Our project designs are renowned for innovative design, functionality and social connectivity.
There is no substitute for industry experience in the construction realm and at Greenwood’s we have that in spades. We are proud that through our extensive expertise, we can stand behind our track record of providing aesthetic enhancement to urban environments and the creation of attractive and functional environments for living.
Land Developments
We consult with clients and multi-disciplinary teams to open land for residential and commercial development.
Greenwood provides the landscape architectural services required for land development approval through the RC process. We work with planners, engineers, urban design specialists, ecologists and project managers to ensure the consenting process is efficiently executed. Our large team and specialist disciplines ensure we have the capacity and professional expertise for any scale of greenfield development.
Land Developments
Land development is any way of altering a landscape to change its function or use.
This includes changing landforms from a natural or semi-natural state for a purpose such as agriculture or housing, subdividing real estate into lots, typically for the purpose of building homes, or changing a piece of lands purpose, for example by converting an unused factory complex, into terrace housing. We have extensive experience in providing landscape architectural services for every type of land development project imaginable.
Hotel & Resort
Guests for whom life, business, and relaxation seamlessly intersect are increasingly seeking hotels and resorts that offer higher-quality experiences.
A unique and exciting luxury landscape is an expected experience at a resort destination and our clients want a point of difference to promote their facility. Our design methodology prioritises aesthetic quality alongside maintenance practicality. Our design team has extensive local and international experience to provide unique and enduring resort landscapes.
Podium & Roof Landscapes
The increase in podiums has provided the opportunity for passive exterior spaces between high-rise buildings.
At Greenwood Associates, we are skilled in the design of multifunctional space design, soil specification and plant design. We work with structural engineers and architects on loading, weight distribution, waterproofing and drainage to provide intimate spaces for play, social interaction and relaxation in a highly dense urban environment.
Podium & Roof Landscapes
Podium and roof landscapes are landscapes that are built over manmade structures such as buildings or basements rather than the natural land.
Designing these spaces requires specific knowledge and experience, as there are many variables to take into consideration. At Greenwood Associates, we are skilled in plant selection, multifunction space design, soil types and containment and liaising with structural engineers and architects on loading, weight distribution and drainage for podium and roof gardens. We believe podium and roof landscapes have the potential provide the intimate spaces for play, socialization, rest and relaxation, in unexpected places.
Retirement Facilities
Our track record for the design of retirement facilities is second to none.
We consider the specific needs of the aged community in terms of independent or assisted living. The reality of an individual’s limitations determines what design elements can enhance their quality of life. Our landscapes facilitate social interaction while providing safe and robust spaces, with a high- level of amenity through the selection of hardscape materials and plant selection.
Hospitality
Our aim is, to ensure visitors to a hospitality facility receive an enriching memorable experience.
We believe that each hospitality experience is judged on a unique atmosphere and consider the surroundings just as important as the food or service an establishment is offering. We are experts at delivering hospitality landscapes with natural green spaces that provide a point of difference and a unique atmosphere that customers keep coming back to.
Hospitality
As landscape architects, we can often be responsible for creating and contributing to meaningful and memorable hospitality experiences, to ensure customers can connect with the soul and essence of a space or environment.
In the competitive market of hospitality, experience and atmosphere are just as important as the food or service an establishment is offering. At Greenwood Associates, we believe the ability for guests to connect with nature is key to the success and popularity of a hospitality business. We are experts at delivering hospitality landscapes and green spaces that provide a point of difference and unique atmosphere the keeps customers coming back.
Education
At Greenwood Associates, we design safe, innovative, beautiful and cost-effective landscapes for education facilities.
We believe the planning and design of education facilities are paramount to providing students with the ideal environment to learn, develop and grow. We create landscapes that stimulate social and physical interaction whilst being fit for purpose and function. Connectivity, safety, and connection with nature are also outcomes that are a high priority for us.
Public Realm
The public realm encompasses the streets, roads, paths, and parks in our cities, towns and villages where communities come together and public life occurs.
At Greenwood Associates, we believe well-designed public spaces can enhance the connection between people and places, making where we live and work more accessible, comfortable and enjoyable to be in. We pride ourselves on creating sustainable and ecologically friendly spaces that truly work for people and have a distinct sense of place. Our design process involves gaining as much social, historical and ecological context to ensure cultural sensitivity, strong social links and response to the natural landscape and its resources. We also collaborating with Iwi and district communities to ensure all stakeholders are part of the design process
Public Realm
The public realm encompasses the streets, roads, paths, and parks in our cities, towns and villages where communities come together and public life occurs.
At Greenwood Associates, we believe making places for people in the public realm is an art form. Good public realm and urban design can enhance the connection between people and places, making the places where we live and work more accessible, comfortable and enjoyable to be in. We pride ourselves in creating sustainable and ecologically friendly spaces that truly work for people and have a distinct sense of place. Our design process involves gaining as much social, historical and ecological understanding of a site as possible to ensure our spaces are culturally sensitive, have strong social links and respond to the natural landscape and its resources. We also have particular expertise in collaborating with other professionals in multidisciplinary teams and to ensure buildings, spaces and landscapes are cohesive and contribute to a common goal.
