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2008 NZILA Resene 'Pride of Place' Landscape Awards

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George Malcolm Supreme Award

won by Isthmus in association with Studio Pacific Architecture
for:
Kumutoto Wharf Development, Wellington Waterfront

Category: Landscape Design
Urban Design

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NZILA Resene Pride of Place 2008 Landscape Awards
New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) Awards

The NZILA Resene Pride of Place 2008 Landscape Awards highlighted the role landscape architects play in celebrating the distinctiveness of New Zealand's urban and rural landscapes. A range of entries reflected the diversity of the NZ environment and the way landscape architects have worked to creatively manage and implement change in a way which expresses the essence and sense of place within their particular environments.

Charlie Challenger Supreme Award

won by Boffa Miskell Ltd
for:
Manukau City Council Restoration Planting Guidelines: Restoring Our Native Plants

Category: Landscape Planning Planning and Environmental Design

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Awards of Excellence

Sustainability Award of Excellence
Renee Davies, Waitakere City Council in Partnership with Landcare Research and Architectus and Athfield Architects
Waitakere City Council Green Roof

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Sustainability Award of Excellence
Wraight Athfield Landscape + Architecture Ltd
Waitangi Park, Wellington

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Sustainability Award of Excellence
Northern Gateway Alliance (NGA)
Northern Gateway Alliance Alpurt B2

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Sustainability Award of Excellence
Frazer Baggaley
ReClaim: Reveal Record Glenbrook Steel Mill

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Resene Colour Award of Excellence
Isthmus
SEART- Sylvia Park

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Landscape Planning - Research

Silver
John Clemens
Signs of Neglect - Play In a Relict Landscape

Bronze
Isthmus
Urban Form Factors Influencing
Street-Life in Sydney

Landscape Planning - Communication and Promotion

Sustainability Award of Excellence
GOLD
Renee Davies, Waitakere City Council in Partnership with Landcare Research and Architectus and Athfield Architects
Waitakere City Council Green Roof

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Silver
Isthmus
City Mall, Christchurch

Landscape Planning - Planning and Environmental Studies

Charlie Challenger Supreme Award
GOLD
Boffa Miskell Ltd
Manukau City Council Restoration Planting Guidelines: Restoring Our Native Plants

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GOLD
Lucas Associates
Te Waka Wind Farm Evidence

GOLD
Helen Kerr, Auckland City Council
Monte Cecilia Park Masterplan

Silver
Sue Dick - Eastern Earth Landscape Architects
Wainui - Okitu Landscape and Planning Assessment

Silver
Blakely Wallace Associates, with Morgan & Pollard Associates
Arrowtown Design Guidelines

Silver
D J Scott Associates
Kaipara District: Landscape Planning Process

Silver
Isthmus
Barry Curtis Park Design Lead Project Management

Silver
Boffa Miskell Ltd
Stream Daylighting Opportunities for Central Auckland

Bronze
Isthmus
Whangarei: 20/20+ CBD Guideline Development Plan

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Landscape Design - Residential Design

Silver
Baxter Design Group
Turner Residence

Silver
Wraight + Associates Ltd with Tennent Brown Architects
Kapiti Coast Garden

Bronze
Moorhead & Newdick Landscape Architects Ltd
Small Garden

Landscape Design - Urban Design

George Malcolm Supreme Award
GOLD
Isthmus in association with Studio Pacific Architecture
Kumutoto Wharf Development, Wellington Waterfront

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GOLD
Wraight + Associates Ltd with Studio of Pacific Architects
Centreport Area A

Silver
Isthmus
Greerton, Tauranga

Silver
Architectus
Queen Street Upgrade stages 1-3

Bronze
CCM Architects, Stoks Limited, consulting landscape architects John Powell and Ralph Johns and the Palmerston North City Council project team
Palmerston North City Heart

Bronze
Baxter Design Group
Brecon Street Steps

Bronze
Isthmus
Addison Stages 1 & 2, Takanini

Landscape Design - Rural /Park/Recreational

Sustainability Award of Excellence
GOLD
Wraight Athfield Landscape + Architecture Ltd
Waitangi Park, Wellington

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GOLD
Isthmus
Barry Curtis Park - Neighbourhood Playground

Silver
Bridget Gilbert/Waitakere City Council/Ignite Architects
Waitakere City Council Japanese Garden

Resene Colour Award of Excellence
Silver
Isthmus
SEART - Sylvia Park

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Bronze
Boffa Miskell Ltd
Mount Victoria Redevelopment

Landscape Design - Commercial / Industrial / Institutional

GOLD
Isthmus
Sylvia Park

Sustainability Award of Excellence
Silver
Northern Gateway Alliance
Northern Gateway Alliance (Alpurt B2)

