Central North Island Branch News
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17 Jul
Reminder To Submit Your Applications before 5 August
NZILA Vectorworks Landmark Student Scholarship 2024
The is a friendly reminder that applications close 5 August 2024. The NZILA Vectorworks Landmark Student Scholarship is to support …
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13 Aug
Northcote Greenway: Te Ara Awataha
![Te Ara Awataha Greenway is currently under construction and will be delivered in phases from 2020 onwards.](/media/cache/be/76/be767010319b324296b6e5ac91926546.jpg)
As a key spatial corridor the Greenway project is characterised by the physical presence of the Awataha Stream.
Te Ara Awataha is a 1.5km green corridor located in the heart of the new Northcote town centre and housing …
05 Aug
NZILA welcomes review of the Resource Management Act
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An independent review panel, led by retired Court of Appeal Judge, Tony Randerson QC, has suggested repealing the act and replacing it with two new pieces of legislation
The New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora has welcomed the long anticipated review of the Resource Management …
03 Aug
Nelson/Marlborough Branch Event
![2020 Nelson Marlborough Branch Event. Left to Right
Luke Porter, Linnea Calov Jacobsen, Louise Dunning, Den Aitken, Lance Roozenburg, Leona DeRidder, Claire McAuley, Tom Guthrie (Canopy), Liz Gavin, Shea Gillison (Canopy), Jeremy Parlane (Surround Landscapes). Absent: Kaara Wight & Rory Langbridge](/media/cache/8b/33/8b33427d6be5c4718aa95875b3e2bd13.jpg)
The Nelson/Marlborough Branch held a gathering for its members and presented the certificates to their newly Registered members. Most of …
31 Jul
NZILA Call for Fellows
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Nominations will close on the 30th September 2020
Through award of Fellowship, the NZILA recognises its leaders, innovators and ambassadors, and those who have made a special contribution …
29 Jul
Gary Marshall is a busy man
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The more you learn about ecology, the more you realise that systemic change requires working with people in place
Gary Marshall is a landscape architect at Resilio Studio in Auckland. He’s also a part-time educator at Auckland Permaculture Workshop …
28 Jul
Design that mitigates post traumatic stress in children proves a winner
![Learning environments and performance spaces double as informal play areas.](/media/cache/e8/9d/e89d66d3a311555ca23731b0a59da5b6.jpg)
“Being able to spend time at a school to see how it functions on a day to day basis has been really useful when designing these spaces.”
Kamo Marsh landscape architect Tim Scott takes more than a parental interest in Rāwhiti School in Christchurch. He has worked …
28 Jul
July 2020 Presidents Update
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Tēnā koutou ki te whanau,Nga mihi o te ra. If April and May were slow and murky as we waded …
22 Jul
Project Profile: The Lookout by LandLAB
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In a new, occasional series, we are looking at projects before, during and after construction.
For our first, we spoke to LandLAB’s Henry Crothers and Sam Gould about “The Lookout” - which is part of …
15 Jul
Landscape architect for life - Di Lucas
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Not one to shy away from expressing her at times controversial opinions, Lucas has helped develop the landscape architecture profession in New Zealand, and nurture our diverse landscapes.
Di Lucas knows what she likes. And she definitely knows what she doesn’t like. Chances are you do too. Not …
13 Jul
Deepening Relationships: Isthmus Matariki Day
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By Ralph Johns
Our purpose at Isthmus is to advance the relationships between land, people and culture. We do this not only through …
13 Jul
CRL digs down 28,000 years
![Part of the tree found in the City Rail Link dig.](/media/cache/26/f8/26f877fc69212a00852b47d317f60704.jpg)
Fragments of the tree, probably a whau, were recovered under an ancient lava field
Radiocarbon dating has estimated that fragments of a tree recovered from a City Rail Link construction site in Auckland are …
07 Jul
The return of the wetlands
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Over the years CCC has embarked on plans to return sections of the region to wetlands to alleviate some of the problems.
Building Christchurch city on a giant swamp has had serious repercussions - severe liquefaction during earthquakes and significant flooding during …