LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AOTEAROA

Long Bay development - an integrated urban form

The Long Bay development involves the urbanisation of a large-scale landholding by a single developer in a sensitive natural environment.

Communities, EcologyKathleen KinneyJuly 30, 2019Boffa Miskell

Eco-visionary Antwi Akom coming to New Zealand

Antwi Akom is the Co-Founder and CEO of Streetwyze. Antwi’s presenting at the 2019 NZILA Firth Conference.

Communities, NZILA Firth Conference, PeopleGuest UserJuly 23, 2019Antwi Akom

The changing face of 'senior living'

With life expectancy continuing to rise, and evolving views on what life after retirement looks like, it’s no wonder that today’s aged-care residences are a far cry from those of twenty, or even ten, years ago.

Communities, DesignKathleen KinneyJuly 11, 2019Senior Living

Rice paddy on World Trade Centre

A living three tier rice paddy isn’t what you expect to find in the centre of New York city. But there it is, a growing art installation on the World Trade Centre campus.

Communities, World Trade CentreGuest UserJuly 2, 2019Harvest Moon Festival

San Francisco's fog provides inspiration

San Francisco is well known for its fog, and it’s that weather pattern that provides the design inspiration for the award winning Helen Diller Civic Centre playgrounds.

Communities, VideoGuest UserJune 27, 2019SanFrancisco

Bjorn Low - master of the edible garden city

Through Edible Garden City, Bjorn Low has been leading a grow-your-own-food movement to change the Singaporean mindset around farming. He will be presenting at the 2019 NZILA Firth Conference.

Communities, Garden, PeopleGuest UserJune 6, 2019Edible

Health in the city - cultivating a more humanistic urbanism

Cities are systems in which the people are meant to thrive, but Isthmus creative director David Irwin says the design of them is instead accentuating many of the human ailments, such as stress, anxiety and depression.

Communities, DesignGuest UserMay 31, 2019Designing Cities

Washington's Chinatown Green St - a smart street concept

The American Society of Landscape Architects’ Chinatown Green Street demonstration project, in downtown Washington, D.C., is a testing ground for advanced “green,” “complete,” and “smart” street concepts.

Communities, VideoGuest UserMay 13, 2019

Jane's Walk - a chance to learn the history of your neighbourhood

On the first weekend of May every year, Jane’s Walk festivals take place in hundreds of cities around the world.

Communities, Urban PlanningGuest UserMay 2, 2019Jane's Walk Festival

A "club sandwich" approach to seniors in Singapore

WOHA have created a one-stop integrated complex for seniors in Singapore, maximising land use by layering different functions into what the architect describes as a ‘club sandwich’ approach.

Communities, DesignJessica WatsonApril 3, 2019Seniors

Papakainga Housing - a Taupo case study

Papakāinga. It’s a traditional form of whānau-based communal living on ancestral Māori land that I strongly believe in; in terms of whānau support and well-being. I can’t help but feel passionate about it. So, when a papakāinga project in the Taupō District came up for a Tūrangi-based whānau, I jumped at the opportunity to be part of the project team.

Communities, PapakāingaKara ScottFebruary 5, 2019Taupō

A public intervention in Marlborough

Pause Park is the first permanent intervention to be delivered as part of a programme of public realm upgrade works in Renwick, a small semi-rural township in the ‘heart of Marlborough's wine country’.

CommunitiesDen AitkenJanuary 25, 2019Pause Park, Marlborough

Taihape works to shake off its 'gumboot' image

Taihape - the gumboot capital of the world! At least that’s what the publicity has screamed for the last thirty-odd years. But now locals and the Rangitikei District Council want everyone to know there’s a lot more to tempt tourists off State Highway 1 and into the rural settlement than an affinity with rubber boots.

Communities, Natural EnvironmentGuest UserJanuary 23, 2019Taihape, Isthmus

An abandoned industrial landscape is repurposed in New York

One of New York’s newest waterfront parks is providing residents and visitors to Queens with a retreat where they can connect with nature at the water’s edge.

Communities, EcologyJessica WatsonJanuary 22, 2019New York, Queens

Te Ana Marina - inspired by the past

The story of Lyttelton township and harbour goes back hundreds of years. Whakaraupō – Lyttelton Harbour is recognised as having a rich history of Ngāi Tahu land use and occupancy, and Lyttelton Port is the site where the first European settlers arrived in Canterbury.

Communities, HeritageGuest UserDecember 4, 2018Te Ana Marina

Why rebuild when you can reimagine?

As a designer it is hard to admit that design is not always the best solution for a degraded public space. The process of design is rewarding both professionally and personally, as designers we like to be seen as the creative solution-provider, especially if it publishable or award winning work. “Brilliant designer saves a community with imaginative new rethink of an old tired space,” is always rewarding reading.

Communities, DesignCraig PocockDecember 3, 2018Public spaces

Getting communities onside for big infrastructure projects

The Waterview Connection was recently awarded a Purple Pin at the 2018 Best Design Awards, with judges saying the project set a new standard of aspiration for future infrastructure projects in the transport sector.

Infrastructure, CommunitiesTom LockeNovember 30, 2018Waterview Tunnel

Kōrero shaping Wellington

Talk Wellington is essentially a vote of confidence in Wellington region citizens. Our hypothesis is that over the next few years we will start to see thousands of people being empowered by good information and helping shape our streets, towns and cities for the better

Communities, OpinionIsabella CawthornNovember 20, 2018Wellington