Wainui Valley, which is located on the shores of Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula, is a popular holiday home settlement. It is reached by travelling along State Highway 75 to Akaroa and turning off at Barry's Bay. An ...

"It's a debate that's been bubbling among Akaroa's townsfolk for 130 years. Should the 4.9ha Garden of Tane (or the Domain, as it was known until 1986) be allowed to return to natives, or should it be restored, in part at ...

The Avon River is Christchurch’s central landscape feature. Water is potentially exciting, refreshing and organic and can meet many human psychological needs in the synthetic city. As a natural feature in a landscape largely ...

The initial research topic for this dissertation began as an examination of the various drawing communication techniques and graphics that Landscape Architects use to communicate with the landscape construction industry. ...

Wetlands are rapidly becoming some of New Zealand's rarest ecosystems. The loss of the major proportion of the wetland resource existing in New Zealand at the time of European settlement has occurred mainly through ...

The Canterbury Mountainland is an important regional resource. Its value is not due to is productive capabilities but its aesthetic and ecological qualities contained within. The mountain environment offers a diverse ...

Major design project - Survey of Auchenflower area, Canterbury NZ. 8 Maps with notes.

Despite the academic discourse exploring processual landscape design, practice is often still focussed on landscape architecture as a product. My thesis seeks to explore how practice can be core to designing landscape, and ...

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 ...

Advertising is recognised to be an essential service in today's world. Amongst other things, it serves to keep consumers informed of services and goods available and locations where they may be bought. However, outdoor ...