Using sand from the River Elbe, Atelier Loidl have fashioned a 1.6-hectare artificial peninsula as the new green centre of HafenCity in Hamburg, Germany.
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Ralph Johns - writer, deep thinker, urban designer, cyclist, landscape architect. We profile the Isthmus CEO who was recently made a fellow of the NZILA.
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Auckland-based design studio LandLAB’s wetlands project in Long Bay has been shortlisted for a Landezine Infrastructure award.
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A million animal and plant species - including the kiwi and kereru - are at risk of extinction because of humans. And that has serious implications for our survival, according to a landmark United Nations report which says nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history.
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Environmental enterprise Treespace has deferred its resource consent application while it gathers more material to satisfy Queenstown Lakes District Council concerns around the subdivision code, landscape visual effects and how well plants will grow on Mt Dewar.
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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.
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dhk 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.
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Construction sites in Sydney are these days wrapped in colourful art, as city officials enliven the streets with their creative hoardings programme.
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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.
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As 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.
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Vegetables 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.
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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.
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Jacky 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.
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The previously carpark-dominated Scarborough Foreshore in Perth, Western Australia, has been redeveloped into a pedestrian-focused recreational space by TCL, UDLA and Arup.
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Every 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.
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Boffa 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.
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The new design for pedestrian and cycle access across the Auckland Harbour Bridge has been unveiled by the New Zealand Transport Agency.
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One 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.
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The 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.
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Isthmus’ 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.
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