Fulfilling the intended objectives of developing a design proposal for an 18 hole championship golf course, involves several stages of investigation. It is intended, firstly, to research the physical requirements and ...

Heritage and landscape are two important aspects of individual life and broad collective memory and identity. And when heritage and landscape join together, they become an even richer field of investigation. Heritage ...

An endeavour will be made to more accurately define what constitutes a dry bank as specifically relating to the area being studied. Aridity and the factors that contribute to this condition will be discussed along with its ...

Landscape architecture and public art both have a role to play in the development of cities to make them meaningful. However, the way in which places become meaningful can be very different between these two types of ...

This research explores designing through representation of place, focussing on the experiential dimensions of landscape architecture. The context for the research is two national parks, in very different geographic locations, ...

Memorials are often manifested in monuments. Landscape architecture, however, views environments as patterns. Rather than focusing on objects in space, as architecture often relates to landscape, landscape architects endeavor ...

Bruno Gilmour, a landscape architecture student was introduced to critical regionalism philosophy through a design theory paper at Lincoln University. Bruno realised the potential for critical regionalism to bind his ...

The fusion of art and the ecological environmental ethos lies at the heart of Wendy Duggan's 2002 Major Design project at Lincoln University. In an attempt to restore the ecological health of the neglected Christchurch ...

The author comments on a student's major design project which focuses on the revitalisation of the Symonds Street Cemetery. Leigh Wilson's design project takes advantage of the unique cultural and physical site characteristic ...

The Glenbrook Steel Mill is one of New Zealand’s largest industrial sites currently producing 650,000 tonnes of high grade steel per year, and employing as many as 2500 permanent and temporary staff at any one time. The ...