It could be weeks before conservationists know how significant the biodiversity loss is at Awarua-Waituna wetland, as fire continues to destroy the area.
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In 1970s New Zealand, landscape architecture was a little known and misunderstood profession. The public sector was the epicentre of employment for Lincoln College’s new landscape architecture graduates. One man in particular played a key role in developing landscape architects in that sector and that was George Malcolm.
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Completed in 2021, Hassell’s Riverside Green forms 6,816 square-metres of tranquil, plant-filled public space for central Brisbane, and has won two AILA 2021 Landscape Architecture Awards.
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As councils and central government consider what cities of the future will look like, a new tool has been developed to map how various features of where we live influence public health.
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Sydney ‘Charlie’ Challenger is widely seen at the founder and father of landscape architecture in Aotearoa. As Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture prepares to mark its 50th Anniversary later this year, LAA is profiling some of the people who contributing to getting the profession where it is today.
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Boyden Evans was an early pioneer in landscape and visual assessments, and is nationally recognised for his work in the sustainable energy sector, particularly wind farms. An NZILA fellow, he’s recently marked 35 years at Boffa Miskell where he’s based in their Wellington office.
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Koper Central Park, Slovenia’s award-winning Enota development, fuses a city beach and city park to encourage visitors to use the space in a variety of ways.
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As Auckland continues to grapple with the idea of a pedestrian/cycleway across its harbour bridge Sydney has announced a major cycling addition to its own iconic bridge.
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April is World Landscape Architecture month. Aotearoa’s Dr Diane Menzies played a key role in developing the initiative.
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A new pocket park in Salem, Indiana, celebrates pioneering women from the town with a large mural framing one side of it.
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Work is about to begin on a $6.5 million, Wraight Athfield Landscape + Architecture-designed playground in Manukau, part of Eke Panuku’s Transform Manukau project.
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Barrocal Park, the 40-hectare destination by Topiaris in Castelo Branco, Portugal, has won a range of awards including Best Ecological Structure 2021 from the International Ecotourism Society, and first prize in the 2020 Wan Awards Urban Landscape Category.
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This year Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects is celebrating 50 years since its inception and Landscape Architecture Aotearoa is today beginning its countdown to the commemorations.
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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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