LandLAB

LandLAB is a New Zealand, design-led, studio-based practice creating sustainable, innovative and creative outcomes across a range of landscape, urbanism and placemaking projects in Tāmaki Makaurau-Auckland, across Aotearoa and beyond. As our name suggests our philosophy integrates a site-specific approach (‘Land’) with a creative and rigorous design process (‘LAB’). Our work reflects our interrogation of […]

This project includes Daldy Street Linear Park (Fanshawe Street to North Wharf) and Amey Daldy Park (centrally located within Wynyard Quarter). The overall project was informed by a cohesive design strategy built upon the Urban Design Landscape Framework. The brief for the project was developed between Eke Panuku and the city’s transport and development agencies […]

Wynyard Quarter was once a bay known as Waiatarau ‘The Reflecting Waters’. The land was incrementally reclaimed from the Waitematā Harbour over the last century, and has served industrial purposes for most of that time housing bulk storage of tallow, cooking oils, petrochemicals and caustic soda colloquially known as ‘Tank Farm’. This project imagines a […]

The Commercial Bay project consists of a series of laneways and the ‘Sky Terrace’ located on the tower podium above. Our approach considers the interwoven layers of this site. These layers comprise overarching narrative and design language that communicates the geological, ecological, and cultural stories of the site and its context. This reinforces Commercial Bay’s […]

LandLAB were commissioned by Todd Properties Limited in 2014 to design a series of wetlands, associated open spaces and a series of bridges within the Vaughan’s Stream corridor in Long Bay, Tāmaki Makarau – Auckland, New Zealand. LandLAB provided the landscape design leadership alongside a multi-disciplinary consultant team. Long Bay encompasses 162 ha and includes a […]

The project enhances access to the water and brings the spirit and ecology of the river (fluid) into a dialogue with the city (grid). The new promenade layers and thickens the edge of the city to catalyse new opportunities for access and occupation. LandLAB have led the design for the Terraces river edge precinct – […]