Issue 174 May 2022

Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape architecture and urban design.

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Contributors
Andrew Toland is a senior lecturer in landscape architecture at UTS. He was previously an assistant professor in landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong. Kate Cullity is a founding director of TCL. She is a landscape architect and envir
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EDITOR EMILY WONG EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES T +61386991000 E LANDSCAPE@ARCHMEDIA.COM.AU EDITORIAL DIRECTOR KATELIN BUTLER EDITORIAL TEAM NICCI DODANWELA, JOSH HARRIS CONTRIBUTING EDITORS CLAIRE MARTIN, DAN YOUNG, JULIAN RAXWORTHY, CATHERIN BULL, RHYS WILLI
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Innovation, Experimentation And The Future Of Our Cities
Collectively, the articles and projects in our May issue present an optimistic view of what our cities and landscapes could be. We’re very pleased to feature Delprat Phytoremediation Garden (page 22), bathed in the sun’s late-afternoon glow, as our c
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Connecting And Growing Healthy Communities
In late 2021, the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) launched our member-only community platform, “Memberscape.” The purpose of Memberscape is to provide an exclusive forum for AILA members to share ideas and knowledge, and to gain r
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Noticeboard
The Victorian state government has launched the Yarra Strategic Plan – Burndap Birrarung burndap umarkoo – to protect the Birrarung/Yarra River from population growth and climate change. The plan sets out 40 actions, including parkland expansion, hab
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Light, Movement, Growth
The Healing Garden at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Victoria Built on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples Openwork When John and Sunday Reed moved to Heide I cottage1 in the late 1930s, the land leading down to the Yarra River h
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SpeciesSolutions App By WoodSolutions
Working on a project that involves wood and wood products? The new SpeciesSolutions app is a valuable resource that helps to match various timber species with common applications in Australia and connect buyers with suppliers. With an intuitive inter
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Grounds For Testing
Delprat Phytoremediation Garden, Mayfield North, New South Wales Built on the land of the Pambalong clan of the Awabakal people University of Newcastle – School of Architecture and Built Environment and University of Technology Sydney, in collaborati
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Salt And Samphire
Northern Connector, Greater Adelaide, South Australia Built on the land of the Kaurna people Tract The Northern Connector Project is a 15.5-kilometre freeway project in Adelaide’s north. The six-lane freeway was the missing freight and commuter link
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Embracing The Innovation Debate
The buzz and lure of innovation are ever present, yet innovation has never been more needed than now. A sense of urgency has arisen in the response to the COVID pandemic across all social and economic sectors. The vulnerability of complex association
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Evidencing The Benefits Of Green Space
Devastating actions over decades have degraded the systems that support our health and connect us with the “more-than-human world.” This has resulted in many of us becoming estranged from nature to the detriment of our capacities for pro-environmenta
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Increasing Inclusivity: Designing Age-friendly Communities
By 2050, the worldwide population of people over 60 is expected to more than double – and the number of Australians living with dementia or a moderate to severe cognitive impairment is proportionately increasing. The result is a pressing need to plan
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Decarbonizing Landscape Practice
Landscape architects are in a good position to take action on climate change. There are two key actions to consider: climate change mitigation – reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are the source of climate change; and climate change adapt
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Designing For Coolth
Global urbanization continues, while at the same time, cities in Australia and beyond are hotspots of rising temperatures. Across the world, urban densification and expansion are inevitably resulting in more capping of soil and less vegetation, which
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Transitioning Cities And Post-COVID Planning
COVID-19 has, in combination with climate change, opened a window of opportunity for rethinking our Australian cities and transitioning them to more sustainable and resilient platforms. To thrive in the face of current and future challenges, all futu
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Design And Disaster
From the catastrophic 2019/2020 summer bushfires in south-eastern Australia to the devastating floods that recently engulfed Queensland, the Asia Pacific region experiences more climate-related hazards than any other part of the planet. Despite the m
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2021 Landscape Student Prize
This year, the jury was pleased to see such a wide breadth of issues being addressed across the spectrum of winners in this edition – from a design for the repatriation of Indigenous ancestral remains to a masterplan that encourages a more equal rela
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Beyond Wild: Gardens and Landscapes by Raymond Jungles
Beyond Wild is the third monograph published by The Monacelli Press to cover the work of Raymond Jungles, after The Colors of Nature (2008) and The Cultivated Wild (2015) (see Landscape Australia May 2017 or landscapeaustralia.com/articles/The-Cultiv
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Box Hill Community Arts Centre, Box Hill 1989 – 1991
Kevin Taylor and I met in 1989 while sharing a space in architect Gregory Burgess’s studio, a freezing old bakery building in Richmond. Initially, we didn’t really get along so well. I had a small design and construct business creating residential ga

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