Understanding the principles of partnership, participation and protection in the profession. How can we advocate for the preservation of cultural landscapes by recognising the significance of the past, the present to plan for the future?
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Auckland's urban regeneration is a regular talking point within the landscape architecture profession and we have regularly covered related issues here on LAA. That includes projects from a relatively new player in the industry - Panuku Development Holdings.
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Persistent drought, excessive heat, and very high fire risk are the new normal in California’s scenic hillside communities. Learn how one LA firm is designing beautiful, functional landscapes that can thrive in persistent drought conditions.
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Studio Pacific Architecture have recently completed landscape and building upgrades at Our Lady’s Home of Compassion in Wellington’s Island Bay that have radically transformed the setting for this Chapel, retreat centre, visitor centre, and administration offices.
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Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have unveiled a proposal to create a public park covering a subterranean roadway in Brooklyn, New York.
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Landscape architects Rough & Milne have finished designing the grounds of Lyttelton’s historic Timeball Station - for the second time.
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On the first weekend of May every year, Jane’s Walk festivals take place in hundreds of cities around the world.
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LandLAB’s design for a floating social and ecological activation device for Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour has picked up the Merit prize in the World Landscape Architecture awards.
A key piece of Auckland city centre public realm development underway right now is the Downtown Programme, which will be delivered in time for the America’s Cup in 2021. It involves the reset of the larger part of the Quay Street corridor and adjacent Ferry Basin space.
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MVRDV have broken ground on Taiwan’s Tainan Xinhua Fruit and Vegetable Market - an open-air market topped by a terraced, farmable green roof.
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By the time the battlefields of Belgium fell silent in 1918, the landscapes were unrecognisable. Instead of wheat and potatoes, the land offered up a crop of bodies – in the Ypres area alone, there were nearly 200,000.
Landscape and architecture company Topotek 1 has won an international competition for its design of a new headquarters and conference centre for the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science (KFAS).
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The president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects believes New Zealand is one of three world hotspots for landscape architecture. James Hayter says Aotearoa joins Chile and the south of Spain, adding there are many lessons the landscape architecture community can learn from the professions here.
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The multi-level landscape spaces designed by Melbourne firm Rush/Wright Associates for the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre picked up the garden landscapes prize in the 2018 AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards.
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What was on the mind of landscape architects in 1974? These men were on the NZILA executive.
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April 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).
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The United Nations is investigating the concept of floating cities to help tackle global warming.
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Find out which 2 NZ projects have been shortlisted alongside this one in the conceptual section of the 2019 WLA awards
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Te Paerangi Ataata - Sky Song has been chosen as the design for New Zealand’s first national memorial to those who died in the Erebus disaster. Designed by Wellington firm Studio Pacific Architecture, it will be installed in Dove-Myer Robinson Park overlooking the Taurarua Judge’s Bay in Parnell, Auckland.
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A first-of-its-kind play space for Auckland, based on traditional Māori games and play artefacts has just opened. Mara Hupara playground is part of the Te Auaunga Awa/Oakley Creek stream restoration project in Mount Roskill, Auckland.
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