Westhaven Promenade Stage 02 complete! 2020_

Getting from A to B has never looked so good! Have you had a chance to walk the full Westhaven Promenade? If your lucky you might spot Auckland’s celebrity Owha the lepoard seal lying in the sun.

 

Gibbs Farm Trip 2020_

The LandLAB team visited Gibbs Farm early December. We were proud to support a good cause as the ticket sales going towards charity. After a long wander around the park and close observation of the sculptures, the LAB mates left feeling inspired and some a little sunburnt.
This trip pairs quite nicely with a real fruit ice-creams on the way home.

 

WAN Award Winner 2020_

LandLAB’s Tank Park was named a Silver Winner at this year's WAN Awards for Tank Park in the Future Projects - Urban Design category

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Te Whakatōhenehene ‘The Disruption’_

The Nohonga (seat) design challenge is a new collaboration between Brick Bay and the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora who are challenging students and all levels of graduated landscape architects to design and construct creative nohonga for the citizens of Tāmaki Makaurau.

The seat is currently installed in Britomart and will be moved to the Brick Bay sculpture trail outdoor gallery in 2021 for a 12 month installation.

LandLAB proudly sponsored Bela Grimsdale, Luke Veldhuizen and Sam Gould’s winning entry - Te Whakatōhenehene ‘The Disruption’ which explores the relationship between Ranginui (sky father) and Papatūānuku (earth mother). After the seperation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku by their child Tānemahuta (god of forests) their youngest child Rūaumoko (god of earthquakes and volcanoes) was left in his mother’s belly to warm and comfort her.

The rain and mist we experience is Ranginui’s grief at being separated from Papatūānuku and their unborn child Rūaumoko. This upsets Rūaumoko and with his fiery nature he erupts, with his marks remaining as permanent striations on the land. In an endless cycle as Rūaumoko pushes up the earth in anger, the tears of Ranginui’s sorrow erode the earth back to the land.

The design of this nohonga references the idea of raw, red earth being forced skyward and shaped by the dynamic forces of nature. Pushed and pulled both subtly and with ingenuity, our seat is crystalised in its final form, revealing a blend of our minds, our hearts, wild nature, and the hand of mankind. 

WAN Awards 2020_

Tank Park has been shortlisted for a World Architecture News Award under the Urban Future Projects Category.

This project imagines a transformation from ‘Tank Farm’ to ‘Tank Park’ the newest addition to Wynyard Quarter’s design-led transformation. Tank Park creatively adapts and reveals the sites unique post-industrial character (near mythology) into an authentic, engaging and immersive landscape experience and landmark at the confluence of the ‘waterfront’ and ‘park’ axes and geographical heart of the Quarter.

 
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Westhaven Promenade Stage 02 Progress_

“A world class destination that excites the senses and celebrates our sea-loving Pacific culture and maritime history. It supports commercially successful and innovative businesses and is a place for all people, an area rich in character and activities that link people to the city and the sea.”

Westhaven promenade stage 02 is due for completion in November 2020. This boardwalk will create a shared use water’s edge promenade between the Wynyard Quarter and Auckland’s Harbour Bridge. LandLAB visited the site to check on the construction progress and are blown away by the summer looking scenes. Looking forward to seeing the public enjoy this sunny water’s edge project.

BEST Awards Judge 2020_

LandLAB is proud to have one of our own be a judge at this years DINZ Best Awards. Scott Greenhalgh was a judge in the spatial category and spent a week away making some tough decisions. Scott was saddened to miss going to all his beloved meetings but thoroughly enjoyed being part of the judging process.

 

Spring Planting 2020_

Spring has sprung and the LAB is excited to see the green bits added to some of our favourite projects under construction. As you can see below, Karangahape Road recently welcomed the return of its iconic Nikau.

 
 

NZ Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards 2019

LandLAB is proud to win seven awards at the NZILA awards this year. Five awards of excellence, one category win and the George Malcolm Supreme Winner Award which recognises supreme excellence in landscape design. Te Papa Ōtākaro Avon River Park was the urban spaces category winner and supreme winner of the evening.

 
 

In naming Te Papa Ōtākaro Avon River Park the supreme award winner the judges said the team faced considerable challenges including shifting governance structures, massive disruption of infrastructure, and even the difficulties being experienced within the professional and personal lives of those involved in designing the Park – as the earthquakes and their consequences continued to challenge life in the city.

The judges’ citation says “despite all of the challenges, Te Papa Ōtākaro has emerged as a significant and transformative urban landscape, maximising the opportunity provided by the earthquakes, to develop an exemplary interweaving of urban edge and river. Enhancing the cultural landscape of the city, as well as the ecological and social values, has provided Christchurch with a central core that holds the city together, and re-presents it with a new vision.“”

NZILA Award of Excellence in Urban Spaces – Access to Water, Tauranga Waterfront
NZILA Award of Excellence in Infrastructure - Vaughans Stream Corridor, Long Bay
NZILA Award of Excellence in Small Projects – Viaduct Promenade Interventions
NZILA Award of Excellence in Strategic Landscape Planning– Queenstown Town Centre Masterplan
NZILA Award of Excellence in Unbuilt Visionary – Ponsonby PARK+

Ø5km Park - Shortlisted Competition Entry 2019

Our shortlisted entry to the Melbourne Future Park Competition_

5km Park establishes an aspirational new ecological system, park network and transformative catalyst for a future Melbourne. 5km from the city centre, 15km long, 3500 ha in area 

5km Park draws on an unrealised landscape superstructure which encircles the city. Weaving together a disparate array of existing open spaces, recreational facilities, social infrastructures and brownfield sites around this arc into a singular and connecting circuit embedded in the morphology of the Yarra and the fabric city. 

 

World Architecture News Awards 2019

LandLAB is pleased to have two completed projects shortlisted under the Sectors: Urban Landscape Award at the World Architecture News Awards 2019.

Our shortlisted projects include:
Vaughan’s Stream Corridor Wetlands + Bridge 
Avon River Park Terraces + City Promenade 

See more https://www.wanawards.com/finalists/avon-river-park-terraces--city-promenade//
and here https://www.wanawards.com/finalists/vaughans-stream-corridor-wetlands--bridg//

 

Best Awards 2019_

We are delighted to see 2 of our projects shortlisted under the Built Environment category in the New Zealand Best Awards 2019.

Our shortlisted projects include:
Avon River Park Terraces + City Promenade
Vaughans Stream Corridor, Long Bay

 

World Architecture Festival 2019

LandLAB is looking forward to presenting our shortlisted projects at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam this December 2019.

Our shortlisted projects include:
Landscape Urban Project Awards – Avon River Park Terraces + City Promenade
Civic Future Project Award – SPE Park (formerly known as Tank Park)

 

Denizen Everyday Heroes 2019_

The LandLAB team are very pleased to get a shout out from Denizen Magazine in the latest issue which covers some recent projects and references some of our latest work in Queenstown - NZ’s coolest little city.

 

World Landscape Architecture Awards 2019_

'Islands - Motutere' The LandLAB team are pleased to win a 2019 World Landscape Architecture (WLA) Award for this project. 'Islands' is a floating social and ecological activation device. Conceived as a topographical intervention reminiscent of a Hauraki Gulf landscape - it represents a new type of public space for Auckland. A moveable, floating, social and ecological infrastructure that supports swimming, events, performance, occupation and delight.

more info here.. https://lnkd.in/g3jN9rA
and here... https://lnkd.in/ffnMyts

 
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