Tag: Landscape architecture | Architecture Now

Shared space near the Auckland City Mission

Projects | Boffa Miskell has created a community-focused laneway near Stevens Lawson Architects’ celebrated HomeGround that gives us a taste of things to come.

Te Whare Mara

Projects | Te Whare Mara, is a sophisticated and contemporary garden in Wellington that’s native planting scheme promotes an indigenous landscape and identity.

Te Whakaoranga o te Puhinui wins international recognition

News | An ambitious plan to regenerate a polluted Auckland waterway has recently been recognised at this year’s Asia Pacific International Federation of Landscape Architects awards.

The history of Aotearoa’s landscape through a Māori lens

Practice | Drisana Brown is a landscape architecture student who is exploring how the past is influencing when it comes to the landscapes of our nation, and what the future might look like.

Watch: Using GIS Technology to gain Resource Consent

News | See how Boffa Miskell used geographic information system (GIS) software to evaluate likely visibility from certain structures to bolster the resource consent application for a client.

Mara Hupara: More than nature play

Practice | Boffa Miskell’s William Hatton, Rangitahi Kawe and Aynsley Cisaria discuss the universal language of storytelling and learning through play and what sets apart indigenous versions of this enriching activity from what we know as “nature play”.

Reforming the RMA: The landscape architects’ perspective

News | The New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) discusses the upcoming replacements for the RMA saying they welcome the changes, but they do have some concerns.

Saving Wairarapa Moana Wetlands

Projects | Video: The taonga was once a teeming system and is now a fragile ecology. Jobs for Nature is working to regenerate sacred lands and restore mana to the local community.

The Maungawhau/Mt Eden boardwalk

Projects | Integrated design firm Isthmus explores the evolution of this sacred place of immense historical, cultural and spiritual significance to the Mana Whenua iwi/hapū of Tāmaki Makaurau.

The Pacific Path brings Botanic Gardens Masterplan to life

News | Isthmus explores how the implementation of a new path provides a sculptural wayfinding element that connects gardens and provides a canvas for the annual Sculpture Walk.

Boffa Miskell: Sculptures tell the story of early Polynesian navigators

Projects | The firm’s Kathleen Kinney and Cathy Challinor discuss a Gisborne monument that has been reimagined to honour the first explorers to arrive in Aotearoa.

Habitat markers: Architecture for critters

Projects | Isthmus principal Nick Kapica explains the design for these international-award-winning installations in Auckland’s Hobsonville Point.

Finalists announced for Brick Bay Nohonga design challenge

News | The Auckland branch of the NZILA/Brick Bay have announced five finalists in the Nogonga design competition: see the creative seat designs here.

Child’s play: The Imaginarium

Projects | Over the summer holidays, a group of children discovered a new kind of freedom – that of designing their own play environment.

New Zealand's first green, climate-resistant communities named

NZ’s first green, climate-resistant communities named

News | Two Panuku neighbourhoods have achieved a Green Star – Communities rating for exceptional masterplanning, a first in New Zealand.

Climate Positive Design Challenge

News | A new web app equips landscape professionals around the world to incorporate CO2-positive design strategies in their work.

Victoria on the River pulls the crowds

Projects | Landscape Architecture Aotearoa explores how a redevelopment of Hamilton’s riverfront has created an activated public space.

Integrated urban form: Long Bay development

Projects | This development, located half an hour north of Auckland, demonstrates how master planning can create successful ecological outcomes.

Landscape professionals visit Ihumātao

News | Landscape Architecture Aotearoa reports from Ihumātao after over 50 individuals joined the Landscape Foundation and Ngā Aho for a visit to the site.

Child's play: Involving kids in the design of public spaces

Child’s play: Involving kids in design

Practice | Two researchers share how they are working with Auckland children to understand why co-designing with kids might work.