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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MVRDV’s Timber Headquarters would have been the world’s largest timber building.
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Bjarke Ingels Group has designed the world’s most sustainable furniture factory for the heart of the Norwegian forest.
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A special crane’s been used to hoist 75 large birch trees 35 metres into the air and on to the roof garden of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
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Wearing your food - isn’t that the ultimate in self sufficiency? Especially when you fertilise it using your own body’s waste. Landscape architecture professor Aroussiak Gabrielian has created the world’s first wearable, edible vest, which can grow a variety of fresh plants.
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An Auckland Council Healthy Waters project in Mt Roskill has won Boffa Miskell the Sustainability Category at this year’s Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards.
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Henriquez Partners Architects, along with PFS Landscape Architects, have designed a mixed-use development for Vancouver, featuring sprawling green space and 10 tree-topped towers.
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Construction is soon to begin on MVRDV’s Vanke 3D City in Shenzhen, China. Commissioned by Chinese property developers Vanke as their new headquarters, this skyscraper of the future contrasts dramatically with surrounding buildings.
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Located in the Back Bay of Boston between the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and the Hynes Convention Centre, this central urban plaza serves as the front door for the Prudential retail and office tower at 888 Boylston. Highlighting the wind patterns of the site, a series of stainless steel woven light columns define the plaza.
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MVRDV have broken ground on Taiwan’s Tainan Xinhua Fruit and Vegetable Market - an open-air market topped by a terraced, farmable green roof.
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Designing for chimpanzees presents a unique set of challenges as Isthmus landscape architect, Sophie Jacques discovered. Even though she’d been involved in Wellington Zoo’s Meet the Locals He Tuku Aroha project, catering to these primates required a good understanding of their particular behaviours.
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Concern over the environmental impact of the landscape architecture profession has led Texas-based Kiwi Landscape Architect Craig Pocock on a long and significant campaign to research and develop the concept of the ‘Carbon Landscape.’
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New Zealanders are very attached to their own patches of lawn, the monotonous whirring of mowers a soundtrack to our weekends and long summer evenings, accompanied by petrol fumes and the smell of freshly cut grass. But is it time to get rid of traditional lawns for the environments sake? A pair of urban ecologists - one from Australia, the other from Sweden, certainly think it might be.
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Twenty years ago, the Peacocke family bought a 117-hectare sized piece of land tucked inside the Raglan Harbour, situated five minutes from the local township, and home to a healthy dose of native bush, wildlife, and surrounding beaches. It boasts one of the largest – and most influential – sections in the region, which has turned a large provincial farm, into one of the most significant urban development schemes in Raglan.
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