Tag: Environment

Fig Tree Boardwalk render.
News | Adair Winder | 24 Sep 2023

Detailed design to begin on Melbourne’s Greenline

Detailed design and early investigative works on Melbourne’s Greenline Project are set to commence later this year.

Sunshine Coast Council has endorsed the master plan for Sunshine Coast Ecological Park, with design to be led by Hassell.
News | Adair Winder | 29 Aug 2023

Masterplan for Hassell-led ecological park endorsed by Sunshine Coast Council

The council endorsed the masterplan for the transformation of 65 hectares of farmland info a wildlife refuge and recreation area.

The sequestration capacity of urban trees is relatively insignificant compared with embodied emissions from manufacturing construction materials.

Decarbonizing landscape practice

As landscape architects, we have the ability and responsibility to increase our agency in responding to climate change. What steps can we take to reduce the carbon footprint of our projects and design processes?

A map from the Atlas of Australian Soils, which was compiled by the CSIRO in the 1960s to provide a consistent national description of Australia’s soils.
Practice | Alistair Kirkpatrick | 30 Mar 2022

Laying the groundwork for soil

Simon Leake, Australia’s pre-eminent soil expert, calls for landscape management practices that let soil function and evolve.

Breakout Creek Stage 3 redevelopment by TCL.
News | ArchitectureAU Editorial | 20 Jan 2022

Final stage of Adelaide river transformation project unveiled

The South Australian government has released vision for the planned regeneration of the final stretch of Breakout Creek in Adelaide.

Australia is one of very few countries that does not recognise the right to a healthy environment.
News | Meg Good | 26 Feb 2018

Should Australia recognise the human right to a healthy environment?

Australia is one of only fifteen nations (a list that also includes Canada and the United States) that does not recognize the human right to a healthy environment at the federal level.

The proposed station at Parkville, designed by Weston Williamson and Partners and Hassell.
News | Patrick Hunn | 13 Oct 2017

Could the grass be greener above the Melbourne Metro Tunnel?

Melbourne’s underground rail project also contains a plan to actively improve, increase and preserve Melbourne’s inner-city “living infrastructure.”

The Yarra River upstream at Pound Bend.
Practice | Katie O’Bryan | 28 Sep 2017

New law finally gives voice to the Yarra River’s traditional owners

Until now, the Wurundjeri people have had little recognition of their important role in river management and protection, but the new legislation will give them a voice.

As mangroves of Australia’s Gulf region have experienced relatively little anthropogenic impact, they are considered the least altered mangrove ecosystems in the world.
Practice | Norman Duke | 2 May 2017

Climate calamity along Australia’s Gulf coast

Mangrove ecosystems along Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria suddenly died back in late 2015, yet the event has attracted barely any national attention.

The Whanganui River: now a legal person.

Three rivers are now legally people – but that’s just the start of looking after them

In the space of a week, the world has gained three notable new legal persons: the Whanganui River in New Zealand, and the Ganga and Yamuna Rivers in India.

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