Issue 171 August 2021

Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape architecture and urban design.

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Contributors
Anna Chauvel is a director at Place Laboratory. A recent arrival in Canberra, she has been navigating the city’s paradoxical landscape – from the Bush Capital to the Garden City. Sarah Hicks is a practising landscape architect and a director of Bush
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Improving Biodiversity And Green Space In Our Cities
It’s been a busy few months here at the Landscape Architecture Australia office, with the announcements over June and July of the winners of the state and territory landscape architecture award programs. We warmly congratulate the awarded projects an
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Making A Difference Through Climate-positive Design
“This century is the golden age of landscape architecture. The world really needs you. It needs what you know and what you believe in. Now is the time.” – Martha Schwartz, New Landscape Declaration Summit, 10 June 2016 Landscape architects are unique
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Noticeboard
Richard Weller is exhibiting in the “As One Planet” section of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. Weller is professor and chair of the landscape architecture department at the University of Pennsylvania. His biennale installation presents The Hot
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Rethinking Our Approach To Urban Green Space Provision
Urban green space is essential infrastructure, providing the inhabitants of our cities with multiple ecosystem services and benefits. In a municipal context, urban green space includes parks, sports fields, street trees, planted and vegetated median
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Wanting Words: Language And Landscape
Language, writes British author Robert Macfarlane, is one of the great geological forces of the Anthropocene.1 The English language in particular constructs a human-centred world. Words elicit exclusion. Grammar enables expendability. Semantics engen
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Gathering community: Booyeembara Park
A long time ago, there was a limestone hill wedged between the Derbal Yaragan – a slow, serpentine river – and the vast ocean. Its western face was covered with coastal heath while a tuart forest, watered from a small seep, grew in the protected holl
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Green Rooms: Creating An Indoor Vertical Wetland
Registered horticulturist Mark Paul, owner and founder of The Greenwall Company, designed and installed a paneled green wall over indoor airconditioning vents at The University of Queensland’s Global Change Institute. Designed to filter air through p
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Lateral Movements
Kingsford Smith Drive Upgrade, Hamilton to Eagle Farm, Queensland Built on the land of the Yugara/Yugarapul people and Turrbal people Lat27B risbane considers itself a “river city” and Indigenous peoples have occupied its riverine landscapes for tens
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Interpretive Acts
Pentridge Piazza Coburg, Coburg, Victoria Built on the land of the Wurundjeri people Aspect Studios Pentridge Piazza Coburg is Aspect Studios’ recently completed public space in the former prison administration block, and the latest element in the re
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Bringing Back Biodiversity
A dense sea of pitched roofs, domestic gardens and clipped lawns abruptly gives way to an abundant wetland. A pair of magpie geese perch on a log, insects hum, pelicans cruise overhead. At Waterways, a 48-hectare restoration project located along Mor
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Tidal Encounters
Gosford Leagues Club Park, Gosford, New South Wales Built on the land of the Darkinjung people Turf Design Studio Mike Horne, director at Turf Design Studio, spoke with Landscape Architecture Australia about how the designers worked with the area’s T
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Manufacturing Opportunities For Play
For more information: Two impressive custom timber towers set the tone for a striking new play space in Mambourin, Victoria. Omnitech collaborated with landscape architects Tract Consultants over a 12-month period to design, manufacture and install t
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Texture And Temporality
Y3 Garden, St Lucia, Queensland Built on the land of the Turrbal and Yuggera people Dan Young Landscape Architect Prior to the engagement of Dan Young Landscape Architect (DYLA), the garden of the Y3 House in the Brisbane suburb of St Lucia had suffe
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Deep North
In 2013, after more than a decade of living, studying and working in Melbourne, I had become increasingly haunted by the biologically and psychologically rich contours of Queensland’s Wet Tropics, where I was raised. After previous promising but falt
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Lo-fi Landscapes
Wagon Landscaping is a Paris-based practice with a DIY attitude that combines landscape architecture, construction and gardening. Founders Mathieu Gontier and François Vadepied trained at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles where
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First Project
When Oculus began in Australia, we were only a few people, but the office took over my house in Leichhardt entirely. We were consumed with establishing the practice, building a culture, learning how to collaborate and simply surviving financially. Th

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