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Fred Tschopp's plan for Mt Albert Domain, 1929

Fred Tschopp's first landscape architecture project in New Zealand was developing plans for various Mt Albert Borough Council reserves. His plan for the Mt Albert Domain (now called Owairaka Domain) consisted of heavy planting around and through the cone of the mountain, which had been extensively quarried, with sport and recreation areas on either side of the trees. The domain is largely the same in the 2000s. 

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Reference: 121R-16

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Kerryn Pollock, Landscape architecture – The emergence of the landscape architect, 1930s to 1960s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/42901/fred-tschopps-plan-for-mt-albert-domain-1929 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 1 October 2013, updated 26 March 2015.