Next month marks an important milestone for Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects as Te Tangi a te Manu - Aotearoa New Zealand Landscape Assessment Guidelines is published.
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As the clean up and cost counting continues after the anti-mandate protests on parliament’s grounds - the ‘people’s playground’ has become a focus for people wanting to chip in and help with the repair bill
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A major UN report on climate adaptation calls for indigenous knowledge and science to be brought together to help secure a liveable future.
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A call has gone out to Auckland design students interested in volunteering to help with a survey on how locals use their city. Run by Urban Good (previously AitkenTaylor) for Auckland Council, the Public Life Survey will also ask people what they want from their community.
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A recent $12 million upgrade has seen Hurstmere Road on Auckland’s North Shore transformed into an airy social space; one welcoming to pedestrians, where shoppers linger to chat and spend instead of rushing along; one where workers gather to eat their lunch and indulge in people watching.
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BIG Landscape Architecture (Bjarke Ingels Group) partner Giulia Frittoli is set to speak to New Zealand landscape architects next week.
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Snøhetta+Hassell have won an international design excellence competition to “transform Harbourside in Darling Harbour into a new, iconic and inviting destination at the heart of Sydney.”
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The doors to Whangārei’s much-discussed Hundertwasser Art Centre are finally open. The centre was officially opened on Sunday 20 February, 29 years after the late Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser first sketched his original design for the building.
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A New Zealand gene bank was one of ten from around the world to deposit samples to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault last week (Monday 14 February), the first deposit of 2022.
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While the sensory space in Rolleston town centre is enjoyed by the whole community it’s particularly special for the students of Waitaha School.
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Former IFLA president, Mr Richard Tan, passed away peacefully on 15 Feb 2022.
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Hassell’s Xichong Coast Recovery Plan for Shenzhen, restoring the wetlands and mangrove forests, and building tourism and education in the area, won both a Australian Institute of Landscape Architects National award and a IFLA APR Outstanding Award for Unbuilt Projects.
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Adelaide has been named the world’s second National Park City by the UK-based National Park City Foundation.
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Landscape architect Debbie Tikao is the General Manager of Matapopore Charitable Trust, which was established after the Christchurch earthquakes.
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Auckland’s Wynyard Precinct is about take another key step in its multi decade transformation in what Eke Panuku’s General Manager of Design and Place describes as “an opportunity of a lifetime.”
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The City of Melbourne has released plans for its Greenline project, a four-kilometre promenade along the north bank of the Yarra River, Birrarung, that will create a continuous riverside to Docklands.
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Work in the capital to upgrade the Swan Lane and Garrett Street link to Cuba Street has begun, with the aim of increasing the area’s attractiveness, walkability, and safety.
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LandLAB has won the international competition to develop an urban master plan and public realm concept for the 7.5km long Sirius Waterfront in Sochi, Russia.
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Danish nature-design firm SLA Architects have created Abu Dhabi’s first biodiversity park, constructed on barren sand in the megacity’s downtown area.
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Landscape architects have significant leadership roles to play as Auckland starts implementing the Government’s just-announced 30-year transport infrastructure plan.
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