place and was established around it. This entry states that and goes no further: the meaning of the site, and of the nyinkka, belongs to Warumungu people to explain, and the centre exists precisely so that they can.

Architecturally it belongs to a very small group in this catalogue. Almost everything here is a sculpture; a handful are buildings shaped like objects – the crocodile hotel at Jabiru, the cheese wheel at Bodalla, the wool bales at Hamilton, the corrugated-iron animals at Tīrau. This is the only one where the building's form abstracts an animal rather than replicating it, which is a considerably more sophisticated architectural proposition than a giant fibreglass shell.

Spiny-tailed goannas are common through this country and readily identified by the heavily armoured tail the architecture picks up on.

Nobody wrote down its size and the fabric of it.