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lawn & garden
THE REGISTERED MASTER Landscapers’ 2019 Landscapes of Distinction Awards took place on Saturday 10 August in Auckland.
The Landscapes of Distinction Awards celebrate the best projects by landscape industry professionals, this year including no less than 18 entry category choices across residential, commercial and revegetation works.
With “a high level of innovation and landscape technology, along with masterful productive gardening”, this year’s Supreme Winner and Best Design Project of the Year was Natural Habitats’ work at Goodside & B:Hive.
A high profile commercial office and dining hub project at Smales Farm, just off SH1 on Auckland’s North Shore, Goodside & B:Hive mixes hard landscaping with thoughtful planting, contemporary commercial design with rustic references and injections of landscape into the buildings themselves
The judges were “impressed with what has been achieved on a concrete substrate and commend the designers for
the thorough resolving of levels throughout the layout. The combination of these elements has resulted in a warm and inviting space.”
Goodside & B:Hive (top photos page 33) is “A superb display of high calibre landscape design that is characterised by rural, agricultural references authentically interpreted and applied to a distinctly urban setting.”
Also featuring extensive use of concrete but at the other end of the scale, size-wise, Best Construction went to High Country Zen @ Terrace Downs by Goom Landscapes.
Part of the High Country Golf Course at the foothills
of the Southern Alps, this project displays “outstanding workmanship”, mixing man-made and natural materials and features a standout water feature at its entrance, all of which combines to produce a very Japanese “zen” experience. (Photos middle of page 33 by CMG Studios.)
Best Horticulture Project of 2019 was awarded to M2PP Kapiti Expressway, carried out by Natural Habitats to plans by Boffa Miskell (photos bottom of page 33).
Stretching from MacKays Crossing to Pekapeka, this successful and very technical project encompassed some 29km and 92ha of planting along the Kapiti Expressway, taking in almost one and a half million eco-sourced plants, land forming, water management, habitat provision, pollution absorption, a cycleway, multiple ecosystems and soil types.
Said the judges: “That our state highways are now planned to provide such values is exemplary, and of a scale to provide landscapes of national significance.”
Back to a more domestic scale again with 2019’s Best Maintenance Project which this year went to Humphreys Landscaping for its Takapuna Property project involving a large, well treed and lawned coastal garden with all the care and plant management challenges that brings.
“An impressive garden managed to exacting standards,” said the judges. (Photos on page 32 by Patrick Reynolds.)
Returning upscale and to the public domain, the year’s Best Revegetation Project was Watchman Rd and Napier Airport Access by South Pacific Landscapes.
This gateway project accompanies travellers from the airport into the city through wetland lakes and wide estuary views using both stylised and naturalistic massed plantings of native grasses to compliment the scheme’s water bodies and winding cycleways.
“Despite the tough coastal salt and wind conditions, the plant health looks great and this project will develop further impact over the coming years,” said the judges of Napier’s newest
green infrastructure. (Top photos on page 32 by Tim Whittaker Photography.)
The 2019 Landscapes of Distinction Awards’ Primary Partners were: Allied Concrete; PlaceMakers; Prebbles Turf World; Firth; Resene; and Husqvarna.
To see the many other excellent landscape projects recognised at this year’s Awards, do check out the full results here:
https://www.masterlandscapers.org.nz/awards/ landscapes-of-distinction
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