Located in the Back Bay of Boston between the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and the Hynes Convention Centre, this central urban plaza serves as the front door for the Prudential retail and office tower at 888 Boylston. Highlighting the wind patterns of the site, a series of stainless steel woven light columns define the plaza.
Read MoreHow will the environmental effects of climate change affect the shape of our future cities? Panuku’s proposed development of the Onehunga Port in Auckland, proved a great opportunity for a joint Unitec landscape architecture and architecture studio project to explore this issue.
Read MoreLets get Wellington Moving - the government has committed to fund up to $6.4 billion of work for an ‘indicative package’ to improve Wellington transport system.
Henning Larsen have won an open competition to revitalise a historic harbour side park in Denmark’s coastal city of Esbjerg.
Read MoreFinalists for this year’s World Architecture Festival have been announced and once again New Zealand is well represented, with 20 projects named in 14 categories. Among them Peddle Thorp’s design of the Bledisloe Quarter for the Auckland Waterfront Consortium, incorporating the proposed waterfront stadium, ‘Arena Aotearoa’.
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.
Read MoreCentral Government could do more to help councils deal with the growing threat of climate change, according to a new report.
Read MoreStockholm’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.
Read MoreKess Aleksandrova’s Master’s research on residential street infrastructure retrofits has been published in the international peer-reviewed open-access academic journal Urban Science.
Read MoreAucklanders 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.
Read MoreSnøhetta 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreOutstanding 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.
Read MoreAuckland 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.
Read MoreSan 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.
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreThe Waterview Connection has received international recognition at the Los Angeles Business Council’s Architectural Awards, winning the Tripartite Award.
Read MoreHASSEL Studio has won a merit award in the 2019 World Landscape Architecture Awards for their design of the Darling Harbour Public Realm.
Read MoreIndonesia has announced it’s moving the country’s capital away from Jakarta, reportedly the fastest sinking city in the world.
Read MoreNelson 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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