Award Winners 2024
Congratulations!
Congratulations to all winners in the 2024 Resene NZILA Awards programme.
Thank you to all entrants in the 2024 awards, there were a huge number of exceptional entries. A true testament of the depth and breadth of Landscape Architecture as a profession in Aotearoa.
Thank you to our judges for the enormous effort and time put into the process. And thank you to Resene, our naming rights sponsor, and Energylight and Urban Group our Gala Dinner sponsors. This programme is made possible by your support.
2024 Award Winners
George Malcolm Supreme Winner
Rotorua Lakefront Redevelopment
Rotorua Lakes Council, Ngāti Whakaue, Isthmus, Veros, Tonkin & Taylor, Service Engineering Group (SEG), Te Arawa Lakes Trust, DCA Architects of Transformation, Wildlands
This project goes beyond good landscape design, it has drawn people together to understand and reestablish the spiritual and cultural connections between land and water, including wider connections to Te Arawa that are given form through a new relationship with lake edge. Visually strong whilst considering climate resilience and restoring ecological potential, the Rotorua Lakefront Redevelopment is beautifully and intelligently crafted from the scale of the entire site through to the consistent attention to detail and detailing that leads you on a journey through this landscape.
Congratulations to Isthmus Group on winning the prestigious George Malcolm Award
Charlie Challenger Supreme Winner
Aotearoa Urban Street Planning and Design Guide
Boffa Miskell Limited and NZTA
This project, led by Sam Bourne and Jane Nalder of Waka Kotahi (NZTA), with the nine strong team of Boffa Miskell, had a project reference group of 7 government entities, a Technical Advisor Group of 14 local governments, and 23 other national groups. He whenua He tangata is the cultural framework which was led by Ngā Aho members William Hatton, Rebecca Kiddle and Olivia Haddon. The breadth of this engagement and collaboration has enabled use of the Guide in planning, design and implementation across Aotearoa.
We congratulate Boffa Miskell and NZTA on winning the Charlie Challenger Award
Joint winner Te Karanga o te Tui
Pā Reo
Wraight + Associates, Te Wānanga O Raukawa, Ōtaki
This Te Wānanga o Raukawa campus project in Otaki results from an extended collaboration with Wraights and Associates, Tennant Brown Architects, and other designers, and is based on the Living Building Challenge framework. It is a carbon neutral project with a focus on sustainable design. The design of outdoor learning, social engagement and cultural expression supports the Raukawa campus foundation of mātauranga. Tikanga, te reo and te ao turoa are elevated, providing a special sense of place. The judges could feel the āio, peace, and wairua of this young campus within the dunes and wetlands. We congratulate Wraights and Associates, on Pā Reo as a fitting co-recipient of the Karanga o te Tui Award.
Joint winner Te Karanga o te Tui
Te Kapua Park Playground
Bespoke Landscape Architects; Clients: Taupō District Council and Ngāti Tūrangitukua; Cultural design: Te Maari Gardiner & Tururangi Rowe.
The contribution of Bespoke to this play space project was a catalyst to build trust, previously lacking between the Council and tangata whenua, while developing a recreational and educational community asset. This required time, but the pride and success of the project is the creditable outcome of co-design, understanding and care. Located on Ngāti Tūrangitukua land in Tūrangi, Te Kapua Park Playground was a partnership between Bespoke Landscape Architects, Ngāti Tūrangitukua and the client team of Taupo District Council, and is a fitting co-recipient of Te Karanga o te Tui Award.
Parks, Open Spaces and Recreation
Award of Excellence
Pūtahi Park
Whangārei District Council in collaboration with Te Parawhau and Ngāti Kahu O Torongare
This well used urban park is in an important place for visitors and residents on the Whangarei Hatea River waterfront. It pulls in external links to the northern town basin shoreline, the busy traffic environment to west, the visitor focused waterfront to east and the CBD to the south. These links are generous and well considered but do not dominate their neighbours.
It is the park itself that is the gem, a series of well organised spaces that feel comfortable with one person or when crowded during a public event. The design language and well used in the different spaces through the site and this complements the external links and references the design makes.
This project is a real complement to the Whangarei District Council and their landscape architects who have created a “living room” for their community.
