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The opportunity for voicing concerns about the Coalition Government’s proposed new planning system was taken up by New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora on 12 March via a compelling oral submission. Now comes the ‘wait and see’.
Read MoreFinlay Thompson, of data science company Dragonfly, gets to hover across an exceptionally broad range of data-driven projects. It’s work focused on “doing good with data” and providing insights into landscape impacts and biodiversity challenges.
Read MoreIn its submission on the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill the Natural Hazards Commission has made strong arguments for the role that effective land use planning makes to reducing and managing the recurrent risks posed by natural hazard events and the effects of climate change.
Read MoreA valued aspect of being practitioners in professions like landscape architecture is the enjoyment of taking part in activities that bring light to completed projects. In January the Auckland branch of NZILA organised Te Rimutahi, Raumati Kōrero, a designers talk at Te Rimutahi, to do just that.
Read MoreThe green light given to the Rangitoopuni Riverhead Development is envisioned as a catalyst for iwi-led development and for culturally grounded, environmentally responsible projects on Treaty Settlement land.
Read MoreAs well as working across urban design and landscape architecture, Reset has extended its activity in the Cook Islands to sharing lessons learnt by Wānaka Wastebusters to benefit the island of Aitutaki.
Read MoreWellington-based writer and editor Susette Goldsmith has produced two companion works that ask important questions about the adequacy of our defence of trees: Tree Sense and Capital Trees.
Read MoreThe first hill to climb on responding to the proposed new Planning and Natural Environment bills has been completed by more than 1300 individuals and organisations: The Submission. Next up is the opportunity to speak to the Environment Committee about why landscape matters!
Read MoreBeing in Denmark last year gave Ralph Johns a timely pause to think that it’s time we took a slower approach to our thinking on urban and landscape design for the sake of future generations.
Read MoreIs going from UK Tree of the year in 2025 to European Tree of the year 2026 going out on a limb? LAA was very taken with this small story of a very tall tree, located in a busy urban street in Glasgow, Scotland.
Read MoreThe third Oberlander Prize laureate is Mexico-based landscape architect Mario Schjetnan. Read (and watch) more about Mario’s life story and the outstanding work of his firm Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU).
Read MoreWith the deadline for submissions to the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill set to fall on Friday 13 February, LAA looks for insights from the planning legislation pathways in Australia.
Read MoreWith a closing date looming ever closer for submissions to the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill, NZILA Environmental Legislation Committee chair Peter Kensington raises key issues that need resolving during the Select Committee stage.
Read MoreThe clock is ticking on time left to submit on the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill - with the Environmental Legislation Working Group of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora (NZILA) leading a collaborative and robust response.
Read MoreWhat’s at stake if the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill proceed as they are? Shannon Bray of the NZILA Environmental Legislation Working Group puts forward strong reasons not to abandon landscape.
Read MoreLincoln University academics Marcus Robinson, Professor Jacky Bowring and Dr Shannon Davis, along with Dr Sarah Edwards from the Bioeconomy Science Institute, have been researching spatial opportunities for balancing urban growth, food production and ecology.
Read MoreThis essay from postgraduate student Ananda Acharya argues that landscape memory is stored in repeated practices and poses a question for designers: which practices do we permit to become memory, and which do we erase?
Read MoreAs 2025 was being brought to a close, Unitec’s School of Architecture annual journal Asylum - named for the former hospital building that originally housed the School - was brought to life by four students under the theme of Mana Wāhine.
Read MoreWhile the number of people spoken to by LAA often exceeds the capacity for telling all of the stories there are to be told in as quick a turnaround as intended, a new series is on its way to highlight our kōrero with landscape architects, designers, educators, students and more. People like Bridget Gilbert, Peter Sergel and Rod Barnett.
Read MoreWhat’s looming large for 2026? Apart from finally knowing what’s on the table for replacing the Resource Management Act, there are plenty of landscape architecture projects - exemplified here by Studio Pacific - and big picture infrastructure initiatives in the mix. Meanwhile it’s also time to take a break!
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