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The City of Sydney has unveiled a 6,400-square-metre wetland park in Zetland’s Green Square.

UK practices David Chipperfield Architects (DCA) and Assemble, and Australian landscape architect Jane Irwin have created a masterplan for an interconnected residential neighbourhood on a former dairy farm in Canberra.

Hospitality operator Nokturnl has signed a 30-year lease with the state government to make over the Yagan Square market hall precinct, with concept designs for a proposed new hospitality venue now released.

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.

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) is seeking expressions of interest for the role of creative director for the 2023 Festival of Landscape Architecture.

Brisbane City Council has released a new draft masterplan for a 64-hectare inner-city green space in Brisbane’s Barrambin/Victoria Park.

The National Gallery of Victoria is now taking expressions of interests for participation in the next festival.

Landscape Australia spoke with the 2022 Festival of Landscape Architecture’s First Nations working group about teaching landscape architecture, slowing down our design processes, and the importance of trust in building relationships with community.

The Melbourne and Launceston-based team of Anna Feldman, Gagani Warnakulasooriya and Danyelle Bailey received the “Editor’s Choice” award for their concept, The Heatherwick Hat.

Five leading Australian design teams have been shortlisted to participate in the Powerhouse Ultimo Design Competition.

IFLA celebrates Dutch landscape architect with 2022 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award

Designs by Denton Corker Marshall and HDR have been selected for an integrated health, education and research precinct for the University of Sydney and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

The City of Sydney has unanimously endorsed controls that require new buildings and major developments to be net-zero in energy use by 2026.

The NSW government has revealed plans for a new 24-hectare public precinct above Sydney’s biggest and busiest railway station.

Two proposed pedestrian and cycle bridges will provide a new gateway into the Perth CBD, spanning across the Derbal Yerrigan (Swan River) from the eastern banks of Point Fraser, over Heirisson Island to Victoria Park foreshore.

Not-for-profit design and research practice Office has opened applications for its collaboration model Ampersand.

An exhibition at the Museum of Sydney unearths several failed design proposals for Australia’s most populous city.

The August 2022 issue of Landscape Architecture Australia guest edited by Daniel Jan Martin and Liam Mouritz reflects on the relationship between time, landscape and design.

Chrofi and Tyrrell Studio have designed an urban park and cultural centre for Burwood, in Sydney’s inner west.

Context Landscape Architecture and TKD Architects have prepared a masterplan for the redevelopment of Sydney’s South Head peninsula.

Three projects have received Awards of Excellence at the 2022 Qld Landscape Architecture Awards.

The winning proposal harnesses film and collaborative drawing to explore the interface between Indigenous knowledge, local stories and climate impacts in northern New South Wales.

Six Awards of Excellence and 24 Landscape Architecture Awards have been given out at the 2022 NSW Landscape Architecture Awards, announced on Thursday 9 June.

Landscape Architecture Australia spoke with the founding directors of the newly established organization – Catherin Bull, Noel Corkery and Linda Corkery – about the challenges posed by urban growth, expanding the landscape profession and supporting collaborative knowledge.

A preview of the May 2022 issue of Landscape Architecture Australia.

Expressions of interest are open for the 30th edition of the publication, themed “Power: Resistance, Surrender and Agency in a Landscape of Uncertainty.”

The Victorian government has unveiled a new memorial for victims and survivors of family violence in Melbourne’s St Andrews Place.

The City of Sydney has released its updated vision for the future of the city into 2050, set to make Sydney more “liveable, sustainable and diverse.”

A team led by Aspect Studios has been selected as the winner of a design competition for a cycleway on Sydney’s Harbour Bridge.

A show garden by AKAS Landscape Architecture and Nrth Landscapes at the 2022 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show aims to provoke action on the climate emergency.

The annual awards celebrate Australia’s best residential projects and include a “Garden or Landscape” category.

The 2022 edition of the annual festival will be curated by Blaklash Creative, LatStudios and Claudia Taborda.

The NSW chapters of the architects and landscape architects’ institutes have voiced their disappointment in the NSW government’s decision to revoke planning reform intended to deliver sustainable development.

The Australian government has launched the national competition to design a $316.5 million Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural precinct in Canberra.

The City of Swan in Perth’s north-east is seeking up to 10 design professionals to form a new Design Review Panel.

Landscape Australia rounds up some of the key landscape architecture and design events of the perenially popular program.

Rapidly increasing temperatures pose a serious threat to the future of Australia’s tall eucalypt forests.

The Australian Institute of Architects has welcomed a Victorian government policy aimed at building women’s participation in the construction industry.

This year’s projects include a design for the repatriation of Indigenous ancestral remains, a masterplan for multi-species co-habitation of a Tasmanian bay, and a proposal for an iconic park in Canberra that intersects gardening, stewardship and landscape change.

The Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council has submitted a land claim for Peat Island and intends to develop an Aboriginal Discovery Centre.