Giving iconic holiday destination Whitianga a long-awaited upgrade was a community effort and a shared success, writes Boffa Miskell’s Kathleen Kinney.
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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Underwater motorways, holidays in space and self-cleaning homes. They’ll all be part of our world in 50 years, according to a new report on the future of technology.
The design narrative behind City Rail Link’s new station, (provisionally named) Karanga-ā-hape, has been explained in a new CRL Ltd video.
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Over 50 landscape professionals, academics and students joined the Landscape Foundation and Ngā Aho on their recent visit to Ihumātao in South Auckland.
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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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Acclaimed American landscape architect Walter Hood is to speak on urban disruption at the 2019 NZILA Firth Conference in Christchurch in November.
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The plan to regenerate the part of east Christchurch devastated by earthquakes has been approved.
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Work/life balance is seen as an oxymoron by many New Zealanders, who struggle to happily meet the demands of their paid labour with family responsibilities or leisure activities.
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Hangzhou is one of China’s most important tourist cities. But with a population of seven million people driving nearly three million cars it also had a reputation for being one of the most congested.
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She may sound like a pom but landscape architect Julia Wick was born in Ashburton and grew up on an arable/sheep farm in Hinds, Canterbury. At the age of four her parents took her to the UK for her formative years.
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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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A series of specially designed gardens will form the centre piece of a revitalised Downtown Waterfront as part of the city’s 10-year Downtown Programme.
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Work’s due to begin next year on revitalising Ashburton’s central business district.
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If you’re brave enough to risk any Brexit fallout and are looking for some overseas experience Britain might be the place to go.
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A cluster of bright pink see saws have been installed along a piece of the border wall between the US and Mexico.
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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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Hila Oren is the CEO of the Tel Aviv Foundation and founder of Tel Aviv Global. At the age of 25, she was hired by the city’s mayor to come up with a story, or brand, for Tel Aviv.
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Christchurch’s pristine water is world renowned and safe to drink straight from the tap. But will this statement ring true in 50 or 100 years?
Projected to open in 2021, the Lowline will transform an abandoned trolley terminal in Manhattan’s Lower East Side into the world’s first underground park.
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