Located in a small rural town north of Auckland this project has transformed a former timber yard into a village centre for Matakana.

This superb project skilfully handled the dominating presence of the church by the creation of a paved base layer that grounded the church and connected it into the Square, giving the church breathing space and respect.

A superb display of restraint and the less is more mantra. It was hard to pick the interventions, which is a key contributor to this designs success. The landscape architect truly understood not only the brief but also the landscape and the clients.

In a city where the climatic and geographic conditions conspire against usable and amenable outdoor civic space, the design challenges and reinvents the idea of an urban park within the hilly, windy, Wellington context.

One of the best examples of a truly integrated rural subdivision.

This stunning garden has a sense of completeness. A carefully considered and orchestrated work of art, the site has been treated as a three dimensional canvas.

Like so many other waterside cities, Wellington's CBD for decades had its back turned on the waterfront that originally gave it life. Piece by piece, its identity as a harbour city is being put back together.