Ng Sek San is driven by a belief that his work should reflect an egalitarian lifestyle and that trees shouldn’t make way for buildings.
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Sitting on a former car factory site at the foothills of Mount Fuji in Susono City, Shizuoka is the Bjarke Ingels Group designed Toyota Woven City. The 70 hectare “smart city” is being seen by the Toyota Motor Corporation as a prototype town of the future, where people will work, play, live and participate in a living laboratory.
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As a tribute to Danish author Karen Blixen, the architecture firm COBE has created a new public square and university plaza for Copenhagen.
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The 50 finalists for best international landscape photo have been selected from Agora’s #Landscape2019 photo competition.
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The biggest challenge facing landscape architects, designers and planners in the 21st century is how to integrate community voice and lived experience into planning processes with vulnerable populations who have been locked out of conversations around sustainability, smart and shareable cities and social justice. That’s what sociologist Dr Antwi Akom told this year’s NZILA Firth conference in Christchurch.
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On the eve of a year in which nations are due to strengthen their Paris climate pledges, a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report warns that unless global greenhouse gas emissions fall by 7.6 per cent each year between 2020 and 2030, the world will miss the opportunity to get on track towards the 1.5°C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement.
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If anyone in the audience for Dr Kristina Hill’s NZILA Firth conference presentation was house hunting they’d be heading for the hills, not the coastline. An associate professor at University of California, Berkeley, Dr Hill provides design expertise and strategic advice to clients looking to adapt to challenges associated with climate change.
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This year turned out to be a double winner for the teams behind Te Papa Ōtākaro Avon River Park e Papa Ōtākaro/Avon River Park (ARP) and City Promenade in Otautahi at the Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture awards.
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Barry Curtis Park Plaza by Isthmus has been named winner of the Institutional category of the Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards 2019.
When the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects was looking for a Te Reo Māori name it knew it didn’t want a literal translation.
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A naturalistic garden conceptualised a decade ago for Sir Michael and Christine, Lady Hill near Arrowtown has won the Residential Single Dwelling Category at the 2019 Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture awards.
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Boffa Miskell’s Waterview connection project was a worthy winner in the Infrastructure Category in this year’s Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards, according to the judges.
Isthmus and Hutt City Council have pulled off a vision for a vibrant urban park which has seen them win the Parks Category at this year’s Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards. Riddiford Gardens and Civic Park Park in Lower Hutt has been reimagined as a place to celebrate the heritage and contemporary culture of the community.
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Beca Ltd’s work on the Vanuatu Infrastructure Tourism Project won the Community Design category in this year’s Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards.
The judges in this year’s Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture awards say the winner in the Student Category really stood out from the other excellent entries from students.
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Work on Auckland’s Ferry Basin won Isthmus the Unbuilt Visionary category in this year’s Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards.
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The Isthmus designed Chimpanzee Park at Wellington Zoo has won the Playground Category at the 2019 Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture awards.
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The biggest public realm landscape architecture project undertaken in Aotearoa has taken the supreme award in this year’s Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards. Te Papa Ōtākaro Avon River Park was named the NZILA George Malcolm winner at last week’s ceremony at the Christchurch Art Gallery.
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The NZILA Firth Conference has wrapped up for another year with overwhelmingly positive feedback from delegates. The event ended in Christchurch last night with the ceremony naming the winners in the Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards 2019.
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The NZILA’s 2019 conference enters its final day in Christchurch today - with the Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards dinner on tonight.
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