Retail Developments
A retail development is a type of land development designed with the intent of selling consumer goods or services to customers.
This can include individual shops, blocks of multiple shops, shopping centers and malls of all sizes. The design and execution of a retail development is crucial to its commercial success, as it can help establish a strong image, attract shoppers and motivate buying. Greenwood Associates understand this and have collaborated with some of New Zealand’s top architects to create several very prosperous retail developments in the past.
Retail Developments
A retail development is a type of land development designed with the intent of selling consumer goods or services to customers.
This can include individual shops, blocks of multiple shops, shopping centers and malls of all sizes. The design and execution of a retail development is crucial to its commercial success, as it can help establish a strong image, attract shoppers and motivate buying. Greenwood Associates understand this and have collaborated with some of New Zealand’s top architects to create several very prosperous retail developments in the past.
Apartments
Multi-storey apartment developments can often present urban design and landscape challenges as a result of maximizing building coverage on sites.
We believe the minimal land left over for landscape amenity should be carefully designed to achieve the greatest impact for the space available. Whether this is in tight places with limited solar access, poor soil conditions or vertical solutions are required Greenwood Associates are used to solving problems creatively and the landscapes that result are safe, robust and attractive.
Native Restoration
Native revegetation is the term used when mass planting New Zealand native plant species to recreate a natural bush environment, where no bush existed previously.
There are many reasons to carry out native revegetation including conservation, erosion control, preservation of bush remnants, encouraging native birds, weed control and preventing fertiliser runoffs into streams. Sites designated for native revegetation are often naturally defined areas such as gullies, steep faces, stream edges, extensions of existing bush remnants, wetlands and flood-prone flats. Greenwood Associates have been designing and supervising the implementation of revegetation planting for over 20 years. We believe in specifying plants that are specific and relevant to each site by identifying existing plant species that are growing naturally on the site and in similar habitats within close proximity to the site. Over the years we have developed our selection of proven pioneer species that are very hardy and establish a good canopy cover that restricts weed growth and promotes natural regeneration. Weeds are a major threat when planting natives and may affect the scale and timing of the implementation of a project. We supply clear plant installation methodology and implementation and maintenance specifications with all of our revegetation planting plans along with weed and pest control plans to ensure maximum plant survival rates.
Native Restoration
Native revegetation is the term used when mass planting New Zealand native plant species to recreate a natural bush environment, where no bush existed previously.
There are many reasons to carry out native revegetation including conservation, erosion control, preservation of bush remnants, encouraging native birds, weed control and preventing fertiliser runoffs into streams. Sites designated for native revegetation are often naturally defined areas such as gullies, steep faces, stream edges, extensions of existing bush remnants, wetlands and flood-prone flats. Greenwood Associates have been designing and supervising the implementation of revegetation planting for over 20 years. We believe in specifying plants that are specific and relevant to each site by identifying existing plant species that are growing naturally on the site and in similar habitats within close proximity to the site. Over the years we have developed our selection of proven pioneer species that are very hardy and establish a good canopy cover that restricts weed growth and promotes natural regeneration. Weeds are a major threat when planting natives and may affect the scale and timing of the implementation of a project. We supply clear plant installation methodology and implementation and maintenance specifications with all of our revegetation planting plans along with weed and pest control plans to ensure maximum plant survival rates.
Childcare & Kindergarten
The importance of play is a primary design driver for us at Greenwood Associates when creating landscapes for childcare facilities.
Play allows children to use their creativity while developing their imagination, dexterity, and physical, cognitive and emotional strength. Play is important to healthy brain development and it is through play that children at a very early age engage and learn to interact with the world and landscape around them. We try to assist children’s curiosity about nature by incorporating natural play features that play a central role in creating rich and stimulating outdoor experiences. We go beyond simply planting trees, shrubs, and flowers and attempt to balance natural and built features to create a landscape that is safe, nurtures and improves children’s health and well-being and enhances the use of the outdoors for an inquiry into nature and play-based learning.
Tourism
Landscape architecture is playing a growing role in tourism developments around the world.
With outstanding natural environments such as ours in New Zealand balancing preservation and access is a very important factor for designers and operators to consider. At Greenwood Associates, we know the natural environment we live in intimately and believe the design and execution of a tourism amenities is crucial to the preservation of the environment, visitor experience, and commercial success. Our priority is for visitors to be able connect with the environment but not damage or cause harm to it.
Tourism
Landscape architecture is playing a growing role in tourism developments around the world.
With outstanding natural environments such as ours in New Zealand balancing preservation and access is a very important factor for designers and operators to consider. At Greenwood Associates, we know the natural environment we live in intimately and believe the design and execution of a tourism amenities is crucial to the preservation of the environment, visitor experience, and commercial success. Our priority is for visitors to be able connect with the environment but not damage or cause harm to it.
Healthcare
The landscape setting is an important part of any healthcare development project as a sensitively designed landscape can provide significant benefits for patients suffering from physical or mental illness.
