Conference 2006
Plants as infrastructure

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Abstract:

Recent projects by Peter Walker and Partners in the Auckland Region

JOHN GUNDESEN and ORSON WALDOCK

This presentation from John Gundesen of Innovus (property development and management) and Orson Waldock (landscape architect with Isthmus Group) will give an overview of development projects being undertaken in the Auckland region with design input from Peter Walker and Partners, with particular reference to the planting projects associated with each project.

Peter Walker is considered one of the world's most influential landscape architects. He has received international acclaim for his large-scale, environmentally-sensitive designs, including Millennium Parklands in Australia, IBM's Solana campus in Texas and the Sony Centre in Berlin. He has been commissioned to design the landscape for New York's Twin Towers site. He has recently been Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of California; and previously held a Chair at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

The projects:
Highbrook is a 153 hectare greenfield business park development located in Manukau City, Auckland.

It is designed to accommodate approximately 550,000 metres of floor space and have a daytime employee population of 12,000.

Korowai Kakariki is a concept to establish a major landscape design along SH1 from Albany to Orewa. It has been initiated in response to the community's desire to protect and define the Hibiscus Coast's separation from urban Auckland.

The concept design responds to the existing and historic condition of the area; bush, rural farmland and grasslands.

It looks to use these elements to protect the existing views and rural character of the journey along this arterial road - thereby creating a unique landscape experience connecting the Hibiscus Coast with urban Auckland.

Western Reclamation: Ports of Auckland is presently participating in the establishment of an overall vision for the waterfront with the ARC and ACC, and developing its plan for the northern end of the Western Reclamation.