13 Aug

Northcote Greenway: Te Ara Awataha

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …