Tag: Landscape
Coastal communities
How are Australia’s numerous coastal populations planning for rising sea levels and coping with development pressures?
Bloom exhibition opens in Canberra
Landscape Architecture Australia‘s Cassie Hansen visits the Bloom: Healthy Spaces exhibition in Canberra.
Open House Perth
A free event enabling people to explore Perth buildings normally closed to the public.
Balfour Street Pocket Park
This park by Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture uses materials that celebrate the character of the site.
Bowen Place Crossing
The National Capital Authority invited five interdisciplinary teams to create a proposal for Bowen Place Crossing in Canberra.
Street 11
AILA Victoria’s Street 11 competition, which aims to raise the profile of landscape architecture among local councils.
Bloom – Project Themes
Play Outdoor areas that promote free, spontaneous play provide health benefits to children and adults alike. In these environments, children are able to refine important …
Bloom – Healthy Spaces
With obesity and depression increasing within the Australian population, are built environment professionals doing enough to prioritize people’s health in their projects?
Designing for Living
Occupational therapists give architects & designers insight to the needs of children, the elderly & people with impairments.
Vale John Foss
The landscape architecture community mourns the sudden, tragic loss of John Arthur Foss in January 2012.
Gardens at Lake Como on the road to Milan
It’s not all hard work at the Milan Furniture Fair. Jan Henderson gets away from the city bustle to visit these gardens.
Urban Rain: Stormwater as Resource
Jackie Brookner’s book looks at two installations that collect and filter rainwater.
Paul Bangay’s Guide to Plants
Landscape designer Paul Bangay takes us through his personal process of choosing plants that suit the nature of the project.
2011 Rodney Beames Memorial Award winner
Susie Quinton has won the 2011 Rodney Beames Memorial award for her project Moving Galleries.
Withycombe and Bisley open gardens
To celebrate Patrick White’s one hundredth birthday, his childhood garden will be open to the public along with two other gardens.
Barangaroo redux
Lee Stickells outlines the debates surrounding the Barangaroo development.
Ellenbrook Estate – revisited
With a number of landscape architecture firms behind its design, Western Australia’s Ellenbrook Estate is worth reflecting on.
Living Architecture: Green Roofs and Walls
Graeme Hopkins and Christine Goodwin’s book highlights green roof and living wall projects in Australian and New Zealand.
Man Made Design – From Scape Comes Form
Architect and landscape architect Jeppe Aagaard Andersen will talk about how strategies can come from the poetics of scape.
AILDM National Design Awards
Entries are open for the 2012 AILDM National Design Awards.