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Silver
Morgan & Pollard Associates
Dyslexia Discovery Centre

Silver
Isthmus
Matakana Stage 02

Silver
Wraight + Associates Ltd with Architectus and Athfield Architects Ltd
Henderson Library

Silver
Opus International Consultants
Albany & Constellation Bus Stations

Bronze
Jill Rice, Get Outside Ltd
Mt Eden Kindergarten Playground Development

Bronze
Soul Environments
Visitor Centre Auckland Botanic Gardens

Landscape Design - Visionary Landscapes

GOLD
Isthmus
Frank Kitts Park, Wellington Waterfront Design Competition

Silver
Isthmus
Signature Areas, Barry Curtis Park, Manukau

Bronze
Architectus
Wynyard Quarter - Urban Design Framework

Student Category

Sustainability Award of Excellence
Silver
Frazer Baggaley
Reclaim: Reveal Record - Glenbrook Steel Mill

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Bronze
Jonathan Wong
Adaptivity at the Tank Farm

Bronze
Qiang Song
Johns Road Industrial Park

Bronze
Remi Bint
Otakaro Square

Merit
Danbi Park
Waiheke Island, A Day of Escape

Merit
Sandy Ling
Growing Whitford: An Ecological Landscape Approach

Merit
Jeremy London
Sound Isolation Savill Bay Studios

Merit
James Paxton
Integrated Pedestrian and Transport Systems: An engagement with hydrology and infrastructure

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2006 NZILA 'Pride of Place' Landscape Awards

2006"Pride of Place" Landscape Awards
New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) Awards

George Malcolm Supreme Award

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Charlie Challenger Supreme Award

Isthmus Group in association with Richard Bain Landscape Architect and New Plymouth District Council

New Plymouth Foreshore Stages 3 & 4, Woolcombe Terrace And Puke Ariki Landing

Sponsor: Resene
Category: Urban Design

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Auckland's artwork plan and New Plymouth foreshore Pride of Place Award winning landscape architecture projects were helping shape the face of New Zealand, a leading expert has said.

The plan to establish major artworks in downtown Auckland and the development of New Plymouth s foreshore and promenade clinched the supreme trophies at the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) awards in Wellington on 13 March 2006.

NZILA president Renee Lambert said that the biennial Pride of Place Awards highlighted the importance of establishing and honouring a national design direction that ensured the creation of places with a distinctive NZ landscape character. ``The emergence of a strong sense of place is due to a better understanding of ourselves as a nation and, as a profession, having the confidence and ability to express that understanding.
Contemporary landscape architecture in New Zealand has over the last decades slowly established a voice that is now clearly recognising our uniqueness in the world.
We have reinforced the need to undertake collaboration within our projects and integrate other professional knowledge. We have a better understanding of our social history and how that influences strongly our design responses.
`We have begun to respect local knowledge and its contribution to our work. Above all, we have asserted a pride in our profession, as exhibited through the awards, that acknowledges our own local constraints and the intimate involvement we, as landscape architects have within the landscape and all its elements."

media realeases

NZ must be weary of growing too fast without consideration to design -- says NZILA President

Media release March 13, 2006

Simon Smale judges comments

Media release March 14, 2006

Craig Pocock - Sustainability Judge's speech

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Richard Reid Architect & Landscape Architect

Auckland City CBD Public Artwork Development Plan

Category: Landscape Planning/Research

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Planning Category
Research
Communication & Promotion
Planning & Environmental Studies

Landscape Design Category
residential
urban design
rural park recreational
commercial industrial institutional

Visionary Landscapes

student design

Judges

Landscape Planning - Research

Charlie Challenger Supreme Award
GOLD

Richard Reid Architect & Landscape Architect
Auckland City CBD Public Artwork Development Plan
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GOLD
John Clemens
Critique of the Northwest Arch

Silver
Shelley Egoz
It isn't a Village Anymore

Bronze
Marion Read
The 'Construction' of Landscape: A case study of the Otago Peninsula, Aotearoa, New Zealand

Bronze
Wendy Hoddinott
Passing Time: A Phenomenological approach to heritage design

Merit
Wendy Hoddinott
Critique of the Christchurch Cathedral
Columbarium

Merit
Shannon Davis
Wings of Peace & a Thousand Paper Cranes

Landscape Planning - Communication and Promotion

GOLD
Urban Team, Ministry for the Environment
Urban Design Protocol Programme 2005

New Zealand's landscape design expertise is world-class, prominent expert and New Zealand landscape architect awards judge Simon Smale says.

