With life expectancy continuing to rise, and evolving views on what life after retirement looks like, it’s no wonder that today’s aged-care residences are a far cry from those of twenty, or even ten, years ago.
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Central Government could do more to help councils deal with the growing threat of climate change, according to a new report.
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Stockholm’s subway system has earned itself the title of world’s longest art exhibition. That’s because each stop along its 110 km route has been decorated with sculptures, mosaics, paintings and installations.
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Kess Aleksandrova’s Master’s research on residential street infrastructure retrofits has been published in the international peer-reviewed open-access academic journal Urban Science.
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Aucklanders are being invited to have their say on what the city centre will look like in 20 years, with the release of the masterplan by the council.
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Snøhetta has won an international design competition with their vision for the Shanghai Grand Opera House. They will serve as the architects, landscape architects, interior and graphic designers on the project, in conjunction with Shanghai architects ECADI.
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A living three tier rice paddy isn’t what you expect to find in the centre of New York city. But there it is, a growing art installation on the World Trade Centre campus.
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Outstanding Natural Landscape is an important concept in the Resource Management Act, 1991, and is recognised as a matter of national importance. The current form of the act however still leaves unresolved the question of how to recognise and manage landscapes that may be outstanding without meeting the criterion of being natural.
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Auckland is in the midst of a metamorphosis. The city is standing on the same precipice as many other cities around the world, where it’s considering how to balance social, economic, and environmental welfare alongside a growing population set to reach 2.4 million by 2050.
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San Francisco is well known for its fog, and it’s that weather pattern that provides the design inspiration for the award winning Helen Diller Civic Centre playgrounds.
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New Zealand doesn’t give enough credence to the value of rongoā Māori (traditional Māori healing) when dealing with diseases like Kauri dieback, says ecotoxicologist, Dr Jamie Ataria.
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The Waterview Connection has received international recognition at the Los Angeles Business Council’s Architectural Awards, winning the Tripartite Award.
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HASSEL Studio has won a merit award in the 2019 World Landscape Architecture Awards for their design of the Darling Harbour Public Realm.
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Indonesia has announced it’s moving the country’s capital away from Jakarta, reportedly the fastest sinking city in the world.
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Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects are the designers behind the recently opened Public Square and Gardens at New York City’s Hudson Yards.
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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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