This week is Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori - Maori Language Week and to mark this NZILA Advocacy Panel member Kara Scott has worked with Boffa Miskell’s William Hatton and Auckland Council’s Māori Design Leader Phil Wihongi to compile some phrases and words for the hoahoanga whenua (landscape architecture) profession.
Read MoreJess McKenzie is a landscape planner at Vivian + Espie, a small Queenstown-based consultancy which specialises in Landscape and Resource Management.
Read MoreFrom today - New Zealand is a nation divided … into two very different Covid alert levels.
Read MoreScape founder Kate Orff will take part in an NZILA Streetscape webinar in October - we have an ASLA interview with her.
Read MoreThe land is what makes us unique as tangata whenua and tangata tiriti. It is the land that provides the knowledge, stories and tools to create and bring life into the places we live.
Read MoreCasanova + Hernandez have enlivened a waterfront plaza for the Albanian village of Shiroka by laying granite stone in a traditional carpet pattern, giving a, “unique and domestic identity to the public space.”
Read MorePreserving the natural beauty of the night sky in a tourist mecca like Queenstown is a very fine balance.
Read MoreIn September 2020 I moved from Aotearoa to the United Kingdom during the pandemic.
Read MoreNZILA Advocacy Panel members says this latest lockdown has once again highlighted the power of landscape.
Read MoreWellington City Council photographers Neil Price and Nadine McGrath have been capturing the capital under lockdown.
Read MoreConstruction of an urban “valley” bringing much needed greening to Amsterdam’s Zuidas Business District is well underway.
Read MoreLocals and visitors to Rotorua are making the most of the new lakefront boardwalk and terracing - lockdown allowing - following it’s official opening.
Read MoreThe NZILA President says the predictable lockdown extension means the Institute team is working to increase online opportunities for members.
Read MoreIf we look at the history of the landscape of Aotearoa through the lens of a Māori perspective, there are spiritual connections, beliefs and traditions that make up the framework with which Māori live by and have been accustomed to for hundreds of years.
Read MoreNZILA president Henry Crothers says the industry is in good shape to weather and work well during this latest lockdown, and admits it has come at an extremely busy time for the profession.
Read MoreThe moral and business case for diversity and inclusion is stronger than ever, with research proving the positive effect on employee wellbeing, creativity and innovation; all these things lead to better design.
Read MoreASPECT Studios have completed the first phase of their HyperLane project in Chengdu, China.
Read MoreJessica Tregidga is in her first year of a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, with a prior Diploma in Architectural Technology. She’s doing ‘The Landscapes of Aotearoa’ course at Unitec, which looks into how the past is influencing the present, and how we can provide for the future landscapes of Aotearoa.
The NZILA is welcoming the Sixth Assessment report by the IPCC despite the stark picture it paints in terms of the present threat of climate change.
Read MoreLeona deRidder has her own business, Design by Leona, which was born out of a need for a family friendly practice. She was guided in her early years by Di Lucas whilst studying a BLA at Lincoln University, and stayed with her after graduating, before returning to Lincoln to join the MLA programme in 2004.
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