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.
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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.
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Heather Wilkins, WSP Principal Landscape Architect, reflects on her involvement in the research report Sponge Cities: Can they help us survive more intense rainfall? and describes it as an "affirming experience". Sponge Cities won the Research and Communication category of the 2024 Resene NZILA Awards.
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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.
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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".
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This talk provides an overview of the state of the landscape architecture profession and introduces the critical role that landscape architects play in advancing the profession by demanding the highest standards of education, training, research and professional practice
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Researchers from NIWA are developing the first, nationally consistent flood inundation hazard and risk assessment for New Zealand. It’s vital research that’s revealing how changing rainfall patterns, rising
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We need to change the way we use our land if we are to hold the line on environmental quality, let alone improve it. In Aotearoa New Zealand, land use has been changing since humans first arrived, and it continues today - Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.
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NZILA Category Winner - Enduring Landscape - Aoraki Mount Cook VIllage awarded to Chris Glasson, in recognition of the many who have planned, designed and managed the Village and the Aoraki Mt Cook World Heritage Site to achieve an enduring landscape.
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Green spaces in the cities of Aotearoa New Zealand are declining. That has consequences for the environmental services they provide.
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In its first 100 days the Government has clearly outlined what it considers are its key mandates in regard to the environment, and how it sets to address them.
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“Landscape architects have started conversations about embodied carbon. There is a realisation that we can no longer ignore the grey parts,” said Stephanie Carlisle, Senior Researcher of the University of Washington.
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The main goal of the Stantsionna Gradina project was to turn the desolate and infamous garden into a place full of various functions and entertainment.
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When we think of infrastructure, we often imagine concrete, steel, and asphalt - the building blocks of our cities and communities. But in Malaysia, a new trend is taking shape, one that incorporates nature and the environment into the built world.
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Kinder Land Bridge and Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Prairie is found at the heart of Memorial Park, spanning over the park’s most divisive feature, Memorial Drive.
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The "Bobrowisko" project was created to make unique space - the area of a former gravel pit, transformed by natural succession - fully accessible.
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Churchill Park within the East Auckland suburb of Glendowie is managed as a "countryside in the city", stretching 40 hectares.
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Setting out on a four-day hike along the central section of this dramatic new walk, a group of landscape architects and spatial designers encounters a trail design well grounded in place.
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Henning Larsen Country Market Director, Leonard Ng, has been recognized as Designer of the Year.
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Te Manawataki o Te Papa is a reimagined activity-based precinct with a broad range of civic buildings and community gathering spaces at the heart of Tauranga.
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