DROM’s redesign of the 7.8-hectare Azatlyk Square in Russia has transformed it into, “a captivating, dynamic public space with multi-character environments and qualities that are inclusive of different groups of people.”
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Our purpose at Isthmus is to advance the relationships between land, people and culture, writes CEO Ralph John as the business brings in Matariki Day - an annual holiday and special celebration for staff.
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Radiocarbon dating has estimated that fragments of a tree recovered from a City Rail Link construction site in Auckland are 28,000 years old and date back to a time when long extinct woolly mammoths and sabre tooth tigers still roamed the planet.
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Sasaki has completed the first phase of the Chengdu Tianfu City Landscape, offering, “a new community that couples urban living and scenic mountain settings.”
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Building Christchurch city on a giant swamp has had serious repercussions - severe liquefaction during earthquakes and significant flooding during extreme storms.
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The five groups of finalists in the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora/Brick Bay Nohonga design challenge are now in the process of bringing their designs to life.
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Seeing Beacon lighting up for the first time, artist Lang Ea said: “I am very pleased. This is how I had conceptualised it.”
The sculpture and lighting were installed at Milford Reserve in March before lockdown, and last week the lights were switched on - revealing the artwork’s full effect both day and night.
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Felixx has designed “a green entrance” for Brussels Airport, “providing a warm and green welcome for all travellers” and assisting with the airport’s ambition of being CO2 neutral by 2050.
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Urban life is sustained by infrastructure. New Zealand’s development and economic future is dependent upon said infrastructure to collect, exchange, and distribute goods, people, services and kaupapa (knowledge) across vast territories.
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In April 1942, over 2,500 Richmond based Japanese Canadian (Nikkei) residents were removed from their community as they were deemed a threat to national security during World War Two.
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Keen photographer Will Chrisp has always been taken with the beauty of a starry sky. In times of stress the landscape architecture Masters student has found it soothing and grounding.
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The five finalists have been found for the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora/Brick Bay Nohonga design challenge.
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OMA have designed a 9,000 square-metre countryside complex to meet the needs of the Wollert community in Victoria, Australia.
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Over the next few weeks Takapuna locals will get a chance to give their feedback over the Isthmus design for their town square.
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Berlin inventors Martin Binder and Claudio Rimmele have used the Covid-19 pandemic as a creative challenge in which to create, “an infection-free playground inspired by nature.”
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Downtown Brooklyn, the 100 hectare central business district stretching from Columbus Park to the Barclay’s Centre in New York City, is about to be upgraded by architecture firms Bjarke Ingels Group and WXY, in conjunction with landscape firm MNLA.
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My enduring memory of Orlando in July 2005 was of the stifling heavy heat that made venturing outside an exercise in endurance.
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High density housing, transport infrastructure upgrades and pedestrian and cycle paths are among projects being fast-tracked by the Government in a bid to repair the economy and create new jobs.
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Those searching for the perfect wave in Sydney will soon no longer be beholden to Mother Nature. Australian startup URBNSURF is developing a surf park facility at Sydney Olympic Park.
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Aucklanders can now visualise how their city centre will look under its refreshed masterplan via a digital platform
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