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15 Sep
Me whakanuia e tātou i nga tau 50 o Te Wiki o te Reo Māori!
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori takes place from 14 - 20 September 2025
Tēnā koutou katoa e te whānau whānui o Tuia Pito Ora, Me whakanuia e tātou i nga tau 50 o …
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27 Mar
Presidents Update
March 2020
Tēnā koutou ki te whanau, Nga mihi o te ra. Strange days indeed. I am writing this from my newly …
26 Mar
Pride on Skin - Moko and Landscape
Na Te Tau-a-Nuku, Ko Neil Challenger i tuhi
As it did to many things in the Māori world, colonisation killed moko (Māori tattooing) – well nearly anyway. Historically …
26 Mar
Be kind - stay calm
Offices are shut and landscape architects are getting used to new ways of working
As the country begins the four-week Covid-19 lockdown, landscape architecture businesses around New Zealand are adapting and responding to this …
24 Mar
Playground reflects its environment
The colourful playground is home to (unofficially) the country’s fastest slide
The playground in Hastings’ Cornwall Park’s been given a state-of-the-art facelift which is proving popular with those who use it. …
22 Mar
NZILA IFLA delegate update
Prepared by: Mike Barthelmeh
The big issue for us all at the moment is the rapid spread internationally of the covid-19 virus, and fallout …
20 Mar
Unique park to rise in Manhattan
The Thomas Heatherwick designed Pier 55 in Manhattan, New York, is back on track to be completed in 2021
After being appointed following a design competition in 2013, the architecture studio envisioned a new pier on Manhattan’s southwest riverside …
20 Mar
Covid-19 - industry update
Prepared by: Brad Coombs
Landscape architects are being urged to keep it “business as usual” as much as possible by New Zealand Institute of …
16 Mar
COVID-19 Message to NZILA Members
Prepared by: Brad Coombs
You will no doubt all be aware of the unprecedented situation that is currently unfolding in New Zealand and around …
11 Mar
Urban design - what will it look like in 500 years?
By Nick Kapica
Year 2519 — navigators and the new artisans. Robots everywhere, advanced alien species live on earth, some humans occupy new …
03 Mar
Child's play - The Imaginarium
By Dr Wendy Hoddinott
Over the summer holidays, a group of children discovered a new kind of freedom – that of designing their own …
27 Feb
President's Update
February 2020
Tēnā koutou ki te whanau,Nga mihi o te ra. No doubt the Christmas break seems like a distant memory now. …
27 Feb
Communal living - Wirihana masterplan
Isthmus
When Te Ākitai Waihoua approached Isthmus to rethink an earlier masterplan for Wirihana, in South Auckland, we immediately saw the …