Issue 167 August 2020

Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape architecture and urban design.

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Contributors
Sue Barnsley leads a small design studio in Sydney, focusing on projects that are both artful and regenerative. Tanya Court is a landscape architect, artist and program director of landscape architecture at the University of Adelaide. Drew Echberg is
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Perspective
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Noticeboard
Charles Darwin University (CDU) has unveiled plans for an eight-storey education and community precinct by ARM Architecture with TCL as landscape architects. TCL has designed three different concepts for the landscape, with the preferred option featu
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Urban Green Spaces With Platipus
Since pioneering the very first underground tree anchoring system in 1983, Platipus has continued to innovate and develop high quality tree anchoring solutions for every planting situation. With the ever-increasing desire to create beautiful landscap
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A Resilient Profession?
Always an admirer of the Renaissance sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini and curious about his practice, I watched with interest recently a video describing just how he produced perhaps his most famous sculpture, Apollo and Daphne, siting it in a particula
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Reimagining Thepost-pandemic City
COVID-19 has swept across the globe like a hurricane, causing worldwide disruption as populations shelter from its invisible eye. In the eerie quiet of our cities, streets and open spaces have become the pressure valve to relieve the physical and men
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Rainbow Shade: Vibrant, Durable Protection From The Sun
Playground shade sails at schools, early learning centres and council parks should always provide the highest level of sun protection. Z16 shade cloth by Rainbow Shade can block up to 99 percent of UV radiation, making it the perfect shade cloth choi
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Educational Effects
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic forced massive changes on almost every workplace across the country and has wreaked unprecedented damage on the Australian economy, with experts in mid-May predicting the largest budget deficit in history and unemployment t
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Natural Growth Partners: Strong Roots For Future Generations
Over 30 years, brothers Rob and Tim Buruma have planted close to a million trees through their secondgeneration commercial landscaping practice. But five years ago, on a windswept site in the western suburbs of Melbourne, frustration gave way to inno
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At The River’s Edge
South Perth Foreshore South Perth, Western Australia Built on the land of the Noongar people Place Laboratory In his seminal 1977 book The Fall of Public Man, urban sociologist Richard Sennett made a powerful argument for a more formal public culture
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Provoking New Encounters
Prahran Square Prahran, Victoria Built on the land of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation Aspect Studios Prompted by a media flurry focused on unhappy traders, I visited Prahran Square on a mild and sunny late afternoon in Febr
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Harnessing A Wild Aesthetic
Hassett Park Campbell, Australian Capital Territory Built on the land of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture When Hassett Park opened in 2015 it was championed for meeting the ACT government’s environmental, social and
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Oral Mcguire: Cultivating Connections
For a little over a decade, Oral McGuire has been working with Greening Australia and Yaraguia Enterprises, a group of Ballardong Nyungar people, to regenerate hundreds of hectares of land in south-west Western Australia using traditional knowledge s
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Expanding The Residential Agenda
What role do residential landscapes play in the context of the climate emergency, population growth and the housing affordability crisis? And how are landscape architects pushing boundaries in their design approaches, for both traditional and emergin
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Strategic Subversions: Openwork
Openwork is a landscape architecture practice that has evolved by moving beyond convention. Founding member Mark Jacques frames the studio’s approach as a conscious destabilization of a project’s agreed or orthodox scope. “By deploying an oppositiona
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Landscape Architecture Criticism
Jacky Bowring will be well known to landscape architects and others for her regular appearances at landscape conferences and her quite different books: A Field Guide to Melancholy (2008), and Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory and
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The Politics of Public Space
The Politics of Public Space: Public Lectures in Contentious Spaces (Volume 1) gathers together a series of lectures that emerged out of a program of seminars and design studios led by Melbourne design and research practice Office (as part of its tea
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First Project
MAGNEY HOUSE, PADDINGTON 1989 – 1991 Andrew McNally, a colleague and now friend, suggested we collaborate on a small garden: the renovation of a Paddington terrace with Glenn Murcutt, who designed the Bingie Bingie House for clients Tom and Di years

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