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+