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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 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 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
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
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
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
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
The horizontal planes of the house contrast with the ragged verticality of the nearby eucalyptus grove.

The garden at Medhurst

A contemporary take on modernist landscape design by Tract Consultants in Victoria’s Yarra Valley.

Landscape / urban
The entrance sign to Williams Landing replicates a large riveted aileron jutting out of the ground, referencing the site’s aeronautical history.

Williams Landing

A new residential development on the site of a former airfield base in south-west Melbourne.

Landscape / urban, Residential
Planting is layered and massed, using indigenous species.

Saltwater Coast

Tract Consultants used landscape as the starting point for this new residential subdivision.

Landscape / urban, Residential
Steps, niches and platforms provide for walking, climbing and sitting.

Stawell Steps

Hiroshi Nakao and Monash Architecture

A brick spillway by Monash Architecture and Hiroshi Nakao reflects rhythms of human occupation.

Landscape / urban
Howard Place, Bendigo, by Williams Boag Architects.

Howard Place

A lightweight civic structure by Williams Boag Architects is embraced by the Bendigo locals.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The central hill, planted with succulents, has a wisteria-covered structure as the central focus.

131 Queen Street rooftop

A rooftop garden by Bent Architecture provides a welcoming retreat from the hustle and bustle of Melbourne city life below.

Landscape / urban