Category winner
Rotorua Lakefront Redevelopment
Rotorua Lakes Council, Ngāti Whakaue, Isthmus, Veros, Tonkin & Taylor, Service Engineering Group (SEG), Te Arawa Lakes Trust, DCA Architects of Transformation, Wildlands
A collaborative process between mana whenua, client, community, artists and designers has enabled a landscape response to the client brief and place that creates a new relationship between the lake, city and people.
The landscape design celebrates and gives form to the narrative of Kōuramāwhitiwhiti through a clever and well considered curation of space and function that is expressed through a sophisticated yet simple design language. Superb at all scales, with detail that reflects the forms, colours and textures of Rotorua.
Play Spaces
Award of Excellence
Hayman Park Playground
Wraight Athfield Landscape + Architecture, Eke Panuku, Auckland Council
The joint venture company Wraight + Associates and Athfield Architects went above and beyond to create an impressive super-play structure destination at Haymans Playground. The team worked alongside Eke Panuku, Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau, and Auckland Council, as well as a notable list of external collaborators including CPTED experts, creatives, artists, arborists, and play and pump track specialists, to provide a robust and well considered playground design.
The spatial layout provides a site sensitive response, which speaks to connections at a wider scale; being the natural parkland area, future urban and transport links, and the existing environment; including the retention of existing mature trees and park environments. The bright, colourful scheme reflected on ground planes and play elements, provides joyful and lively areas for the enjoyment of children of all ages and abilities. The judges were delighted to see a playground that demonstrates such a positive community adoption.
Award of Excellence
Te Kapua Park Playground
Bespoke Landscape Architects; Clients: Taupō District Council and Ngāti Tūrangitukua; Cultural design: Te Maari Gardiner & Tururangi Rowe.
Located on Ngāti Tūrangitukua land in Tūrangi, this project was a partnership between Bespoke Landscape Architects, Ngāti Tūrangitukua and the client team of Taupo District Council. The playground design references important cultural history, and heritage places and their stories. Pīhanga, the maunga can be seen as kaitiaki of the site, and Tongoriro River winds graphically among play features, enabling learning through play. Mature exotic trees provide a distinctive scale as well as summer shade, and link to the wider park space into which the playground may expand in future. The judges were impressed by the considerable pride of community leaders, artist, tangata whenua and children during the site visit.
Category winner
Te Pā Harakeke
Boffa Miskell Limited and Nelson City Council
This large, naturally focussed play and discovery space draws from its natural environment, on the fringe of the Waimea estuarine inlet in the centre of the Tāhunanui recreation reserve, for design inspiration and the activities it provides. In providing this natural aesthetic, it also integrates stormwater management, sea level rise and the well known Nelson model railway in a way that retains the playful, natural identity.
The play and discovery elements are well arranged, very well resolved, use well considered natural materials but also allow users of the space to create their own elements as well as blurring the line between the created play and the natural landscape. Throughout the site the experience varies in a well compiled way from intense, organised play spaces, to observation and education places, to natural areas that flow into the surrounding landscape.
This project is a fine exemplar of landscape architecture in terms of design ability along with nature and place making for the community to interpret.
Civic and Urban Design
Award of Excellence
Invercargill City Streets Stage 01 – Esk and Don Streets
Isthmus with Invercargill City Council and Waihōpai Rūnaka. With support from Bonisch, Paetoi, James York, TBIG and WT Partnership. Constructed by Downer.
This high-quality considered urban streetscape shone bright. Isthmus, working closely with Invercargill City Council and Waihōpai Rūnaka, have produced beautifully landscaped spaces that are evident of a compelling design story - a clear visceral response to the uniqueness that makes Invercargill. In addition to the well-considered design, the judging panel were impressed with the excellence in the detailing; from the bespoke timber furnishings and the rich planting palettes, through to the laser-cut cloaked pou, the clever paving patterning, and the intricate bronze species scattered throughout. This striking design is a joy to experience, with a strong design language that is reflective and responsive to both the natural environment and the surrounding built and developing civic frame.
Award of Excellence
Myers Park
Boffa Miskell Limited and Auckland Council
The team at Boffa Miskell were presented a highly challenging site, and the judges commend the hard work and dedication which is evident in the final product at Myers Park. Graham Tipene’s Waimahara installation and the use of a soundscape environment, allows for a dynamic and dramatic experience. This is offset by the clever and considered use of materials, sizes, level changes and edge details through a typically difficult underpass space. The history of the stream (Te Waihorotiu) and the stories of Horotiu are embedded in and reflected throughout the design. Additionally, the use of timber detailing and the rich planting story, echoes the streamside environment of the past and displays a dedicated sustainability story.
