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A plunge pool has been created from a concrete water tank craned onto the site and tiled in mosaics.

A new rural: Garland Garden

3 May 2016, Margie Fraser

In the inner-city Brisbane suburb of New Farm, Landscapology presents a compelling vision of a new-century rural garden.

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Monument Park sits between Victoria Harbour and the new McBride Charles Ryan-designed development The Quays.

Ghost town: Monument Park

3 May 2016, Andrew Mackenzie

Callum Morton, Oculus and McBride Charles Ryan deliver an engaging new public artwork in Melbourne’s Docklands worthy of a visit.

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Tubular steel spells out climbable words linked to flour milling: wheat, flour, blend and purify.

Writing history: Harts Mill Surrounds

3 May 2016, Jo Russell-Clarke

A playspace by Aspect Studios at a historic mill leads the revitalization of Port Adelaide’s post-industrial waterfront.

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The Convic-designed Esplanade Youth Plaza is set between giant stands of Araucaria at Fremantle’s Esplanade Park.

Freo’s “Happy Park”: Esplanade Youth Plaza

3 May 2016, Grant Revell

Fremantle’s Esplanade Youth Plaza successfully balances youth recreational activities with family space.

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Splashes of intense colour enliven the space as seen from the air.

Cultural infusion: Dandenong Civic Square

3 May 2016, Kate Gamble

A colourful new civic square in Dandenong offers a welcoming and intimate space to its diverse community.

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The water stair as photographed in 2005.

Strangely familiar: Mount Penang Gardens

3 May 2016, Sueanne Ware

The Mount Penang Gardens are considered an enduring and radical contribution to public garden design in Australia.

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Entrance artwork by Jon Tarry, based on an insect chrysalis.

Child’s play: Rio Tinto Naturescape

3 May 2016, Julian Bolleter

Plan E has delivered a play area in Perth’s Kings Park with the specific aim of reconnecting children with nature.

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A cascading steel mesh staircase is bolted onto a rock face adjacent to the MacKenzie River.

Of Stone and steel: MacKenzie Falls Precinct

3 May 2016, Ricky Ray Ricardo

A bold yet highly site-specific gesture rarely seen in Australian national parks and conservation areas.

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A crisp plane of paving is positioned within a square of four plane trees.

Zinc House

3 May 2016, Ray Edgar

A contemporary pared-back garden that elides the distinction between gallery space and domestic living.

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Lush tropical plantings at the rear of the garden are reflected on the pool’s surface.

Parsley Bay Garden

3 May 2016, Tanya Wood

This lush Sydney villa garden is enriched by a collection of bespoke artworks.

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Dramatic rocks tower from Circular ponds in the water feature by artist Ashika Ostapkowicz.

Mount Eliza Garden

3 May 2016, Anne Latreille

An artful composition by landscape architects Sinatra Murphy on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

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Aerial view over the entire Australian Garden near Cranbourne in Victoria.

The Australian Garden

3 May 2016, Kate Gamble

A spectacular garden by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Paul Thompson explores the Australian identity.

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Looking back at the house from across the dam.

Roogulli

3 May 2016, Dianne Firth

Fresh Landscape Design has transformed a drought-ravaged property outside of Canberra into a resilient garden.

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The bedroom courtyard is structured around an elegant reflective pool in the Adelaide villa garden.

Two Adelaide Villas

3 May 2016, Aylwen Dennis

A contemporary play on Renaissance and other historic garden styles.

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The horizontal planes of the house contrast with the ragged verticality of the nearby eucalyptus grove.

The garden at Medhurst

3 May 2016, Catherin Bull

A contemporary take on modernist landscape design by Tract Consultants in Victoria’s Yarra Valley.

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The above-ground concrete pool was designed by architects James Stockwell and Jonathan Temple.

Forest Edge Garden

3 May 2016, Laura Harding

In a bushland clearing high above the Hunter Valley, a sublime garden by Jane Irwin.

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Aerial view of Londscale Street in Central Dandenong. Streetscaping by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and BKK Architects.

Revitalising Central Dandenong

3 May 2016, Beau Beza

A $290 million urban renewal initiative aimed at revitalizing central Dandenong.

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Illawarra flame trees (Brachychiton acerifolius) provide shade over the terraced steps.

The Plaza at the Brisbane Showgrounds

3 May 2016, Suzanne Kyte

A generous, layered events space for the RNA Showgrounds Regeneration Project by Lat27.

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A composition of Washington palms perforates the paved area at the entrance to the pool.

Prince Alfred Park

3 May 2016, Julian Raxworthy

Sue Barnsley Design and Neeson Murcutt Architects’ upgrade of Sydney’s Prince Alfred Park + Pool.

