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The underground tunnels provide access to Balls Head Reserve.

The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability

A once inaccessible Sydney site is repurposed by Hassell as an environmentally sensitive community space.

Landscape / urban
Bars and facilities are pushed to the edge of the foyer space.

Hamer Hall

ARM’s revision of Melbourne’s monumental Hamer Hall, reviewed by Paul Walker for Artichoke.

Interiors
8.5m-wide footpaths now run along either side of the 13m-wide road.

Flinders Street (Qld) revitalization

A redevelopment of Townsville’s main street by Gamble McKinnon Green captures its historic character.

Landscape / urban
Hamer Hall’s riverside levels are cast as a virtual proscenium, with a casual pattern of drapery in its window shaping that seems pulled aside to reveal the life in the foyers and bars.

Hamer Hall

ARM Architecture makes a range of functional improvements to Melbourne’s Hamer Hall.

Interiors
Lewis’s lettering is engraved 8 mm into the granite benches.

Residence: a public artwork in Randwick

Ruark Lewis, Terragram

A carved narrative by artist Ruark Lewis and Terragram landscape architects.

Landscape / urban
A semicircular swing set parallels the nearby grass mound.

Blaxland Riverside Playground

JMD Design creates an invigorating playground at Sydney Olympic Park with moulded terrain and supersized equipment.

Landscape / urban
A water wheel allows kids to control the routing of water.

Darling Quarter playground

Sydney’s award-winning Darling Quarter playground by Aspect Studios.

Landscape / urban
The northern entry to the information pod.

Noosa Junction Station

A Sunshine Coast transport hub by Bark Design Architects, Guymer Bailey Landscape and SKM in the relaxed Noosa spirit.

Landscape / urban
The rail bridge runs above the Merri Creek and the cycling path.

Clifton Hill Railway Project

A new rail bridge, with pedestrian paths, in Melbourne’s Clifton Hill transforms a formerly grimy space into a public park.

Landscape / urban
Boomerang-like seats cater for large groups and allow individuals personal space.

Walla Mulla Park

Terragram’s redesign of this inner-Sydney park demonstrates that there is more than one way to occupy public space.

Landscape / urban
This story wall, one of four at Jack Evans Boat Harbour, will contain indigenous artwork and information panels.

Jack Evans Boat Harbour

Aspect Studios creates a civic waterfront parklands for the Tweed Shire community.

Landscape / urban
Young gum trees surround a circular sandpit in Preston Library’s forecourt.

Debneys Park and Preston Library

There is much for children and young people to enjoy in Site Office’s collaborative reimagining of these two public spaces.

Landscape / urban
The waterpark, with its central waterfall, is a popular destination for children.

Robelle Domain

Vee Design’s twenty-hectare parkland in Springfield, Queensland acts as a community hub and a child-friendly playground.

Landscape / urban
Flying metal stair running between the foreshore and a concrete cliff.

Ballast Point Park

Remnants of the site’s industrial history colour McGregor Coxall and Choi Ropiha’s Sydney harbourside park.

Landscape / urban
The bridge offers pedestrians a place to sit, rest, walk and view.

Zoetrope Bridge and terrain generator

A bridge and a fabricated concrete creek edge by studio SMLWRLD reveal the benefits of collaborative work.

Landscape / urban
The town of Claremont allocated 30 percent of the site to public open space.

Lakeway drive-in redevelopment

Hassell transforms a former drive-in theatre into a residential site, retaining valued bushland and parkland.

Landscape / urban
The shade structure is tall enough to be seen from either end of the site.

Glenelg St bus stop

Deicke Richards has created a generous shade structure that provides a transition space for pedestrians.

Landscape / urban
The information hub sign.

Falls Creek wayfinding signage

Büro North’s tree-like wayfinding signage system at Falls Creek helps visitors navigate their way around in all seasons.

Education, Landscape / urban
The palimpsest of the site’s past and future is exposed to leave us to think about our treatment of heritage.

Ballast Point Park

Occupying the former Caltex site on the Birchgrove peninsula this new park is raw, challenging and wildly beautiful.

Landscape / urban
A detachable stage sits inside the red-striped circle.

Franklin Wharf improvements

Oculus explores how Franklin Wharf is, and could be, simultaneously occupied by members of the public and local dock workers.

Landscape / urban
The generous shade structure opens out onto the lake swimming pool.

Regatta Walk Foreshore

This lakeside project provides a quiet place to enjoy the water, without overindulging in architectural statements.

Landscape / urban
The approach to Wynyard Quarter via Wynyard Crossing, an interim bridge linking the Viaduct with Wynyard Quarter's Jellicoe Street, North Wharf promenade and the Viaduct Events Centre.

Down by the water

35 resource consents, 45 building consents, 2 district plan changes, 16 months of construction and bam! Hello waterfront.

Landscape / urban
Victoria Square’s arbours are designed to connect and enclose the space.

Victoria Square masterplan

Long viewed as dysfunctional and underdeveloped, Adelaide’s central public space gets a thorough collaborative makeover.

Landscape / urban
The southern end of the square includes the Mosaic Garden and a wetlands area.

Victoria Square Tarndanyangga

Matt Davis comments on Adelaide’s latest urban regeneration project.

Landscape / urban
Four mounds that Play multiple roles have been placed onto the flat ground plane.

Sydney Park Playground

The Comfortably Chaotic character of this playground works within the overall context of a rolling parkland.

Landscape / urban
Undulating lawns create hidden places of refuge and elevated places of prospect, allowing the individual to find comfort in both relaxation and play.

Northshore Riverside Park

The psychology of imaginative play and the spirit of the river’s edge are explored in this new park in Brisbane.

Landscape / urban