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Y3 Garden by Dan Young Landscape Architect with Donovan Hill.

Y3 Garden by Dan Young Landscape Architect with Donovan Hill

This artfully composed outdoor room reconsiders the central courtyard of a seminal Queensland home, providing a dog-proof filter between the house and the street.

Landscape / urban
The ubiquitous backyard pool is reconsidered as an elevated outdoor room for retreat and recreation.

James Garden Pavilion by UME Architecture

Set in the subtropical verdure of Brisbane’s New Farm, this outdoor room is an ornamental frame of blockwork and foliage that contributes to an elevated, extroverted domestic life.

Landscape / urban
Casuarina Garden by Prandium Studio with Vokes and Peters.

Casuarina Garden by Prandium Studio with Vokes and Peters

The garden at a new house on the Tweed coast is a subtropical romance, with house and outdoor room lying in delicate concert.

Landscape / urban
The installation was adapted from an entry the design team submitted to the NGV Architecture Commission competition.

The Roundtable by Common and Enlocus

Enlocus, Common

Circular in more than one sense, The Roundtable demonstrates the power and potential of small, temporary public installations.

Landscape / urban
The Spanish Steps, one of the precinct’s two 
main pedestrian axes, is edged by masses of lush, textured plantings.

Restorative effects: Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS)

The design of the Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) by Hassell capitalizes on the benefits of greenery on health while laying down the framework for a successful future pedestrian precinct in inner-Brisbane.

Health, Landscape / urban
The 2018 NGV Architecture Commission Doubleground reflects on the fractured nature of memory and the iconic Roy Grounds-designed spaces of its location. Bottom left: Draped Seated Woman (1958), Henry Moore.

Memory lane: Doubleground

Muir, Openwork, Higgins Coatings

Marked by fluid boundaries and tilted terrain, Muir and Openwork’s installation is a potent reflection on architecture, experience and the relationship of memory to place.

Landscape / urban
Located behind Kerr and Knight’s Parliament House, the members’ annexe provides 102 offices for members of the Parliament of Victoria.

Parliament of Victoria, Members’ Annexe Building

A companion building delicately grafted into the garden setting of Victoria’s Parliament House realizes the long-anticipated extension to one of Melbourne’s most prominent civic landmarks.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The entry courtyard is a mix of shades of grey and green that highlights various foliage textures, with a ground layer of travertine pavers over sandstone river pebbles.

Foliage fervour: Bungalow Garden Rooms

A series of diverse, textural and dynamic “garden rooms” are the result of a close collaboration between architect and landscape architect and celebrate a life lived outdoors.

Landscape / urban
The Calyx forms a protective layer that unfolds to display a precious botanical interior.

Botanical enigma: The Calyx

The latest addition to the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, by PTW Architects with landscape architecture by McGregor Coxall, presents a striking geometric volume that is a protective layer and a lens that frames cinematic moments.

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
Frank Gehry’s Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at the UTS Business School borders The Goods Line to the south-west, attracting tourists to the area.

Walks of life: The Goods Line

Aspect Studios and CHROFI create an elevated, pedestrian-scale linear park in Sydney that maintains a constant level of public life.

Landscape / urban
The largest and most “designed” of the 2014 plantings took the form of a 2.4-kilometre-long spiral on the site of the former Moe public hospital.

Seeds of Change: Get Sunflowered

Office of Urban Transformations Research (OUTR), School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University

A project in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley offers a happy intervention to a region facing serious economic and social challenges.

Landscape / urban
In the central rain garden native sedges and grasses grow from a bed of local crushed granite. Artwork: Weeping Women by Sanné Mestrom, 2014 (sculptures).

The Ian Potter Sculpture Court

The Ian Potter Sculpture Court at Monash University’s Caulfield campus is a place of stillness and calm.

Landscape / urban
A plunge pool has been created from a concrete water tank craned onto the site and tiled in mosaics.

A new rural: Garland Garden

In the inner-city Brisbane suburb of New Farm, Landscapology presents a compelling vision of a new-century rural garden.

Landscape / urban, Residential
Lush, tropical vegetation is fast enveloping the steel arbour in the Secret Garden.

Lady Cilento Hospital landscapes

For Brisbane’s new Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, Conrad Gargett created an impressive suite of rooftop gardens full of drama and novelty.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
ARM’s work at Victoria’s Shrine of Remembrance, completed over two stages, involved the addition of four sunken courtyards that provide ingress to Visitor and Education Centres located beneath the Shrine.

Buried history: Galleries of Remembrance

ARM Architecture’s final additions to the Shrine of Remembrance offer a contemporary foil to the memorial’s classicism.

Public / cultural
The Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital occupies a prominent site in South Bank, Brisbane and serves as an urban counterpoint to the CBD.

Urban vigour: Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital

Brisbane’s new children’s hospital by Conrad Gargett Lyons is a powerful work of city making.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
A continuous landscape character is woven through the Fiona Stanley Hospital precinct, connecting courtyards, plazas, parklands, rooftops and bushland.

Botanical remedy: Fiona Stanley Hospital landscapes

Perth’s new hospital provides many well-crafted landscapes that service the needs and moods of patients and visitors alike.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Triangular geometries and concrete walls retain layers of rocky shale.

Banking biodiversity: The Australian Plantbank Garden

A new plant conservation laboratory presents an infrastructure that is critical to the task of banking Australia’s diverse flora.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
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
Entrance artwork by Jon Tarry, based on an insect chrysalis.

Child’s play: Rio Tinto Naturescape

Plan E has delivered a play area in Perth’s Kings Park with the specific aim of reconnecting children with nature.

Landscape / urban
A cascading steel mesh staircase is bolted onto a rock face adjacent to the MacKenzie River.

Of Stone and steel: MacKenzie Falls Precinct

A bold yet highly site-specific gesture rarely seen in Australian national parks and conservation areas.

Landscape / urban
Chevron-shaped window hoods identify the principal inpatient, acute care wards of the main hospital building at Perth’s Fiona Stanley Hospital.

Natural healing: Fiona Stanley Hospital

The Fiona Stanley Hospital employs evidence-based design principles to make tangible contributions to patients’ wellbeing.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
A crisp plane of paving is positioned within a square of four plane trees.

Zinc House

A contemporary pared-back garden that elides the distinction between gallery space and domestic living.

Landscape / urban
Lush tropical plantings at the rear of the garden are reflected on the pool’s surface.

Parsley Bay Garden

This lush Sydney villa garden is enriched by a collection of bespoke artworks.

Landscape / urban
Dramatic rocks tower from Circular ponds in the water feature by artist Ashika Ostapkowicz.

Mount Eliza Garden

An artful composition by landscape architects Sinatra Murphy on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

Landscape / urban
Aerial view over the entire Australian Garden near Cranbourne in Victoria.

The Australian Garden

A spectacular garden by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Paul Thompson explores the Australian identity.

Landscape / urban
PlantBank viewed from the north, with the administration wing on the left and the research wing on the right.

Australian PlantBank

BVN Donovan Hill gives architectural voice to a botanical ark in Mount Annan, New South Wales.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Looking back at the house from across the dam.

Roogulli

Fresh Landscape Design has transformed a drought-ravaged property outside of Canberra into a resilient garden.

Landscape / urban
Tamarama kiosk along the southern cliff aligns to the surfers’ boardwalk to the beach.

Tamarama Kiosk

Lahznimmo Architects, Waverley Council Recreation & Community

A pavilion by Lahznimmo Architects brings the glamour back to Tamarama beach in Sydney.

Hospitality, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural