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- Order of Australia for Landscape Architecture academic
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) celebrates the awarding of the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) to Professor Catherin Bull as announced today as part of the 2008 Australian Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Professor Catherin Bull of the University of Melbourne is acknowledged as Australia’s foremost and most respected academic leader of Australian landscape architects. [...]
- ADB Provides $11.3M Grant to Help Tonga Improve Urban Infrastructure - Solomon Islands News
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an $11.3 million grant to improve urban infrastructure in Nuku’alofa, the capital of Tonga, as urbanization and population growth fuel demand for better infrastructure.
The Integrated Urban Development Sector Project will facilitate fully integrated and coordinated urban planning in Tonga, particularly for Nuku’alofa, which accounts for 34% of the [...]
- Twin towers in Brissie’s French Quarter | The Courier-Mail
THE designer behind the famous sail-shaped Burj Al Arab luxury hotel in Dubai has won an international competition to design Devine’s $1 billion French Quarter precinct in Brisbane.The design of two towers by Tom Wright of Atkins has been selected from a field of five international architectural firms which were vying for the honour.
Your say: [...]
- Architect cross-examined over turbines’ impact on heritage route - The Southland Times
Landscape architect Peter Rough spent a second day being cross-examined by individual appellants, who have strong concerns about the effects of wind turbines on the heritage landscape.
Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust immediate-past president Dr Mike Floate asked Mr Rough how it would be for someone that had read about the goldfields trail along Old Dunstan Rd, [...]
- Pearl Harbor Navy Exchange Goes Green
In a collaborative effort between Navy Region Hawaii, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Hawaii, and the Navy Exchange (NEX), a practical landscape design using environmentally-friendly vegetation and xeriscaping is being implemented at the Pearl Harbor NEX.
Many of the plants and shrubs requiring significant irrigation and maintenance have been removed and will be replaced with xeriscape [...]
- Councils face tight rules on planning - theage.com.au
COUNCILS will be policed to ensure they consider planning laws and policies such as the Melbourne 2030 planning blueprint when dealing with new building projects.
This follows a scathing report on the state’s planning approvals process by the Victorian Auditor-General’s office.
Read more @ the Source: theage.com.au – Councils face tight rules on planning
- Hungry Mile wasteland warning
THE man advising New York on how to revamp its public spaces has slammed the NSW Government’s plan for the former Hungry Mile site, warning it will become “fearsome at night” and a “wasteland” on weekends and public holidays.
The Government wants to transform the historic wharves at East Darling Harbour in what it describes as [...]
- NZILA 2008 Awards announced
Supreme Awards (Highest Award)George Malcolm Supreme Award was won by Isthmus Group in association with Studio Pacific Architecture for Kumototo Wharf Development, Wellington Waterfront Category: Landscape Design Urban Design
Charlie Challenger Supreme Award was won by Boffa Miskell Ltd for Manukau City Council Restoration Planting Guidelines: Restoring Our Native Plants Category: Landscape Planning Planning and Environmental [...]
- Extreme makeover for Quay, Darling Harbour and beyond
TEARING down the Cahill Expressway, moving Circular Quay railway station, remaking Darling Harbour and building a huge convention centre over the tracks at Central are part of the City of Sydney’s grand vision for 2030, to be made public today.
The Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, wants to transform Sydney into a truly “green, global and connected” [...]
- Bigger cities means more poverty says UN
Urbanisation in the Asia-Pacific region has driven up poverty, says the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap).
The agency’s latest yearbook showed that with an increase in urbanisation and growth, urban poverty had also worsened.
This year represented a turning point in human geography. For the first time in history, more people [...]
- The triumph of ugliness - National - smh.com.au
Are Australians visually illiterate? That’s the question that architects, designers and their critics have been pondering since the first convict staggered ashore, whacked up a bark humpy on the edge of Sydney Harbour, hung an emoh ruo sign on the front door and stuck a gnome in the garden.
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect Glenn Murcutt is [...]
- Caught out by an urban time bomb
Rural towns - even places like Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Kalgoorlie and Wadeye - are urban time bombs. Their fast-growing indigenous communities represent the biggest challenge facing policymakers in Canberra, Sydney and Darwin.
They discovered that the influx of Aborigines into rural towns has been matched by an exodus of non-indigenous Australians who have moved out, [...]
- Professional Landscape Associations start interactive forums
In the last week both the American Society of Landscape Architects(ASLA) and the Australia Institute of Landscape Architects(AILA) have started forums with wide ranging topics including Starchitects, Insurances.
ASLA has choosen to use Facebook as it’s platform to hold forums with members as many members would be on facebook and also appeals to the graduate members [...]
- Planning without the greed | The Australian
BETH Morgan is the Britney Spears of the planning world.The former Wollongong City Council planning officer’s sad story of self-destruction will serve as a cautionary tale to men and women in town planning courses across the country. Hopefully, they don’t need the lesson. Their carefully structured undergraduate or postgraduate degrees will have covered the ABCs [...]
- Traffic chaos tipped by 2020 : thewest.com.au
A 40 per cent increase in Perth traffic by 2020 predicted by the Federal Government could lead to chaos on the city’s roads, with congestion tipped to add an extra eight minutes to a 20km journey.
The Federal Bureau of Transport and Regional Services said Perth would suffer the second-highest rate of traffic growth of all [...]
- Waterfront tanks starting to come down - NZ Herald
Demolition of giant storage tanks is the first sign of progress in the largest waterfront development in the history of Auckland.
The tanks have been used since the mid-1970s at the BP Lubricants Auckland production centre at Wynyard Pt, also known as the Tank Farm.
Waterfront tanks starting to come down - 25 Feb 2008 - NZ [...]
- Queen Street upgrade in NZILA National Awards
Queen Street upgrade in National Awards
Auckland’s controversial Queen Street upgrade is up for a prestigious national design award.
The multi-million dollar makeover of New Zealand’s busiest street is among a record number of entries competing for an award from the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA).
A total of 97 entries have been received for the [...]
- $39million for new international terminal in Wellington, NZ
Wellington Airport’s new $39 million international passenger terminal has been designed to look like rocks, echoing its location on Wellington’s south coast.
The building, designed by Wellington architects Studio Pacific Architecture, and Christchurch’s Warren and Mahoney, is the second stage of refurbishments and due to be finished by 2009.
Read more @ National Business Review (NBR) - [...]
- Buy forests to help environment - Environment - theage.com.au
AUSTRALIANS could buy a stake in the protection of endangered tropical forests under a groundbreaking scheme being devised by former Australian of the Year Tim Flannery.
Professor Flannery — Australia’s most prominent environmental campaigner — wants to set up an internet-based carbon market with a pilot scheme to be run in Papua New Guinea.
In a paper [...]
- Paradise or purgatory: Urban sprawl in spotlight
A debate over city growth has emerged after a housing affordability survey released this week recommended freeing up more land for houses.
Demographia’s fourth annual survey found New Zealand houses more unaffordable than those in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Britain and Australia.
Read more @ Paradise or purgatory: Urban sprawl in spotlight - NZ Herald
