1. Charles House garden by Bush Projects
Featuring eclectic combinations of plant species, this garden in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs is an immersive space full of diversity and delight. Too often in landscape architecture the animate nature of plants is forgotten. But here, plant “material” is treated like any other in service of a spatial and textural design intent. More…
2. Fairfield House by Kennedy Nolan and Sam Cox Landscape
Winner: 2016 Houses Awards: Outdoor category
A sequence of small and robust interventions connects house to garden to river, allowing the occupant to reconnect to the place in a way that has long been lost. A bushland is re-created in a place that is characteristically a cottage garden – one can wander, bathe, get warm by the fire and float above the river. More…
3. Cubo Rear garden by Phooey Architects and Simon Ellis Landscape Architects
Shortlist: 2014 Houses Awards: Outdoor catgory
A small child-friendly garden filled with as many interesting and sustainable features as any large garden. The project applies the surrealist technique of “Cubomania” to catalogue, re-use and re-invent the demolished building materials. A diversity of materials are strategically interwoven to enable function, fun, tranquillity and flexible transition between inside & outside. More…
4. Bungalow Garden Rooms by Myers Ellyett and Dan Young Landscape Architect
A series of diverse, textural and dynamic “garden rooms” are the result of a close collaboration between architect Myers Ellyett and landscape architect Dan Young and celebrate a life lived outdoors. In subtropical Brisbane, the average top temperature in the two coldest months of the year – June and July – is a balmy twenty degrees Celsius. More…
5. Towers Road Residence by TCL
TCL says: The Towers Road garden fosters a ‘sense of embrace’ — a poetic garden of ‘structured chaos.’ This has emerged via a collaborative journey with the architect and client. More…
Residential gardens or landscapes is a category in the annual Houses Awards. The submission date for the 2018 Awards has been extended – entries close 7am, Friday 23 March. Enter your project here.
Credits
- Project
- Fairfield House
- Architect
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Kennedy Nolan Architects
Melbourne, Vic, Australia
- Project Team
- Patrick Kennedy, Rachel Nolan
- Consultants
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Landscaping
Sam Cox Landscaping
Pool Distinctive Pools and Spas and Natural Pools
- Site Details
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Location
Melbourne,
Vic,
Australia
- Project Details
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Status
Built
Category Residential
Type New houses, Outdoor / gardens
Credits
- Project
- Towers Road garden
- Landscape architect
- TCL
Australia
- Project Team
- Kate Cullity, Lisa Howard, Rui Seguchi
- Architect
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Wood/Marsh Architecture
Melbourne, Vic, Australia
- Site Details
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Location
Melbourne,
Vic,
Australia
Site type Suburban
- Project Details
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Status
Built
Completion date 2016
Category Landscape / urban
Type Outdoor / gardens
Credits
- Project
- Charles House
- Landscape architect
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Bush Projects
- Project Team
- Bonnie Charles, Sarah Hicks
- Consultants
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Architect
Austin Maynard Architects
Concrete paving Overend Constructions
Landscape construction Lucida Landscapes
Planting Bush Projects, Lucida Landscapes
- Site Details
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Location
Melbourne,
Tas,
Australia
Site type Suburban
- Project Details
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Status
Built
Design, documentation 2 months
Construction 1 months
Category Landscape / urban
Type Outdoor / gardens
Products and materials
- Pool
- Summer Daze Pools pool and pebble crete; Linen Tumbled Unfilled travertine pool pavers and coping, and ceramic waterline tiles, all from The Pool Tile Company; custom aluminium pool fencing and gates in black satin powdercoat.
- Pool lounge
- Mixed hardwood painted in Dulux ‘Black’; Merbau decking in Sikkens Cetol Deck ‘Natural’.
- Outdoor shower
- Mizu Drift shower mixer and overhead shower, both from Reece.
- Planting (new)
- Maidenhair fern (Adiantum aethiopicum); dwarf cardamom (Alpinia nutans); kangaroo vine (Cissus antarctica); slender palm lily (Cordyline stricta); jade plant (Crassula ovata); Australian tree fern (Cyathea cooperi); dwarf tree fern (Blechnum gibbum); dichondra silver falls (Dichondra argentea ‘Silver Falls’); kidney weed (Dichondra repens); gymea lily (Doryanthes excelsa); false sarsparilla (Hardenbergia violacea); creeping boobialla (Myoporum parvifolium); boston fern (Nephrolepis spp.); Philodendron ‘Congo Rojo’ (Philodendron Congo ‘Rojo’); Sage (Salvia officinalis); Syngonium ‘Lemon and Lime’ (Syngonium podophylum ‘Lemon and Lime ’); pink trumpet tree (Tabebuia palmeri); Fraser Island creeper (Tecomanthe hillii); lady slipper vine (Thunbergia mysorensis); native violet (Viola hederacea).
- Planting (existing)
- Imperial bromeliad (Alcantarea imperialis); meyer Lemon (Citrus sinensi s); Philodendron ‘Xanadu’ (Philodendron ‘Xanadu’).
Credits
- Project
- Bungalow Garden Rooms
- Architect
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Myers Ellyett
Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Project Team
- Jade Myers, William Ellyett, Milton Zietsman
- Landscape architect
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Dan Young Landscape Architect
Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Consultants
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Builder
Jerrard Constructions
Engineer GDS Consulting Engineers
Landscape contractor Sod Landscape and Design
- Site Details
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Site type
Suburban
Site area 820 m2
Building area 190 m2
- Project Details
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Status
Built
Design, documentation 3 months
Construction 4 months
Category Landscape / urban
Type Outdoor / gardens
