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Queenstown Airport

Arrowtown-based landscape architecture firm Blakely Wallace designed the landscaping around Queenstown Airport, which won two awards at the New Zealand Architecture Awards in 2010. The mass plantings of native and exotic species and their muted colourings complement the Central Otago landscape.

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Kerryn Pollock, Landscape architecture – Modern landscape architecture, 1960s to 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/42924/queenstown-airport (accessed 4 June 2026).

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