Auckland Branch News
17 Sep
Issuance of amended Plants for Planting import health standard (formally importation of Nursery Stock)
From Biosecurity New Zealand
Biosecurity has amended the Plants for Planting import health standard (formally importation of Nursery Stock), effective 15 September 2025. Urgent …
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20 Mar
Unique park to rise in Manhattan
The Thomas Heatherwick designed Pier 55 in Manhattan, New York, is back on track to be completed in 2021
After being appointed following a design competition in 2013, the architecture studio envisioned a new pier on Manhattan’s southwest riverside …
20 Mar
Covid-19 - industry update
Prepared by: Brad Coombs
Landscape architects are being urged to keep it “business as usual” as much as possible by New Zealand Institute of …
16 Mar
COVID-19 Message to NZILA Members
Prepared by: Brad Coombs
You will no doubt all be aware of the unprecedented situation that is currently unfolding in New Zealand and around …
11 Mar
Urban design - what will it look like in 500 years?
By Nick Kapica
Year 2519 — navigators and the new artisans. Robots everywhere, advanced alien species live on earth, some humans occupy new …
05 Mar
IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award 2020
Deadline for nominations extended to 10 March
NOMINATIONS DUE: March 10, 2020 The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), which represents the worldwide profession of landscape architecture, …
03 Mar
Child's play - The Imaginarium
By Dr Wendy Hoddinott
Over the summer holidays, a group of children discovered a new kind of freedom – that of designing their own …
27 Feb
President's Update
February 2020
Tēnā koutou ki te whanau,Nga mihi o te ra. No doubt the Christmas break seems like a distant memory now. …
27 Feb
Communal living - Wirihana masterplan
Isthmus
When Te Ākitai Waihoua approached Isthmus to rethink an earlier masterplan for Wirihana, in South Auckland, we immediately saw the …
26 Feb
NZILA Vectorworks Landmark Student Scholarship
Applications are open
The NZILA Vectorworks Landmark Student Scholarship is to support students studying Landscape Architecture in New Zealand whose research promotes the …
25 Feb
Catherine Mosbach - "nature was my playground"
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French landscape architect Catherine Mosbach is internationally celebrated for her environmentally and socially responsible approach to landscape design. Founder of …
25 Feb
The Land - Special Issue - call for papers
Submit by: 15th June 2020
The Land Special Issue - Call for papers on address the synergies between academic programmes and professional organisations The Land …
21 Feb
“Hey Landscape Architect, ko wai hoki koe?”
Te Tau-a-Nuku Article
Lessons from my masters thesis research on decolonising mainstream placemaking practice in Aotearoa, New Zealand Na Amelia Blundell (Nga Puhi …