Professor Richard Weller is the Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, professor and chair of landscape architecture, and co-executive director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Weller will be presenting virtually at the 2022 NZILA Firth Conference.
Read MoreCentral Auckland will pop with colourful art for the next few weeks as the city gears up to welcome visitors back after a long Covid-related absence.
Read MoreA central Auckland residential garden with a commitment to sustainability and biodiversity is a striking addition to the Morningside streetscape.
Read MoreThe Presidio Tunnel Tops project is a new James Corner Field Operations attraction built on top of the Presidio Parkways Tunnels in their national park site in San Francisco.
Read MoreThe 58th International Federation of Landscape Architects’ IFLA World Congress is being held in South Korea from 31st August to 2nd September this year. The federation is offering a limited number of travel bursaries to students (including those in Aotearoa) enrolled in an accredited landscape architecture programme or recent graduates (up to 5 years) to attend the Congress.
Read MoreNew Zealanders can now see how sea level rises will affect them, with the release of special maps by NZ SeaRise, a research programme funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
Read MoreThe Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revealed its design for a new neuroscience centre at one of Denmark’s major hospitals, and fittingly it mimics the anatomical shape of the folds of the human brain.
Read MoreAs we continue the countdown to the NZILA 50th anniversary celebrations later this year it is important to acknowledge the evolution of the Institute’s awards programme from its relatively small beginnings - to the celebration of the profession we see today.
Read MoreGarth Falconer writes about early Landscape Architecture in New Zealand, in particular its urban roots in Auckland.
Read MoreCampus Woudestein, the Netherlands’ new Juurlink + Geluk development, is designed to give the Erasmus University campus a new heart and to accommodate future growth in the city of Rotterdam.
Read MoreFor many years Modellers Pond in Tāhunanui echoed with the excited chatter of children and adults sailing their bespoke and kitset creations.
Read MoreNick Rae is the director of Transurban in Auckland, a firm started by his father Barry in the 1980s in Hamilton. Read his profile on our website.
Read MoreBoffa Miskell is undertaking research to improve understanding of the role that nature-based methods can play in the coastal hazard adaptation process.
Read MoreA Dunedin memorial dedicated to all Aotearoa New Zealand’s conscientious objectors and designed by Queenstown’s Baxter Design Group was officially opened late last year.
Read MoreLandscape Architecture firms in the United States are leading an evolving initiative to engage their Ukrainian counterparts displaced by the war.
Read MoreIt could be weeks before conservationists know how significant the biodiversity loss is at Awarua-Waituna wetland, as fire continues to destroy the area.
Read MoreIn 1970s New Zealand, landscape architecture was a little known and misunderstood profession. The public sector was the epicentre of employment for Lincoln College’s new landscape architecture graduates. One man in particular played a key role in developing landscape architects in that sector and that was George Malcolm.
Read MoreCompleted in 2021, Hassell’s Riverside Green forms 6,816 square-metres of tranquil, plant-filled public space for central Brisbane, and has won two AILA 2021 Landscape Architecture Awards.
Read MoreAs councils and central government consider what cities of the future will look like, a new tool has been developed to map how various features of where we live influence public health.
Read MoreSydney ‘Charlie’ Challenger is widely seen at the founder and father of landscape architecture in Aotearoa. As Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture prepares to mark its 50th Anniversary later this year, LAA is profiling some of the people who contributing to getting the profession where it is today.
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