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Taking a stand on the need for thoughtful law-making: Do the effects of development stop at the title boundary? Are our lives confined to parcels of real estate? Aren’t new laws that separate ‘growth’ from ‘environment’ more likely to harm than help our economy?
Read MoreLandscape architects, urban designers, academics, and students gathered on 23 September for The Future (and Morbid Symptoms), an evening seminar, hosted by the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora (NZILA) Auckland Branch in partnership with Isthmus.
Read MoreThe awards season for October-November is near to overflowing. For a catch up on the awards landscape in Australia check out our latest ‘Around the World’ collation. You’ll also find newsbriefs about the UN’s Urban October, Square moves by the City of Sydney, and more.
Read MoreLAA contributor Garth Falconer puts his pen to work on the sad story of a forgotten landmark, renewing an argument that “with imagination and some determination, Shoal Bay could become one of Auckland’s great waterfront landscapes”.
Read MoreIn bringing the thinking behind four decades of design practice into view, David Irwin’s Meditations of a Landscape Architect is an invocation of many fundamentals for the profession: Let the land breathe; Hold your pen lightly; and What is what (to name a few).
Read MoreFor Natasha Iyer “every garden is a relationship”. No stranger to taking big decisions and stepping on to less trodden paths, Natasha’s career in landscape design, landscape architecture and garden design continues to flower.
Read MoreSam Bourne reflects on the road trip he took, in his overseeing role of head judge for the 2026 Resene NZILA Awards, with the four Design stream judges: Andrew Norris (lead), Kirstie Thorpe, Hugh Smith and guest judge Whare Timu, co-chair of Ngā Aho.
Read MoreThe opening date of 3 November for INTERWOVEN - the 2026 Lincoln University Landscape Architecture graduating MLA and BLA (Hons) exhibition - is fast approaching. Learn more about members of this year’s cohort who are currently finalising their Major Design projects.
Read MoreThe LAA newswire delivers some news ‘clips’ from RNZ, and stories of interest to dedicated followers of landscape architecture sourced from around the world. While we develop this content stream further, we’d welcome feedback to laaotearoa@nzila.co.nz
Read MoreThe profile of landscape architects can benefit greatly from high-circulation publications. At The Architect’s Newspaper (known as AN and Archpaper.com) landscape stories are, as an example, pushed into the limelight in at least one landscape architecture themed issue a year.
Read MoreThis documentary was premiered in New York this week. It looks back on the collective part that a gathering of representative New Yorkers played in determining a path for taking he city from the horror of 11 September 2001 to the eventual reclaiming of Ground Zero in the form of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.
Read MoreThis latest newswire digest ranges across biodiversity, a project milestone, an events watch notice, a landscape studio update and shout-outs to interesting endeavours being undertaken by Christchurch City Council and the Paererewā charitable trust.
Read MoreMotivated by the sentiment that “it feels like we are at a critical juncture as we look to streamline the planning system”, Karl Check of Boffa Miskell shares his thoughts on the place of trees in our urban environments as critical infrastructure.
Read MoreThe team behind the popular platform Landezine have been recognised this month for the mahi they do promoting the profession - across the accolades accorded to LA projects to the wicked problems landscape architects are confronted by. Read more in our latest LAA compilation of international news.
Read MoreThe local government sector in Aotearoa New Zealand is currently the focus of a major shake-up. In an ideal world wouldn’t it be better for redrawn administrative boundaries to match catchments rather than cut through them? And wouldn’t this reflect more meaningful connections to landscape?
Read MoreSitting days at Parliament are fast evaporating. Even so the pace before this year’s Election campaigning accelerates has reached a fever pitch, now jammed together with a consultation on testing the approach to National Policy Direction” to replace the RMA.
Read MoreThere’s seldom a lack of speaker events around the motu to keep track of - all providing valuable insights and perspectives on topics as varied as Visual Representation, what it takes to come out on top in Competitions and the pressing need to talk about Urban Heat.
Read MoreAtelier South is an intensive international Summer School hosted by the School of Architecture at Otago Polytechnic that explores how design education can respond to urgent environmental and social challenges.
Read MoreJames Paxton of Reset shares insightful thoughts about Te Tauoma - a brownfield regeneration project that may not have seen the light of day, but that sheds light on “what can happen when landscape architecture leads the shaping of cities from the very beginning”.
Read MoreDrawing on the Mangawhai Hills project, Reset co-director James Paxton sets out a belief that “when ecology, landform, water, movement and public life become the starting point, development produces communities that are healthier, more resilient and more memorable”.
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