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The graphic surface of the multipurpose area allows for a variety of sports and activities to occur simultaneously.

Box Hill Gardens Multipurpose Area

3 May 2016, Bonnie Grant

A sport and recreation space by Aspect Studios doubles as a backyard for local residents.

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Queensland Maple and Brown Penda decking from the site were recycled into the new built structures.

Cairns Foreshore Development

3 May 2016, Peter Skinner

A landmark collaborative project led by the landscape architecture team at RPS.

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The vacant public spaces in Aurora signal a need for occupation.

Aurora

3 May 2016, Helen Day

A six-hundred-hectare flagship development in Melbourne’s north by Place Victoria, seven years on.

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North Lakes was developed by Stockland and expects a final population figure of around 25,000.

North Lakes and Fitzgibbon Chase

3 May 2016, Mark Fuller

In South East Queensland, two master-planned communities are spearheading regional growth.

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Workers from the adjoining Brookfield Tower descend on the plaza for lunch.

Brookfield Place

3 May 2016, Julian Bolleter

A pragmatic urban plaza by Hassell facilitates social richness in an otherwise corporate address.

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Julluck Pond features a curved bridge spillway that treats stormwater and detains flood water.

The Ponds

3 May 2016, Linda Corkery

A sustainable residential development with landscape architecture by Clouston Associates.

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Planting is layered and massed, using indigenous species.

Saltwater Coast

3 May 2016, Marcus Baumgart

Tract Consultants used landscape as the starting point for this new residential subdivision.

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Pallet Pavilion offered a temporary venue for music and cultural events.

The Pallet Pavilion

3 May 2016, Barnaby Bennett, Jessica Halliday

A temporary venue for public events in Christchurch by the charitable trust, Gap Filler.

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As part of arts festival True North, thirty trees were wrapped in coloured cotton rope.

Everything Except Walk

3 May 2016, Elizabeth Cummins

Pollen Studio’s coloured rope work ushers in the 2014 True North Reservoir Arts Festival in Melbourne.

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New but nostalgic: colours, material and form speak of pools past.

Prince Alfred Park Pool

3 May 2016, Philip Goad

Neeson Murcutt Architects and Sue Barnsley Design embed memory and art into a Sydney urban space.

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Nick’s Camp, near Simpsons Gap, named in honour of the late Nick Murcutt.

Larapinta Trail Campsites

3 May 2016, Katelin Butler

Neeson Murcutt’s semi-permanent shelters along the Red Centre trail to Uluru.

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Spaces are controlled and formal along Kendall Lane.

New Acton Precinct

3 May 2016, Sueanne Ware

Canberra’s New Acton Precinct incorporates art, retail, hospitality facilities and apartment complexes.

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Patterns in the landscape are more visible in these early years.

The National Arboretum Canberra

3 May 2016, Philip Thalis

A grand dream realized by Taylor Cullity Lethlean with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects.

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The completed landscape at Nick’s Head Station.

Nick’s Head Station

3 May 2016, Michael Barrett

The revival of an historic Maori site wins New Zealand’s highest landscape architecture award.

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Steps, niches and platforms provide for walking, climbing and sitting.

Stawell Steps

3 May 2016, Brett Seakins

A brick spillway by Monash Architecture and Hiroshi Nakao reflects rhythms of human occupation.

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The underground tunnels provide access to Balls Head Reserve.

The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability

3 May 2016, Joshua Zeunert

A once inaccessible Sydney site is repurposed by Hassell as an environmentally sensitive community space.

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8.5m-wide footpaths now run along either side of the 13m-wide road.

Flinders Street (Qld) revitalization

3 May 2016, Helen Norrie

A redevelopment of Townsville’s main street by Gamble McKinnon Green captures its historic character.

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The courtyard was originally planted with a combination of Australian natives.

Wills Courtyard: University of Adelaide

3 May 2016, Tanya Court, Jessica Miley

A 1970s courtyard at the University of Adelaide records a timeline of global trends.

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Lewis’s lettering is engraved 8 mm into the granite benches.

Residence: a public artwork in Randwick

3 May 2016, James Paull

A carved narrative by artist Ruark Lewis and Terragram landscape architects.

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Bundeena Garden

Bundeena Garden

3 May 2016, Tempe MacGowan

With a series of careful interventions, 360°Landscape Architects sculpts a journey alongside a Sydney house.

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The planted berm exaggerates the existing hill.

Garage + Deck + Landscape

3 May 2016, Tobias Horrocks

A brilliant landscape device by Baracco + Wright Architects solves a suburban privacy issue.

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