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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23 May
Post-conference professional pride
![Unitec's Matthew Bradbury says the recent NZILA conference highlighted how much landscape architects have contributed to the reshaping of Auckland.](/media/cache/6b/71/6b71debbc18929676a414e61b29d6e11.jpg)
Matthew Bradbury - Associate professor, Unitec Architecture Pathway Group
All professional conferences are by definition self-congratulatory but the recent NZILA City/Tāone Conference in Auckland showed landscape architects do have …
22 May
The call of home for new graduate
![Jackie Paul looks out towards Matauri Bay in the Far North.](/media/cache/94/6c/946c8452d1e4673908f7e2d0fb874dd1.jpg)
Jackie Paul
Newly graduated landscape architect Jackie Paul is urban Maori, born and bred in South Auckland, but she calls the Far …
17 May
What is landscape architecture?
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"the art and practice of designing the outdoor environment, especially designing parks or gardens to harmonise with buildings and roads,"
A formal definition of landscape architecture is "the art and practice of designing the outdoor environment, especially designing parks or …
16 May
Queenstown's housing shortage - the tussle between supply and design
![The masterplan for the controversial Special Housing Area at Ladies Mile](/media/cache/0e/7a/0e7a0752b95ed55fe00eda469bb5cf2c.jpg)
Ladies Mile development
More housing in the Queenstown Lakes District is desperately needed - there’s no argument about that. Current growth projections suggest …
15 May
A grand design for Paris - with space to breathe
![The render of the finished project is courtesy of snøhetta.com](/media/cache/0e/75/0e75d2129b929bf9acf508070e80dd26.jpg)
Les Lumières Pleyel
Snøhetta is the lead architect and landscape architect firm behind a new Parisian urban development project designed to re-energise the …
14 May
Meet Auckland's design champion
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Ludo Campbell-Reid
Ludo Campbell-Reid is general manager of Auckland Council’s Design Office - a multi-disciplinary department of architects, urban designers, landscape architects, …
11 May
Bringing play back to post quake Christchurch
![Photography: Opus International Consultants.](/media/cache/e7/a5/e7a5261d970a057d9ce9978e65aa7596.jpg)
Margaret Mahy Family playground
When the Margaret Mahy Family playground - Takaro a Poi - opened in 2015, it was packed immediately and the …
10 May
Sweet public development for the Big Apple
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Domino Park
A sugar refinery in the Brooklyn suburb of Williamsburg is being turned into a six-acre public park. Due to open …
04 May
NZILA conference poll
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Talk of change dominates
Times are changing - that's the overwhelming message from delegates at the 2018 NZILA Firth conference when we asked "what …
01 May
Camp Glenorchy - the world's most sustainable campground?
![Camp Glenorchy is 40 minutes drive away from Queenstown.](/media/cache/4a/60/4a60aded03b28eb9917faa1ae2108b73.jpg)
Aiming for net zero energy usage
What’s been touted as New Zealand’s - and possibly the world’s - most sustainable camping ground has opened for business …
26 Apr
2018 NZILA Firth Conference speaker series
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Sofie Willems + Joan Raun Nielson, Spektrum Architects
For the founders of a small Denmark architecture firm, Joan Raun Nielson and Sofie Willems have a big goal - …
26 Apr
Decolonising Landscape – a student Charrette
![Te Noho Kotahitanga](/media/cache/2e/78/2e78dbe2123f5e301385e52c09aa1ec1.jpg)
Tāmaki makaurau (Auckland)
During the recent 2018 Tuia Pito Ora (NZILA) conference in Tāmaki makaurau (Auckland) the Landscape Foundation, with support from Te …