Canterbury/Westland Branch News
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02 Sep
Live Stream Event - 2024 IFLA World Council
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For those of you who cannot attend in person, IFLA plans to live stream the Congress via YouTube. It will …
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15 Oct
Landscape Architect in the Media
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Catherine Hamilton on Radio NZ
Expert feature: Playgrounds! Catherine Hamilton was recently the special guest on the Jessie Mulligan show as an expert on Playgrounds. …
15 Oct
Who Got That Job?
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Andrea Reid
Andrea is a driven, multi-award-winning landscape architect who has recently joined WSP-Opus as an Intermediate Landscape Architect, after working at …
15 Oct
Who Got That Job?
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Zach Barker
Zach recently relocated from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to join the Isthmus Auckland office as an intermediate landscape architect. As a dual …
15 Oct
WSP global exchange programme
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Jenna Wouters
For Canadian landscape architect Jenna Wouters a work exchange programme to New Zealand with WSP has opened up a world …
15 Oct
Who Got That Job?
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Rebecca Cray
4Sight Consulting recently welcomed Rebecca Cray as Senoir Landscape Architect to apply her design, landscape planning and project management skills …
11 Oct
Landscape architecture first for FESTA this year
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October 19 to 22
FESTA - the Festival of Transitional Architecture in Christchurch- celebrates its seventh year this Labour Weekend. To mark the occasion …
10 Oct
Award for Auckland's City Rail Link
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2018 Deloitte Energy Excellence Award
New Zealand’s largest transport construction project, Auckland’s City Rail Link (CRL) has been judged the leader in delivering sustainable infrastructure. …
03 Oct
IFLA President James Hayter in New Zealand
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During September IFLA president James Hayter was in the country - delivering a series of presentations on the redevelopment of …
02 Oct
Who Got That Job?
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Kathryn Ward
The Dunedin City Council warmly welcomed Kathryn Ward as Principal Urban Designer in mid-September as a Chartered Landscape Architect and …
01 Oct
Design a POP UP garden for Cathedral Square
Entries close 29 October
The hunt is on for imaginative design ideas for three small pop-up gardens to enliven Cathedral Square over the summer …
01 Oct
Wetlands and waterfronts
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NZILA President Brad Coombs presented the Kopupaka Reserve project
NZILA President Brad Coombs has just returned from presenting a paper to the Hengshui Wetland Landscape and Waterfront City High …
01 Oct
Papakainga Housing - a Taupo Case Study from Kara Scott
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Na Te-Tau-a-Nuku
Papakāinga. It’s a traditional form of whānau-based communal living on ancestral Māori land that I strongly believe in; in terms …