Over the summer holidays, a group of children discovered a new kind of freedom – that of designing their own play environment.
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Since 2015 the Brick Bay Folly Competition has encouraged architects and architectural students to stretch their imaginations and design a folly - “a whimsical or extravagant structure”.
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When Te Ākitai Waihoua approached Isthmus to rethink an earlier masterplan for Wirihana, in South Auckland, we immediately saw the ability to weave the untapped value of the Puhinui Stream and its environs into an intensive residential setting.
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Vienna’s hit on a cultural way of cutting carbon emissions - rewarding car-free travel with free tickets to museums and concerts.
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French landscape architect Catherine Mosbach is internationally celebrated for her environmentally and socially responsible approach to landscape design. Founder of the Paris based office Mosbach Paysagistes, her designs reveal hidden layers in the landscape, and can be up to ten years in the making.
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Zaha Hadid Architects have designed a modernisation and reinforcement of Neiderhafen’s flood protection system on the Elbe River, as well as a 625 metre river promenade.
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Milan-based Stefano Boeri Architetti have designed the winning proposal for Genoa’s comeback from the 2018 Morandi Bridge tragedy.
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Auckland’s Harbour Bridge proposed cycle and pedestrian link will extend as far as Albany in the north, with construction expected to begin next year, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency says.
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Private cars have been banished from one of San Francisco’s premier corridors. Market Street is a major thoroughfare for the city, as well as a popular gathering place for locals and tourists alike.
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A tropical corner of the Pacific 2,500 remote kilometres from New Zealand will be the new home for a distinctive Auckland building being demolished to make way for the City Rail Link (CRL) project.
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Tantalus Estate is an established vineyard nestled in the idyllic Onetangi Valley, a world-class winemaking region situated on Waiheke Island, 18km east of Tamaki-Makaurau, Auckland.
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Landscape architects Place Design Group have created a master plan for a famous patch of wetlands, 12 kilometres from the centre of Brisbane, to be given back to nature.
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Bjorn Low is leading an urban agriculture movement in SIngapore and spoke at the NZILA Firth Conference late last year about the emergence of “food deserts” in cities and how he is working to reverse the trend.
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Kohimarama Yacht Club has been granted consent to build a new boat deck and pedestrian ramp at its clubhouse at the eastern end of Kohimarama Beach, in Auckland. What’s notable about that, project coordinator Hugh Forsyth says, is that the consent was granted non-notified.
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Call for survey participants - Landscape architecture has a range of skills and knowledge, some of which are shared by other professions. Expertise in Landscape Design is a key difference between allied professions and landscape architecture.
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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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