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Garth Falconer reflects on a visit to Becroft House in Takapuna as an “opportunity to experience how wonderful and complete residential life could be through the lens of 50 and 60 years ago”. A seminal landscape intact for the last time.
Helen Kerr, principal landscape architect and urban designer at Isthmus, shared comparative stories about three Aotearoa towns at the 2024 World Green Infrastructure Congress earlier this year.
The cumulative impact of logging, even when certified, raises significant concerns about the long-term sustainability of the Amazon Rainforest. Martin Thompson, of LMA Timber, offers his viewpoint on certification systems.
Landscape architects seeking insights into Auckland’s vulnerability to flooding, and city-improving responses, recently found a new way to gain firsthand inspiration: They hopped on a bus for the Sponge Project Tour!
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We’ve all heard about liveable cities, as well as cyclable, walkable and runnable cities. So why not Swimmable Cities?
Organisers of the Paris Olympics have certainly lived up to their 2024 motto of Games Wide Open (Ouvrons grand les Jeux) and it’s not all about the sport.
A new industry-led initiative that aims to reduce the environmental impact of Aotearoa New Zealand’s buildings, which contribute up to 20 per cent of the national carbon footprint, was announced yesterday at Parliament.
Auckland Stadium at Quay Park by HKS, in Auckland, New Zealand, also known as Te Tōangaroa, is one of 33 future projects that have been announced as winners of this year’s World Architecture Festival WAFX Awards.
Working together, Boffa Miskell ecologists and landscape architects have devised ways to provide bat-friendly connections in a new Hamilton housing development.
Claire Martin presented at the 2024 NZILA Wānanga on the topic of "Mobile Urban Generalists: A Case for Curiosity and Optimism."
Marina Cervera recently spoke at the NZILA Wānanga about the ongoing evolution of Barcelona's urban landscape.
The Aotearoa Aotearoa Urban Street Planning and Design Guide was awarded the NZILA Charlie Challenger Supreme Award — 2024 at the NZILA Resene Awards in May 2024.
The Rotorua Lakefront Development won the NZILA Category - Parks, Open Spaces and Recreation Award as well as the George Malcolm Supreme Award at the 2024 NZILA Resene awards ceremony.
If landscape architecture can be described as a genre, then Mike Hewson’s mahi exists in a genre-bending space.
Landscape architects seeking insights into Auckland’s vulnerability to flooding, and city-improving responses, recently found a new way to gain firsthand inspiration: They hopped on a bus for the Sponge Project Tour!
Bruno Marques' term as IFLA President will be continuing through to 2026. After returning to Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington from the 60th IFLA World Congress held in Istanbul, Bruno reflects on his time in the role since 2022 and shares some of his thoughts and aspirations.
Steve Mushin - multi-talented designer, illustrator and inventor - is introducing thousands of children around the world to the words ultrawild and ultrawilding.
Through a selection of three of her personal ‘mantras’, Haylea Muir - Principal, Landscape Architecture at Isthmus - makes a compelling case that designing for kids is an "open gateway" for connecting land, people and culture.
We’ve all heard about liveable cities, as well as cyclable, walkable and runnable cities. So why not Swimmable Cities?
Finalists from the Te Nohonga Toru design challenge have now been constructed and are on show at Takutai Square, Britomart until the first week of October.
Cathy Challinor, a Kaihoahoa Whenua at Boffa Miskell, shares her thoughts on deeper understandings of memorialisation, and a growing awareness of "the complexity of the symbolism that memorials contain or omit".
This time last year, student Hannah Merrett-Kaufman could not have foreseen just how far afield her landscape architecture studies would take her.
Luoyun ‘Fish’ Lee, a senior landscape architect at Bespoke, shares her experience on the Te Kapua Playground project in Tūrangi - a co-recipient of Te Karanga o te Tui Award at the 2024 Resene NZILA Awards.
Cyclone Gabrielle sparked Ava Roimata Wright’s journey into her Master of Landscape Architecture research.
The consequences of climate change – heavy rainfall events, heatwaves and droughts – pose major challenges for urban areas in particular, and require new urban adaptation measures. There is an urgent need for innovative greening concepts on the one hand, and integrated rainwater management on the other hand.
Paving the way in shaping New Zealand’s urban enviroments, Urban Group is committed to forward-thinking and sustainable solutions that reduce the construction industry’s carbon footprint.
Space to play, explore, interact and grow is a universal need, but there’s no such thing as one-size-fits-all when it comes to playground design.
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