Landscape architects are being urged to keep it “business as usual” as much as possible by New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture’s Tuia Pito Ora president, Brad Coombs.
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Bug or insect hotels are becoming increasingly popular. Apart from adding sculptural interest to a park or back yard, they also offset the increasing loss of natural habitats in urban areas and offer an opportunity to educate children about how balanced ecosystems work.
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As the country, and the world, works to come to grips with the unprecedented situation currently unfolding in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic - the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora has acknowledged the challenging times we are facing.
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Niue has become the first country in the world to become an International Dark Sky Place. This gives it formal protection for its sky, land and sea.
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Australia’s multi-award winning Bendigo Hospital is the largest hospital in Victoria, delivering world-class healthcare facilities across a 13-hectare precinct.
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Year 2519 — navigators and the new artisans. Robots everywhere, advanced alien species live on earth, some humans occupy new colonies in space.
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TETROMINOES is a bespoke art installation located on Shanghai’s renown cultural and historic high street, Yuyuan Road. For the next 10 months it will play a part in a broader urban revitalisation plan to renew the city’s former international concession.
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Cycling through the Trees is a new cycling and walking track by Visit Limburg in Belgium and is designed by BuroLandschap. It was designed to raise the Limburg cycle route network to a higher level and offer a unique experience for all abilities.
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A small town near Toronto in Canada is setting out to become a futuristic city - based on a European layout and influenced by the garden city movement. Architecture studio Partisans have masterminded a plan for The Orbit, an Innisfil Next Generation Community that will centre around a new transit link and cultural centre.
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A landscape architecture student has beaten professional architects to win a housing competition in the American state of Georgia.
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New York’s Erie Canal is about to be overhauled, with new public parks, residential areas and commercial hubs added in order to, “reignite economic and environmental resiliency across New York state.”
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Over the summer holidays, a group of children discovered a new kind of freedom – that of designing their own play environment.
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Since 2015 the Brick Bay Folly Competition has encouraged architects and architectural students to stretch their imaginations and design a folly - “a whimsical or extravagant structure”.
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When Te Ākitai Waihoua approached Isthmus to rethink an earlier masterplan for Wirihana, in South Auckland, we immediately saw the ability to weave the untapped value of the Puhinui Stream and its environs into an intensive residential setting.
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Vienna’s hit on a cultural way of cutting carbon emissions - rewarding car-free travel with free tickets to museums and concerts.
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French landscape architect Catherine Mosbach is internationally celebrated for her environmentally and socially responsible approach to landscape design. Founder of the Paris based office Mosbach Paysagistes, her designs reveal hidden layers in the landscape, and can be up to ten years in the making.
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Zaha Hadid Architects have designed a modernisation and reinforcement of Neiderhafen’s flood protection system on the Elbe River, as well as a 625 metre river promenade.
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Milan-based Stefano Boeri Architetti have designed the winning proposal for Genoa’s comeback from the 2018 Morandi Bridge tragedy.
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Auckland’s Harbour Bridge proposed cycle and pedestrian link will extend as far as Albany in the north, with construction expected to begin next year, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency says.
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Private cars have been banished from one of San Francisco’s premier corridors. Market Street is a major thoroughfare for the city, as well as a popular gathering place for locals and tourists alike.
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