National landscape architecture award for new school

&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;" alignright size-full wp-image-578" style&equals;"margin&colon; 5px&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;schoolnewsnz&period;fastrackdev&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2013&sol;07&sol;SN21---News--Award-winning-landscape-design-copy&period;jpg" alt&equals;"SN21---News--Award-winning-landscape-design-copy" width&equals;"200" height&equals;"150" &sol;>Baxter Design Group has won an Institute of Landscape Architecture &lpar;NZILA&rpar; Award of Excellence&comma; for its work on the Remarkables Primary School site in Queenstown&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <&excl;--more--> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Director Paddy Baxter said he was &&num;8220&semi;thrilled&&num;8221&semi; that the company had been recognised for its contemporary design work on a project that had had its challenges&comma; due to a small&comma; sloping site&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Like any school project the design was a collaborative effort with effectively three clients – the establishment board of trustees&comma; the teachers&&num;8217&semi; management team&comma; and ultimately the pupils&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s a tight site for a school with more than 460 children so we worked with the architects on a masterplan that maintained open playing space but still had smaller spaces within it for group play and outside learning&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The designs allowed for future expansion of the school and it&&num;8217&semi;s establishing well&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Remarkables Primary School principal Debbie Dickson said the school couldn&&num;8217&semi;t have hoped for a better design and implementation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>NZILA judges said the school design stood out because it &&num;8216&semi;paid homage&&num;8217&semi; to the landscape while adding significantly to the environment of learning&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;