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Plans for a new landmark science and technology research and teaching building at the Callaghan campus of the University of Newcastle have been published as part of a New South Wales State Significant Development Application. The project, designed by

A new performing arts precinct and the redevelopment of a heritage-listed wharf have both received gongs at the 2020 Minister’s Awards for Urban Design in Queensland. Twenty nominations were received in the program’s fourth year, with two projects re

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. Howe

Soil is fascinating. It is simultaneously biotic and abiotic, its qualities can radically shift within a square metre and it has remarkable plasticity. Top soil is critically important, as this is where the majority of soil life resides. Top soil all

The Goolarabooloo community have led the Lurujarri Dreaming Trail along Western Australia’s Kimberley coast, north of Broome, since 1987.1 The trail follows the land of the traditional song cycle for 80 kilometres along the beaches, dune systems and

When we meet at the practice’s studio in Melbourne’s Carlton North, its founder is keen to deflect focus from herself. “The story doesn’t have to be just about me, does it?” she asks. Indeed, Jeavons Landscape Architects (JLA) has evolved from its ea

Darling Square Darling Harbour, New South Wales Built on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation Aspect Studios Darling Square is located within the broader Darling Harbour precinct, an area arguably emerging as the happening end of the Syd

When Captain Cook visited, in the 1700s, what we now know as Sydney Harbour, he described abundant oyster reefs, tidal fringes lined with saltmarsh and mangroves, and sandy beaches. Today, more than two and a half centuries later, seawalls dominate t

Since August 2017, the Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) project, a five-year program set for completion in 2022, has aimed to improve human, environmental and ecological health in urban informal settlements through the

Published in 1969, Design with Nature, by Scottish landscape architect and planner Ian McHarg, was a manifesto, a seminal text translated into multiple languages. It is still in print today. McHarg, who was born in Scotland in 1920 and died in 2001,

It’s 3.30 am on 20 January 2020 and temperatures have dropped to 25 degrees below zero. Here, at Camp Colera, the last of four camps along the ascent to Argentina’s highest peak, the wind howls and thrashes against our tents. The chill permeates our

Landscape Architecture Australia editor Emily Wong spoke to Thai landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom in the lead-up to her lecture at The Architecture Symposium which took place in Brisbanein March. Emily Wong — You run Porous City Network, in a

The year 2019 was one of protests. Demonstrations in France against pension reforms and in India against a citizenship bill are ongoing. Iran, Iraq, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador all saw riots in which people lost their lives. Russia saw the largest pu

The bushfires during the Australian summer illustrated climate change in the most heartbreaking way. Most would find it impossible to forget the images – burned koalas sitting on blackened earth, firefighters driving directly into raging infernos and