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02 Sep
Live Stream Event - 2024 IFLA World Council
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For those of you who cannot attend in person, IFLA plans to live stream the Congress via YouTube. It will …
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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
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“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 …
21 Jul
2020 NZ Arb Ronald Flook Award
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Nominations now being accepted for the 2020 NZ Arb Ronald Flook Award.The Ronald Flook Award is an accolade given to …
21 Jul
Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes
Phoebe Lickwar, ASLA, and Roxi Thoren, ASLA, have just published an excellent new book, Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes …
15 Jul
Latest NZILA Fellow announced
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He brought with him extensive experience in the design of both private and public spaces, often working closely with planners and ecologists.
Boffa Miskell’s John Potter has been made a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora. …
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
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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 …
07 Jul
Nohonga Challenge enters next phase
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The finalists’ nohonga will be temporarily on display in Britomart in Auckland’s CBD
The five groups of finalists in the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora/Brick …