Interest in the upcoming Adaptation Futures 2025 event - as alerted to LAA readers in June - is mounting. Including pre- and post-event ‘extras’ AF2025 will be up and running from Ōtautahi Christchurch between 12-17 October.
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Developed at the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities and promoted by Community Housing Aotearoa, this guide offers ideas to organisations operating in the housing, neighbourhood and urban development sector.
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Earlier this year Robin Simpson ventured into the Kakadu National Park for the first time to experience a vast landscape unlike any other - returning with a deep appreciation of the Country, its people, ecosystems and habitat.
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The contributions that NZILA Fellow Tony Milne, of RMM Landscape Architects, makes to the successful Christchurch magazine Abode are celebrated in this article. Through his quip-filled columns Tony brings his life as a landscape architect to a far-reaching audience of readers.
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Four years into establishing his own landscape architecture company, Richard Neville worked on a project called the ‘Urban Orchard’ for the Heart Foundation. In this article Richard unpacks the values and principles that are guiding his practice and the way that small projects serve to signal bigger issues.
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Across in Australia, the New South Wales Government is attaching the direction of its housing policy to a newly launched Housing Pattern Book. It’s a bold move that built environment practitioners here, still reeling from the ‘knock out’ blow given to Kāinga Ora, are bound to take an interest in.
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Landscape architecture skills featured heavily for the first time at ArchEngBuild - organised by BRANZ and Concrete NZ and held this year at the University of Auckland. LA student participants offer their points of view on what they gained from this special cross-disciplinary event.
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‘Outsider’ Garth Falconer puts forward a set of ideas for reconsidering the structure of Cathedral Square in Ōtautahi Christchurch. His proposition consists of what he describes as a “series of practical moves that could breathe new life into this cherished civic space”.
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As a significant prelude to its National Awards in October, the 2025 edition of the AILA Chapter programme concluded in June with a total of 35 Awards of Excellence across 13 instructive Categories.
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Amongst the 15 National Awards presented by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects in 2025 the work done by Janet Rosenberg & Studio (JRS) on the design of Kìwekì Point in Ottawa flew highest.
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Matariki this year fell neatly in the middle of the Tangaroa lunar period of 19-22 June, and has been widely marked around the motu. LAA has compiled a selection of happenings: the re-siting of Ngā Pou o Heretaunga to Hastings Civic Square, special plantings at Wellington Botanic Garden ki Paekākā and an exhibition at Cornwall Park called ‘Matariki Weather’.
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Nik Kneale - who became a Fellow of Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects in May - has been making his mark as a Landscape Architect for almost 25 years. Ōtautahi Christchurch is and always will be the place Nik journeys back and forth to, his ahi kā.
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Newly qualified as a landscape architect and eager to stretch his legs, Lukas Morton is gaining a world of new insights and experiences after seeking out an opportunity to work in Kathmandu, Nepal, at Amar Architecture.
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The Australian Urban Design Awards, announced in Sydney earlier this year, are co-convened by the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) and the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA). AILA Chapters will be concluding their ‘Awards season’ this week and LAA will be compiling a compendium of the winners.
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The timing for the Wellington branches of Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects and Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZ Institute of Architects to collaborate on a City Talks event dedicated to remembering celebrated landscape architect Megan Wraight could not have been more fitting.
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There are many colourful threads to the story behind Richard Bain’s deserved recognition as a Fellow of Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, as celebrated in May in Heretaunga Hastings on the night before the 2025 NZILA Firth Wānanga.
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Two major global conference events will be held on our shores for the first time in 2025, starting with the International Adaptation Futures Conference (AF2025) in Ōtautahi Christchurch in October and then the International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH 2025) in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington in November. Read our latest ‘events watch’ here.
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Compared to the phenomenon known as ‘starchitects’, the amount of widescreen attention given to landscape architects is very thin on the ground. Sitting Still, a documentary that draws from the insightful life-views of Laurie Olin, is a welcome arrival that is inspiring many - as reflected on by Ralph Johns.
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SURVEY OPEN TO MONDAY 4 AUGUST: Maria Rodgers, a PhD candidate at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, is seeking landscape architects to participate in a survey in the subject area of plants of place and identity - and the plants being planted in urban public spaces.
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Hastings District Council Mayor Sandra Hazlehurst - pictured above - provided a warm welcome to all those attending the NZILA Firth Wānanga on 22-23 May. “Small scale farmer” Alison Bentley of Tikitere Farm, has generously supplied her reflections as a first-time-ever participant, external to the landscape architecture profession.
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