Support is being sought from the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects to help save 46 mature native trees which campaigners fear will be chopped down by developers.
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Isthmus has 80 staff members. Pre lockdown they were working from two studios, 60 in Auckland, 20 in Wellington. A handful of staff were already working remotely in Tauranga, Taranaki, and Christchurch.
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Papua New Guinea is a country of diverse tribal culture. Around 80 percent of its residents live in rural areas with no or few modern conveniences. More than 700 native tongues are spoken.
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NZILA Tuia Pito Ora is very mindful that the restrictions that have been put in place by the government are about saving lives in Aotearoa, writes president Brad Coombs. Being kind to each other by observing the movement restrictions, in particular, is the best way that we can look after our families, friends and the communities that we live and work in.
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As the country begins the four-week Covid-19 lockdown, landscape architecture businesses around New Zealand are adapting and responding to this unprecedented event. Offices are shut and landscape architects are getting used to new ways of working.
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New Zealand’s to get a new town at Drury, 37 kilometres south of Auckland.
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As Auckland, the City of Sails, makes its move towards becoming Tāmaki Makaurau, what could and what should a uniquely modern Māori and Polynesian city on the edge of the world look like?
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The playground in Hastings’ Cornwall Park’s been given a state-of-the-art facelift that’s proving popular with those who use it.
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The Thomas Heatherwick designed Pier 55 in Manhattan, New York, is back on track to be completed in 2021. After being appointed following a design competition in 2013, the architecture studio envisioned a new pier on Manhattan’s southwest riverside that resembles a leaf floating in the water.
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Landscape architects are being urged to keep it “business as usual” as much as possible by New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture’s Tuia Pito Ora president, Brad Coombs.
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Bug or insect hotels are becoming increasingly popular. Apart from adding sculptural interest to a park or back yard, they also offset the increasing loss of natural habitats in urban areas and offer an opportunity to educate children about how balanced ecosystems work.
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As the country, and the world, works to come to grips with the unprecedented situation currently unfolding in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic - the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora has acknowledged the challenging times we are facing.
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Niue has become the first country in the world to become an International Dark Sky Place. This gives it formal protection for its sky, land and sea.
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Australia’s multi-award winning Bendigo Hospital is the largest hospital in Victoria, delivering world-class healthcare facilities across a 13-hectare precinct.
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Year 2519 — navigators and the new artisans. Robots everywhere, advanced alien species live on earth, some humans occupy new colonies in space.
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TETROMINOES is a bespoke art installation located on Shanghai’s renown cultural and historic high street, Yuyuan Road. For the next 10 months it will play a part in a broader urban revitalisation plan to renew the city’s former international concession.
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Cycling through the Trees is a new cycling and walking track by Visit Limburg in Belgium and is designed by BuroLandschap. It was designed to raise the Limburg cycle route network to a higher level and offer a unique experience for all abilities.
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A small town near Toronto in Canada is setting out to become a futuristic city - based on a European layout and influenced by the garden city movement. Architecture studio Partisans have masterminded a plan for The Orbit, an Innisfil Next Generation Community that will centre around a new transit link and cultural centre.
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A landscape architecture student has beaten professional architects to win a housing competition in the American state of Georgia.
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New York’s Erie Canal is about to be overhauled, with new public parks, residential areas and commercial hubs added in order to, “reignite economic and environmental resiliency across New York state.”
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