Landscape Architecture Australia, November 2012
Landscape Architecture AustraliaReviews, news and opinions on landscape architecture, urban design and planning.
Practice
Liesl Malan Landscape Architects
The Bendigo-based practice of Liesl Malan Landscape Architects has a strong connection to community.
Book reviews
The Spotter’s Guide to Urban Engineering
Dealing with the essential infrastructure that underpins “modern life.”
Flood Country
An environmental history of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia’s best-known river system.
More articles
Biennial against biennial
Sigrid Ehrmann reports on the 7th European Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona (27–29 September 2012).
Aesthetics in the landscape
Translating aesthetics into design can change people’s responses to their environment, argues Stephen Perry.
Landscape architecture in the Chinese context
China’s relatively new profession of landscape architecture is finding its feet, writes Marc Deuschle.
Kangaroo Point Park’s artwork
To mark Queensland’s 150th year, a new public park has been created, with artworks by Nicole Voevodin-Cash.
Flinders Street (Qld) revitalization
A redevelopment of Townsville’s main street by Gamble McKinnon Green captures its historic character.
The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability
A once inaccessible Sydney site is repurposed by Hassell as an environmentally sensitive community space.
2012 AILA Australian Medal for Landscape Architecture
Walyjala-jala buru jayida jarringun buru Nyamba Yawuru ngan-ga mirli mirli, (Planning for the future: Yawuru Cultural Management Plan) by UDLA
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards of Excellence: Design
Rio Tinto Naturescape, Kings Park & Botanic Gardens by Plan (E)
2012 AILA Edna Walling National Award for Residential Designed Landscapes: Design
Roogulli (Bywong NSW) by Fresh Landscape Design
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Design
Clifton Hill Railway Project Landscape by Jeavons Landscape Architects
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Design
Jack Evans Boat Harbour, Tweed Heads by Aspect Studios
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Design
SW1 by Andrew Green (formerly Gamble McKinnon Green)
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Design
Pirrama Park by Aspect Studios
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Design
Mueller Park Universal Playspace by Ecoscape (Australia) Pty Ltd
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Design
Robelle Domain by Vee Design
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Design
The Australian Garden and New Entry at the National Gallery of Australia by McGregor Coxall
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Design
Wild Sea Exhibit, Melbourne Zoo by Taylor Cullity Lethlean
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Design
Humanities and Science Campus (Parliamentary Triangle, Canberra) by Spackman Mossop Michaels
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence: Planning
Bingara and the Living Classroom by John Mongard Landscape Architects
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Planning
Kimberley LNG Precinct Strategic Assessment: Ethnobiological Report, James Prices Point by UDLA
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Planning
Bonner P-6 School & Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islander Learning & Cultural Centre by Harris Hobbs
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Planning
Bendigo Botanic Gardens Master Plan by City of Bendigo
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Land Management
Lollipop Creek by Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape Architecture
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Planning
Clarence River Way Masterplan by Clouston Associates
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Research and Communication
LESS (Local-area Envisioning and Sustainability scoring System) by Hassell
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Research and Communication
Green Infrastructure by Oxigen Landscape Architects, Urban Design
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Research and Communication
A comparative study of Melbourne’s freeway planting designs – implications for biodiversity conservation by Zoë Metherell
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Urban Design
Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga Urban Regeneration Project by Taylor Cullity Lethlean
2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award: Urban Design
Chinatown Public Domain Plan by Spackman Mossop Michaels
2012 AILA National Awards – Response
We live in one of the world’s most urbanized nations. Nearly eight out of ten Australians live in just seventeen cities hugging the narrow coastal strip …
2012 AILA National Awards – Response
This year’s AILA national awards have acknowledged twenty-four projects across Australia and two visionaries within the field of landscape architecture. The jury of five was assigned …
Roma Street Parkland
A decade after completion, this sixteen-hectare parkland is still making a significant contribution life in Brisbane.
Greg Grabasch answers the Kevin Taylor Questionnaire
UDLA director Greg Grabasch takes on The Kevin Taylor Questionnaire.