Issue 165 February 2020

Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape architecture and urban design.

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Contributors
Julian is an assistant professor at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) at the University of Western Australia. Jacky Bowring is a professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University and a member of the Christchurch Urban Design
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Perspective
This issue of Landscape Architecture Australia addresses the issues arising out of the sixth International Festival of Landscape Architecture: The Square and the Park, held in Melbourne last year. The creative directors of the festival, Jillian Walli
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Noticeboard
Thai landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom of Bangkok-based practice Landprocess will be speaking at The Architecture Symposium 2020 to be held in Brisbane on 13 March. The symposium forms part of the Asia Pacific Architecture Festival which will
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The Square And The Park
Curating a festival takes the better part of a year – a lot of work for only a three-day event. In taking on the 2019 International Festival of Landscape Architecture, we folded a legacy component into our program with the aim of enabling our discuss
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The Future Park International Design Ideas Competition
The Future Park International Design Competition was an unusual competition. Unlike iconic park competitions such as the 1858 competition for New York’s Central Park, the 1982 competition for Paris’s Parc de la Villette, the 1999 competition for Toro
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State Of The Nation
“Growth is the most visible form of change in a designed landscape or garden, analyzing the difference between projections of growth and real growth demonstrates change.”1 The effect of time on designed spaces was a key theme of the 2019 Internationa
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Engaging The Past: Dyeworks Park
Dyeworks Park, in Melbourne’s innercity suburb of South Yarra, emerged from a timely combination of opportunities: inner-suburban post-industrial rejuvenation, a dynamic social context and a good budget from a supportive local council with federal go
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An Ecological Negotiation: Sydney Park
Sydney Park is a landscape of the Anthropocene. Its creation is the story of the transformation of a “bleak and forbidding” site with “the appearance of a moonscape or post-nuclear terrain” to a biodiversity hotspot.1 Located in the Sydney suburb of
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Reclaiming The River: Perth Waterfront Schemes
During his tenure as prime minister from 1996 to 2007, John Howard was intent on stimulating discussion to define Australian identity. This culminated in what commentators referred to as the “culture wars” – public debates over interpretations of the
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Maintaining gestures: Rosny Park
In 1986, I was working for Scott and Furphy Consulting Group in Hobart as a “senior” landscape architect. I was new to Tasmania, not long out of university. At the time, Tasmanian landscape architects struggled to extend their purview beyond putting
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Transforming identity: Garden of Australian Dreams
Designed in the late 1990s by Room 4.1.3 (a research and design studio led by Richard Weller and Vladimir Sitta), the Garden of Australian Dreams (GOAD) challenged landscape architectural practice. It looked towards European postmodern influences (op
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A unified future: River Torrens Linear Park
As Australia’s first fully-realized linear park, comprehensively integrating environmental, recreational and economic objectives, Adelaide’s River Torrens Linear Park was groundbreaking. Concept designs for the more-than-500-hectare park that winds t
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A paradoxical nature: Roma Street Parkland
Roma Street Parkland is a sixteen hectare park located in the centre of Brisbane and listed as an iconic touristic destination. Its “Seasonal Plants” brochure promotes this space as “one of the world’s largest subtropical gardens in a city centre.” T
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Reflection
From innovative approaches to the management of whole urban river catchments in Adelaide, the regeneration of inner-city post-industrial sites into parks in Melbourne and Sydney, nation-building and culture wars in Canberra and Perth, and stylized ga
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Zaryadye Park: A New Ecological Heart For Moscow
In September 2017, Moscow’s first new park in more than fifty years was opened. A collaboration between Diller Scofidio and Renfro (DSR), Hargreaves Associates and Citymakers, Zaryadye Park introduces Russia’s four ecological zones of tundra, steppe,
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Models Without Numbers: The Landscapes Of Günther Vogt
In the 1990s, prior to the ubiquity of the internet and with few built “design” projects in Australia as exemplars, being interested in design was a lonely affair. In drawings and physical collages – literally, a virtual reality – one projected quali
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Valuing The Civic
In light of the recent addition of Melbourne’s Federation Square to the Victorian Heritage Register, the Victorian state government has announced a review of the square’s governance, finances and built form, in consultation with the community1. In un
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Design For Nature
Philanthrocapitalism has come to public parks. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a local billionaire is making a $465 million park in an effort to give the city a green heart, like other great cities do. The billionaire is doing it in a way the state or city never
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2019 landscape Student Prize
Shaun Walsh (national president, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects) Jerry de Gryse (director, Inspiring Place) Emily Wong (editor, Landscape Architecture Australia) The work being produced in Australia’s landscape architecture schools is a
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Revival: Drug Rehabilitation Landscape
RECIPIENT Oshadi Jayasinghe PROGRAM Master of Landscape Architecture, Deakin University Revival is a program for the rehabilitation of drug addicts and land. The project aims to create a connection between mind, body and soul, enabling a fresh start
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Apotheosis
RECIPIENT Rebecca Lee PROGRAM Bachelor of Design (Landscape Architecture), Queensland University of Technology Apotheosis explores drought as a socially constructed hazard and interrogates the privatization of water and the cold and calculated valuat
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Wayfinder
RECIPIENT Fehin Coffey PROGRAM Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours), The University of Canberra Wayfinder shows how Canberra’s open space system might be situated to mediate the human experience of grasslands in a way that promotes acceptance
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Nomadic Mechanism
RECIPIENT Rainie Zhang PROGRAM Master of Landscape Architecture, RMIT University Nomadic Mechanism addresses desertification in Chad, in north-central Africa. Here, the spread of the desert has contracted the water supply and exacerbated conflict bet
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Adelaide Sense City Zoo
RECIPIENT Shan Huang PROGRAM Master of Landscape Architecture, The University of Adelaide Humans have a long history of dominating animals and nowhere is this more evident than in the history of zoos. While animal welfare standards and guidelines hav
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Transitioning To Renewable Energy: An Integrated Landscape Approach
RECIPIENT Cheng Xing PROGRAM Master of Landscape Architecture, The University of Melbourne Melbourne is facing growing pressure over waste management, with extensive food waste currently being placed in landfill. This proposal explores the potential
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Returning Toongabbie
RECIPIENT Emma Lacoste PROGRAM Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours), UNSW Sydney Can our urban freshwater creeks still be considered nature if they are no longer able to sustain our native wildlife? Returning Toongabbie is a hybrid creekfront
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Gateway To The Third Kingdom
RECIPIENT Ella Farley PROGRAM Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours), University of Technology Sydney Gateway to the Third Kingdom recognizes that, in the scale of geological time, human existence has been and will be very fleeting. By comparis
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Review
The sixth AILA International Festival of Landscape Architecture: The Square and the Park was convened in the splendid Deakin Edge theatre, situated in a square (Federation Square), overlooking a park (Birrarung Marr). Across a well-paced two-day prog

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