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Celebrating Matariki
Matariki, Te Taiao, #Around-the-motu
Celebrating Matariki
Matariki, Te Taiao, #Around-the-motu

Matariki this year fell neatly in the middle of the Tangaroa lunar period of 19-22 June, and has been widely marked around the motu. LAA has compiled a selection of happenings: the re-siting of Ngā Pou o Heretaunga to Hastings Civic Square, special plantings at Wellington Botanic Garden ki Paekākā and an exhibition at Cornwall Park called ‘Matariki Weather’.

Matariki, Te Taiao, #Around-the-motu
A Fellow's journey: Nik Kneale
NZILA Fellow, #Around-the-motu
A Fellow's journey: Nik Kneale
NZILA Fellow, #Around-the-motu

Nik Kneale - who became a Fellow of Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects in May - has been making his mark as a Landscape Architect for almost 25 years. Ōtautahi Christchurch is and always will be the place Nik journeys back and forth to, his ahi kā.

NZILA Fellow, #Around-the-motu
Megan's mates & Matariki
Matariki, #Around-the-motu
Megan's mates & Matariki
Matariki, #Around-the-motu

The timing for the Wellington branches of Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects and Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZ Institute of Architects to collaborate on a City Talks event dedicated to remembering celebrated landscape architect Megan Wraight could not have been more fitting.

Matariki, #Around-the-motu
Flying the flag for New Plymouth
NZILA Fellow, New Plymouth, #Around-the-motu
Flying the flag for New Plymouth
NZILA Fellow, New Plymouth, #Around-the-motu

There are many colourful threads to the story behind Richard Bain’s deserved recognition as a Fellow of Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, as celebrated in May in Heretaunga Hastings on the night before the 2025 NZILA Firth Wānanga.

NZILA Fellow, New Plymouth, #Around-the-motu
International conferences coming to a city near you!
International Everts, #Around-the-motu, #Around-the-world
International conferences coming to a city near you!
International Everts, #Around-the-motu, #Around-the-world

Two major global conference events will be held on our shores for the first time in 2025, starting with the International Adaptation Futures Conference (AF2025) in Ōtautahi Christchurch in October and then the International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH 2025) in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington in November. Read our latest ‘events watch’ here.

International Everts, #Around-the-motu, #Around-the-world
Plants of place and identity – in conversation with mana whenua 
Academic Research, te ao Māori, #Around-the-motu
Plants of place and identity – in conversation with mana whenua 
Academic Research, te ao Māori, #Around-the-motu

SURVEY OPEN TO MONDAY 4 AUGUST: Maria Rodgers, a PhD candidate at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, is seeking landscape architects to participate in a survey in the subject area of plants of place and identity - and the plants being planted in urban public spaces.   

Academic Research, te ao Māori, #Around-the-motu
A reflective walk through the NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025 (with photos)
NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025, #Around-the-motu, #Around-the-world
A reflective walk through the NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025 (with photos)
NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025, #Around-the-motu, #Around-the-world

Hastings District Council Mayor Sandra Hazlehurst - pictured above - provided a warm welcome to all those attending the NZILA Firth Wānanga on 22-23 May. “Small scale farmer” Alison Bentley of Tikitere Farm, has generously supplied her reflections as a first-time-ever participant, external to the landscape architecture profession.

NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025, #Around-the-motu, #Around-the-world
Big news at Auckland Council: Eke Panuku gives way to an Urban Development Office
Auckland Council, #Around-the-motu
Big news at Auckland Council: Eke Panuku gives way to an Urban Development Office
Auckland Council, #Around-the-motu

This week Auckland Council announced that as of 1 July an Auckland Urban Development Office is being put in place. It will be responsible for driving integrated implementation and delivery of quality urban development in the council group’s identified growth priority areas and large-scale projects.

Auckland Council, #Around-the-motu
A 'road trip' introduction to the adventures of Josh Zeunert
NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025, Food Landscapes, Sustainability, #Around-the-motu
A 'road trip' introduction to the adventures of Josh Zeunert
NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025, Food Landscapes, Sustainability, #Around-the-motu

Josh Zeunert’s adventures in landscape architecture foreshadow the content of the exciting programme for this year’s NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025 being hosted in Heretaunga Hastings on 22-23 May. The countdown is on!

NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025, Food Landscapes, Sustainability, #Around-the-motu
Lest we forget: A 10-year milestone for Pukeahu National War Memorial Park
Awards, Memorial, #Around-the-motu
Lest we forget: A 10-year milestone for Pukeahu National War Memorial Park
Awards, Memorial, #Around-the-motu

Pukeahu National War Memorial Park lives on as a precedent for the integration of infrastructure, the subtle layering of cultural and heritage values and the provision of open inner-city space.

Awards, Memorial, #Around-the-motu
Marking World Landscape Architecture Month with an index of excellence
WLAM, Awards, #Around-the-motu
Marking World Landscape Architecture Month with an index of excellence
WLAM, Awards, #Around-the-motu

World Landscape Architecture Month is a fitting time to reflect on the excellence of the work performed by landscape architects in Aotearoa New Zealand every year. This article is a reminder of the collective showcase of projects available to view, refer to and share from NZILA.co.nz

WLAM, Awards, #Around-the-motu