Auckland Branch News
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16 Aug
2024 Registration Interviews
Workbook Submissions due Monday 30 September
For those that are intending to sit the 2024 Registration Interview. The forms will need to be completed by Monday …
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02 Aug
IFLA 2018 Student Design Competition Digital Publication
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View prize winners and short listed entries
To view the completed digital publication for the IFLA 2018 Student Design Competition click here
01 Aug
How do you know when it's working?
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Seven leading design professionals explain how they know when landscape architecture is successful
"It's not about being heroic," says Boffa Miskell's Rachel de Lambert when Landscape Architecture Aotearoa posed the question - how …
01 Aug
Inaugural NZILA Vectorworks Landmark Student scholarship awarded
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Congratulations to Hannah Carson
Victoria University student Hannah Carson has been awarded the inaugural NZILA Vectorworks Landmark Student Scholarship. Her prize includes $1500 towards …
30 Jul
Kiwi landscape architect takes on London
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Bridget Law
New Zealand landscape architect Bridget Law is working in the United Kingdom after leaving New Zealand three and a half …
29 Jul
Planting day and memorial tōtara
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Wellington Branch
Recently hardy Wellington Branch members helped the Greater Wellington Regional Council plant native seedlings at Queen Elizabeth Park near Paekakariki …
26 Jul
Presidents Update
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July 2018
Kia ora, te whānau, Ngā mihi o te rā. In the last month we have made great progress on the …
26 Jul
Moving Auckland to Tāmaki
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Te Tau-a-Nuku update
As anyone living in or that has visited Auckland in the last few years can attest, Auckland’s urban, suburban and …
26 Jul
Who got that job?
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Stephen Quin
Vivian+Espie welcomed Stephen Quin back to their Queenstown office more than 10 years after first working there. Stephen completed his …
25 Jul
NZILA IFLA delegate update
July 2018
The 2018 IFLA World Council meeting was held on 16 and 17 July in Singapore, attended by delegates from each …
24 Jul
Digital billboards - yes or no?
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With digital technology becoming increasingly popular there are new issues to consider.
Billboards became a political issue in Auckland at the turn of the century when all of a sudden the inner …
20 Jul
The Carbon Landscape Roadshow
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Presented by Craig Pocock
Craig Pocock is back in New Zealand for two months and going to be talking at a number of centres …
19 Jul
Winner of the 2018 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award announced
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Anne Whiston Spirn
The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), which represents the worldwide profession of Landscape Architecture, proudly announced at a special …