Wellington-based writer and editor Susette Goldsmith has produced two companion works that ask important questions about the adequacy of our defence of trees: Tree Sense and Capital Trees.
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The first hill to climb on responding to the proposed new Planning and Natural Environment bills has been completed by more than 1300 individuals and organisations: The Submission. Next up is the opportunity to speak to the Environment Committee about why landscape matters!
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Being in Denmark last year gave Ralph Johns a timely pause to think that it’s time we took a slower approach to our thinking on urban and landscape design for the sake of future generations.
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Is going from UK Tree of the year in 2025 to European Tree of the year 2026 going out on a limb? LAA was very taken with this small story of a very tall tree, located in a busy urban street in Glasgow, Scotland.
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The third Oberlander Prize laureate is Mexico-based landscape architect Mario Schjetnan. Read (and watch) more about Mario’s life story and the outstanding work of his firm Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU).
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With the deadline for submissions to the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill set to fall on Friday 13 February, LAA looks for insights from the planning legislation pathways in Australia.
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With a closing date looming ever closer for submissions to the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill, NZILA Environmental Legislation Committee chair Peter Kensington raises key issues that need resolving during the Select Committee stage.
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The clock is ticking on time left to submit on the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill - with the Environmental Legislation Working Group of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora (NZILA) leading a collaborative and robust response.
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What’s at stake if the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill proceed as they are? Shannon Bray of the NZILA Environmental Legislation Working Group puts forward strong reasons not to abandon landscape.
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Lincoln University academics Marcus Robinson, Professor Jacky Bowring and Dr Shannon Davis, along with Dr Sarah Edwards from the Bioeconomy Science Institute, have been researching spatial opportunities for balancing urban growth, food production and ecology.
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This essay from postgraduate student Ananda Acharya argues that landscape memory is stored in repeated practices and poses a question for designers: which practices do we permit to become memory, and which do we erase?
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As 2025 was being brought to a close, Unitec’s School of Architecture annual journal Asylum - named for the former hospital building that originally housed the School - was brought to life by four students under the theme of Mana Wāhine.
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While the number of people spoken to by LAA often exceeds the capacity for telling all of the stories there are to be told in as quick a turnaround as intended, a new series is on its way to highlight our kōrero with landscape architects, designers, educators, students and more. People like Bridget Gilbert, Peter Sergel and Rod Barnett.
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What’s looming large for 2026? Apart from finally knowing what’s on the table for replacing the Resource Management Act, there are plenty of landscape architecture projects - exemplified here by Studio Pacific - and big picture infrastructure initiatives in the mix. Meanwhile it’s also time to take a break!
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In our final ‘book column’ for the year, LAA turns the clock back to a clutch of books celebrating their 10th and 15th anniversaries - as well as presenting a bountiful selection of large illustrated books published in 2025 on flowers, plants, our biodiversity of feathered friends and city mapping.
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Guest contributor Tony Brophy has found a well of inspiration in Nantes, France. If there was one ‘elephant in the room’ at the IFLA World Congress, held in September, it was what he terms the profession’s prevailing “identity crisis”.
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2025 has seen a cornucopia of awards events - here’s a wrap on the Barcelona International Landscape Biennale, the Landscape Institute Awards and World Architecture Festival - all of which took place in November.
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The World Architecture Festival made its first touchdown in the USA in November - at which LandLAB, with SCAPE, gained global recognition with a win in the Future Project: Urban Design category for the exciting Te Ara Tukutuku project.
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The Asia-Pacific regional chapter of the International Federation of Landscape Architects has a new president: Paul Chan, of the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects.
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Reset has had its second success at the IFLA Asia-Pacific Region Landscape Architecture Awards - hosted in 2025 by the Indian Society of Landscape Architects in Mumbai. The Auckland/ Wānaka company won the sole Award of Excellence in the Unbuilt Commercial & Institutions category.
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