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Originally inward-looking and with a narrow public street address, the centre now opens up to its surrounds and generates a welcoming atmosphere.

The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland

The inventive refurbishment of an existing performance venue extends the community’s opportunities and opens up the growing suburb’s civic heart.

Public / cultural
The first impression is one of clear sightlines and generous spaces in which abundant light and fresh air welcome Central Station’s commuters.

Sydney Metro Upgrade of Central Station

A long-awaited expansion to Central Station’s Northern Concourse reworks decades of disparate elements to deliver clear wayfinding, strong civic scale and ample natural light.

Public / cultural
The plaza sits between Mirvac’s EY Centre by FJMT, Lendlease’s 180 George Street by Foster and Partners, and Studio Hollenstein’s Jacksons on George, whose roof terrace is at a similar height to the plaza’s building terrace.

George Street Plaza by Adjaye Associates with Daniel Boyd

Adjaye Associates with Daniel Boyd

In Sydney’s CBD, a small, collaborative project makes a significant contribution to the city’s public spaces, encouraging us to consider multiple perspectives and our own place in the universe.

Public / cultural
Visitors clamber through the fantastically twisty timber treehouse at the Ian Potter Children’s Wild Play Garden.

Wild Senses: The Ian Potter Children’s Wild Play Garden

ASPECT Studios, Botanic Gardens and Centennial Parklands

A new garden in Sydney’s Centennial Parklands celebrates learning through nature play, immersing children in habitats with a roguish sense of adventure.

Landscape / urban
Aerial perspective of Sydney Park.

Waste not, want not: Sydney Park

Occupying a former landfill site, the Sydney Park Water Re-use Project by Turf Design Studio and Environmental Partnership is an impressive fusion of design, science, art and ecology.

Landscape / urban
Excavated sandstone blocks are used to re-create the pre-colonial landform of the Barangaroo Reserve site, a former shipyard.

A naturalized landscape: Barangaroo Reserve

Bruce Mackenzie examines the design thinking, vegetation, soil science and collaboration that created Barangaroo Reserve.

Landscape / urban
The path system allows for unexpected juxtapositions.

Strangely familiar: Mount Penang Gardens

The Mount Penang Gardens are considered an enduring and radical contribution to public garden design in Australia.

Landscape / urban
A composition of Washington palms perforates the paved area at the entrance to the pool.

Prince Alfred Park

Sue Barnsley Design and Neeson Murcutt Architects’ upgrade of Sydney’s Prince Alfred Park + Pool.

Landscape / urban
Robust seating walls, lawn embankments and park facilities have created a popular new waterfront.

The Ponds

A sustainable residential development with landscape architecture by Clouston Associates.

Landscape / urban, Residential
Community group VISION 2020 collaborates with John Mongard Landscape Architects onsite through a process running that has been running over six years.

Bingara’s living classroom

John Mongard Landscape Architects and the NSW Bingara community strategize to future-proof the town.

Landscape / urban
The perpetual gridlock of Parramatta Road as it currently exists.

Adrian McGregor: Strategies for Parramatta Road

A conversation from the 2013 Urban Issue of Landscape Architecture Australia.

Landscape / urban
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
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
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
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 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
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
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