MVRDV have broken ground on Taiwan’s Tainan Xinhua Fruit and Vegetable Market - an open-air market topped by a terraced, farmable green roof.
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Landscape and architecture company Topotek 1 has won an international competition for its design of a new headquarters and conference centre for the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science (KFAS).
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Find out which 2 NZ projects have been shortlisted alongside this one in the conceptual section of the 2019 WLA awards
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WOHA have created a one-stop integrated complex for seniors in Singapore, maximising land use by layering different functions into what the architect describes as a ‘club sandwich’ approach.
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Nivå Landskapsarkitektur has designed a square in central Stockholm that is sympathetic to the architecture of its surroundings, while also modernising and updating the area.
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The Taylor River has been reimagined as a focal point for the Marlborough region, and at the intersection of the river and Blenheim’s town centre, the new Quays Riverside Park is the beating heart.
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Swimming pool design is a complex design area and requires a sound understanding of design principles, writes Shafer Design principal, Robin Shafer.
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As a designer it is hard to admit that design is not always the best solution for a degraded public space. The process of design is rewarding both professionally and personally, as designers we like to be seen as the creative solution-provider, especially if it publishable or award winning work. “Brilliant designer saves a community with imaginative new rethink of an old tired space,” is always rewarding reading.
How do you build cities or even a single house on Mars when you don’t have access to the construction materials we enjoy on Earth? That’s the dilemma NASA put to 18 international design teams in the 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge.
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Landscape architects Urbis have designed a new and innovative 600-metre precinct along Rockhampton’s Fitzroy River, replacing the one destroyed when tropical cyclone Marcia tore through Queensland in 2015.
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Auckland Council’s calling for public input into its ambitious Downtown Programme. It says in just three years the city’s waterfront will look dramatically different, more “generous and welcoming”, better connecting people to the Waitematā Harbour, as well as turning the Quay Street area into a more vibrant area for all to enjoy.
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Inspired by the mangrove seed, Sylvia Park Plaza’s Pod is a flexible multi-purpose sculptural structure, which serves both to shelter adjoining and provide a performance space.
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LandLAB’s Westhaven Promenade winds it way along the water’s edge from Wynyard Quarter through to Auckland’s Harbour Bridge.
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Isthmus has revealed a new design for Rotorua’s lakefront that captures the rich history and cultural ties associated with the popular tourism destination.
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The NZILA’s Auckland branch is hosting a presentation by international designer, Martin Rein-Cano on October 8. Born in Buenos Aires in 1967, Rein-Cano studied History of Art at Frankfurt University and Landscape Architecture at the Technical Universities of Hannover and Karlsruhe.
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Djao-Rakitine’s redesign of Moscow’s Khokhlovskaya Square has been awarded Best Urban Design by the Moscow Urban Forum.
As part of a wider regeneration project for the historical Pokrovskiy Boulevard Ring, the new square, which opened to the public in September 2017, is in fact an archaeological preservation of the remains of the Belgorodskaya (or White) Wall.
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Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture has been selected as the landscape architectural consultants for the Dubai Creek Tower at Dubai Creek Harbour.
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Te Aranga Māori Design Principles were developed by Māori design professionals as a response to the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol in 2005. Over time the principles have been developed and adopted by the Auckland Council with the support of Ngā Aho and are being promoted across all council built projects.
Japanese design studio Nendo has completed its first ever landscape architecture project - the CoFuFun plaza, near Kyoto in Japan.
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Last year LandLAB’s Henry Crothers was a judge in the World Architecture Awards landscape and masterplanning categories. This year his firm has been shortlisted in the division for it’s work on the Queenstown Masterplan. And it’s not the company’s only recognition, it’s also been noticed for its work on Ponsonby Park in the civic category, and a man-made island in the experimental section.
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