Isthmus’ Brennan Baxley responds to an installation by Austrian eco-visionary designer Klaus Loenhart at Victoria University of Wellington, along with the lecture titled Imagine! The city as a living biome.
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The Parliamentary Play Space is a government-initiated project aimed at increasing the accessibility and interest of Parliament to children and young families, making it more friendly, open, and welcoming.
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News that Auckland Council proposes to disestablish its design office to meet budget targets has been greeted with frustration and concern by the Tāmaki Makaurau Design Alliance.
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As the phrase “shovel-ready” enters New Zealand’s vocabulary, it’s worth pausing to think about what those words really mean.
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The NZILA Tuia Pito Ora head says the fast track consenting of some ‘shovel ready’ projects is good news for the landscape architecture profession but warns some projects will not be eligible for quick processing.
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Dr Jacky Bowring, Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, has written the world’s first book on the critique of landscape architecture.
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The landscape architecture blog Landizer has named Auckland-based LandLAB as one of ten international emerging practices to watch.
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Few landscape architects have been in the job as long as Dennis Scott. The founder of DJ Scott and Associates has been in the business for around five decades now..
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The Covid-19 climate has raised an uncertain future for our communities and the public spaces we typically enjoy.
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Architecture studio Cooking Sections, along with engineers AKT II, have created a landscape installation in United Arab Emirates which is designed to test the concept of ornamental, waterless gardens in urban areas.
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This is a time to reflect. For me, April last year was frenetically navigating a shrill car through the roaring streets of Rome, to travel south to a landscape outside of the bustle of the city.
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Concern is mounting that post Covid-19 economic recovery could come at the cost of climate protection policies.
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There aren’t a lot of upsides to COVID-19. But Louise Dunning, from Noble Fox, hopes this will permanently change the way we work, travel and interact with clients.
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No matter how much you love your family, friends or flatmates being cooped up with them 24/7 for weeks can be stressful. But researchers at the University of Arizona say there are a few things you can do to turn your home from stressful to calm.
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New Zealand will move to Covid-19 alert level 3 next week and for the head of NZILA Tuia Pito Ora, that’s a good thing for the landscape architecture profession.
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“I’m literally on fire!” Paul beamed as he dismounted from his bike. By the time he arrived in Wellington he had over 1,500km of riding and 21,000m of climbing under his belt. We fed him up and washed his clothes and early the next morning I rolled down the hill with him onto the Picton ferry.
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With the prospect of New Zealand’s level four Covid lockdown ending next week - we spoke to the head of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, James Hayter, about the crisis and its impact on the profession.
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New Zealand landscape architects are being encouraged to take part in an international campaign to celebrate the profession. April is World Landscape Architecture Month (WLAM) and this year the association which established it, the American Society of Landscape Architects or ASLA, is celebrating with a ‘Life Grows Here’ campaign.
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The Government will provide extra funding to help councils expand footpaths and roll out temporary cycleways to help people keep two metres of physical distance after the Alert Level 4 lockdown, Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter has announced.
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Students around New Zealand are having to change the way they learn while in COVID-19 lockdown, including the 120 studying landscape architecture at Lincoln’s School of Landscape Architecture. Landscape Architecture Aotearoa asked school head, Dr Gill Lawson, how things were going.
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