21st century renewal

Wellington’s Waitangi Park – transformed in a collaboration between landscape architects Wraight & Associates and Athfield Architects – combines environmentally-sound urban redevelopment with recreation, and includes water purifying ponds, man-made wetlands and a concrete skate park. Australasian architecture magazine Monument writes: “For decades the harbour-front site was a car park known as the Chaffers. Working with specialist engineering and environmental consultants, Waitangi Park is now a model for the future of urban renewal and one of the first of its scale to implement a number of environmental engineering features. The wetlands of native reeds and sedges filter out pollutants through natural processes.”