Tag: Landscape

The underground tunnels provide access to Balls Head Reserve.
Projects | Joshua Zeunert | 20 Mar 2013

The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability

A once inaccessible Sydney site is repurposed by Hassell as an environmentally sensitive community space.

Hassell’s Urban Coffee Farm and Brew Bar at the 2013 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
Industry News | 6 Mar 2013

Urban Coffee Farm and Brew Bar

Hassell brings a pop-up coffee ‘plantation’ to the city for Melbourne’s Food and Wine Festival.

8.5m-wide footpaths now run along either side of the 13m-wide road.
Projects | Helen Norrie | 4 Mar 2013

Flinders Street (Qld) revitalization

A redevelopment of Townsville’s main street by Gamble McKinnon Green captures its historic character.

Enoch Liew with finalist Rhys Vincent and fellow students Josie Alvaro, Lauren Ryder and Bec Hood.
Industry News | 4 Mar 2013

Rodney Beames Memorial Award

Enoch Liew wins Rodney Beames Memorial Award for Art in Landscape Architecture.

A naturalistic path through a London Park.
Discussion | Stephen Perry | 28 Feb 2013

Aesthetics in the landscape

Translating aesthetics into design can change people’s responses to their environment, argues Stephen Perry.

A timber-clad wall continues from the inside to the outside.
Projects | Ted Quinton | 25 Feb 2013

Shelly Beach House

A Sydney house by Nathan Lester Architecture rests in dialogue with its setting.

The Atkinson Forum is one of the key public spaces within the academic core that is the focus of placemaking activity and campus planning.
Discussion | Andy Sharp | 14 Feb 2013

Interview: Andy Sharp / Curtin City

Andy Sharp of Curtin University talks about his role in the redevelopment of its campus as a major urban centre.

The courtyard was originally planted with a combination of Australian natives.
Projects | Tanya Court and Jessica Miley | 7 Feb 2013

Wills Courtyard: University of Adelaide

A 1970s courtyard at the University of Adelaide records a timeline of global trends.

Playground Ideas’ first playground in Chiang Dao, Thailand.
Discussion | Vanessa Murray | 6 Feb 2013

Playground Ideas

Marcus Veerman’s not-for-profit organization Playground Ideas is helping build playgrounds in developing countries.

Lewis’s lettering is engraved 8 mm into the granite benches.
Projects | James Paull | 5 Feb 2013

Residence: a public artwork in Randwick

A carved narrative by artist Ruark Lewis and Terragram landscape architects.

A drawing from Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site.
Discussion | Emma Wood | 4 Feb 2013

Drawing for Landscape Architecture

A book by landscape architect Edward Hutchison on the importance of hand drawing in landscape architecture.

The water fountain at Rouse Hill’s town square.

Oculus: Rouse Hill Regional Centre

A conversation from the 2013 Urban Issue of Landscape Architecture Australia.

Urban Wildscapes
Discussion | Mary Mann | 1 Feb 2013

Urban Wildscapes

A book exploring abandoned and marginal spaces that have evolved, rather than been designed or planned.

Landscape Architecture Australia 136 preview: Curtin City development.
Archive | Cameron Bruhn | 31 Jan 2013

LAA 137 preview

This landmark issue of Landscape Architecture Australia surveys the work of landscape architects as urban designers. The issue provides a unique snapshot of the involvement …

Bundeena Garden
Projects | Tempe MacGowan | 31 Jan 2013

Bundeena Garden

With a series of careful interventions, 360°Landscape Architects sculpts a journey alongside a Sydney house.

Calamvale District Park by Brisbane City Council.

The evolution of playspaces

Contemporary play projects across Australia.

Replica kauri log dam, built on the banks of Motions Creek. The dam is based on the Kaiaraara Dam on Great Barrier Island built in the 1920s.
Projects | Lee Suckling | 29 Jan 2013

Te Wao Nui

New Zealand’s broad range spread of landscapes is now replicated at Te Wao Nui, the New Zealand precinct at Auckland Zoo.

Student proposal: Jack Choi challenges the idea of space and use.
Discussion | Jo Russell-Clarke | 23 Jan 2013

The Sustainable Warburton Project

A design research project in remote WA aims to improve the living conditions of the local Indigenous communities.

The planted berm exaggerates the existing hill.
Projects | Tobias Horrocks | 11 Jan 2013

Garage + Deck + Landscape

A brilliant landscape device by Baracco + Wright Architects solves a suburban privacy issue.

Sir Zelman Cowen Award: MONA – Museum of Old and New Art.
Discussion | 19 Dec 2012

2012 in review

A look at the key awards, reviews and interviews of 2012 on ArchitectureAU, and some new reviews for the reading list.

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