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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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24 Mar
Playground reflects its environment
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The colourful playground is home to (unofficially) the country’s fastest slide
The playground in Hastings’ Cornwall Park’s been given a state-of-the-art facelift which is proving popular with those who use it. …
22 Mar
NZILA IFLA delegate update
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Prepared by: Mike Barthelmeh
The big issue for us all at the moment is the rapid spread internationally of the covid-19 virus, and fallout …
20 Mar
Unique park to rise in Manhattan
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The Thomas Heatherwick designed Pier 55 in Manhattan, New York, is back on track to be completed in 2021
After being appointed following a design competition in 2013, the architecture studio envisioned a new pier on Manhattan’s southwest riverside …
20 Mar
Covid-19 - industry update
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Prepared by: Brad Coombs
Landscape architects are being urged to keep it “business as usual” as much as possible by New Zealand Institute of …
16 Mar
COVID-19 Message to NZILA Members
Prepared by: Brad Coombs
You will no doubt all be aware of the unprecedented situation that is currently unfolding in New Zealand and around …
11 Mar
Urban design - what will it look like in 500 years?
![Nick Kapica is a principal at Isthmus and the former design lead at Wellington City Council. He has also been a senior lecturer in design at leading universities in Germany, Switzerland, UK, Australia and New Zealand.](/media/cache/10/a6/10a6de122bd4607ad5190fff2cb66a07.jpg)
By Nick Kapica
Year 2519 — navigators and the new artisans. Robots everywhere, advanced alien species live on earth, some humans occupy new …
03 Mar
Child's play - The Imaginarium
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By Dr Wendy Hoddinott
Over the summer holidays, a group of children discovered a new kind of freedom – that of designing their own …
27 Feb
President's Update
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February 2020
Tēnā koutou ki te whanau,Nga mihi o te ra. No doubt the Christmas break seems like a distant memory now. …
27 Feb
Communal living - Wirihana masterplan
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Isthmus
When Te Ākitai Waihoua approached Isthmus to rethink an earlier masterplan for Wirihana, in South Auckland, we immediately saw the …
25 Feb
Catherine Mosbach - "nature was my playground"
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French landscape architect Catherine Mosbach is internationally celebrated for her environmentally and socially responsible approach to landscape design. Founder of …
21 Feb
“Hey Landscape Architect, ko wai hoki koe?”
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Te Tau-a-Nuku Article
Lessons from my masters thesis research on decolonising mainstream placemaking practice in Aotearoa, New Zealand Na Amelia Blundell (Nga Puhi …
21 Feb
New design for Auckland Harbour Bridge pathway
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Now named Northern Pathway
Auckland’s Harbour Bridge proposed cycle and pedestrian link will extend as far as Albany in the north, with construction expected …