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19 Jun
Kia ora rawa atu! Thank you to the volunteers!
Te Wiki Tūao ā-Motu
🌟 Kia ora rawa atu! Thank you to our volunteers! 🌟 It's Te Wiki Tūao ā-Motu (National Volunteer Week) and …
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29 May
A connection point for power businesses
VXV Plaza
The VXV Plaza in Auckland's Wynyard Quarter is described as being perfectly placed as a connection point for New Zealand's …
28 May
Coast, Country, Neighbourhood, City - a journey of love
Isthmus CEO Ralph Johns
When employees have been at Isthmus for ten years they’re given two weeks study leave to go off and do …
23 May
Post-conference professional pride
Matthew Bradbury - Associate professor, Unitec Architecture Pathway Group
All professional conferences are by definition self-congratulatory but the recent NZILA City/Tāone Conference in Auckland showed landscape architects do have …
22 May
The call of home for new graduate
Jackie Paul
Newly graduated landscape architect Jackie Paul is urban Maori, born and bred in South Auckland, but she calls the Far …
17 May
What is landscape architecture?
"the art and practice of designing the outdoor environment, especially designing parks or gardens to harmonise with buildings and roads,"
A formal definition of landscape architecture is "the art and practice of designing the outdoor environment, especially designing parks or …
16 May
Queenstown's housing shortage - the tussle between supply and design
Ladies Mile development
More housing in the Queenstown Lakes District is desperately needed - there’s no argument about that. Current growth projections suggest …
15 May
A grand design for Paris - with space to breathe
Les Lumières Pleyel
Snøhetta is the lead architect and landscape architect firm behind a new Parisian urban development project designed to re-energise the …
14 May
Meet Auckland's design champion
Ludo Campbell-Reid
Ludo Campbell-Reid is general manager of Auckland Council’s Design Office - a multi-disciplinary department of architects, urban designers, landscape architects, …
11 May
Bringing play back to post quake Christchurch
Margaret Mahy Family playground
When the Margaret Mahy Family playground - Takaro a Poi - opened in 2015, it was packed immediately and the …
10 May
Sweet public development for the Big Apple
Domino Park
A sugar refinery in the Brooklyn suburb of Williamsburg is being turned into a six-acre public park. Due to open …
04 May
NZILA conference poll
Talk of change dominates
Times are changing - that's the overwhelming message from delegates at the 2018 NZILA Firth conference when we asked "what …
01 May
Camp Glenorchy - the world's most sustainable campground?
Aiming for net zero energy usage
What’s been touted as New Zealand’s - and possibly the world’s - most sustainable camping ground has opened for business …