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14 Apr
NZILA Board nominations close 29 April
Read the insights from current Board members
What does the current Board have to say about this opportunity? REMINDER: Board Nominations close Tuesday 29 April 12pm (midday) …
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10 Sep
A spruce up for Whitianga

one of the Coromandel Peninsula’s main tourist hubs
Giving iconic holiday destination Whitianga a long-awaited upgrade was a community effort and a shared success, writes Boffa Miskell’s Kathleen …
03 Sep
A climate change challenge to NZILA branches

Submission presented Friday 30 August
The effects of climate change on the Aotearoa New Zealand landscape will be the biggest disruptive event in our history, …
02 Sep
Walter Hood to attend 2019 NZILA Firth Conference in Christchurch

International Conference Speaker
Acclaimed American landscape architect Walter Hood is to speak on urban disruption at the 2019 NZILA Firth Conference in Christchurch …
31 Aug
IFLA Asia Pacific Region Newsletter Issue No.8

July 2019
Featured in this issue: IFLA APR Regional Congress 2019 SILA Build With Heart 2019: Pre-Planning How Landscape Architecture Influences... The …
28 Aug
Presidents Update
August 2019
Tēnā koutou ki te whanau,Nga mihi o te ra. The NZILA Streetscape Speaker Series 2019 Catherine Mosbach lectures might seem …
28 Aug
Rough + Milne tackle work/life balance

Staff work an 80 hour fortnight
Work/life balance is seen as an oxymoron by many New Zealanders, who struggle to happily meet the demands of their …
26 Aug
Profile - Julia Wick

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She may sound like a pom but landscape architect Julia Wick was born in Ashburton and grew up on an …
22 Aug
Quay Street rain gardens - "unseen ecological hero"

LandLAB worked closely with mana whenua and Auckland Council
A series of specially designed gardens will form the centre piece of a revitalised Auckland Downtown Waterfront as part of …
21 Aug
Revitalised CBD coming for Ashburton

Project design lead Rob Lawry, Jasmax
Work’s due to begin next year on revitalising Ashburton’s central business district. Project design lead, Landscape Architect Rob Lawry from …
20 Aug
Who Got That Job?

Rangitahi Kawe
Rangitahi joined Boffa Miskell in August 2018 as a Graduate Landscape Architect to explore his interest in Māori engagement with …
15 Aug
Designing with ambiguity

So where do you start?
Isthmus CEO Ralph Johns says the current New Zealand condition is we are increasingly physical and mentally unwell, our communities …
07 Aug
Lincoln's SOLA celebrates 50 years

Making it to 50 is a milestone worth celebrating in anyone’s life. So Lincoln’s School of Landscape Architecture is throwing …