Category winner
Putahi Whakatetonga South Frame
Landscape Architects – Jasmax in association with landlab; Mana whenua – Matapopore on behalf of Te Ngāi Tūāhuriri Rūnanga; Client – Rau Paenga (formerly Ōtākaro); Engineering lead – AECOM; Engineering support – Aurecon
Delivered through an inclusive and collaborative process including Mana Whenua, Crown, City and designers, Putahi Whakatetonga South Frame evolves out of a simple yet well considered public realm concept based on the provision of a mid block greenway ‘Te Ara Pū Hā’, anchored by ‘yards’ and connected by ‘laneways’. Supported by the application of a clear consistent design language, the concept has allowed the public realm to support adjacent development and be delivered coherently over multiple city blocks and over multiple stages whilst retaining opportunity for space specific design narratives to be integrated. Collectively these spaces and connections reveal past history, re establish connections to the cultural landscape and provide for an urban community to engage with each other and place.
Residential
Category winner
Cohaus
Resilio Studio in association with Beca and Studio Nord
Cohaus is successful for its collaborative design approach; creating a residential environment that is beautiful, sustainable, and creates exceptional added value to its community of residents.
The design shows a strong sense of place by use of edible gardens, local rock materials, climbing plants on the vertical face of buildings, and consistent theme throughout of shared communal living. This enhances its sense of place as a residential living community alongside nature. It is both well executed and innovative for its environmental sustainability, co-habitation, and design clarity.
Concrete and hard surfaces are kept to a minimum with increased use of permeable hard surfaces. The street interface successfully incorporates the wider public into the design through shared seating areas and materials within the footpath corridor that visually link with the architecture and overall character, giving a sense of extending manaakitanga to those passing along the street frontage.
Institutional and Commercial
Award of Excellence
Waiaroha Heretaunga Water Discovery Centre
Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, Hastings District Council, Wayfinder Landscape Planning & Strategy Ltd, Designgroup Stapleton Elliott
Wayfinder Landscape Planning + Strategy in collaboration with Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga and Hastings District Council have created a wonderful exemplar of Institutional and Commercial Landscape Architecture and design for the people of Heretaunga Hastings. The team have turned what could have been a functional water-treatment plant into a local community destination that welcomes, teaches, tells stories, and celebrates the importance of water in our everyday lives. Using the concept of ki uta, ki tai (expressing the water journey from the mountains to the sea) visitors experience interactive landscapes that help them to understand their relationship to water.
The design influences and partnership with Ngāti Kahungunu is tangible, and the shared iwi and design vision of Hira Huata working with Wayfinder has resulted in a place that shows the care taken and represents mana whenua and their expression and aspirations for place.
Category winner
Pā Reo
Wraight + Associates, Te Wānanga O Raukawa, Ōtaki
A new purpose-built campus is developing at Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Ōtaki. New teaching and administration whare are set within a dune and wetland landscape. Raukawa has a kaitiakitanga kaupapa with sustainability objectives, and has adopted the Living Building Challenge framework. This is now at its post-occupancy stage, providing for restoration of pre-development hydrology, celebration of place, and Te Ao Māori. All products and materials supplied have been carefully documented. The design of outdoor learning, social engagement and cultural expression supports the Raukawa foundation of mātauranga. Pā Reo has been the result of a long and continuing collaboration with Te Wānanga. Tauira connect with the significant landforms and sites through the landscape design, which includes a site-wide rongoā palette, a māra tiakitanga and bees. Tikanga, te reo and te ao turoa are elevated, providing a special sense of place.
Transport
Category winner
Ngā Hau Māngere
Isthmus in collaboration with Waka Kotahi/NZTA, Aurecon, Bossley Architects, Johnson Witehira, Matt von Sturmer and MᶜConnell Dowell.
More than just a bridge, Ngā Hau, Māngere is a public space that sensitively restores the connection across the Māngere Inlet whilst providing a range of public life opportunities that allow the community to engage with the rich landscape it traverses.
Realised through a collaborative design process including the voices of Mana Whenua, the Community, Artist and Client with Engineer, Urban Designer, Landscape Architect and Architect working as equal partners; the result is a carefully considered and curated journey across land, water and sky. Integrating old and new, adding beauty through a range of new artworks that enrich both the journey and occupation of its spaces through a celebration of place and identity. Ngā Hau, Māngere sets a benchmark for how transport infrastructure can support the public life of a community.
