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Boffa Miskell’s Mark Brown has been working on a ‘retrospective’ that highlights the recovery and rejuvenation of Ōtautahi Christchurch. To begin with he has written a first person perspective on the immediate aftermath of the Canterbury Earthquakes, now nearing their 15th anniversary.
Read MoreWork by Isthmus and Boffa Miskell took centre stage at the awards night of the Resource Management Law Conference held in Marlborough in September. Issues and topics brought to the fore at the annual event sparked “courageous kōrero”.
Read MoreThis year’s IFLA Sir Graham Jellicoe Award recipient is Swiss landscape architect and educator Günther Vogt. The imprint he has been making on the profession is insightful and influential.
Read MoreWith Bruno Marques as its serving President and Tuia Pito Ora NZILA President Ralph Johns in attendance, the 61st IFLA World Congress, as so many before it, has a strong and active participation from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read MoreKate Orff (SCAPE Landscape Architecture) and Marco Scano (Harvard GSD Department of Landscape Architecture) joined forces to create ‘Cool Forests’ for the Biennale Architettura 2025 in Venice. For our new ‘Artscapes’ section we’ve highlighted two Biennales and an artists’ residency in Ireland.
Read MoreThe Aotearoa Festival of Architecture 2025 is putting an extra spring in the step of all forms of architectural practice around the motu this September, with a diverse programme that in its first week incorporated an NZILA Branch event featuring Dr Emily Afoa, Marty Andrews and Will Hatton.
Read MoreIf you're still looking for ways to engage with Conservation Week (1-7 September) this short film - fronted by conservationist Sam 'The Trap Man' Gibson and backed by Pure Advantage - will definitely assist.
Read MoreSian Reynolds, of Boffa Miskell’s Biosecurity team, rings an alarm bell that without adequate investment in a wilding conifer programme “we risk undoing years of gains, allowing these pests to reclaim ground we’ve already fought to protect”.
Read MoreDOC has produced a kete of resources and suggestions as ways to help to activate Conservation Week - Te Wiki o te Taiao, in 2025. Resources include a double-sided table talker. What will you be doing in your workplace or community? #ConservationWeek2025
Read MoreIn August a DOC team who work on the New Zealand Threat Classification Series released data on the conservation status of mosses in Aotearoa New Zealand. To celebrate this magnificent flora, LAA has also found some poetry to supplement the data and to mark National Poetry Day.
Read MoreReset recently celebrated the opening of the new Ōpaheke Park in Papakura. In this contribution, experienced landscape architect and urban designer James Paxton reflects on the past, present and future of the project.
Read MoreHave you heard of Archisource? Since 2019 they have organised a ‘Drawing of the Year’ award and in 2025 the Digital Media award category was won by MLA graduate Ying Yu Wong - Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, with her entry ‘Rainforest Commons’.
Read MoreIn a round-up of news from Tāmaki Makaurau, LAA highlights progress on the City Rail Link (CRL) the addition of ten sites of cultural significance to Auckland’s planning documents and a victory for the berm gardens created by Mark van Kaathoven.
Read MoreInterest 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.
Read MoreDeveloped 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.
Read MoreEarlier 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreFour 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.
Read MoreAcross 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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