Awards

Awards
  • Queenstown Airport

    AWARDED - GOLD - NZILA SPECIAL AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - Colour

    Judges Citation

    It is rare to see a project of this nature that has maintained its integrity from centre to edge and has achieved a plant palette in a public environment that is both beautiful and maintainable. This project has an extremely strong planting design that binds the whole site together. Even the isolated beds between road edge and boundary have the same depth of thought as the splendid mass planting that serenades both the arriving and departing visitors to Queenstown. The planting palette is not only functional but also aesthetic, manipulating the inherent colours of the native and exotic species to their utmost. There is a clear understanding of the beauty of the local flora and this is skillfully articulated to provide a sense of place that compares with the sites “Remarkable” location. The site planning provides a sound canvas for this planting design. The layout has a logic that is usable straight from the car door with an intuitive approach to circulation and the leading of users through the site.

  • Routeburn Track

    AWARDED - GOLD - NZILA SPECIAL AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - Sustainability

    Judges Citation

    A superb display of restraint and the less is more mantra. It was hard to pick the interventions, which is a key contributer to this designs success. The judges believe the landscape architect truly understood not only the brief but also the landscape and the clients.

    This is the start of the Routeburn Track one of New Zealand’s great walks. The building was extremely well placed (yes by the Landscape Architect) to focus you onto the tramp and the experience you where about to undertake, for many the start of such a walk is an almost spiritual experience, the landscape design allowed the power of the surrounding landscape to cast its spell, there was no discernable start line you just drifted into the tramp lured by the greater landscape, coached by the immediate.

    The landscape architect had clearly understood his role and the materials at hand. The simplicity of the solution belies the dexterity that had been used to manipulate the sequence of events from arrival and donning your kit to swaying of the swing bridge and disappearing into the red and silver Tolkienesque beech forests. Car-parking had been carefully located behind the shelter and shielded by moraine like lunettes, paths amble in a sheep track fashion to the shelter, storm water swales were like mini braided rivers, and the tussock edged grassed forecourt oozed out from under the building. Furniture was simple timber benches big enough for a couple bodies and packs and their rearranged contents. The actual start was marked by two rocks and a simple DOC sign.

  • Arrowtown Design Guidelines

    AWARDED - SILVER

    Judges Citation

    This project provides assistance to the community, landowners, developers, designers and planners in the development of Arrowtown. It is a work that provides a framework for the sustainable management of a cultural heritage landscapes generally. A set of design guidelines identifies the character of the existing town and its buildings.

    It is well researched and beautifully presented, with precinct-based guidelines of explecit detail. The project showcases the importance of spatial organisation and planning alongside building design.

    It is a very good guide for anyone working in the heritage area, particularly in relation to buildings. In its presentation it usefully identifies what not to do. The pivotal role of the landscape architects merits recognition.

  • Ramshaw Lane Arrowtown

    AWARDED - SILVER 

  • Heart of the District Award

    Landscape and Urban Design

    Awarded for Outstanding Achievements in the Queenstown Lakes District