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Personal mission to restore wetlands
Personal mission to restore wetlands

For Terry Wearmouth being part of restoring Kaipara Moana is much more than business, it’s personal. We tell his story on World Wetlands Day.

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Conservation, Ecosystems, People, Wetlands, WaterwaysGuest User2 February 2022Kauri Park NurseriesWorld Wetlands Day
Sanya Mangrove Park expands
Sanya Mangrove Park expands

Tomorrow is World Wetlands Day so an appropriate time to showcase Turenscape’s Sanya Mangrove Park which has added 10 hectares of restored natural environment to the bank of the Sanya River in China’s Hainan Province.

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Wetlands, MangrovesJessica Watson1 February 2022Sanya Mangrove Park
School garden honours a mate
School garden honours a mate

Boffa Miskell designers often contribute their expertise to smaller-scale projects close to their hearts. Christchurch-based landscape architect Katie Chilton has recently contributed to a particularly poignant project at her children’s primary school.

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Memorial Garden, Boffa MiskellBoffa Miskell27 January 2022School Garden
Wellington a winner in innovation challenge
Wellington a winner in innovation challenge

Wellington’s climate adaptation planning project Digital Twin has won global recognition and a big funding boost after being named a winner in the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge.

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Climate Change, InnovationGuest User26 January 2022Bloomberg Mayors Challenge
Honouring Dutch war victims
Honouring Dutch war victims

Loenen Memorial Cemetery, the final resting place of nearly 4,000 Dutch soldiers and civilians, is set to receive an extension designed by Karres en Brands.

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Memorial, MasterplanJessica Watson25 January 2022Karres en Brands
Tamaki Makaurau's Queen Street revamp underway
Tamaki Makaurau's Queen Street revamp underway

Construction work has begun on the final three stages of the Wai Horotiu Queen Street Project – from Shortland Street to Mayoral Drive in Tāmaki Makaurau.

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Auckland Council, VideoAuckland Council24 January 2022Queen Street
Award winning Nelson Mandela Park masterplan
Award winning Nelson Mandela Park masterplan

SWA/Balsley have designed the Nelson Mandela Park masterplan for Rotterdam, and won an ASLA-NY 2021 Design Award for the result.

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Masterplan, AwardsJessica Watson21 January 2022Nelson Mandela Park
New sustainable procurement targets set by Eke Panuku
New sustainable procurement targets set by Eke Panuku

Eke Panuku has adopted a range of sustainable procurement targets to increase supplier diversity and reduce waste in its work across Tāmaki Makaurau.

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Diversity, Urban RegenerationGuest User20 January 2022Eke Panuku
Fuse Valley in Portugal
Fuse Valley in Portugal

Bjarke Ingels Group has designed Farfetch’s new headquarters within the larger Fuse Valley campus in Porto, Portugal, offering a, “biophilic environment [that] aims to increase productivity and wellbeing.”

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BIG, VideoJessica Watson19 January 2022Biophillic Environment
Understanding seascapes
Understanding seascapes

The sea, as a connected and contrasting element to the land, forms a critical part of our understanding of the world, and our place within it.

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Marine Environment, Coastal PlanningJames Bentley & Sue McManaway18 January 2022Seascapes
Welcome to 2022
Welcome to 2022

Welcome to 2022 which is expected to be a significant one for the landscape architecture profession.

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NZILAGuest User17 January 20222022
Ngā mihi o te wā
Ngā mihi o te wā

This time last year we were signing off for 2020 with phrases like “next year can only be better.” Then came Delta - and now Omicron and the rest is unfortunately not quite history.

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CelebrationsGuest User23 December 2021Happy Holidays
Heritage enhancement on the Murray River
Heritage enhancement on the Murray River

ASPECT Studios, in collaboration with TERROIR and Mulloway Studio, and engineers WALLBRIDGE GILBERT AZTEC (WGA), have designed an enhancement of Sturt Reserve, the heritage wharf and tourism precinct in South Australia’s Murray Bridge.

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Masterplan, WaterfrontJessica Watson22 December 2021Sturt Reserve
2022 Awards reminder
2022 Awards reminder

Landscape architects have just over a month to enter the Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards 2022.

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Awards, NZILAGuest User21 December 2021Resene NZILA Awards
Reconstructing a harbour bath in Norway
Reconstructing a harbour bath in Norway

Snøhetta has designed a reconstruction of the harbour bath or Knubben in Arendal, Norway, imagining it as a lively meeting place offering multi-use facilities.

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Urban, NorwayJessica Watson20 December 2021Snøhetta
2021 - NZILA President's wrap
2021 - NZILA President's wrap

Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects’ President Henry Crothers says the profession ends the year in good heart, despite the big Covid-19 disruptions.

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Video, 2021 WrapGuest User16 December 2021NZILA
The 'River Ring' aiming to change behaviour
The 'River Ring' aiming to change behaviour

Bjarke Ingels Group and James Corner Field Operations have created a River Street Waterfront Masterplan for Two Trees Management, deconstructing and re-naturalising the built Brooklyn shoreline, expanding the water’s edge into the city while creating a new beach.

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Waterfront, Ecological ParkJessica Watson15 December 2021Brooklyn
Kiwis to benefit from U.S. leadership programme
Kiwis to benefit from U.S. leadership programme

Five landscape architects are among 17 New Zealanders taking part in an International Visitor Leadership Programme run by the US Department of State.

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Smart Cities, Sustainable HousingGuest User14 December 2021Education
Writing award for Dr Jacky Bowring
Writing award for Dr Jacky Bowring

Dr Jacky Bowring, Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, has won the inaugural Michèle Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize set up by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

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Competition, PeopleGuest User13 December 2021Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
A garden for all seasons
A garden for all seasons

The garden renowned Dutch Landscape Designer Piet Oudolf designed for the Vitra Campus in Germany is already in full bloom and welcoming visitors, thanks to its abundance of quickly-maturing perennial plants.

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Garden, DesignJessica Watson10 December 2021Piet Oudolf
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