New Zealand will move to Covid-19 alert level 3 next week and for the head of NZILA Tuia Pito Ora, that’s a good thing for the landscape architecture profession.
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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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With the prospect of New Zealand’s level four Covid lockdown ending next week - we spoke to the head of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, James Hayter, about the crisis and its impact on the profession.
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New Zealand landscape architects are being encouraged to take part in an international campaign to celebrate the profession. April is World Landscape Architecture Month (WLAM) and this year the association which established it, the American Society of Landscape Architects or ASLA, is celebrating with a ‘Life Grows Here’ campaign.
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The Government will provide extra funding to help councils expand footpaths and roll out temporary cycleways to help people keep two metres of physical distance after the Alert Level 4 lockdown, Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter has announced.
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Students around New Zealand are having to change the way they learn while in COVID-19 lockdown, including the 120 studying landscape architecture at Lincoln’s School of Landscape Architecture. Landscape Architecture Aotearoa asked school head, Dr Gill Lawson, how things were going.
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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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A development in Queens, New York, is planning to add almost 46 hectares new public space by placing flexible decking across the top of the Sunnyside Yard project.
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In modern cities, our public spaces represent our shared values. They are our common assets, owned, maintained and used by all members of our society. The outbreak of coronavirus and its immediate impacts, such as social distancing, have raised many questions about the role of public space in such times.
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For the last few months, Xteriorscapes Landscape Architects have enjoyed the shift to a new, spacious office. The team of five landscape architects were just getting used to spreading themselves out comfortably when the COVID-19 lockdown came into force.
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Herzog & de Meuron’s winning design for the Grand Canal Museum Complex in Hangzhou, China, will provide a linear exhibition complex beside the country’s most famous artificial river.
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Support is being sought from the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects to help save 46 mature native trees which campaigners fear will be chopped down by developers.
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Isthmus has 80 staff members. Pre lockdown they were working from two studios, 60 in Auckland, 20 in Wellington. A handful of staff were already working remotely in Tauranga, Taranaki, and Christchurch.
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Papua New Guinea is a country of diverse tribal culture. Around 80 percent of its residents live in rural areas with no or few modern conveniences. More than 700 native tongues are spoken.
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NZILA Tuia Pito Ora is very mindful that the restrictions that have been put in place by the government are about saving lives in Aotearoa, writes president Brad Coombs. Being kind to each other by observing the movement restrictions, in particular, is the best way that we can look after our families, friends and the communities that we live and work in.
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As the country begins the four-week Covid-19 lockdown, landscape architecture businesses around New Zealand are adapting and responding to this unprecedented event. Offices are shut and landscape architects are getting used to new ways of working.
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New Zealand’s to get a new town at Drury, 37 kilometres south of Auckland.
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As Auckland, the City of Sails, makes its move towards becoming Tāmaki Makaurau, what could and what should a uniquely modern Māori and Polynesian city on the edge of the world look like?
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The playground in Hastings’ Cornwall Park’s been given a state-of-the-art facelift that’s proving popular with those who use it.
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The Thomas Heatherwick designed Pier 55 in Manhattan, New York, is back on track to be completed in 2021. After being appointed following a design competition in 2013, the architecture studio envisioned a new pier on Manhattan’s southwest riverside that resembles a leaf floating in the water.
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