Garth Falconer writes about early Landscape Architecture in New Zealand, in particular its urban roots in Auckland.
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Campus Woudestein, the Netherlands’ new Juurlink + Geluk development, is designed to give the Erasmus University campus a new heart and to accommodate future growth in the city of Rotterdam.
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For many years Modellers Pond in Tāhunanui echoed with the excited chatter of children and adults sailing their bespoke and kitset creations.
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Nick Rae is the director of Transurban in Auckland, a firm started by his father Barry in the 1980s in Hamilton. Read his profile on our website.
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Boffa Miskell is undertaking research to improve understanding of the role that nature-based methods can play in the coastal hazard adaptation process.
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A Dunedin memorial dedicated to all Aotearoa New Zealand’s conscientious objectors and designed by Queenstown’s Baxter Design Group was officially opened late last year.
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Landscape Architecture firms in the United States are leading an evolving initiative to engage their Ukrainian counterparts displaced by the war.
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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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