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This documentary was premiered in New York this week. It looks back on the collective part that a gathering of representative New Yorkers played in determining a path for taking he city from the horror of 11 September 2001 to the eventual reclaiming of Ground Zero in the form of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.
Read MoreThis latest newswire digest ranges across biodiversity, a project milestone, an events watch notice, a landscape studio update and shout-outs to interesting endeavours being undertaken by Christchurch City Council and the Paererewā charitable trust.
Read MoreMotivated by the sentiment that “it feels like we are at a critical juncture as we look to streamline the planning system”, Karl Check of Boffa Miskell shares his thoughts on the place of trees in our urban environments as critical infrastructure.
Read MoreThe team behind the popular platform Landezine have been recognised this month for the mahi they do promoting the profession - across the accolades accorded to LA projects to the wicked problems landscape architects are confronted by. Read more in our latest LAA compilation of international news.
Read MoreThe local government sector in Aotearoa New Zealand is currently the focus of a major shake-up. In an ideal world wouldn’t it be better for redrawn administrative boundaries to match catchments rather than cut through them? And wouldn’t this reflect more meaningful connections to landscape?
Read MoreSitting 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’!
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