Wellington Branch News
17 Sep
Issuance of amended Plants for Planting import health standard (formally importation of Nursery Stock)
From Biosecurity New Zealand
Biosecurity has amended the Plants for Planting import health standard (formally importation of Nursery Stock), effective 15 September 2025. Urgent …
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17 Apr
A much loved green space is back in business
Post-quake Christchurch
One of the best-loved spaces in Christchurch city centre is open to the public again, and in a landscape that …
17 Apr
Victoria University Prizegiving
Congratulations to this years award winners
NZILA Wellington Branch Chair Nicole Thompson attended the Victoria University Prizegiving on Thursday 5th April 2018 and presented the following …
16 Apr
Meet the new NZILA President
Isthmus' Brad Coombs
Brad Coombs is NZILA’s new president. Coombs says being new to the role, and also on the Executive, means he …
16 Apr
Registered Membership
Recent presentation at the NZILA 2018 AGM
Congratulations to the 22 members who successfully passed the 2017 registration examination and are now Registered Members of the Institute. …
12 Apr
Congratulations to: Brad Coombs, Neil Challenger & Mike Thomas
Elected Fellows of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects
Congratulations to Brad Coombs, Neil Challenger and Mike Thomas who are newly elected Fellows of the New Zealand Institute of …
11 Apr
Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival - Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
Includes Q&A hosted by NZILA
2017, Director: Thomas Piper, 75 min, subtitled Celebrated Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf is famous for designing public works, like …
04 Apr
New Plymouth's wild west walkway two decades on
used by tens of thousands of locals and visitors a year
Travel guide Lonely Planet named Taranaki as one of the best regions in the world to visit for 2017. It’s …
29 Mar
How a community fought to restore the mana of its waterfront
Taumanu Reserve
Onehunga’s Taumanu Reserve, ten kilometres south of Auckland city, has won it’s design and construction collaborators many awards across different …
27 Mar
The textures of Canterbury in the Peter Scoular Plaza development
Environment Canterbury building, Christchurch
Rough and Milne's striking development outside the Environment Canterbury building in Christchurch is inspired by the layers and diversity of …
23 Mar
Meet the woman running Lincoln's School of Landscape Architecture
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
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
Joey Rosenberg
Winning an international design competition when he was still a landscape architecture student at the University of Pennsylvania has opened …