Peter Matthews is the principal landscape architect for Ōtākaro Limited, the company responsible for delivering Crown-led projects in Central Christchurch. Landscape Architecture Aotearoa asked him about his role there.
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International designer Martin Rein-Cano was in Auckland for flying visit this month (October 2018) and he wasn’t afraid to court controversy.
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Since writing earlier in the week about the appearance of Lime’s e-scooters in Auckland and Christchurch this month - there has been a flurry of news stories about the phenomenon and now the government’s had to put out it’s stance.
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It might be two years late and have come at the cost of 18 lives and NZ$30 billion - but this week (23/10/18) the world’s longest sea crossing bridge has opened - linking Hong Kong and Macau to mainland China at the city of Zhuhai
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A masterplan which will create a new skyline and see 269 hectares of reclaimed land next to Colombo’s CBD transformed into an innovative destination for culture, commerce, and tourism in South Asia is set to become a reality.
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Catherine Hamilton is a principal landscape architect at WSP Opus and was the lead designer for the hugely popular Takaro a Poi/Margaret Mahy Family Playground in Christchurch, a key investment in the post-earthquake regeneration of Christchurch.
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A postgraduate landscape architecture student at Victoria University of Wellington has won a major international award for her landscape architecture project to help redevelop Carterton’s Hurunui-o-Rangi Marae.
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Isthmus has revealed a new design for Rotorua’s lakefront that captures the rich history and cultural ties associated with the popular tourism destination.
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Towering over the Auckland isthmus, the maunga (volcanic cones) have been adapted and used over many decades in many different ways, over time shaping people’s connections to them and expectations of them.
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For Canadian landscape architect Jenna Wouters a work exchange programme to New Zealand with WSP has opened up a world of new plant species and landscape environments.
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FESTA - the Festival of Transitional Architecture in Christchurch- celebrates its seventh year this Labour Weekend. To mark the occasion a team of six landscape architects have combined forces to create their own exhibition. It’s the first time that a team consisting solely of landscape architects has been involved in the festival.
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Christchurch-based developer of visual data science software, Seequent, which recently assisted in the Thai cave rescue of 13 young boys by building a 3D model, and global engineering and infrastructure advisory company, Aurecon, have joined forces to work together on the digital engineering of the incoming Auckland City Rail Link project, which is due to be completed by 2024.
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New Zealand’s largest transport construction project, Auckland’s City Rail Link (CRL) has been judged the leader in delivering sustainable infrastructure.
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The Chicago Riverwalk, which has recently been given an Honor Award by the American Society of Landscape Architects, aims to reclaim the Chicago River for the economic, ecological and recreational benefit of the city.
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The Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service has released plans for a new Dove Lake viewing shelter at the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park.
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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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Last month (September 2018) IFLA president James Hayter was in the country - delivering a series of presentations on the redevelopment of past manufacturing and institutional sites in our cities and how this compels us to readjust our understanding of nature, people and culture.
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Improvements to Campbell Crescent and the Sir John Logan Campbell Fountain are one of the first projects to be implemented from the award-winning Cornwall Park Master Plan, developed by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in collaboration with Boffa Miskell for the Cornwall Park Trust Board.
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The people of Samoa will be celebrating their next Independence Day on a new purpose-built event space in front of the Government building in Apia. The Event Space and Clock Tower Boulevard projects located in downtown Apia will provide a ceremonial space and a pedestrian connection currently missing in the central waterfront area.
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NZILA President Brad Coombs has just returned from presenting a paper to the Hengshui Wetland Landscape and Waterfront City High End Academic Exchange, in the Hebei Province, China.
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