Auckland Council’s park management has been hailed as world-leading by an international panel of judges from the World Urban Parks (WUP) network.
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Following the success of last year’s Nohonga Design Challenge landscape architects in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland are again being encouraged to come up with bespoke seating ideas.
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Auckland Council says before the current lockdown Karangahape Road was the best performing Business Improvement District (BID) of the 50 across the super city, and the recent enhancement programme by LandLAB, the council and Auckland Transport is being credited.
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Auckland’s newest downtown space: Te Wānanga officially opened on July 2 - sitting on the seaward side of Quay Street at the epicentre of downtown. Auckland Council says the richly meaningful design elements brought to the space by talented mana whenua kaimahitoi (artists) sit alongside preserved pieces of our past, dating back more than a century.
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Two of New Zealand’s largest cities are finalists in Bloomberg Philanthropies 2021 Global Mayors Challenge, which recognises bold urban innovations. Wellington and Auckland are among 50 cities selected from 631 applicants.
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Auckland’s Southern Path has been a long, slow burn for the landscape architects involved.
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Panuku Development Auckland is adopting its mana whenua gifted name of Eke Panuku.
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Auckland has its first ‘Rainbow Crossing’. And fittingly it’s on the colourful, bohemian strip that is home to the Rainbow community - Karangahape Road (K Rd).
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Radiocarbon dating has estimated that fragments of a tree recovered from a City Rail Link construction site in Auckland are 28,000 years old and date back to a time when long extinct woolly mammoths and sabre tooth tigers still roamed the planet.
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Seeing Beacon lighting up for the first time, artist Lang Ea said: “I am very pleased. This is how I had conceptualised it.”
The sculpture and lighting were installed at Milford Reserve in March before lockdown, and last week the lights were switched on - revealing the artwork’s full effect both day and night.
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Support is being sought from the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects to help save 46 mature native trees which campaigners fear will be chopped down by developers.
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When Te Ākitai Waihoua approached Isthmus to rethink an earlier masterplan for Wirihana, in South Auckland, we immediately saw the ability to weave the untapped value of the Puhinui Stream and its environs into an intensive residential setting.
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Auckland’s Harbour Bridge proposed cycle and pedestrian link will extend as far as Albany in the north, with construction expected to begin next year, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency says.
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A tropical corner of the Pacific 2,500 remote kilometres from New Zealand will be the new home for a distinctive Auckland building being demolished to make way for the City Rail Link (CRL) project.
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Japanese garden design has evolved over centuries to evoke a tightly controlled but rich sense of place. To achieve this, the gardens tend to be highly detailed, carefully manicured and follow a very strict set of design principles.
Hila Oren is the CEO of the Tel Aviv Foundation and founder of Tel Aviv Global. At the age of 25, she was hired by the city’s mayor to come up with a story, or brand, for Tel Aviv.
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Aucklanders are being invited to have their say on what the city centre will look like in 20 years, with the release of the masterplan by the council.
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The new design for pedestrian and cycle access across the Auckland Harbour Bridge has been unveiled by the New Zealand Transport Agency.
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The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the catalyst for many public realm improvements in Auckland City Centre and along the Waterfront.
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Auckland's urban regeneration is a regular talking point within the landscape architecture profession and we have regularly covered related issues here on LAA. That includes projects from a relatively new player in the industry - Panuku Development Holdings.
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