News
05 Sep
Deputy Chair of the 2025 Registration Panel
Expressions of Interest
For the last two years the Panel Chair, Martha Dravitzki, has led the charge in shepherding Registration candidates through the …
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07 Nov
Ross Jackson Awarded Life Membership
![NZILA President Brad Coombs presents Ross Jackson with his life membership.](/media/cache/ed/81/ed815957adb01358c9c2b1ed3f2c1b92.jpg)
Congratulations
The 2019 NZILA Firth Conference opened last night in Ōtautahi Christchurch. This year’s theme is DISRUPTION and over the next …
06 Nov
Happy Birthday SOLA!
![Current staff at SOLA.](/media/cache/b7/7b/b77b72d26bc712df1525327fdd3ef643.jpg)
Celebrating 50 years
Woodstock. First Man on the Moon. But that wasn’t all that happened in 1969. New Zealand’s first programme in landscape …
30 Oct
Greymouth's new gathering space
![The sculptural Town Square shelters reference significant Ngāti Waewae sites within the wider Grey District. Image courtesy of Firth.](/media/cache/76/a5/76a51a9f5612e2b23b1c3c28c7832147.jpg)
Grey District Council project
When Greymouth’s new Town Square and Tainui Street Shared Space opened just before Christmas two years ago there was a …
29 Oct
Presidents Update
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October 2019
Tēnā koutou ki te whanau, Nga mihi o te ra. October has been a busy month for the Executive – …
29 Oct
A landscape full of maritime charm
![Xteriorscapes design concept and detailing builds upon the harbour’s waterfront vernacular, and draws on this landscape character in a creative and contemporary format.](/media/cache/ef/4a/ef4ace2f778163f6ddc11e03402e2539.jpg)
Akaroa Harbour
Good things come in small packages. Or in this case on small sites. Xteriorscapes vision for this compact, high quality …
29 Oct
A Well-Organised Workshop: Cultural tourism Mallorca
![Raixa courtyard: the musicians practice as they wait for the guests](/media/cache/d9/e6/d9e69876f97325e1ad90dcb5196f352f.jpg)
Impressions of an observerBlue skies and balmy warmth were my first impressions of Mallorca. While this attracts beach tourism from …
23 Oct
Revamped Rangiora RSA attracts younger members
![Several cube seats clustered near the entrance. Galvanised steel frames with fixed steel panels and timber tops. The NZ Defence Force provided contemporary Navy images which were laminated to the steel panels by the local Horton Signs.](/media/cache/e9/5e/e95edd851a2353a3399281a4a97c39a0.jpg)
Edge Landscape Projects
An extensive refurbishment of Rangiora’s RSA has helped boost the club’s membership, attracting younger patrons along the way, says its …
21 Oct
IFLA Asia Pacific Region Newsletter Issue No.10
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September 2019
Featured in this issue: IFLA Declares A Climate & Biodiversity EmergencyIFLA APR Congress 2019: Technical ToursSILA Build-with-Heart 2019Landscape Architects in …
16 Oct
Grant Edge – Elected to Environment Canterbury
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representing Opukepuke constituency
Grant is very pleased to advise that he has been elected as a new Councillor to Environment Canterbury, representing the …
14 Oct
Reshaping our streets - innovation in communities
![Trial street treatments in Waltham Forest, part of the controversial and ultimately very successful “mini Holland” scheme. Photo: Enjoy Waltham Forest](/media/cache/d5/58/d55800a200d4dbb6dd4c67ca06e4adb4.jpg)
Innovating Streets, NZTA programme
On familiar streets and roads many of us think, “it would be so much better here if the street was …
14 Oct
Who Got That Job?
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Hannah Wilson
At the beginning of April this year Hannah Wilson took up the role of Graduate Landscape Planner (Landscape Architect) at …
08 Oct
Award winning pump track proves a hit in Foxton Beach
![Pathways surrounding the pump track were asphalted as part of the project. Wheelchair and mobility scooter users have told the council they have greater access to the park as a result.](/media/cache/05/83/058349b37f76a8f8122ad999856d0d94.jpg)
Holben Reserve
Adding a pump track to an existing skate park in Holben/Te Wharangi Reserve had always been intended and Boffa Miskell …