AWARDS

Guide Park Playspace by Orchard Design with SBLA Studio

Hinterland Adventure Playground by Urbis

Hinterland Adventure Playground by Urbis

Bob Gordon Playspace by City of Melville

Thorndon Park Playground by JPE Design Studio

The jury honoured 32 winners from a record number of 102 entries across the program’s 16 categories.

Many of the winning projects focus on creating resilient communities ready to respond to climate change.

Winning projects include a culturally significant beach, a newly activated regional street and a multipurpose skate park.

The jury awarded seven projects across categories such as health and education landscapes, public parks and civic spaces.

Winning projects include a project that transforms a underutilized space with a concrete-lined channel into a naturalized creek and park, and a reconciliation garden at a university.

Across the state awards program, a total of 12 Awards of Excellence and 17 Landscape Architecture Awards were given out.

The projects in this year’s Landscape Student Prize include a framework for development in fire-prone landscapes; a model for a campus precinct that aims to improve food security and climate resilience; and an exploration of the possibilities for reconstructing opal mining landscapes in Queensland.

Patchwork Plains by Sebastian Cocks, RMIT University

Birth from the scar by Haoyang Wang, The University of Melbourne

Grassland Tales: braiding care, culture and maintenance by Chloe Walsh, University of Technology Sydney

Hilltop Habitats by Alannah Easton, Deakin University

Opal Imaginary by Marina Couchman, QUT

The Shift: Waite Urban Food Farm and Transport Precinct by Elissa Stapleton, University of Adelaide

Greenery versus Density: Two opposing approaches to ‘future-proofing’ Australia’s Bush Capital by Ramona Hofler, University of Canberra

To Think Like a River by Jennifer Wu, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Fire and Place by Amy Stewart, University of Western Australia

The Australian Urban Design Awards were announced on 30 November at an online ceremony, with five major projects from across the country recognized for their contribution to Australia’s urban landscape.

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has revealed the winners of the 2022 National Landscape Architecture Awards with 40 projects recognized across the program’s 17 categories.

Mitcham Library and Hawthorn Reserve Upgrade by Aspect Studios

Mollison Park by RPS

Wesley Place by Oculus

National Museum of Australia Forecourt Garden by TCL

Town of Victoria Park Urban Forest Program by Town of Victoria Park

Wangayarta by Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation (KYAC), the Kaurna community and Oxigen

The Curtin University Indigenous Learning Circle (Yarning Circle) by UDLA