Landscape Architecture Australia, May 2011
Landscape Architecture AustraliaReviews, news and opinions on landscape architecture, urban design and planning.
Perspective
Learning from natural disasters
Mandy Rounsefell discusses how we can learn from the natural disasters of the summer of 2011.
Report
Urban forests in the new carbon economy
What will carbon-neutral cities look like? The Regenesis Project in western Sydney suggests that cities will be remarkably greener.
Features
Great Northern Basalt Place
Great Northern Basalt Place by Adrian Marshall was highly commended in the 2011 Unlandscaped awards.
Plastic Soup
Plastic Soup by Pod 4/5 Design was highly commended in the 2011 Unlandscaped awards.
Hargreaves Mall
Rush\Wright Associates hopes this pedestrian boulevard revitalizes the social and economic capacity of Bendigo.
Review
NGA Australian Garden
McGregor Coxall’s Australian Garden at the National Gallery of Australia is a complex and controversial project.
Trainshed Way
Hassell’s Trainshed Way shared space provokes questions about the design of such environments.
Practice
Share the road
Julian Bull discusses shared spaces, where city revitalization is merged with landscape design.
Book reviews
Urban Green
The beautiful promenades, residential gardens and open spaces of Europe’s inner cities are the subject of this German book.
De Urbanisten’s water square
This book follows Florian Boer and his team De Urbanisten as they work on the first water square in The Netherlands.
Projects
Melbourne’s City Square
The City Square is finding its place after years of additions and alterations and not living up to expectations.
More articles
Eco-residential school project in India
A team of thirteen built environment professionals spend three weeks in India creating a masterplan for a self-sufficient eco-residential school.
Order of Australia award recipients
Landscape architects Ian Oelrichs and Marion Blackwell were recognized in this year’s Australia Day Order of Australia honours.
The Road Trauma Memorial Project
The Road Trauma Memorial by Claire Martin, Rowan McLachlan, Saskia Schut and Tyson Lundbech won the 2011 Unlandscaped award.
The Suez Canal: An Excavation
The Suez Canal: An Excavation by Brooke Madill was highly commended at the 2011 Unlandscaped awards.
Asia-Pacific landscape architects meet
This year’s IFLA Asia-Pacific Congress highlighted richness, diversity and boldness of landscape cultures.
From land to landscape, space to place
An excerpt from Professor Catherin Bull’s keynote address at the IFLA APR Congress on Hospitality: Interact with Land.
2010 AILA New South Wales Awards
The 2010 AILA New South Wales Awards were announced on 9 December 2010.
Profile: National Capital Authority
The National Capital Authority is entrusted to create a place of significance for Australia.
Cities for People by Jan Gehl
Emily Potter looks at Gehl’s book on making cities more people friendly.
Australia’s Remarkable Trees
Author Richard Allen and photographer Kimbal Baker present fify of Australia’s oldest, largest and most unusual trees.
The Ethics of Earth Art
Amanda Boetzkes’ book explores the development of the earth art movement.
Outdoor products
The latest outdoor products chosen by the editor of Landscape Architecture Australia.