The 2011 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Victorian awards were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 11 November.
The AILA Victoria Medal went to Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer for the National Arboretum Canberra. The project responds to the complexities of accommodating and positioning a rich tapestry of flora in a recently fire-ravaged site on the western side of Canberra. A thoughtful, careful project, with sensitively sited facilities and infrastructure, the master plan lays the foundations for a significant and diverse arboretum collection while successfully addressing the topographical and aesthetic characteristics and constraints of the site.
The winners were as follows.
The Victoria Medal for Landscape Architecture
- Taylor Cullity Lethlean in collaboration with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer for the National Arboretum Canberra
The AILA National Award for Leadership in Public Infrastructure – Design and Delivery
- VicRoads
AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award, Design
- Aspect Studios for 717 Bourke Street
AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Urban Design
- Jeavons Landscape Architects for Clifton Hill Railway Project Landscape
AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award Design, (Urban Design)
- Simon Ellis Landscape Architect in collaboration with Kerstin Thompson Architects and Fiona Harrisson for Monash University Museum of Art, Ian Potter Sculpture Court
- Outlines Landscape Architecture for Dandenong Education Precinct
AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award, Residential Design
- Tract Consultants for Medhurst
AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award, Planning
- Urbis for Living Links Master Plan Corridor Identification and Analysis
- A collaboration between Taylor Cullity Lethlean, David Hancocks and Peter Stroud for Ensessakotteh: Wildlife Rescue, Conservation and Education Centre
- Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape Architecture for Bells Beach Coastal Management Plan and Master Plan
AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award, Research and Communication
- Zoë Metherell and the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology for a comparative study of Melbourne’s freeway planting designs – implications for biodiversity conservation
AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Future Leaders Award Graduate
- Mathew Leigh Fithall for Vicscape, Victorian Landscape Architectural Atlas