John Mongard is a landscape architect and urban designer in Brisbane. John specializes in planning and implementing complex public space projects which highlight local culture and broad community interactions. He writes about contemporary culture and sustainable design.
John Mongard's Latest contributions
Shifting ecologies at the city fringe
Australia’s peri-urban areas are too often sites of destruction and loss, where forests and wetlands are paved over with suburban sprawl. Landscape architects can intervene to create real ecological depth on the edges of our cities.
Gondwana in the city: Fish Lane Town Square
With Fish Lane Town Square, RPS has worked with Richards and Spence to transform a forgotten, underutilized space under a Brisbane railway bridge into an intimate urban park replete with tangled ferns and climbers.
Bingara’s living classroom
John Mongard Landscape Architects and the NSW Bingara community strategize to future-proof the town.
Robelle Domain
Vee Design’s twenty-hectare parkland in Springfield, Queensland acts as a community hub and a child-friendly playground.
Sunshine Coast Industrial Park
This corporate industrial park by Gamble McKinnon Green shows industry being woven into a backdrop of vegetation and wetlands.