Landscape Architecture New Zealand

Saint Patrick’s Square is a recently revised public space in a city without enough ‘breathing spaces’. The square’s eponymous cathedral is now framed by an intricate basalt and limestone paving installation that can only be called adventurous. The descending, water-infused terraces now offer some respite to the office-working legions who crowd the city streets at midday. Words by Michael Barrett. Photography Simon Devitt.

Te Puru Bridge

Recreation to the fore; this Isthmus Group-designed bridge  is a connection point, a crossing point and lingering place.

Music in the streets

What a ‘mall’ used to be before the name was appropriated by suburban shopping centres. This new heart for central Christchurch is designed to draw the masses back from the ‘burbs.

Auckland War Memorial Museum

Ian Vincent, from Urbanlogic, gives some design insights about his recent landscape revision in front of Auckland’s most treasured building.

Interview by Michael Barrett Photographs by Simon Devitt

Osborne Street, Newmarket

Bringing added depth to Newmarket’s retail fringe, Osborne Street is a laneway where pedestrians take precedence over cars.

New Lynn TOD Programme

A new feature station at New Lynn is one part of a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) programme designed to revitalise the town centre.

Architecture Now now online

AGM publishing has just launched a new site – Architecture Now –devoted to all things architecture, landscape architecture, building and design, which is now. where you’ll find all the content from Landscape Architecture NZ magazine. …
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Crowd power

Isthmus Group harnesses the power of the digital oracle, blogging and Facebooking its way to feedback during the consultation phase of the Barry Curtis Skate Park project. Words by Michael Barrett Photographs by Phillip Simpson
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LA # 8: Latest issue

The latest issue of Landscape Architecture NZ is out now. This issue, which focuses on Auckland projects, and issues relating to Auckland, features stories on Aotea Square, Auckland Museum and Newmarket's Osbourne Street. There are also a raft of perspective pieces from Garth Falconer, Dushko Bogunovich and Matthew Bradbury, as well as 5 reasons to be optimistic about Auckland penned by Boffa Miskell landscape architect and urban designer Stuart Houghton.
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Reservoir gods

Paddington Reservoir Gardens by JMD Design, Tonkin Zulaika Greer and City of Sydney recently picked up the Australian Medal for Landscape Architecture — as good a reason as any to repeat our coverage of the project from last year. Words by Nicole Stock.
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Architecture Now now online

AGM publishing has just launched a new site – Architecture Now –devoted to all things architecture, landscape architecture, building and design, which is now. where you’ll find all the content from Landscape Architecture NZ magazine. …
New Lynn TOD Programme

A new feature station at New Lynn is one part of a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) programme designed to revitalise the town centre.
Osborne Street, Newmarket

Bringing added depth to Newmarket’s retail fringe, Osborne Street is a laneway where pedestrians take precedence over cars.
Crowd power

Isthmus Group harnesses the power of the digital oracle, blogging and Facebooking its way to feedback during the consultation phase of the Barry Curtis Skate Park project.

Words by Michael Barrett Photographs by Phillip Simpson
War in court

John Watson reviews the decision by the Environment Court to deny building consent at Owhiti Bay on the grounds that it constitutes an outstanding natural landscape.

Image courtesy of Teresa Gibbison
Review: The Unsung Profession

The Unsung Profession: A History of the New Zealand Planning Institute 1946 -2002
Caroline Miller; Dunmore Publishing 2007

Review by Garth Falconer
Ecological Urbanism 2010

Sam Bourne summarises the NZILA Spring Lecture Series hosted by the Auckland Branch of the NZILA and entitled Ecological Urbanism: A Question of Density, A Question of Capacity, A Question of Health.
Auckland War Memorial Museum

Ian Vincent, from Urbanlogic, gives some design insights about his recent landscape revision in front of Auckland’s most treasured building.

Interview by Michael Barrett Photographs by Simon Devitt
LA # 8: Latest issue

The latest issue of Landscape Architecture NZ is out now.

This issue, which focuses on Auckland projects, and issues relating to Auckland, features stories on Aotea Square, Auckland Museum and Newmarket’s Osbourne Street. There are also a raft of perspective pieces from Garth Falconer, Dushko Bogunovich and Matthew Bradbury, as well as 5 reasons to be optimistic about Auckland penned by Boffa Miskell landscape architect and urban designer Stuart Houghton.
Reservoir gods

Paddington Reservoir Gardens by JMD Design, Tonkin Zulaika Greer and City of Sydney recently picked up the Australian Medal for Landscape Architecture — as good a reason as any to repeat our coverage of the project from last year. Words by Nicole Stock.