What has COVID-19 told us about the way we’re living and how we need to change? LAA asked landscape architects how the global pandemic has influenced the way they think about the profession going forward.
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Landscapes of extraction are the undeniably baneful result of a global resource-exploitation economy, yet they are readily denied by policymakers and governmental bodies as having value beyond being ‘green-washed’.
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If very small urban plantings are unlikely to provide important habitat, why plant natives at all? Boffa Miskell’s Christchurch-based botanist Dr Jaz Morris explores some broad questions of ecological pedantry in small-scale plantings in the urban environment.
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“It looks like security measures for terror.” That’s the scathing verdict of Bill McKay on Auckland’s Queen Street.
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This visionary tactical master plan is an initiative by Isthmus to provide a framework for innovative change. It supports the work of many different groups advocating for a more people friendly Wellington.
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Urban life is sustained by infrastructure. New Zealand’s development and economic future is dependent upon said infrastructure to collect, exchange, and distribute goods, people, services and kaupapa (knowledge) across vast territories.
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My enduring memory of Orlando in July 2005 was of the stifling heavy heat that made venturing outside an exercise in endurance.
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Public space is a city’s literal common ground - the spaces where people come together as friends, neighbours and citizens.
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It was the last weekend of my break in Orlando and my sister-in-law suggested a trip to a local university. She mentioned that there were a few buildings there designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, which sounded interesting to explore.
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Isthmus’ Brennan Baxley responds to an installation by Austrian eco-visionary designer Klaus Loenhart at Victoria University of Wellington, along with the lecture titled Imagine! The city as a living biome.
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As the phrase “shovel-ready” enters New Zealand’s vocabulary, it’s worth pausing to think about what those words really mean.
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The Covid-19 climate has raised an uncertain future for our communities and the public spaces we typically enjoy.
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“I’m literally on fire!” Paul beamed as he dismounted from his bike. By the time he arrived in Wellington he had over 1,500km of riding and 21,000m of climbing under his belt. We fed him up and washed his clothes and early the next morning I rolled down the hill with him onto the Picton ferry.
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We’re about halfway through the lockdown. Looking at the numbers it seems like Aotearoa is responding well so far. Two weeks ago I was really worried. I was processing the news of a major intervention to how I was used to working and living writes NZILA Tuia Pito Ora president Brad Coombs.
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Insects make up the majority of terrestrial species on Earth. There are some 900,000 species of insects known to science, including over 350,000 beetle and 150,000 fly species — and new species are being found every day. With numbers like that, you might think we’ve got more insects that we need. But that’s not the case.
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We know that the effects of climate change on the Aotearoa New Zealand city will be the biggest disruptive event in the history of New Zealand urbanism.
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The effects of climate change on the Aotearoa New Zealand landscape will be the biggest disruptive event in our history.
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Māori design network Ngā Aho says the Ihumātao dispute in South Auckland is not a housing issue, but a land issue and therefore a matter for the Government.
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Understanding the principles of partnership, participation and protection in the profession. How can we advocate for the preservation of cultural landscapes by recognising the significance of the past, the present to plan for the future?
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The president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects believes New Zealand is one of three world hotspots for landscape architecture. James Hayter says Aotearoa joins Chile and the south of Spain, adding there are many lessons the landscape architecture community can learn from the professions here.
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