Landscape Architecture Australia, August 2019
Landscape Architecture AustraliaReviews, news and opinions on landscape architecture, urban design and planning.
Perspective
August issue of LAA out now
A preview of the August 2019 issue of Landscape Architecture Australia.
Projects
Clifftop garden
Perched on a clifftop in Sydney’s Vaucluse, this garden by Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture favours intimacy and materiality over grand gestures.
A unifying act: Caulfield to Dandenong Level Crossing Removal Project
The Caulfield to Dandenong Level Crossing Removal Project demonstrates how integrated urban design thinking can shape progressive built outcomes.
Beneath the rail line: Caulfield to Dandenong Level Crossing Removal Project
Attention to scale and a coordinated approach to colour have created an inviting series of spaces, well-suited to individual and collective inhabitation.
Fair share: Victoria Square, Kerang
This reimagining of a town’s main street elevates the pedestrian experience while acknowledging the continuing role of cars in regional life.
Interview
Beyond resiliency: Part II
In the second part of our interview with leading practitioners from the US and Australia, we further explore the agency of landscape architecture in responding to climate change urgencies through the design of the public realm.
Review
Beauty and fragility: Janet Laurence
A recent survey of the work of environmental artist Janet Laurence is a salient reminder of the large-scale consequences of human activity.
Agency and instrumentality: 2019 Landscape Australia Conference
Claire Martin reflects on the 2019 Landscape Australia Conference: Cultivating New Agencies, held at the NGV International in May.
Field Trip
Grassy woodlands
Photographer Carolyn Young and ecologist Sue McIntyre reflect on a once extensive, but now rapidly vanishing landscape – the eucalypt woodlands of Australia’s south-east.