Tag: Landscape

Avant Gardeners
Discussion | Cassie Hansen | 23 Mar 2012

Avant Gardeners

Avant Gardeners looks at fifty exciting and innovative landscape architects and garden designers from around the world.

Young gum trees surround a circular sandpit in Preston Library’s forecourt.
Projects | Julian Bull | 13 Mar 2012

Debneys Park and Preston Library

There is much for children and young people to enjoy in Site Office’s collaborative reimagining of these two public spaces.

Sunburnt – Landscape Architecture in Australia
Discussion | Claire Martin | 8 Mar 2012

Sunburnt

SueAnne Ware and Julian Raxworthy’s book looks at the work of 13 Australian landscape design firms between 1995 and 2009.

Narrabeen Lagoon Multi-Use Trail by Aspect Studios.
Industry News | 28 Feb 2012

Aspect Studios’ Narrabeen Lagoon trail

Aspect Studios has designed a new multi-use trail for Narrabeen Lagoon in Sydney.

The waterpark, with its central waterfall, is a popular destination for children.
Projects | John Mongard | 27 Feb 2012

Robelle Domain

Vee Design’s twenty-hectare parkland in Springfield, Queensland acts as a community hub and a child-friendly playground.

Protesters at Tahrir Square in Cairo, 8 July 2011.
Discussion | Sigrid Ehrmann | 24 Feb 2012

Rethinking public space

The 2011 IFLA World Congress looked at the resilience of cities and public spaces.

The winner of the Urban Realities competition, Site 9 by Dirtbuoy (team 5).
Discussion | Adrian Marshall | 23 Feb 2012

Urban Realities – design challenge

One hundred designers gathered at Melbourne’s Docklands to build ten new public space projects in just three days.

Flying metal stair running between the foreshore and a concrete cliff.
Projects | Katrina Simon | 21 Feb 2012

Ballast Point Park

Remnants of the site’s industrial history colour McGregor Coxall and Choi Ropiha’s Sydney harbourside park.

Community engagement was key in creating Edible Outdoor Rooms.
Industry News | 18 Feb 2012

Edible Outdoor Rooms installation

This installation in Surry Hills, Sydney, aims to create a community-focused and pedestrian-friendly public space.

The bridge offers pedestrians a place to sit, rest, walk and view.
Projects | Dimity Reed | 15 Feb 2012

Zoetrope Bridge and terrain generator

A bridge and a fabricated concrete creek edge by studio SMLWRLD reveal the benefits of collaborative work.

“Joy is not in things; it is in us,” Richard Wagner.
Discussion | Claire Martin | 15 Feb 2012

The creation of place

Placemaking is not simply about reconnecting people with place, it’s about reconnecting people with each other.

Bradley's Head Fort area at Sydney Harbour, a historically significant site.
Talks | 14 Feb 2012

Landscape conservation design

A discussion about the nature of Australian and English landscapes and how to work with historic landscapes.

Products on display at the ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo.
Archive | 13 Feb 2012

Events to note

Events from the November 2011 issue of Landscape Architecture Australia.

Mandy Rounsefell.
Archive | Mandy Rounsefell | 10 Feb 2012

Perspective: Reflections

Mandy Rounsefell’s introduction to the November 2011 issue of Landscape Architecture Australia, her last as AILA president.

SW1 contributes to the renewal and activation of Brisbane’s inner-urban fabric, creating a subtropical urban place that is sustainable.
Projects | Sarah Gaventa | 7 Feb 2012

SW1

Gamble McKinnon Green’s SW1 is a new community model for inner-urban living in Brisbane.

Laboratory flasks house impaired botanical seedlings.
Discussion | Natalie Ward | 3 Feb 2012

Janet Laurence’s Waiting

Test tubes, petri dishes and an “intensive care unit” form part of Janet Laurence’s installation dedicated to hospitalizing plants.

The UK pavilion, designed by Heatherwick Studio, consisted of 60,000 crystalline spines.
Discussion | Claire Martin | 2 Feb 2012

World Expo 2010 Shanghai

Millions of people visited the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, but did it live up to its theme Better City, Better Life?

Broadwater Parklands submitted by Gold Coast City Council.
Awards | 1 Feb 2012

Gold Coast Urban Design Awards 2011

The Gold Coast Urban Design Awards were announced on 23 September 2011.

Northern Expressway by Taylor Cullity Lethlean.
Awards | 1 Feb 2012

2011 AILA South Australia State Awards

The 2011 AILA South Australia State Awards were announced on 29 October 2011 at the Science Exchange, Adelaide.

Kangaroo Bay Urban Design Strategy by Inspiring Place.
Awards | 1 Feb 2012

2011 AILA Tasmania State Awards

The 2011 AILA Tasmania State Awards were announced on 17 November 2011 at the Hobart Function Centre, Elizabeth Street Pier.

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