The design for a new regional town centre, an expansive riverside parkland and a vision for a new cultural and green infrastructure network for a university campus, all received gongs at the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects’ (AILA) 2018 WA Landscape Architecture Awards, announced Friday 20 July in Perth.
Hassell’s design for the Optus Stadium parklands was the recipient of two Awards of Excellence in the categories of Parks and Open Space and Play Spaces, respectively, in addition to a Landscape Architecture Award for Urban Design, with Place Laboratory’s transformation of the historic Midland Rail workshops also taking out Awards of Excellence in both the Civic Landscape and Cutural Heritage categories.
In an AILA press release the jury commented on the quality of this year’s award-winning projects, noting in particular their collective demonstration of the field’s capacity to repair culturally and ecologically sensitive sites and to interpret histories, climate and relationships in meaningful and creative ways.
The 2018 AILA WA award jury comprised Walter Van Der Loo (FAILA) – manager Infrastructure Parks, Town of Cambridge (jury chair); John Carey (MLA) – Member for Perth; Kate Hislop – dean and head of School of Design at the UWA; Marion Fredriksson (FAILA) – principal at Marion Fredriksson Design Consultancy; and Robyn Renton – senior landscape architect at Josh Byrne & Associates.
The winners of Awards of Excellence or Landscape Architecture Awards will be considered for the AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards, to be announced at the AILA International Festival of Landscape Architecture on the Gold Coast in October.
Civic landscape
Award of Excellence
Railway Square – Place Laboratory
Landscape Architecture Awards
Newman Town Centre – UDLA
Parks and Open Space
Award of Excellence
Optus Stadium Park – HASSELL
Play Spaces
Award of Excellence
Optus Stadium Park – HASSELL
Landscape Architecture Award
Rio Tinto Naturescape Kings Park – Plan E
Infrastructure
Landscape Architecture Award
Mills Park – Cardno (WA) and City of Gosnells
Cultural Heritage
Award of Excellence
Railway Square – Place Laboratory
Urban Design
Landscape Architecture Award
Optus Stadium Park – HASSELL
Landscape Planning
Award of Excellence
The Living Knowledge Stream Design Guidance for Curtin University – Syrinx Environmental
Landscape Architecture Award
Urban Forest Plan (City of Fremantle) – Ecoscape
Research, Policy and Communication
Award of Excellence
Green Infrastructure: Planning a National Green Network for Australia (NGN) – Simon Kilbane
Community Contribution
Award of Excellence
“Place of Healing” - Visioning and Development Plan for Sister Kate’s Home Kids “Bush Block” – UDLA
WA Medal
Optus Stadium Park – HASSELL