Landscapes of Care
Award of Excellence
Te Wao Nui
Local, Te Whatu Ora
Te Wao Nui Childrens Hospital in wellington has successfully created a series of spaces with a sense of calm and adventure including the entry ramps and gardens, and the play / rehabilitation space.
The entry landscape with ramps, balustrade, and planting, creates a jungle like experience in line with the hospital’s big forest theme, while also helping to de-institutionalise a care facility that traditionally can be intimidating for young children.
The children’s play area is colourful and adventurous and incorporates careful research into the needs of a rehabilitation space for children. Staff noted that the overall design spaces and building of Te Wao Nui, being more family friendly create a caring space that has successfully broken down some of the barriers that families with a fear of attending medical facilities feel more at ease and have the ability to accommodate their whole whanau.
RM & Strategic Planning
Award of Excellence
Waikato Regional Seascape Study within the Coastal Marine Area
Boffa Miskell Limited and Waikato Regional Council
The Waikato Regional Seascape Study pulls together an impressive amount of research and data into a high-quality strategic plan. The project team’s ground-breaking research on natural character has informed the Policy for Coastal Marine Areas, as well as detailed ONL / ONF identification.
The study is an in-depth exploration of ‘seascape’ environments. These dynamic, important environments are framed within an appropriate landscape planning framework. The systematic assessment of regulations is evident in a robust resource management process that included effective Iwi Management Plans, and an extensive understanding of environmental management."
Master Planning and Urban Design Strategy
Award of Excellence
Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Masterplan
Landscape Architects: Jasmax; Partners/Collaborators: Haumi; Client: Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Trust; Contributing rōpū (client partners/collaborators): Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei project steering rōpū, climate rōpū, Trust Board, Whai Rawa, Whai Maia, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei whānau members who attended wānanga
110 year vision based on Ngāti Whātua hapu returning to their whenua at Ōrākei. The masterplan is large in geographical scope and the document combines a decision making framework for critical interventions with accessible visions for whanau housing and urban design solutions.
The consultation process first focussed on empowering whānau to identify non-spatial issues before forming a steering rōpū (group) for subsequent kōrero.
Twenty-eight projects have been identified with clear yet flexible spatial plans and urban renewal progressions.
This masterplan is a best practice example for landscape architecture which involves taking social and cultural identity then translating this into, flexible and fit for purpose ways of living within our landscape.
Award of Excellence
Northcote Regeneration Master Plan
Isthmus, Kāinga Ora, and Eke Panuku in partnership, with Auckland Council, Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau, and LEAD Alliance.
The Northcote Regeneration Plan was developed by Isthmus, Kāinga Ora, and Eke Panuku in partnership, with Auckland Council, Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau, and LEAD Alliance over the past eight years. It is a transformational example of urban renewal at scale, and demonstrates the significance of spatial structuring, connectivity, creating character neighbourhoods, celebrating cultural diversity and integrating water and landscape in design outcomes.
The greening of urban spaces is commended and the integration of the open space network alongside blue and green infrastructure, ensures better future resilience is supported as the community continues to grow and evolve.
This is a well-considered Masterplan that will continue to grow its sense of place and serve its community over the years ahead.
Award of Excellence
Sandy Point Domain Masterplan
Boffa Miskell Limited and Invercargill City Council
The Sandy Point Domain Masterplan developed by Boffa Miskell and Invercargill City Council will guide the 10-, 25- and 50-year horizons of the Domain. In-depth research informed the masterplan and provided information including physical, historic, social, recreation, ecology, and environmental site context, while also considering the impact of climate change.
Engagement with stakeholders and partnership with Mana Whenua Waihōpai Rūnaka and Te Ao Marama Incorporated has informed masterplan outcomes. Consideration has been given to diverse conditions, recreational eco-adventures and eco-parklands, wetlands, native planting and forested areas, existing areas of significant biodiversity, the Ōreti River and riparian areas and coastal environments.
This is a great example of planning for long-term outcomes with an astute sense of guardianship for the landscape.
Award of Excellence
Taiuli Strategic Plan
Atafu Tokelau Community Group Inc, Beca
Tâlofa and fakafetai lahi lele to the team at Beca and the Atafu Tokelau Community Group for an authentic community engagement and collaboration that has produced an inspiring masterplan vision. Workshops, values, and stories shaped an engaging vision for the Tokelau community.
