Two Panuku neighbourhoods have achieved a Green Star - Communities rating for exceptional masterplanning, a first in New Zealand.
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Ng Sek San is driven by a belief that his work should reflect an egalitarian lifestyle and that trees shouldn’t make way for buildings.
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Sitting on a former car factory site at the foothills of Mount Fuji in Susono City, Shizuoka is the Bjarke Ingels Group designed Toyota Woven City. The 70 hectare “smart city” is being seen by the Toyota Motor Corporation as a prototype town of the future, where people will work, play, live and participate in a living laboratory.
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Insects make up the majority of terrestrial species on Earth. There are some 900,000 species of insects known to science, including over 350,000 beetle and 150,000 fly species — and new species are being found every day. With numbers like that, you might think we’ve got more insects that we need. But that’s not the case.
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Approved by the New York City Planning Commission this January, construction on Snøhetta’s design for a densely vegetated and expanded garden at 550 Madison is due to begin this year.
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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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