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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31 Aug
The Landing Business Park / The Gateway
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Melissa Davis, Senior Landscape Architect and team leader at Harrison Grierson
I’m Melissa Davis, and I’ve been working as a landscape architect since 2002. After graduating from Lincoln, I worked for …
31 Aug
Living Urbanism
![Meadow living roof, Therme Vals, Switzerland](/media/cache/cb/0f/cb0fbbf72042166a95ccfc6183a4a4ea.jpg)
Zoë Avery, Senior Planning, Urban and Landscape Design Consultant has been researching how we can better integrate living roofs
The uptake of living roofs, walls and facades is increasing globally as cities throughout the world begin to recognise the …
30 Aug
Annual Bar Stools Travel Talk
![Photo Credits: Ralph Johns, Meg Back, Julia Wick, Helen Mellsop and Jeremy Gershen.
Thanks to Meg Back of Jasmax who kindly montaged this.](/media/cache/b8/4e/b84eddd37527f0d70bc5ad77c41569cc.jpg)
Auckland Branch
The annual Bar Stools travel Talk was well attended by a varied audience of Landscape professionals from Auckland Practices, the …
30 Aug
Dr Jacky Bowring, one of five winners of international design competition
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Congratulations to Dr Jacky Bowring
Designing an island is a dream brief. Islands are seductive and intriguing. The places of dreams … and of nightmares. …
29 Aug
Meet Auckland Branch Member Daniel Chapman
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Leading the Design and Visualisation Team at AECOM in Auckland
Kia ora koutou, ko Daniel Chapman tōku ingoa. I currently lead the Design and Visualisation team at AECOM in Auckland, …
28 Aug
Member Profile - Pete Griffiths
![Image: uploads/2017_08/Pete_Griffiths_Profile_pic.jpg](/media/cache/59/65/5965e8fe90adae258b1c36e0d2048999.jpg)
Partner: FIELDLA2
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Unitec 2001Masters of Landscape Architecture, Unitec 2006 EXPERTISE:Pete’s role is primarily that of principal designer …
25 Aug
Meet - Linnea Calov Jacobsen
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Landscape Architect at Aitkentaylor
My name is Linnea Calov Jacobsen and I’m working as a landscape architect in Blenheim, Marlborough. As a LA graduate …
01 Aug
Queen Elizabeth Park planting - Wellington Branch
![Totara in memory of Kay Bannatyne](/media/cache/29/60/29602d68272eead77b976cd30a4a4112.jpg)
Totara grove of remembrance
Wellington Branch landscape architects and family members returned to the totara grove that was planted 6 years ago to remember …
31 Jul
CNI Branch Event
![Landscape Architects enjoying the view](/media/cache/76/53/765392b0cd0b0d113529571dd8c18c07.jpg)
Taupo Projects with Positive Change
It was a cold, crisp, and clear sunny day for the Central North Island Branch get together in Taupo on …
25 Jul
Greening the Architecture
![Parkwest London Green Roof](/media/cache/21/f7/21f75706b6e3a8f12c9d08031359879d.jpg)
Green Roofs
The pressure on our land from increasing development within many of NZ’s cities remains strong, predominantly from an increasing population …
24 Jul
Joining Forces
![Where prisoners were brought in and left to dry out over night when they first arrived at the prison.](/media/cache/d3/55/d35589d244696e485c5f4d22dd35edd4.jpg)
Mid Winter Christmas
Of late the Dunedin branch of the NZILA have teamed up with the NZPI, RMLA and NZIS to host joint …
24 Jul
Creating living areas, sections and spaces that personally satisfy my quality of life
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Jade McFarlane - Eliot Sinclair
From university la-la-land, first stop was Isthmus and working as a small cog in a large detailed design machine working …