Scott Hawken is a landscape architect, urban designer and landscape archaeologist. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide.
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An ecological engine: The Drying Green
A new park in Sydney’s south integrates natural and high-tech systems to cleanse urban waters and reference past ecologies.
Outback ecologies: Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden
This under-appreciated garden on the edge of the South Australian desert is a remarkable story of community-driven landscape architecture that foregrounds the extraordinary plant life of arid and semi-arid ecosystems.
Making space in Sydney’s west: Western Sydney Parklands
Expressive and epic works of landscape architecture are giving Western Sydney a confident new ecological identity and much-needed breathing space.
Dynamism and flux: Tyrrell Studio
Tyrrell Studio’s expanding folio of public realm projects reads as an “open-source code book,” with heavily researched projects that trade fanfare for broader change.
Parkland visions: Designing the Western Sydney Aerotropolis
If the Western Sydney Aerotropolis is to deliver on its economic promises, this major development must attract residents, workers and visitors – and a landscape-led approach has much to offer.
The ten most significant works of Australian landscape architecture 2001–2017
Over the past decade, Australian landscape architecture has grown in its range and expression. These ten projects allow a clear view of where the profession is headed.
Sarah Hill: Changing the game
Sarah Hill, CEO of the Greater Sydney Commission, delivered the following speech for the 2016 PIA Kemsley Oration, which in 2016 was co-located with the presentation of the Australian Urban Design Awards.
Rocky history: Barangaroo Point
As the “natural” sandstone headland and park at Sydney’s Barangaroo nears completion, initial designs appear to have been compromised.
Walla Mulla Park
Terragram’s redesign of this inner-Sydney park demonstrates that there is more than one way to occupy public space.
Sydney Olympic Park 2030 The city in a park
Initially hampered by its mono-functional program, the Sydney Olympic Park is only now beginning to resemble a durable urban precinct.