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Sitting days at Parliament are fast evaporating. Even so the pace before this year’s Election campaigning accelerates has reached a fever pitch, now jammed together with a consultation on testing the approach to National Policy Direction” to replace the RMA.
Read MoreThere’s seldom a lack of speaker events around the motu to keep track of - all providing valuable insights and perspectives on topics as varied as Visual Representation, what it takes to come out on top in Competitions and the pressing need to talk about Urban Heat.
Read MoreAtelier South is an intensive international Summer School hosted by the School of Architecture at Otago Polytechnic that explores how design education can respond to urgent environmental and social challenges.
Read MoreJames Paxton of Reset shares insightful thoughts about Te Tauoma - a brownfield regeneration project that may not have seen the light of day, but that sheds light on “what can happen when landscape architecture leads the shaping of cities from the very beginning”.
Read MoreDrawing on the Mangawhai Hills project, Reset co-director James Paxton sets out a belief that “when ecology, landform, water, movement and public life become the starting point, development produces communities that are healthier, more resilient and more memorable”.
Read MoreThis week’s news monitoring scan has brief items about: Te Pūmanawa o Onehunga; a call to take part in People’s Choice voting for IFLA’s Global Landscape Architecture (GLA) awards; a special recognition of Ines Stäger for her service to Forest & Bird; and the sad news of the death of Hastings District Council chief executive To’osavili Nigel Bickle.
Read MoreThe shortlist for the 2026 Resene NZILA Awards is out! The 15 categories and 51 contenders amply show that the positive impacts made by all landscape architecture professionals extend across an extraordinary breadth of locations and clients. When you look, landscape architecture is everywhere.
Read MoreVoting opens on 4 September! Voting for Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year competition that is, and there’s still time to find a manu that doesn’t yet have a campaign manager. Inspired by comic artist Tara Black, LAA is backing the Takahē.
Read MoreFor the second year running, our #LandscapeExpanded section draws attention to this year’s National Poetry Day. Whether you’re well versed in poetry or not, this is your chance to WIN a copy of the just-released 2026 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook.
Read MoreIs the distinctive contribution that landscape architects make something larger than legislation? In this thinkpiece, Shannon Bray, positions the profession’s long-term relevance on its ability to bring differing perspectives together and to explain why landscape matters in the first place.
Read MoreAs part of celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ‘digital life’ of Landscape Architecture Aotearoa, we’re introducing a regular new feature we’re calling the LAA Newswire - drawing from social media channels and prompts from our readers.
Read MoreThe step taken by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, to release an authoritative challenge to the readiness of the RMA replacement laws deserves to be taken serioulsy.
Read MoreThe Environment select committee’s recommendations for amendments to the Planning Bill and the Natural Environment Bill have landed with an inexorable thud that is slowly reverberating around the motu. Read LAA’s overview here.
Read MoreThe focus of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2026, officially staged for 14-20 September, is Te Reo Towns. Too often we leave the time we schedule to think about and plan for these occasions too late - LAA starts early this year with a think-piece from contributor Nick Kapica.
Read MoreRohan Daniel - a landscape architecture graduate originally from Bengaluru, India, and now in The Netherlands - has been engaged in a project to help reset the future urban contribution made by the canals of Amsterdam. And he’s inviting you to complete a ‘visual survey’!
Read MoreIn a piece about our past, present and future, Garth Falconer ponders some potential, and potent, lessons contained in and conveyed by the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau - US essayist, poet, and philosopher.
Read MoreHerwi Scheltus (1951-2026) worked tirelessly as a landscape architect in the public service of the New Zealand Government for four decades, most especially leaving his mark on Aotearoa’s much treasured Conservation estate. A brief memoriam of his life is shared here by NZILA Tuia Pito Ora.
Read MoreLAA is grateful to Amy Hobbs for taking time to respond to a recent article we excerpted from 42 years ago on the topic of “Urban Vegetation” in Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington. Amy’s appraisal combines an honest critique with a call to do more to green our urban spaces.
Read MoreIt’s no easy feat to be named in the winning team for the ArchEngBuild challenge. So kudos to landscape architecture student Konstantinos Antonopoulos for working with students from engineering, building/ construction management and architecture disciplines to help shape a winner!
Read MoreThe 2026 ArchEngBuild challenge - the 13th since 2012 - brought students to Ōtautahi Christchurch from tertiary education institutions across Aotearoa New Zealand. This article provides reflections on this highly regarded event, organised by BRANZ, from the points of view of a mentor, judge and two students.
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