Catherine Mosbach is a landscape architect, founder of Paris-based design firm Mosbach Paysagistes. Immersed by her studies in science, history and civilisation, her practice reveals the tase of experimentation - she will be presenting a lecture series in NZ at the end of July, beginning of August.
Read Moredhk Architects have turned a popular Cape Town tourist attraction into a 1.2-hectare urban park, referencing the history of the Amsterdam Battery which came before it.
Read MoreConstruction sites in Sydney are these days wrapped in colourful art, as city officials enliven the streets with their creative hoardings programme.
Read MoreThrough 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.
Read MoreAs part of the 40 th anniversary of the publication of Ian Mcharg seminal book, Design with Nature, the University of Pennsylvania are organising an exhibition of 25 landscape project from around the world that have been inspired by the writing of Ian Mcharg. Dennis Scott and Associates have been invited to be part of the exhibition and have taken the opportunity to showcase one of their best-known projects , the Western Waiheke Entrance Landscape.
Read MoreVegetables are thriving in what was earthquake rubble in Christchurch. Cultivate Christchurch is an urban farming project producing more than lettuces, they growing opportunities for young people.
Read MoreCities 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.
Read MoreJacky Bowring is a freshly minted NZILA fellow, and Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University. She specialises in emotions and landscapes. Some of her recent work includes helping to design the memorial landscape for the Pike River Mine tragedy on the West Coast of the South Island.
Read MoreThe previously carpark-dominated Scarborough Foreshore in Perth, Western Australia, has been redeveloped into a pedestrian-focused recreational space by TCL, UDLA and Arup.
Read MoreEvery year 30 million people visit the site of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris. But the much-loved landmark has become a victim of its popularity, with overcrowding, impaired accessibility, lack of services and congested gardens detracting from the experience.
Read MoreBoffa Miskell is one of the key consultants appointed to undertake the reinstatement of Christ Church Cathedral and will oversee the urban design and landscape architecture components.
Read MoreThe new design for pedestrian and cycle access across the Auckland Harbour Bridge has been unveiled by the New Zealand Transport Agency.
Read MoreOne of the gardens at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London has won a big thumbs up from three royal rascals who marked it twenty out of ten.
Read MoreThe survival of our planet, according to landscape designer Gayle Souter-Brown, rests with acknowledging our reliance on nature for ecosystem services, and our “giving back” to replenish what we take.
Read MoreIsthmus’ original plan for the Wellington waterfront at Kumutoto composed two key spatial moves: to push the city out and let the sea in. Now, over a decade on, the project is nearing completion.
Read MoreHudson Yards, the new city within a city on Manhattan’s west side, is not due for completion until 2026, but is already open to the public as the largest privately-built real estate project in US history.
Read MoreLondon has implemented an Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in the central city, meaning drivers of older, more polluting vehicles are being charged to enter the congestion zone.
Read MoreThe countdown to the 2019 NZILA Firth Conference is underway as early bird tickets go on sale today. (May 15)
This year’s event will be held in Ōtautahi Christchurch 6-8 November and this year’s theme is DISRUPTION. This will be discussed in two parts - the disruption of nature and the disruption of people.
One of this year’s international speakers is Julie Bargmann - the founder and principal at D.I.R.T (Dump It Right There) studio in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Read MoreThe 2011 Rugby World Cup was the catalyst for many public realm improvements in Auckland City Centre and along the Waterfront.
Read MoreThe 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.
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