The masterplan expanded upon the architectural upgrade at the Matauala Hall, into a sensitive and quiet landscape expression with flexible outdoor spaces for current and future generations. As aptly put by the Atafu Tokelau Community Group the plan “enhances the unique character of the Atafu Tokelau community and offer direction on how we grow and develop over the next 30 years towards our vision and our aspirations”. Te lelei ō koe - well done.
Category winner
Aotearoa Urban Street Planning and Design Guide
Boffa Miskell Limited and NZTA
Congratulations to the team led by Waka Kotahi supported by Boffa Miskell in collaboration with Mein Urban Design and Ngā Aho. The Guide provides a framework for the movement, place-shaping and function of urban streets to support staff, designers, contractors, local councils, industry and the community. It also supports a new national roads classification system, the One Network Framework. The aim is safe inclusive streets for movement of people, goods and services, as well as improvement in health, resilience and climate adaptation.
He Iti Pounamu
Award of Excellence
Botanic Gin Project
Botanic Landscape Architects and all contributors to the post-earthquake urban plantings in Ōtautahi Christchurch
The judges looked for unique approaches, processes, and projects. Promotion of landscape through taste is not new but the taste of urban flora through the crafting of gin, and as promotion of a practice launched by Botanic, is unique, intriguing, educational, and participatory. Participants in the project forage for urban foliage and flowers, learn about plant properties and have fun creating their own flavour of gin. The branding success for Botanic is now an annual event and we applaud this originality.
Category winner
O Mahurangi —Penlink. Forest Duff Regeneration Strategy.
NZTA, Waka Kotahi - O Mahurangi Penlink Alliance, Isthmus, Landcare Research, Tonkin & Taylor, Aurecon, Fulton Hogan & HEB Construction
The forest duff regeneration strategy in the development of O Mahurangi transport corridor on the Whangaparāoa Peninsula is award winning for creating the building blocks that will re-establish the indigenous ngahere in the area. Those building blocks include a small part of the larger infrastructure project – the material from the forest floor – or forest duff. The strategy is award winning because it recognises and promotes the special value of the small forest duff material and seeks to retain and reuse the forest duff into the new soil creation. In turn this assists increasing the soil conditions for life. This has particular value in circumstances where removal of the parent forest is unavoidable.
Research and Communication
Award of Excellence
Upper Hutt Sustainable Landscape Guide - Te Mahere Horanuku Toitū O Ōrongomai
Urban Edge Planning and Upper Hutt City Council
A comprehensive guide that combines thought-provoking ideas for the landscape and users it is targeting. The guide is practical, useful, and accessible with well communicated links for further exploration of sustainable and place-based outcomes.
The judges commend the team on the development of this guide which has the potential to empower both individuals and organisations to think beyond the status quo and contribute to the long-term health and vitality of the region."
Award of Excellence
www.LandTyping.nz
Lucas Associates, LandPlan, Whenua Ora
The Land Typing project combines years of land type development, geological and ecological data, and attributes of landscape to provide an online easy to understand tool that anyone can use.
The data is gradually being digitised and refined, and feedback on the tool is invited and responded to. It is a work in progress that is available for both landscape architects and the public to use. The tool is an excellence winner for its useful contribution to landscape planning and assessment and commended for allowing the tool to be widely accessible and added to.
Category winner
Sponge Cities: Can they help us survive more intense rainfall?
The Helen Clark Foundation | Mahi a Rongo in partnership with WSP New Zealand Ltd. Kali Mercier, with Campbell Gardiner, Liam Foster, James Reddish, James Douglas, Vivienne Ivory, Reginald Profitt and Heather Wilkins
This report sets out the state of our cities, towns, communities, and associated infrastructure in response to climate change. It gives clear recommendations to support implementation of sponge cities and seeks to ensure that mātauranga and tikanga Māori is at the forefront of thinking.
The report seeks to offer an approach that aims to protect, enhance and sustainably manage water resources in urban environments, by slowing the passage of stormwater - It involves cities working with water rather than against it.
This project is outstanding in meeting the criteria for sustainability to allow for future climate adaptation and increase the community’s resilience to climate change, and tangata whenua collaboration on design responses.
Students
Award of Excellence
On Moving Mountains: Animating the Ground Imaginary in Te Awarua-o-Porirua
Luke Mayall
Excellence in a focused, articulate and artistic manner has been achieved through this project. The poetic celebration of soil, encourages us to look more thoughtfully and grow our understandings and relationships with the varying qualities of soil itself, the movement of earth and the impressions of human impact and interaction as we create place.
