What has COVID-19 told us about the way we’re living and how we need to change? LAA asked landscape architects how the global pandemic has influenced the way they think about the profession going forward.
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After a year like no other it is with some relief we wish all our readers and followers a happy Christmas and sign off for 2020.
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As the work year draws to a close, so much is being reviewed and recapped about the extraordinary (and not in a good way) year we have just weathered.
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Steven Tupu will share his thoughts on the creative power of collaborative teaming that results in site-specific design strategies for projects with limited resources at next year’s NZILA Firth Conference in Tauranga.
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Tāmaki Makaurau on Friday celebrated the opening of Te Komititanga - a striking new people-friendly square – in the heart of the city’s downtown.
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One key thing has changed since we last profiled progress on the latest LandLAB project in Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour - the name.
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Te Ara Tupua is the highly anticipated harbour-side walking and cycling link between Wellington and Lower Hutt.
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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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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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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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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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Visitors to Adelaide Zoo are greeted by the excited chatter of Colobus monkeys scampering through their very own sky trail.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Located 60km from Guangzhou CBD the Left Village Quarry Park is a unique post industrial project of regional significance.
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