Sea level rise is an imminent threat to certain areas of the Wellington Region, so how will locals adapt to changing landscapes – four university students from the United States are here to find out.
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Wearing your food - isn’t that the ultimate in self sufficiency? Especially when you fertilise it using your own body’s waste. Landscape architecture professor Aroussiak Gabrielian has created the world’s first wearable, edible vest, which can grow a variety of fresh plants.
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‘Our Space’, signals the creation of a new meeting place for the community of Te Awamutu. Anchored by a recreation events centre and new library, Waipa District Council has provided a destination playground that supplements these facilities appealing to diverse age groups.
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As a tribute to Danish author Karen Blixen, the architecture firm COBE has created a new public square and university plaza for Copenhagen.
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Boffa Miskell’s Waikeria Prison Landscape for the Department of Corrections picked up an Excellence Award in the recent Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards, Project Based Landscape Planning category.
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We know that the effects of climate change on the Aotearoa New Zealand city will be the biggest disruptive event in the history of New Zealand urbanism.
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LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) has released its designs for LAVA Life Hamburg, a 12,000 square metre, nature inspired learning landscape set to open in Germany in 2023.
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Transforming a ditch running through a paddock into a naturalised, meandering waterway complete with fish life, footpaths, terraces, native riparian planting and bridges had its challenges, Xteriorscapes’ Chris Owen admitted.
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A vibrant meeting point has been created for the the centre of Bath, a World Heritage City with an annual footfall of 24 million people, by landscape architects Macgregor Smith in a public realm upgrade.
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Planting native trees is one of the most popular conservation activities in Aotearoa New Zealand. Everywhere we are seeking to bring back our forests.
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Resourceful planting and irrigation are helping a new civic landscape thrive in the harsh climate of Australia’s Pilbara region.
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Design work on an area of tight alleyways and small lanes won Wellington City Council’s urban design team an Excellence Award in the small projects category of the 2019 Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards.
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Even if your holiday took you off grid over the last few weeks, chances are you’d have been struck by the orange haze that cloaked swathes of New Zealand as smoke from the horrific bushfires in Australia drifted 2,000km across the Tasman Sea.
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The team at Landscape Architecture Aotearoa wish you and your families a wonderful festive season as we wrap it up for 2019.
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A collaborative publication between landscape architecture students, academics and practitioners has won an excellence award in the Landscape Publication section of the 2019 Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards.
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A vertical landscaped hotel by Sheppard Robson is coming to the Holborn Viaduct, “setting the standard for urban greening in London.”
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The 50 finalists for best international landscape photo have been selected from Agora’s #Landscape2019 photo competition.
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LandLAB’s Viaduct Harbour seating prototypes project was initiated to find furniture which would add to the character and functionality of the Viaduct Promenade.
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The biggest challenge facing landscape architects, designers and planners in the 21st century is how to integrate community voice and lived experience into planning processes with vulnerable populations who have been locked out of conversations around sustainability, smart and shareable cities and social justice. That’s what sociologist Dr Antwi Akom told this year’s NZILA Firth conference in Christchurch.
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The redevelopment of a waterfront site on Marine Parade in Napier has given new life to the area by connecting the city to its coastline and replacing a waterfront carpark with a significant public space that reflects the natural and cultural landscape of the bay.
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