``Our landscape design expertise ranks as world-class, evident in projects such as New Plymouth Foreshore work, Manukau Square, Lumley Tower Plaza and Vodafone Plaza.''
Smale said the remarkable redesign of civic spaces such as Manukau Square manifested a maturing of our identity as a multicultural nation firmly rooted in the South Pacific.
The Matakana farmers market north of Auckland was already making a major contribution to revitalization of the district and community.
The Manukau Square design used many Pacific references, and navigation, weaving, rafts, drums, fishing, mats, plants and birds are all represented.
The high historic values of the St Johns Cemetery (the small chapel on the site was built in 1847) demanded an overriding concern for respect for and continuity with historic character.
Redevelopment of the University of Canterbury library-registry plaza strengthened the area as a central campus space. In Marlborough the redesign of the Spy Valley winery entry area showed a distinctly contemporary feel and vitality well matched to the growing status of the local wine industry.
Smale said the Paraparaumu public library project was the first stage in an overall Kapiti coast town centre development. All planting was selected from ecosystems associated with the Kapiti coast -- kohekohe forest, titoki forest, and wetlands. Local Otaki aggregate for exposed aggregate paving and stone mulch is also used to reflect local geology and character.

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Craig Pocock - Sustainability Judge's speech

Landscape Planning - Landscape Planning and Environmental Studies

Silver
D J Scott Associates Ltd
Mangawhai Structure Plan

Silver
Boffa Miskell Ltd
Porirua Suburban Character Study

Landscape Design - Residential

GOLD
Morgan Pollard & Associates Queenstown Ltd
Kelvin Heights Garden

Landscape Design - Urban Design

GOLD
Isthmus Group
Manukau Square

Silver
Edaw Jasmax
Vodafone House

Bronze
Mansergh Graham Landscape Architects Ltd
Cambridge Civic Renewal

Bronze Mansergh Graham Landscape Architects Ltd
Tuwharetoa Street Upgrade

Landscape Design - Rural/Park/Recreational

New Zealanders must be wary as a nation of growing too fast without careful thought to collaborative design as the country's landscape changes shape. The challenge facing New Zealand was one of rapid change and the speed of development as a society and country needed to be carefully managed, Renee Lambert, president of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) said.

``My belief is that we as a landscape profession are the the key to successfully navigating that change. We accept that change is going to happen and projects must be robust well thought through and with leadership in sustainable design.

``We need an holistic view to the challenges we are facing. But we are in the right place to professionally to have an influence.

``These awards have highlighted that projects that have been been collaborative have stood out above all others in where we need to head as a country.''

The New Plymouth foreshore project was the best example this year in combining with engineers, council and local community.

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George Malcolm Supreme Award
GOLD

Silver
Chow:Hill - Bridgit Diprose, Dave Little
Manukau City Council 2004 Ellerslie Flower Show Relocatable exhibit "Marble Play"

Landscape Design - Commercial/Industrial/Institutional

GOLD
Rod Barnett
Lumley Tower Plaza

Silver
Boffa Miskell Ltd
Bush City - Te Papa

Silver
Wraight & Associates Ltd
Spy Valley Wines

Silver
Boffa Miskell Ltd
St John's College Cemetery Area

Silver
Isthmus Group
Matakana Farmers Market

Bronze
Wraight & Associates Ltd
Whitireia Polytechnic: Library Learning Centre

Bronze
LA4 Landscape Architects Ltd
Kohimarama Esplanade Reserve Redevelopment

Visionary Landscapes

GOLD
Isthmus Group in association with Tina Dyer
Barry Curtis Park Regional Playground

Silver
Isthmus Group
Sylvia Park Civic Space

Student Design

GOLD
Christopher Punt
Tahunanui Ecological Park

GOLD
Nathan Young
Home: Land and Sea, Final Design Thesis

Silver
Wendy Hoddinott
Passing Time at Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere

Silver
Mark Teesdale
Maungatautari Ecological Island

Silver
Lynette Wilson
Landscapes of Incarceration

Silver
Charlotte Grant
Shirley Renewal

Judges

A sincere thanks to our judges:
(left to right)
Craig Pocock - Sustainability
Jan Woodhouse - Design Robin Simpson - Planning Sally Peake - Planning		Diane Menzies - Planning Kate Wells - Design Simon Smale - Design

New Zealand's landscape design expertise is world-class, prominent expert and New Zealand landscape architect awards judge Simon Smale says.

``We are a nation renowned for the quality of outdoor environments and we are now providing those environments the respect and the attention they deserve by including world-class landscape design in our management of them,'' awards judge Simon Smale said.

``Increasing collaborative between designers of buildings - architects - and designers of outdoor spaces - landscape architects - is seeing much better integration of buildings and open space.''

