Scott Hawken is a landscape architect, urban designer and landscape archaeologist. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide.
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The New Chinatown: Sydney’s southern CBD
The cluster of mega-developments emerging at the southern end of Sydney’s central business district.
Rocky history: Barangaroo Point
As the “natural” sandstone headland and park at Sydney’s Barangaroo nears completion, initial designs appear to have been compromised.
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.
The University of Sydney
The reshaped public Domains of the Camperdown and Darlington campuses are the outcome of a 2003 international competition.
Sydney Olympic Park 2030 The city in a park
Initially hampered by its mono-functional program, the Sydney Olympic Park is only now beginning to resemble a durable urban precinct.
Walla Mulla Park
Terragram’s redesign of this inner-Sydney park demonstrates that there is more than one way to occupy public space.
Ballast Point Park
Occupying the former Caltex site on the Birchgrove peninsula this new park is raw, challenging and wildly beautiful.
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.
Edward Burtynsky: Minescapes
Requisite viewing for the landscape architect these works capture the precarious synthesis of the natural and the artificial without judgment.