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Ngā Ūranga ki Pito - One shared path
Ngā Ūranga ki Pito - One shared path

Te Ara Tupua is the highly anticipated harbour-side walking and cycling link between Wellington and Lower Hutt.

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Cycleways, VideoIsthmus16 December 2020Wellington
Melbourne's Seafarers Rest project
Melbourne's Seafarers Rest project

The City of Melbourne, in partnership with the Victorian government, developer Riverlee, and landscape architects Oculus, have unveiled visions for the $500 million mixed-use Seafarers Rest project.

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Biodiversity, WaterfrontJessica Watson15 December 2020Yarra River
Hamilton Gardens mastermind retires
Hamilton Gardens mastermind retires

Retiring landscape architect, Dr Peter Sergel, sees his work life’s project - Hamilton Gardens - as a type of museum which tells the story of gardens throughout the ages of man; from late Bronze age to today.

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People, Landscape ArchitectureGuest User14 December 2020Hamilton Gardens
A library bringing the outdoors in
A library bringing the outdoors in

Snøhetta has won the competition to design the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, with an entry that highlights the studio’s cross-disciplinary approach to architecture and landscape.

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LandscapeJessica Watson11 December 2020Snøhetta
Gender sensitive design
Gender sensitive design

Christchurch based landscape architect Nicki Williams has been aware for some time that there are gender differences in the way people use cities.

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People, Landscape ResearchGuest User10 December 2020Gender Sensitive Design
Monkey sky trail a winner
Monkey sky trail a winner

Visitors to Adelaide Zoo are greeted by the excited chatter of Colobus monkeys scampering through their very own sky trail.

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Landscape Architecture, Design InnovationGuest User9 December 2020Adelaide Zoo
Greening the FC Barcelona stadium
Greening the FC Barcelona stadium

ON-A Architecture, a studio specialising in renaturation and bioconstruction, has released a proposal which would convert a the world famous FC Barcelona stadium into a 26-hectare green space.

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Parks, VideoJessica Watson8 December 2020FC Barcelona
Kirsten Bauer to speak at the 2021 NZILA Firth Conference
Kirsten Bauer to speak at the 2021 NZILA Firth Conference

Kirsten Bauer will be speaking on how to “generate spaces of equity and subvert the exclusionary fixity of boundaries” at next year’s NZILA Firth Conference in Tauranga in May.

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People, ConferenceGuest User7 December 20202021 NZILA Firth Conference
Climate Change - our generation's nuclear moment
Climate Change - our generation's nuclear moment

New Zealand has joined 32 other countries in declaring a climate emergency. At the same time the Government has promised all its departments and ministries will be carbon neutral by 2025.

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Climate Change, EnvironmentGuest User3 December 2020Climate Emergency
IFLA looking for leaders
IFLA looking for leaders

IFLA is looking for six experienced members to chair working groups within it’s committees. Putting out the call, president James Hayter said the working groups are a crucial mechanism by which IFLA can focus on key issues facing the landscape architecture profession.

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Landscape Architecture, Professional associationGuest User2 December 2020IFLA
Eden of the Orient - a photo essay
Eden of the Orient - a photo essay

Belgian photographer Kris Provoost has released a photo essay documenting the juxtaposition of Hong Kong’s “hyper-dense” high rise housing and the natural landscapes it sits in.

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COVID-19, HousingGuest User1 December 2020Hong Kong
Puhi Kai Iti project recognised
Puhi Kai Iti project recognised

A sensitive re-interpretation of the Puhi Kai Iti/Cook Landing Site National Historic Reserve has been recognised by the Designer’s Institute of New Zealand, receiving a Gold Pin at the 2020 Best Awards in Auckland.

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Awards, Cultural LandscapesGuest User30 November 2020Boffa Miskell
A Confrontation with the Sublime
A Confrontation with the Sublime

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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Opinion, SustainabilityShaun Rosier27 November 2020Landscape Remediation
Left Village Quarry Park - a post industrial project in China
Left Village Quarry Park - a post industrial project in China

Located 60km from Guangzhou CBD the Left Village Quarry Park is a unique post industrial project of regional significance.

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Masterplan, Environmental rehabGuest User26 November 2020Landscape Design
Harry Turbott, New Zealand's first landscape architect
Harry Turbott, New Zealand's first landscape architect

The prospect of large-scale infrastructure projects being built in New Zealand and what role landscape architects will play in this transformation of the NZ city is a critical issue for the profession.

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Books, PeopleMatthew Bradbury25 November 2020Landscape Architects
Cloud Valley - an AI project in China
Cloud Valley - an AI project in China

Cloud Valley is Bjarke Ingels Group’s commission for Terminus Group, a city which will be entirely operated by an artificial intelligence system.

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Video, UrbanJessica Watson24 November 2020Artificial Intelligence
Auckland's Māori Design Hub gets a "refresh"
Auckland's Māori Design Hub gets a "refresh"

Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland Council) has announced a “refreshed” Māori Design Hub to help facilitate best practice Māori design in the city.

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Māori Design, Tāmaki MakaurauGuest User23 November 2020Auckland Council
Tree inspiration for NYC skyscraper design
Tree inspiration for NYC skyscraper design

Skylines, the Lissoni & Partners designed conceptual skyscraper for New York, has received an honourable mention in the Skyhive 2020 Skyscraper Challenge.

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Skyscraper, UrbanJessica Watson19 November 2020NYC
A car-free Sydney city centre
A car-free Sydney city centre

A bold initiative to turn Sydney streets into green space, getting rid of 100,000 cars in the process, is being touted by global architecture firm Woods Bagot.

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Car Free, UrbanGuest User18 November 2020Sydney
Kia Whakanuia Te Whenua - People Place Landscape
Kia Whakanuia Te Whenua - People Place Landscape

The Landscape Foundation is publishing its first book - KIA WHAKANUIA TE WHENUA - People place landscape.

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Books, Landscape, PeopleGuest User17 November 2020Landscape Foundation
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