The project presents a rich analysis and method of exploring landscape architecture using a variety of mediums, and results in a design outcome that is equally as interesting once applied and integrated with the proposed site.
Luke would like to acknowledge his supervisor, Hannah Hopewell.
Award of Excellence
Rotorua - Land, Place, Roots
Holly Lewis
This project provides an ambitious regeneration plan for Rotorua from a regional scale down to a CBD masterplan. It uses the concept of ‘whare’, which comprises holistic Hauora (well-being) and ‘whenua’, comprising land, place, and roots to propose solutions.
This framework is clear and logical and is well described and visualised at Regional, Masterplan, Intermediate and Detail levels. It focuses on the redevelopment of Kuirau Park providing ecological restoration, visitor facilities and papakāinga housing. .
This is a thorough, organised and extremely well resolved project and is an exemplar standard of work for people entering the the profession from tertiary study.
Award of Excellence
Salinity Security
Hannah Merrett-Kaufman and Tyler Florance
This well researched, beautifully presented and communicated project pulls together a broad range of considerations with a clear process for developing and evaluating design. The landscape in which these occur, and the designs explored utilise nature-based solutions to mitigate against the increase in salinity impacting agricultural land, public health and freshwater dependant ecosystems resulting from sea level rise and have been informed through an inclusive interdisciplinary process. The judges were impressed with both the quality of design and the clarity of communication employed to make a complex issue accessible and engaging.
Hannah and Tyler would like to express their gratitude to Victoria Chanse and CERF. Their contributions and support were invaluable to our work.
Award of Excellence
Sharing the Ecotone
Connor McKeown
This project shows how design can minimise the restriction of inland migration of intertidal species along urban coastlines; especially where coastal infrastructure such as seawalls have been created. Research includes mapping species distribution and behaviour as well as testing design prototypes that increase habitat for intertidal species.
Design outcomes include penguin passage corridors, intertidal habitat corridors for shellfish, and bird habitat poles. This project stands out for its clear presentation, articulation of issues, communication of design considerations, and potential to influence sea wall development in urban areas.
Category winner
Nukurārangi Regional Park
Ella Christian Farrow
This project creates a regional park in Te Tai Tokerau covering a 240 hectare around Ocean Beach east of Whangarei. The project posits solutions for a landscape involving, sustainable land use and biodiversity, recreation, education and tourism.
It is confident and thorough at each scale, focuses on the visitor experience and ecology site wide, is logical and well communicated at the mid scale and where staging is proposed, and the designs are logical and beautiful with excellent conceptual thinking at the smaller scale. The project dabbles in architectural responses and the design language of hard and soft landscape is thorough, appropriate and well communicated.
The thinking and presentation in this project would do credit to a professional industry document and it is a thoroughly deserving winner of the Students category.
Enduring Landscape
Category winner
Aoraki Mt Cook Village
Aoraki Mount Cook Village is a unique touristic village and awe-inspiring landscape that has stood the test of time. It is a significant environment for Ngāi Tahu, with Aoraki representing tupuna from which the iwi descends.
The small village provides accommodation for key staff, rangers, and visitors. It is situated in the heart of a National Park, adjacent to the sparkling waters of Lake Pukaki. It's mountainous and highly seasonal climate is subject to great changes in temperature, snowfall and commanding weather events. The landscape design for the village need to be strong enough to withhold these impeding yearly events, and retain its planting and vegetation, alongside its alpine character, charm and communities.
Landscape Architects played a significant role in determining the outcomes and legacy this landscape planning demonstrates. Chris played a pivotal role in the success of this landscape spanning decades. There were a number of visionary considerations that have been carefully developed to ensure the built environment is subservient and yet complementary to its natural surrounds. Strategic earth mounding ensures that buildings are embedded into the landscape thereby reducing visual impact and supporting high levels of shelter and privacy.
Lyrical connectivity is shown through links, pathways and key routes which promotes the pedestrian experience of place. Carefully selected plants and diligently placed rocks, frame and form the introduced landscape in a way that meets natural landscapes of the areas with sensitivity.
This enduring landscape has proven its resilience and continues to offer an intrinsic alpine approach to landscape architecture, while representing exceptional and pragmatic design that keenly responds to its context time and time again.