Auckland Council says before the current lockdown Karangahape Road was the best performing Business Improvement District (BID) of the 50 across the super city, and the recent enhancement programme by LandLAB, the council and Auckland Transport is being credited.
Read MoreAndy Hamilton has never visited one of his favourite projects. But he hopes to take his family there on holiday one day. It’ll take a bit of planning to get there - over 13,000 km away from Auckland to the fishing village of Kizimkazi in Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean.
Read MoreThe Government has bowed to pressure from “irrational, uninformed cycle-hating talkback hosts” in it’s decision to can Auckland’s $785 million cycling and walking bridge.
Read MoreThe site of award winning Gosford Leagues Club Park in New South Wales is a significant one for local aboriginal clan Darkinjung.
Read MoreNominations close on Friday (October 1) for the Kūmara Awards, showcasing placemaking that makes a difference to people and place.
Read MoreWhile New Zealand waits to hear if we really are getting an IKEA store here, a new IKEA with a public rooftop park is scheduled to open in 2023 in Copenhagen’s Vesterbro neighbourhood.
Read MoreMartha Dravitzki is a landscape architect based in New Plymouth. She gained her masters at Lincoln University in 2006-7. On top of her family and work commitments she is deputy chair of the NZILA registration panel.
Read MoreEarlier this month Auckland Council announced that the last three stages of the Wai Horotiu Queen Street Project – from Customs Street to Mayoral Drive – would be delivered in one cohesive design. Now Aucklanders have been able to see that plan.
Read MoreThe Hudson River Park Trust has begun construction on James Corner Field Operations’ design for Gansevoort Peninsula, which will include Manhattan’s first public beach and one of the largest public art projects in the United States.
Read MoreProtecting the character of one of New Zealand’s most iconic landscapes and recognising its strong Ngāi Tahu associations is at the heart of the Milford Sound Piopiotahi masterplan.
Read MorePrince William has revealed the 15 finalists for the inaugural and ambitious Earthshot Prize.
Read MoreA passion for both art and nature as a youngster guided Kess Aleksandrova into the landcape architecture profession.
Read MoreZaha Hadid Architects have won the competition to design Tower C at the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base, with their multi-dimensional vertical city of two towers reaching nearly 400 metres.
Read MoreDave Charnley is the Senior Urban Designer inside Palmerston North City Council’s Strategic Planning Unit.
Read MoreAuckland University affiliated researchers have successfully demonstrated that cows can be toilet trained with the idea of helping to reduce water contamination and greenhouse gas emissions.
Read MoreThis 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.
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