Canterbury/Westland Branch News
05 Sep
Deputy Chair of the 2025 Registration Panel
Expressions of Interest
For the last two years the Panel Chair, Martha Dravitzki, has led the charge in shepherding Registration candidates through the …
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23 Mar
Meet the woman running Lincoln's School of Landscape Architecture
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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.
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Shannon Bray - NZILA President
President Shannon Bray will leave the role at the AGM next month. He is hugely proud of the work the …
01 Mar
Why graffiti free is a sign of success for an award winning project
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The Harewood Underpass
The latest in our video series celebrating the Resene NZILA Pride of Place award winners takes us to the outskirts …
01 Mar
Ryan Gravel's infrastructure obsession and how it's shaped his career
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The Atlanta Beltline
Ryan Gravel is urban planner, designer and author working on infrastructure, concept development, and policy as the founder of a …
28 Feb
Embracing and showcasing Rotorua's unique sense of place
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New library and children’s health hub
With it’s geothermal activity and strong Maori culture Rotorua has a unique identity within New Zealand. So it was important …