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In his lifetime - tragically ended on 23 September 2025 - world-renowned Chinese landscape architect and educator Kongjian Yu exemplified the role that landscape architects can play in climate adaptation. The combination of his many professional works, personal connections, influence and legacy as an originator of the ‘sponge city’ concept will be, and are already, enduring ones.
Read MoreThe countdown to the Adaptation Futures conference from 13 to 16 October at the Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre in Ōtautahi Christchurch is almost over. It will have all the elements of a UN-level gathering and will put issues and expertise from Aotearoa New Zealand on a world-level stage.
Read MoreOn World Rivers Day - 24 September this year - the collaboration known as LAWA for Land, Air, Water Aotearoa released updated data for around 3,500 rivers, lakes, estuaries, and groundwater sites. National Picture Summaries from LAWA take a nationwide snapshot of freshwater health.
Read MoreRalph Johns takes us on the trail of two friends cycling into the past; reconnecting with people and places, professional and personal memories, the future and the present. All encompassed by the spanning of four decades and one hundred landscape architecture projects.
Read MoreGiven the range of conjoined events that it brings together - from speaker events to exhibitions - the NZIA’s Aotearoa Festival of Architecture is an illustration of the power of both diversity an collaboration; deserving of being captured for and promoted to a wider audience.
Read MoreThe foreword to Living In Paradox, written by Professor Diane Brand, reads that it is a book “that needed to be written”. Diane reckoned it “should be read as a prelude to the design of future place in New Zealand, so that that enterprise can be undertaken in context”. Some 15 years later, author Garth Falconer lays the book to rest.
Read MoreBoffa Miskell’s Mark Brown has been working on a ‘retrospective’ that highlights the recovery and rejuvenation of Ōtautahi Christchurch. To begin with he has written a first person perspective on the immediate aftermath of the Canterbury Earthquakes, now nearing their 15th anniversary.
Read MoreWork by Isthmus and Boffa Miskell took centre stage at the awards night of the Resource Management Law Conference held in Marlborough in September. Issues and topics brought to the fore at the annual event sparked “courageous kōrero”.
Read MoreThis year’s IFLA Sir Graham Jellicoe Award recipient is Swiss landscape architect and educator Günther Vogt. The imprint he has been making on the profession is insightful and influential.
Read MoreWith Bruno Marques as its serving President and Tuia Pito Ora NZILA President Ralph Johns in attendance, the 61st IFLA World Congress, as so many before it, has a strong and active participation from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read MoreKate Orff (SCAPE Landscape Architecture) and Marco Scano (Harvard GSD Department of Landscape Architecture) joined forces to create ‘Cool Forests’ for the Biennale Architettura 2025 in Venice. For our new ‘Artscapes’ section we’ve highlighted two Biennales and an artists’ residency in Ireland.
Read MoreThe Aotearoa Festival of Architecture 2025 is putting an extra spring in the step of all forms of architectural practice around the motu this September, with a diverse programme that in its first week incorporated an NZILA Branch event featuring Dr Emily Afoa, Marty Andrews and Will Hatton.
Read MoreIf you're still looking for ways to engage with Conservation Week (1-7 September) this short film - fronted by conservationist Sam 'The Trap Man' Gibson and backed by Pure Advantage - will definitely assist.
Read MoreSian Reynolds, of Boffa Miskell’s Biosecurity team, rings an alarm bell that without adequate investment in a wilding conifer programme “we risk undoing years of gains, allowing these pests to reclaim ground we’ve already fought to protect”.
Read MoreDOC has produced a kete of resources and suggestions as ways to help to activate Conservation Week - Te Wiki o te Taiao, in 2025. Resources include a double-sided table talker. What will you be doing in your workplace or community? #ConservationWeek2025
Read MoreIn August a DOC team who work on the New Zealand Threat Classification Series released data on the conservation status of mosses in Aotearoa New Zealand. To celebrate this magnificent flora, LAA has also found some poetry to supplement the data and to mark National Poetry Day.
Read MoreReset recently celebrated the opening of the new Ōpaheke Park in Papakura. In this contribution, experienced landscape architect and urban designer James Paxton reflects on the past, present and future of the project.
Read MoreHave you heard of Archisource? Since 2019 they have organised a ‘Drawing of the Year’ award and in 2025 the Digital Media award category was won by MLA graduate Ying Yu Wong - Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, with her entry ‘Rainforest Commons’.
Read MoreIn a round-up of news from Tāmaki Makaurau, LAA highlights progress on the City Rail Link (CRL) the addition of ten sites of cultural significance to Auckland’s planning documents and a victory for the berm gardens created by Mark van Kaathoven.
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