Work‘s been completed on McGregor Coxall’s new 6,400-square-metre wetland park in Zetland’s Green Square, Sydney.
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One of the key international speakers at October’s 2022 NZILA Firth Conference was Richard J. Weller who promised delegates he was going to speak about big things.
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The final component of NZILA’s 50th anniversary celebrations is out. Tuia Pito Ora - He Whakaahua is the book created to mark this important milestone and is now available.
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The garden management plan for Auckland’s Government House, by Jan Woodhouse from Woodhouse Associates, offers a new methodological framework for maintaining a large garden, with all changes landscape-led.
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Early this coming Monday morning billions of people around the world are expected to watch the opening of the 2022 FIFA World Cup at a stadium designed by kiwi landscape architects and architects.
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“My funky concrete seat walls are cooking the planet.” I love this. They are not my words, they are the words of Martin O’Dea. Words that came from last month’s 2022 NZILA Firth Conference. I love this, because these words drive a stake deep into the heart of the habitual norms of landscape architecture. And I too, am guilty.
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The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced new goals for the profession. Together the ASLA Climate Action Plan and the Climate Action Field Guide for ASLA Members chart a pathway for landscape architects to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions in their projects and operations and increase carbon sequestration by 2040
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A new tidal installation and rest area for travellers by Snøhetta encourages visitors to slow down and contemplate the passage of time.
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At the 2022 NZILA Firth Conference NIWA’s Dr Emily Lane presented a sobering address on flood risk here in NZ which had a huge impact on delegates.
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An exhibition on this week in the capital seeks to “clean up” soil’s image problem. A Site to Behold officially opens tonight at Te Auaha Gallery on Dixon Street in Wellington and runs until 12 November. It has been put together by a Victoria University team from the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation
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Today is International Climate Action Day and it comes less than a week out from the COP27 talks which take place in Egypt beginning November 6. It also follows the 2022 NZILA Firth Conference which highlighted the importance of the response of landscape architects to the increasing challenges presented by climate change.
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Climate change is about to be centre stage of world events with the COP27 talks set to begin in Egypt on November 6 but as NZILA/BECA Landscape Architect Craig Pocock notes, it has been a big month for his Carbon Landscape and as he says “validation is important because change often follows.'‘
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Dixon Street’ in Wellington has had an urban design makeover which is the the latest outcome of the Pōneke Promise– a partnership programme designed to improve safety and a sense of vibrancy in the central city.
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SWA Group have announced the completion of the first phase of Sanshan Hillside Park, offering a, “dynamic and lively space that meets the needs of people of all different ages.”
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The 2022 AILA Landscape Architecture Awards have singled out 40 projects across 17 categories, recognising their contribution to the lives of Australians through the creation of outstanding built and natural environments.
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A week ago the Aotearoa New Zealand landscape architecture profession came together and celebrated with the first Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards since 2019.
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By mid-November when an upgraded Queen Street opens, Aucklanders will discover the city centre’s new Waihorotiu path, an innovative multi-use path next to the road carriageway for people walking or travelling at a leisurely pace on wheels.
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“Inspiring yet challenging” was a common catch cry from delegates as the 2022 NZILA Firth Conference as it came to an end last week.
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The Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects 50th anniversary celebrations wrapped up last night with the Gala Dinner celebrating the best of the best within the profession.
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The 2022 NZILA Firth Conference is underway, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Institute with the theme “Kia whakatomuri te haere whakamua,” - walking backwards into the future with eyes fixed on the past.
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