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.
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Designs for what’s being touted as the world’s first climate-resilient floating city have been unveiled. The project’s being developed by UN-Habitat, tech company OCEANIX and the Korean city of Busan.
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Solar Cupola, the Bjarke Ingels Group-designed research centre for the European Commission in Seville, Spain, boasts a cascading rooftop covered in photovoltaics to achieve maximum energy efficiency and life cycle sustainability.
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The Tower of London’s moat will become a sea of wildflowers next year to celebrate Queen Elisabeth’s 70-year reign.
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An ambitious plan to regenerate a polluted Auckland waterway has been recognised at this year’s Asia Pacific International Federation of Landscape Architects awards.
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Waka Kotahi’s dumping of a major roading infrastructure project in South Auckland was the catalyst for a “radical new” approach to living in the latest Winton housing development.
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PlayLab and Family’s design for +POOL has been approved by Manhattan city planners 10 years after it was first proposed.
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Andy Hamilton has never visited one of his favourite projects. But he hopes to take his family there on holiday one day. It’ll take a bit of planning to get there - over 13,000 km away from Auckland to the fishing village of Kizimkazi in Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean.
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Two years ago Riverside Park in New York had a problem with invasive weeds in an inaccessible part of the park. The solution? - Goats. And now the animals are back to do their best against the weeds once again.
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On the 113-acre site where the Silver Oak vineyards now stand, Zinfandel vines have grown since the 1880s.
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A trans-disciplinary team coordinated by Carlo Ratti Associati has won the Helsinki Energy Challenge with their design for a series of islands, storing thermal energy and acting as a hub for recreational activities.
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Landscapes of extraction are the undeniably baneful result of a global resource-exploitation economy, yet they are readily denied by policymakers and governmental bodies as having value beyond being ‘green-washed’.
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MVRDV’s Timber Headquarters would have been the world’s largest timber building.
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Bjarke Ingels Group has designed the world’s most sustainable furniture factory for the heart of the Norwegian forest.
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A special crane’s been used to hoist 75 large birch trees 35 metres into the air and on to the roof garden of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
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Wearing your food - isn’t that the ultimate in self sufficiency? Especially when you fertilise it using your own body’s waste. Landscape architecture professor Aroussiak Gabrielian has created the world’s first wearable, edible vest, which can grow a variety of fresh plants.
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An Auckland Council Healthy Waters project in Mt Roskill has won Boffa Miskell the Sustainability Category at this year’s Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards.
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Henriquez Partners Architects, along with PFS Landscape Architects, have designed a mixed-use development for Vancouver, featuring sprawling green space and 10 tree-topped towers.
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