This time last year we were signing off for the festive season as Aotearoa New Zealand was beginning to learn learn to live with Covid-19 in the community.
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As the working year draws to a close Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects’ President Henry Crothers has been reflecting on what has been a milestone year for the profession and for the Institute.
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Palmerston North’s Central Energy Trust Arena (CETA) has been redesigned by Local Landscape Architecture Collective (Local), earning the design team a 2022 Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture award in the Institutional and Commercial category.
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The Gold Coast Spit redevelopment, completed this year, has improved upon one of the Gold Coast’s most famous stretches of beach, turning it into a welcoming space that responds to the areas’s relaxed, outdoor lifestyle.
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Kamo Marsh Landscape Architects have designed a residential Christchurch garden which takes inspiration from the surrounding landscape.
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The Ring, ASPECT Studios’ new community-oriented retail destination in the heart of Chongqing, China, “pushes the boundaries of the traditional retail environment, which has been turned on its head in recent years by online shopping culture and the pandemic.”
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The winner of the 2022 Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards; Student Category explores the land-use issue death creates, and offers ways to reshape our experience of death through our ecological and social engagement.
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Delegates at the 2022 NZILA Firth Conference in October got the rare opportunity to hear from an environment court judge.
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Work‘s been completed on McGregor Coxall’s new 6,400-square-metre wetland park in Zetland’s Green Square, Sydney.
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One of the key international speakers at October’s 2022 NZILA Firth Conference was Richard J. Weller who promised delegates he was going to speak about big things.
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The final component of NZILA’s 50th anniversary celebrations is out. Tuia Pito Ora - He Whakaahua is the book created to mark this important milestone and is now available.
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The garden management plan for Auckland’s Government House, by Jan Woodhouse from Woodhouse Associates, offers a new methodological framework for maintaining a large garden, with all changes landscape-led.
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Early this coming Monday morning billions of people around the world are expected to watch the opening of the 2022 FIFA World Cup at a stadium designed by kiwi landscape architects and architects.
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“My funky concrete seat walls are cooking the planet.” I love this. They are not my words, they are the words of Martin O’Dea. Words that came from last month’s 2022 NZILA Firth Conference. I love this, because these words drive a stake deep into the heart of the habitual norms of landscape architecture. And I too, am guilty.
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The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced new goals for the profession. Together the ASLA Climate Action Plan and the Climate Action Field Guide for ASLA Members chart a pathway for landscape architects to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions in their projects and operations and increase carbon sequestration by 2040
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A new tidal installation and rest area for travellers by Snøhetta encourages visitors to slow down and contemplate the passage of time.
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At the 2022 NZILA Firth Conference NIWA’s Dr Emily Lane presented a sobering address on flood risk here in NZ which had a huge impact on delegates.
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An exhibition on this week in the capital seeks to “clean up” soil’s image problem. A Site to Behold officially opens tonight at Te Auaha Gallery on Dixon Street in Wellington and runs until 12 November. It has been put together by a Victoria University team from the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation
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Today is International Climate Action Day and it comes less than a week out from the COP27 talks which take place in Egypt beginning November 6. It also follows the 2022 NZILA Firth Conference which highlighted the importance of the response of landscape architects to the increasing challenges presented by climate change.
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Climate change is about to be centre stage of world events with the COP27 talks set to begin in Egypt on November 6 but as NZILA/BECA Landscape Architect Craig Pocock notes, it has been a big month for his Carbon Landscape and as he says “validation is important because change often follows.'‘
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