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Craig Pocock - Sustainability Judge's speech

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NZILA 'Pride of Place' Landscape Awards 2004

George Malcolm Supreme Award

won by Wraight and Associates Ltd for the Taranaki Wharf Area Redevelopment
Sponsor: Resene
Category: Urban Design

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2004 "Pride of Place" Landscape Awards
New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) Awards

The 2004 Pride of Place NZ Landscape Awards highlighted the role landscape architects play in celebrating the distinctiveness of New Zealand's urban and rural landscapes. A range of entries reflected the diversity of the NZ environment and the way landscape architects have worked to creatively manage and implement change in a way which expresses the essence and sense of place within their particular environments.

George Malcolm Supreme Award

won by Isthmus Group for the Oriental Bay
Sponsor: Resene
Category: Rural/Park/Recreational Design

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2004 Urban Design

George Malcolm Supreme Award

Wraight and Associates Ltd
Taranaki Wharf Area Redevelopment
Sponsor: Resene

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Gold
Isthmus Group
Hastings CBD

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Silver
Boffa Miskell Ltd
Waihi Town Centre

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Silver
Isthmus Group
Waitara CBD

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Bronze
Thresher Associates
Ellerslie Town Centre

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Bronze
Boffa Miskell Ltd
Telecom @ Tory

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2004 Rural - Park - Recreational Design

George Malcolm Supreme Award

Isthmus Group
Oriental Bay
Sponsor: Resene

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Silver
Isthmus Group
Main Beach Boardwalk
Mt Maunganui

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Bronze
Boffa Miskell Ltd
Balmoral Heights Reserve

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"Our landscapes are the envy of the world. Therefore landscape architects have a great opportunity as well as responsibility to manage them with care. We have a huge responsibility as a profession. Our code of ethics is to ensure NZ's special values are protected as any landscape change takes place."
Di Lucas, President NZILA

2004 Commercial - Industrial - Institutional Design

Gold
Jenny Moore
Champion Centre Therapy Garden & Playground

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Silver
Boffa Miskell Ltd
Palm Mall Plaza Entry

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Silver
Boffa Miskell Ltd
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

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2004 Residential Design

Gold
Ralf Kruger
Kruger Residence

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Gold
Ted Smyth
Pie Melon Farm

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Bronze
Dietmar Bostfleisch
Moller/Ying Residence Hamilton

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Bronze
Ralf Kruger
Flacks Garden

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2004 Sustainability Design

Gold
Boffa Miskell Ltd
Meadowbank School Environment Trail

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Gold
Jeff Weston in partnership with the Christchurch City Council, University of Canterbury and Lchthyo-niche

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Bronze
Paul Quinlan
Managing Natural Regenerating Totara on Farmland - under the Forests Act

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Bronze
Andrew Gray, John Hudson & Robin Gay
Ara Harakeke - The Flax Pathway

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2004 Landscape Planning and Environmental Studies

Silver
Isthmus Group
Barry Curtis Park Developed Design Booklet

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Silver
Boffa Miskell Ltd
Natural Character Assessment of the Firth of Thames and the Kaipara Harbour

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Silver
Isthmus Group
Papatoetoe and Hunters Corner Revitalisation Project

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Silver
Ralf Kruger
Landscape Evidence for Queenstown Landscape Decisions 1 to 8

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Bronze
Ralph Johns, Linda Kerkmeester and Graeme McIndoe
Review of Chafffers Park Competition

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2004 Student Design

Excellence
Stuart Houghton
(re)-covering the industrial fringe Wellington's City Gateway

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Excellence
Margaret Poppelwell
Wanaka Changes

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Excellence
Natalie Watkinson
Recovering Taramea Bay

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Excellence
Paula Wilkinson
Motorway Design within an Aural Topography

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Merit
Charlotte Jackson
Ian Galloway Park - Place from Waste

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Merit
Sam Bourne
Field-to-Field interactions - a design strategy for Taylor's Mistake Whitanga

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Merit
Mark Teasdale
Sustaining Lyttleton

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Merit
Shannon Davis
Reinventing Mount Manganui

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Merit
Leona de Ridder
Pipeline Boundary, Waitangi Estuary

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Special Thanks to our 2004 Judges

Design Judges

Jan Woodhouse
Landscape Architect, FNZILA, senior practitioner of Woodhouse Associates, Ellerslie flower show judge and past NZILA vice president and awards convenor.

Jeremy Head
Landscape Architect with Earthwork, Rangiora, NZILA registered Landscape architect.

John Mackay
Urban Development and Design Manager with Waitakere City Council.

Planning Judges

Simon Swaffield
Professor of Landscape Architecture, Lincoln University, FNZILA.

Helen Preston-Jones
Senior Landscape Architect, Opus International Consultants, ANZILA

Raewyn Peart
Director, Firm Ground Ltd and Policy Analyst for the Environmental Defence Society

NZILA Landscape Awards 2002

Landscape Design | Landscape Planning | Research & Communication | Visionary Landscapes

2002 - Landscape Design

Isthmus Group - GOLD