Central North Island Branch News

09 Jul
Feedback on the NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025
Final reminder. Closes 11 July
We're looking at future planning of the national events programme and want to know what you think. Please help us …
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31 Jul
NZILA Call for Fellows

Nominations will close on the 30th September 2020
Through award of Fellowship, the NZILA recognises its leaders, innovators and ambassadors, and those who have made a special contribution …
29 Jul
Gary Marshall is a busy man

The more you learn about ecology, the more you realise that systemic change requires working with people in place
Gary Marshall is a landscape architect at Resilio Studio in Auckland. He’s also a part-time educator at Auckland Permaculture Workshop …
28 Jul
Design that mitigates post traumatic stress in children proves a winner

“Being able to spend time at a school to see how it functions on a day to day basis has been really useful when designing these spaces.”
Kamo Marsh landscape architect Tim Scott takes more than a parental interest in Rāwhiti School in Christchurch. He has worked …
28 Jul
July 2020 Presidents Update

Tēnā koutou ki te whanau,Nga mihi o te ra. If April and May were slow and murky as we waded …
22 Jul
Project Profile: The Lookout by LandLAB

In a new, occasional series, we are looking at projects before, during and after construction.
For our first, we spoke to LandLAB’s Henry Crothers and Sam Gould about “The Lookout” - which is part of …
15 Jul
Landscape architect for life - Di Lucas

Not one to shy away from expressing her at times controversial opinions, Lucas has helped develop the landscape architecture profession in New Zealand, and nurture our diverse landscapes.
Di Lucas knows what she likes. And she definitely knows what she doesn’t like. Chances are you do too. Not …
13 Jul
Deepening Relationships: Isthmus Matariki Day

By Ralph Johns
Our purpose at Isthmus is to advance the relationships between land, people and culture. We do this not only through …
13 Jul
CRL digs down 28,000 years

Fragments of the tree, probably a whau, were recovered under an ancient lava field
Radiocarbon dating has estimated that fragments of a tree recovered from a City Rail Link construction site in Auckland are …
07 Jul
The return of the wetlands

Over the years CCC has embarked on plans to return sections of the region to wetlands to alleviate some of the problems.
Building Christchurch city on a giant swamp has had serious repercussions - severe liquefaction during earthquakes and significant flooding during …
07 Jul
Nohonga Challenge enters next phase

The finalists’ nohonga will be temporarily on display in Britomart in Auckland’s CBD
The five groups of finalists in the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora/Brick …
02 Jul
International call for chapter proposals: innovative practices with photography for environmental design
Active Landscape Photography: Diverse Practices Editor Anne C Godfrey Routledge Press Active Landscape Photography: Diverse Practices is the third book …
01 Jul
2021 NZILA Firth Conference

Date and Location announcement
The Institute is pleased to announce that the 2021 NZILA Firth Conference will be held in May next year in …