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AN ELEVATED EXCHANGE

Sky Park, One Melbourne Quarter Docklands, Victoria

Built on the land of the Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation

Aspect Studios

In evaluating landscape architectural work, the immediate, grounded sense of a place is critical. However, it’s the broader context that interests memore: how the built form has come into being and the external contingencies it responds to; how the ethics of practice come into play; how collaborations coalesce, solidify and are held. That is true for the most complex projects and the simplest, across scales and typologies. And these considerations are particularly illustrative in the case of the Sky Park at One Melbourne Quarter.

Designed by Aspect Oculus, the Sky Park is a part of the public space component of the One Melbourne Quarter development, the first stage of the greater

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