28 Jul

Design that mitigates post traumatic stress in children proves a winner

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

02 Jul

International call for chapter proposals: innovative practices with photography for environmental design

Active Landscape Photography: Diverse Practices Editor Anne C Godfrey Routledge Press Active Landscape Photography: Diverse Practices is the third book …