As the country begins the four-week Covid-19 lockdown, landscape architecture businesses around New Zealand are adapting and responding to this unprecedented event. Offices are shut and landscape architects are getting used to new ways of working.
Read MoreLandscape architects are being urged to keep it “business as usual” as much as possible by New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture’s Tuia Pito Ora president, Brad Coombs.
Read MoreAs the country, and the world, works to come to grips with the unprecedented situation currently unfolding in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic - the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora has acknowledged the challenging times we are facing.
Read MoreSince 2015 the Brick Bay Folly Competition has encouraged architects and architectural students to stretch their imaginations and design a folly - “a whimsical or extravagant structure”.
Read MoreBjorn Low is leading an urban agriculture movement in SIngapore and spoke at the NZILA Firth Conference late last year about the emergence of “food deserts” in cities and how he is working to reverse the trend.
Read MoreĀtea a Rangi, Waitangi Regional Park by Boffa Miskell and Wayfinder Landscape Planning & Strategy has won Te Karanga o te Tui category in this year’s Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards.
French landscape architect Catherine Mosbach has completed her whirlwind New Zealand speaking tour exhausted, but with a new appreciation for our food and natural landscape. All up just under 500 people attended her lectures in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch.
Read MoreApril is World Landscape Architecture Month - thanks in part to New Zealand’s very own Di Menzies. The idea of having an international month honouring the profession came about during her tenure as president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (2006 - 2010).
Read MoreLandscape assessment is a key aspect of the work of landscape architects, particularly for those whose professional life intersects with our local government planning systems governed by the Resource Management Act 1991.
Read MoreThe NZILA stands with the whole country in shock and deep sadness at the events on Friday afternoon in Christchurch. Our thoughts and sympathy are with all those affected by this tragedy.
Read MoreHowever you’ve spent the break - seaside, mountaintop, camping, glamping, baching, overseas or a staycation, for most of us it’s time (or will be soon) to knuckle down and get back to work.
Read MoreFESTA - the Festival of Transitional Architecture in Christchurch- celebrates its seventh year this Labour Weekend. To mark the occasion a team of six landscape architects have combined forces to create their own exhibition. It’s the first time that a team consisting solely of landscape architects has been involved in the festival.
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