Hassell’s recently completed Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) won two 2021 Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards, both the National and Queensland Award for Health and Education Landscape.
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Landscape architects offering forestry advice as part of their main business need to register with the Ministry for Primary Industries within the next 17 months.
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The first phase of ‘The Underline’ in Miami, a stretch known as Brickell Backyard, opened to the public in February after seven years of planning and construction.
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One of Australia’s most significant pieces of infrastructure - the Sydney Harbour Bridge - has turned 90.
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West Harbour School Principal Vicki Hitchcock is hugely proud of her decile two school in West Auckland but the main entrance to the school had been bugging her for years.
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Active-mode projects aimed at reducing transport emissions and improving road safety are being rolled out across the Auckland region, as part of the council’s Ngā Tiriti Ngangahau - The Vibrant Streets Programme.
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Wunggurrwil Dhurrung in Victoria, Australia, and designed by REALM Studios, won awards for cultural heritage in the 2021 AILA Victoria and National Landscape Architecture Awards.
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You’ll find a lot of Nike trainers at Rolleston School (Te Ahi Kaikōmako), particularly on the basketball court. Designed by Christchurch landscape architects Morgan + Pollard, the colourful court’s multi-sport surface is made of more than 8,000 recycled shoes known as Playtop with Nike Grind.
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Aitutaki is an idyllic destination for honeymooners, sitting 200km north of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands it’s famed for its picturesque lagoon but there are problems in paradise.
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Armenia’s Gagarin Valley is to be transformed into a “garden of eden”, a future-proofed landscape that’ll welcome a new generation of residents, according to Dutch firm MVRDV.
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The Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards 2022 shortlist is out and judging panel chair Dr Jacky Bowring says she was ‘uplifted’ by the standard of entries this year.
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Just as the NZILA is celebrating 50 years this year so to is Boffa Miskell. Don Miskell and Frank Boffa reflect on the early days of the business, its growth and evolution, and the shared values that have been the foundation of the company.
Next month marks an important milestone for Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects as Te Tangi a te Manu - Aotearoa New Zealand Landscape Assessment Guidelines is published.
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As the clean up and cost counting continues after the anti-mandate protests on parliament’s grounds - the ‘people’s playground’ has become a focus for people wanting to chip in and help with the repair bill
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A major UN report on climate adaptation calls for indigenous knowledge and science to be brought together to help secure a liveable future.
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A call has gone out to Auckland design students interested in volunteering to help with a survey on how locals use their city. Run by Urban Good (previously AitkenTaylor) for Auckland Council, the Public Life Survey will also ask people what they want from their community.
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A recent $12 million upgrade has seen Hurstmere Road on Auckland’s North Shore transformed into an airy social space; one welcoming to pedestrians, where shoppers linger to chat and spend instead of rushing along; one where workers gather to eat their lunch and indulge in people watching.
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BIG Landscape Architecture (Bjarke Ingels Group) partner Giulia Frittoli is set to speak to New Zealand landscape architects next week.
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Snøhetta+Hassell have won an international design excellence competition to “transform Harbourside in Darling Harbour into a new, iconic and inviting destination at the heart of Sydney.”
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The doors to Whangārei’s much-discussed Hundertwasser Art Centre are finally open. The centre was officially opened on Sunday 20 February, 29 years after the late Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser first sketched his original design for the building.
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