Auckland Branch News
09 Jun
Te Tau a Nuku special update
plus webinar invitation
Nau Mai Te Tau Hou Māori - Matariki mā PuangaCelebrating and Coming Together E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e …
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04 Apr
New Plymouth's wild west walkway two decades on
used by tens of thousands of locals and visitors a year
Travel guide Lonely Planet named Taranaki as one of the best regions in the world to visit for 2017. It’s …
29 Mar
How a community fought to restore the mana of its waterfront
Taumanu Reserve
Onehunga’s Taumanu Reserve, ten kilometres south of Auckland city, has won it’s design and construction collaborators many awards across different …
27 Mar
The textures of Canterbury in the Peter Scoular Plaza development
Environment Canterbury building, Christchurch
Rough and Milne's striking development outside the Environment Canterbury building in Christchurch is inspired by the layers and diversity of …
23 Mar
Meet the woman running Lincoln's School of Landscape Architecture
Gill Lawson
Aussie Gill Lawson first worked in New Zealand as a horticulturist. It was 1987 and a boom period for our …
22 Mar
New Zealand's first sustainable sports park - setting a new direction
Scott Point
When it came to creating a master plan for Scott Point Sustainable Sports Park in West Auckland a complete shift …
20 Mar
NZ assignment for award winning landscape architect intern
Joey Rosenberg
Winning an international design competition when he was still a landscape architecture student at the University of Pennsylvania has opened …
15 Mar
Planning for people - Public Life Surveys
By Den Aitken
People. Place. Design. The scale of our cities is changing. For decades, the design of our cities has been significantly …
13 Mar
Slave huts, sugar cane and the Landscapes of Misery
Louisiana, the low coastal delta where the Mississippi floods across the land
While traveling across Louisiana, the low coastal delta where the Mississippi floods across the land it is hard not to …
12 Mar
Winner Announced - NZILA Firth Conference Accommodation Prize
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Louise Bailey, Outerspace Landscape Architects Ltd, who is the winner of the 2 nights accommodation prize at the …
07 Mar
Should landscape architects be reconsidering what they plant?
Myrtle rust
Myrtle rust fungus has been detected in over two hundred and fifty sites in New Zealand, since first blowing over …
06 Mar
Reigniting a pride of place for Maori and their lands
Grow Early Childcare Centre in Papamoa
Rangitahi Kawe is a 27 year old landscape architect at Earthart Landscaping in Whakatane. Tauranga is his turangawaewae, where he …
02 Mar
The man credited with leading the NZILA through a strong period of positive change has announced he’s stepping down.
Shannon Bray - NZILA President
President Shannon Bray will leave the role at the AGM next month. He is hugely proud of the work the …