Issue 163 August 2019

Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape architecture and urban design.

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Contributors
Beau Beza is associate head of school (teaching and learning) at the School of Architecture and Built Environment at Deakin University. Catherin Bull is emeritus professor of landscape architecture at the University of Melbourne and adjunct professor
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Perspective
This issue of Landscape Architecture Australia came together amid extensive commentary on the release of the United Nations report on biodiversity in May. The report’s grave findings – that unprecedented numbers of species are now under impending thr
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Noticeboard
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has launched the website for its 2019 International Festival of Landscape Architecture, which will take place in Melbourne from 10 to 13 October. The 2019 festival which will be themed “The Squa
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Minister’s Award For Urban Design
The renewal of the high street of Barcaldine, in rural Queensland, has won the top award at the 2019 Minister’s Award for Urban Design. Fifteen nominations were received for the third iteration of the program, which recognizes contemporary Queensland
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The New Groove
Scarborough Foreshore Redevelopment Scarborough, Western Australia TCL (Taylor Cullity Lethlean) and UDLA “…the beaches ran north and south, white and broad as highways in a dream, and men and babies stood in the surf while gulls hung in the haze abo
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Beneath The Rail Line
Caulfield to Dandenong Level Crossing Removal Project Victoria Aspect Studios Attention to scale and a coordinated approach to colour have created an inviting series of spaces, well-suited to individual and collective inhabitation. Text Beau Beza Liv
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Fair Share
Victoria Square, Kerang Kerang, Victoria Hansen Partnership The pace changed a hundred years ago along the main streets of Australian country towns as automobiles proliferated, demanding and obtaining better roads. The roads became sealed, increasing
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Concrete: Crafting Resilient Urban And Coastal Landscapes
The physical and aesthetic qualities of concrete make it a highly flexible construction material, ideally suited to Australia’s harsh climate. When combined with robust and imaginative design and construction practices, concrete can be used to sculpt
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Clifftop Garden
Clifftop Garden Vaucluse, New South Wales Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture Suburbs in Sydney come burdened with associations. Vaucluse, in Sydney’s east, is no exception. Poised at the entrance to Sydney Harbour, and edged on two sides by clifftops
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Local Agenda
Landscape Architecture Australia caught up with Doxiadis to talk balancing tensions and the politics of practice. Interview Landscape Architecture Australia: Your Landscapes of Cohabitation project considers the integration of a residential estate in
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Beyond Resiliency II
Rosalea Monacella spoke with Chris Reed from Stoss Landscape Urbanism (Boston), Lisa Switkin and Richard Kennedy from James Corner Field Operations (New York), Bryna Lipper of 100 Resilient Cities (New York) and Sacha Coles of Aspect Studios (Sydney)
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Bluestone: Naturally Different
Sai Sandstone is the producer of some of the finest and most spectacular natural sandstone and bluestone. Prized for their unique colour, texture, durability, and versatility, Sai Sandstone products are ideally suited for use in the construction of A
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Grassy Woodlands
Europeans have wrought enormous changes to grasslands associated with eucalypt woodlands (“grassy woodlands”) since the nineteenth century. Virtually all of the species that we consider native to Australia have been managed for tens of thousands of y
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Janet Laurence: After Nature
Janet Laurence: After Nature, a survey of the work of an artist noted for her three-decade-long exploration of ecological issues, is both timely and of a time. Occupying two galleries within the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, many of the assem
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2019 Landscape Australia Conference: Cultivating New Agencies
“What is your intention for being here?” N’arweet Carolyn Briggs, Boon Wurrung senior elder and chairperson and founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation asked as she welcomed us to Country on that cool, autumnal Melbourne day. She called on us, the aud
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Ian Oelrichs: Cultivating community
Ian Oelrichs OAM FAILA ASLA (1929–2019) was pivotal to the regional and international development of Australian landscape architectural practice and worked tirelessly to expand the profession’s frontiers. Ian Oelrichs died two days short of his seven

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