In September 2021, a review of a significant new mixed-use development in Melbourne’s central business district was published in Architecture Australia, sister magazine to Landscape Architecture Australia. Introduced as “a collaborative new tower, plaza and park,” the project made the front cover with an evocative photograph of a lone woman touching a curvaceous water wall. The central narrative was that this was much more than another city tower: it was an exemplary piece of urban design that provided much-needed urban green space and fine-grain mid-block connections. As with any project of its scale, it involved the expertise of many consultants, but the initial competition-winning concept was developed by a team of architects, landscape architects and urban designers.
Yet the review of the project, written by an architecture academic and practising architect, acknowledged only the architects (two
