As we begin the final countdown to Christmas and get set for the long days of a kiwi summer holiday there’s time to reflect on the year that was for the landscape architecture profession.
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There’s no snow or Santa in artist Charlotte Graham’s stunning Christmas installation at Auckland’s Britomart precinct. The brief was to reflect a southern hemisphere summer festive season and the result is an evocative ground-based piece winding its way through the nine Britomart blocks.
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The Government is today expected to announce a shortlist of designs for the National Erebus Memorial.
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For one night over Labour Weekend, Mollet Street, a new linear park and laneway area in central Christchurch and the surrounding sites, became a hub of activity. Temporary architectural installations and lighting, food, dancing and a variety of different activities brought the space vividly to life.
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Sydney’s Ian Potter Children’s WILD PLAY Garden has been named a winner in Australia’s 2018 National Landscape Architecture awards
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Onehunga Wharf has been bought by Auckland Council as it promises to redevelop it in a way that rivals the city’s Wynyard Quarter.
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Landscape architects dwg. have won the 2018 Texas ASLA Merit Award for “Fareground at One Eleven Congress” in Austin.
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As urban populations swell, cities face a fundamental question: should they go up - or go out? Which is the best way to manage growth? And can you increase density without compromising social or environmental outcomes?
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Wellington’s proud of its reputation for embracing diversity. And it’s gone all out to prove it’s “walking the talk” by installing a Rainbow Crossing in the central city.
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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.
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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.
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.
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A private inner-city laneway recently became a place of transformation, converted into a lively and community focused event space in the heart of Tauranga’s CBD.
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Auckland’s Queen Street, is set to welcome pedestrians as part of the city centre’s transformation
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How do you build cities or even a single house on Mars when you don’t have access to the construction materials we enjoy on Earth? That’s the dilemma NASA put to 18 international design teams in the 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge.
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Landscape architects Urbis have designed a new and innovative 600-metre precinct along Rockhampton’s Fitzroy River, replacing the one destroyed when tropical cyclone Marcia tore through Queensland in 2015.
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Professor Richard Weller has given LAA permission to republish his piece arguing for an expanded role for landscape architects in consideration of urban growth.
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Auckland Council’s calling for public input into its ambitious Downtown Programme. It says in just three years the city’s waterfront will look dramatically different, more “generous and welcoming”, better connecting people to the Waitematā Harbour, as well as turning the Quay Street area into a more vibrant area for all to enjoy.
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Keep your work boots and car keys at home, because Nearmap, an Australian company that has just launched in this market, says its new tech will let users access high-res aerial imagery from the office on-demand.
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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
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