Tag: Parks

Design ideas for Federation Wharf in City of Melbourne's Greenline project by Aspect Studios and TCL.

Draft masterplan released for Melbourne’s ‘Greenline’

The City of Melbourne has a draft masterplan for transformation of the Birrarung’s (Yarra river) north bank.

Conceptual design for Victoria Park (Barrambin), Brisbane.

Vision for 64-hectare Brisbane park finalized

Brisbane council’s final vision to transform a golf course into a public park will include revegetated forests, native bushland pockets and restored waterholes.

The Landing by Cottee Parker Architects.
News | ArchitectureAU Editorial | 30 Apr 2020

Park at Queen’s Wharf Brisbane underway

Construction has begun on a 6,500 square metre park on the banks of the Brisbane River as part of the Queen’s Wharf Brisbane development.

Artist's impression of "Greenheart".
News | ArchitectureAU Editorial | 10 Mar 2020

200-hectare park mooted for Gold Coast

Gold Coast council has revealed early plans for what could be the largest biodiversity reforestation project in Australia.

Indicative image from the Victoria Park Draft Vision, featuring the planned cultural centre.
News | ArchitectureAU Editorial | 21 Jan 2020

Draft vision for Brisbane’s largest open space revealed

Brisbane City Council has revealed its draft vision for a new public park that is set to bring “nature back into the city.”

Prahran Square by Lyons Architecture and Aspect Studios.

Burying carpark creates much-needed open space in Melbourne’s Prahran

Lyons Architecture and Aspect Studios’ Prahan Square “puts pedestrians first” by moving an open air carpark underground.

"Connect and Celebrate" by Tract.

Five ‘visionary ideas’ for Brisbane golf course transformation

Brisbane City Council has published five speculative plans for the transformation of a golf course north of Brisbane’s CBD into a public park.

Central Park, Ho Chi Minh City by LAVA and Aspect Studios.
News | Patrick Hunn | 7 Aug 2019

LAVA, Aspect win competition to design major public park in Ho Chi Minh City

LAVA and Aspect Studios have designed a new park featuring sunken plazas, rainwater-harvesting “plants” and a curvaceous walkway plan inspired by the site’s history in the centre of Ho Chi Minh City.

The proposed town square designed by Richards and Richards and Spence and RPS Group will extend beneath a railway overpass.
News | ArchitectureAU Editorial | 10 Jan 2019

‘Town square’ to transform Brisbane’s Fish Lane

Richards and Spence and RPS Group have designed a new ‘town square’ for Brisbane’s Fish Lane that will comprise an urban park, hospitality, retail and gallery spaces.

New public park and hotel gardens in Shanghai incorporate recovered camphor trees

New public park and hotel gardens in Shanghai incorporate recovered camphor trees

Using over a thousand heritage camphor trees recovered from a site near Jiangxi, the park and gardens, designed by UK landscape designer Dan Pearson, will form a connected green space amidst a rising wave of urban development.

Dyuralya Square by Oculus and the City of Sydney.
News | ArchitectureAU Editorial | 13 Feb 2018

Disused Green Square lot to become 2,000-square-metre public square

Work will soon begin on the construction of a new public park on a vacant block of land in the Green Square urban renewal precinct, designed by Oculus.

An aerial view of the new Cato Square that will replace a car park near Chapel Street in Melbourne's Prahran.
News | Patrick Hunn | 24 Jan 2018

Work begins on burying 9,000m2 Melbourne carpark under public plaza

Work has begun on the conversion of a carpark in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran into a new 9,000-square-metre public park designed by Lyons and Aspect Studios.

Aerial shot of Albert Park, Victoria by Tim Serong, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
News | Patrick Hunn | 19 Jan 2018

Parks Victoria mulls downsizing 18-hole golf course to enlarge Albert Park

A draft masterplan would see an 18-hole golf course within Melbourne’s Albert Park more than halved in size to make way for more space usable by the general public.

Albert Road Reserve by Hassell.
News | Patrick Hunn | 15 Jan 2018

Expanded parkland to reclaim road and car park at Melbourne Metro Tunnel station

The Victorian government has unveiled Hassell’s design for an expanded park neighbouring a Metro Tunnel station.

The under-construction park on Buckhurst Street in Fishermans Bend, by prinicpal consultant Hayball and landscape architects Tract.

Construction begins on Fishermans Bend park

Major work has begun on the construction of a park designed by Hayball and Tract Consultants, built in anticipation of the urban renewal of the formerly industrial Fishermans Bend area of Melbourne.

Linear park at Murrumbeena.
News | Patrick Hunn | 20 Nov 2017

Final designs released for Melbourne ‘sky rail’ park

Designs for a linear park and a 17-kilometre walking and cycling path occupying the space underneath a new elevated rail line in Melbourne’s south east have been released.

Photos from the 1990s: Slit drums from Vanuatu.
Report | Neil Hobbs | 1 Nov 2017

National Gallery of Australia Sculpture Garden

Thirty years after planting, this serpentine trail is now a destination in its own right.

The One Sydney Park site in Alexandria.
News | ArchitectureAU Editorial | 11 Sep 2017

Four teams compete to design Sydney Park apartments

The design of a residential complex enveloped by Sydney Park will be decided through an invited competition between four architectural teams.

How green is my vision?
Review | Michael Wright | 1 Sep 2017

How green is my vision?

The 202020 Vision is an initiative to create “20 percent more green space in Australia’s urban areas by the year 2020.” But the ambitions of the vision, and its claims to success, deserve some serious scrutiny.

The proposed Southbank park by the City of Melbourne's City Design Studio, featuring the under-construction Australia 108 building by Fender Katsalidis Architects.
News | Patrick Hunn | 13 Jul 2017

Plan to convert road lane to park in Melbourne’s Southbank unveiled

Announced as part of its 2017/18 budget, the new linear park on Southbank Boulevard will deliver open green space to Melbourne’s most park-deprived suburb

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