Landscape award to Wellington firm
PA Wellington The second George Malcolm Award for outstanding landscape architecture has been won by a Wellington firm. Boffa Mistell Partners was awarded the prize, a trophy, by the Institute of Landscape Architects for the design of Manukau Court at Manukau City. The award recognises outstanding design which has been successfully im-
plemented. The previous winner of the award was the Ministry of Works and Development in Christchurch for its design of the Christchurch Girl’s High School. “Manukau Court shows what good landscape architecture can do for a city,” the institute president, Mr Alex Wilson, said. “The design comprising rounded boulders which resemble the ancient Moeraki boulders,
gardens, fountains, seats and paving, and the finished construction is inspired and elegant.” He said it was the first big New Zealand landscape designed with Maori and Pacific Island cultures in mind. The firm also won the 1988 Charlie Challenger Award for their report Expanding System Capacity HVDC Corridor Study, which was prepared in
conjunction with GECO, Ltd. The Charlie Challenger Award recognises outstanding written contributions to the professional practice of landscape architecture in New Zealand. The judges said the HVDC Corridor Study represented the present state of the art in the development of landscape architecture in large-scale planning in New Zealand.
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