Landscape Architecture Australia, February 2012

Landscape Architecture Australia, February 2012

Landscape Architecture Australia

Reviews, news and opinions on landscape architecture, urban design and planning.

Articles

Pre-European vegetation communities were fluid, managed cultural constructs, not those of a terra nullius.
Practice | Joshua Zeunert | 2 May 2016

Beyond Biodiversity

Biodiversity loss is a genuine concern, but is a blanket approach to its reinstatement the ideal landscape management plan?

Juvenescence by Lejla Kebic.
News | 8 Apr 2016

Landscape Architecture Australia prize

The 2011 winners of the Landscape Architecture Australia Prize for Design Communication.

Hillarys Boat Harbour, Hillary, Western Australia.

Blackwell and Associates

For over twenty years, WA firm Blackwell and Associates has aimed to create work with “a greater authenticity to a place.”

Balfour Street Pocket Park
Review | Tempe MacGowan | 28 Apr 2016

Balfour Street Pocket Park

This park by Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture uses materials that celebrate the character of the site.

Three free-form garden beds hold a repetition of flower-shaped pavers.
Review | Dimity Reed | 28 Apr 2016

Ex-servicewomen’s memorial garden and cairn

This memorial designed by Katherine Rekaris Landscape Architecture is dedicated to 70,000 Australian ex-servicewomen.

Pandanus Terrace at Bulcock Beach, Caloundra features the sculpture Chiaroscuro by Salvatori 
di Mauro.
Practice | Gweneth Newman Leigh | 25 Apr 2016

Coastal communities

How are Australia’s numerous coastal populations planning for rising sea levels and coping with development pressures?

This story wall, one of four at Jack Evans Boat Harbour, will contain indigenous artwork and information panels.
Review | Andrew Leach | 28 Apr 2016

Jack Evans Boat Harbour

Aspect Studios creates a civic waterfront parklands for the Tweed Shire community.

Sand Garden at the Australian Garden, an abstraction of the desert experience.

A tribute to Kevin Taylor

A celebration of the life and work of a talented, generous collaborator and leader of the landscape architecture community.

Sand Garden at the Australian Garden, an abstraction of the desert experience.

A tribute to Kevin Taylor

A celebration of the life and work of a talented, generous collaborator and leader of the landscape architecture community.