At Greenwood Associates, we believe well-designed landscape elements such as inviting, easily accessible building entries, tranquil and relaxing outdoor spaces and edible gardens. These elements can provide preventive health benefits and provide therapeutic relief to patients aiding healing and boosting morale. Our approach to healthcare landscape architecture is to provide attractive, highly accessible, safe and therapeutic landscapes and spaces with the goal of contributing to a healing environment. With over 30 years of experience in landscape architecture, we have the ability to cover all aspects of healthcare landscape architecture, from master-planning multifaceted sites to the intricate design of individual gardens.
Parks & Public Space
We create parks and public spaces that consciously balance the needs of communities and the environment whilst maintaining or enhancing the identity of a place.
We give careful consideration to cultural, environmental, social and financial sensitivities to ensure our work is timeless and functional. We believe it is vital to truly understand who will be using the spaces we create and always strive to maintain or enhance a park or public space’s connection with nature. We achieve this through practical research such as site use and function studies, public consultation, population statistics, ecological studies and spending as much time as possible at a site, getting a true feel for the place and its people.
Parks & Public Space
We create parks and public spaces that consciously balance the needs of communities and the environment whilst maintaining or enhancing the identity of a place.
We give careful consideration to cultural, environmental, social and financial sensitivities to ensure our work is timeless and functional. We believe it is vital to truly understand who will be using the spaces we create and always strive to maintain or enhance a park or public space’s connection with nature. We achieve this through practical research such as site use and function studies, public consultation, population statistics, ecological studies and spending as much time as possible at a site, getting a true feel for the place and its people.
Transport
We provide landscape architectural services for transportation projects that consciously balance the needs of people and the environment.
Our team members have experience in working on a range of transport projects including roading, cycleways, walkways, and aviation. We take a practical yet innovative design approach and our extensive experience working as part of multidisciplinary project teams has led us to be considerate and constructive when collaborating with others. We understand that the design of transportation infrastructure projects is often driven from an engineering standpoint (be it civil, structural or traffic) and are adept at recognizing our changeable roll on any given project team. We are committed to delivering projects on time and budget and delivering landscapes that stand the test of time both conceptually and functionally.
Transport
We provide landscape architectural services for transportation projects that consciously balance the needs of people and the environment.
Our team members have experience in working on a range of transport projects including roading, cycleways, walkways, and aviation. We take a practical yet innovative design approach and our extensive experience working as part of multidisciplinary project teams has led us to be considerate and constructive when collaborating with others. We understand that the design of transportation infrastructure projects is often driven from an engineering standpoint (be it civil, structural or traffic) and are adept at recognizing our changeable roll on any given project team. We are committed to delivering projects on time and budget and delivering landscapes that stand the test of time both conceptually and functionally.
Private homes
We have been designing unique, beautiful and functional residential landscapes, gardens and pools in New Zealand for over 20 years.
Our experience in the residential sector enables us to provide our clients with tried and tested design and advice, thoughtfully tailored to their individual needs. From starting out as a grassroots design and build company we have progressed to working on some of the most iconic and valuable properties in the country and we are passionate about projects of all scales.
We go to great lengths to understand our client’s priorities at any level and the results of our projects truly speak for themselves. We relish the opportunity to work creatively and innovatively on our residential projects whilst our experience in the commercial and public realm ensures all of our landscapes are highly functional and stand the test of time. Going into any new project meeting the goals of the client is our top priority, we are well versed in establishing and understanding their needs quickly and providing a product specific to them and their property. We have great relationships with suppliers and contractors in the residential industry and love to share those with our clients to ensure we are creating landscapes that work for people’s lifestyles.
Private homes
We have been designing unique, beautiful and functional residential landscapes, gardens and pools in New Zealand for over 20 years.
Our experience in the residential sector enables us to provide our clients with tried and tested design and advice, thoughtfully tailored to their individual needs. From starting out as a grassroots design and build company we have progressed to working on some of the most iconic and valuable properties in the country and we are passionate about projects of all scales.
We go to great lengths to understand our client’s priorities at any level and the results of our projects truly speak for themselves. We relish the opportunity to work creatively and innovatively on our residential projects whilst our experience in the commercial and public realm ensures all of our landscapes are highly functional and stand the test of time. Going into any new project meeting the goals of the client is our top priority, we are well versed in establishing and understanding their needs quickly and providing a product specific to them and their property. We have great relationships with suppliers and contractors in the residential industry and love to share those with our clients to ensure we are creating landscapes that work for people’s lifestyles.
Social Housing
Our landscapes for social housing consciously balance the needs of people providing safe, beautiful places for communities to live.
Greenwood has a very long track record with social housing nationally and is very proud to be the author of the design guidelines for Kianga Ora. Our design approach gives careful consideration to cultural, political, social and financial sensitivities to ensure our work is well integrated into the communities and functional in its implementation and future use. Our extensive experience working as part of multidisciplinary project teams on a wide range of housing projects has led us to be considerate and constructive when collaborating with other consultants with our primary focus focusing on delivering projects efficiently.