Zhangjiang Art Park in Shanghai was originally two separate sites built in different eras and given completely different landscape styles.
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Isthmus CEO Ralph Johns says the current New Zealand condition is we are increasingly physical and mentally unwell, our communities are disconnected, access to good housing is inequitable and our environment is suffering.
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Making it to 50 is a milestone worth celebrating in anyone’s life. So Lincoln’s School of Landscape Architecture is throwing a birthday bash to mark its own half century this year.
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French landscape architect Catherine Mosbach has completed her whirlwind New Zealand speaking tour exhausted, but with a new appreciation for our food and natural landscape. All up just under 500 people attended her lectures in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch.
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Dr Kristina Hill is an expert on urban and ecological adaptation strategies for coastal flooding and climate change. She’s presenting at the 2019 NZILA Firth Conference in Christchurch in November.
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GVL Gossamer has been selected as one of three prize winners in an international competition for a 19km stretch of waterfront along the Jing River, one of the 8 great rivers of Xi’an, China.
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Renowned and award-winning landscape architect Catherine Mosbach has begun her speaking tour here.
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The Long Bay development involves the urbanisation of a large-scale landholding by a single developer in a sensitive natural environment.
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The alpine retreat of Twizel, in New Zealand’s South Island, is renowned for its breathtaking natural beauty - turquoise lakes, whiter than white snow and golden grass. So, Chris Glasson, from Glasson Huxtable Landscape Architects, knew his design for a four hectare domestic garden across the road from Lake Ruataniwha, had to link seamlessly to its surrounds and enhance what nature had already provided.
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Fifty dazzling aerial photographs snapped by people around the world are part of a creative new photography contest. A team of visionaries in Barcelona developed an app - AGORA images - that allows anyone, anywhere to upload their best shots.
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Dutch firm West 8’s winning masterplan for Voronezh’s Central Park in Russia extends beyond restoring the historic landscape, aiming to create a beach, walking and cycling trails, with areas for family and cultural recreation year round.
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It looks like a summer’s day in a park. The birds are chirping, deck chairs and hammocks are laid out on a rolling lawn, refreshments are available at a lemonade and cookie stall, and if you feel inclined to do something active, a game of croquet is on offer.
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Antwi Akom is the Co-Founder and CEO of Streetwyze. Antwi’s presenting at the 2019 NZILA Firth Conference.
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Unitec graduate Trish Morrison has taken gold at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show with a design called Remembrance.
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The debate between benefits of western world views vs benefits of indigenous world views has been a long one. There are multitudes of supporters on either side, arguing that their way of viewing the world outweighs the other for various reasons. But why is this important for landscape architecture?
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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.
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How 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.
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Lets 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.
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Finalists 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’.