Review

A decade after completion, this sixteen-hectare parkland is still making a significant contribution life in Brisbane.

JMD Design creates an invigorating playground at Sydney Olympic Park with moulded terrain and supersized equipment.

Sydney’s award-winning Darling Quarter playground by Aspect Studios.

A Sunshine Coast transport hub by Bark Design Architects, Guymer Bailey Landscape and SKM in the relaxed Noosa spirit.

A new rail bridge, with pedestrian paths, in Melbourne’s Clifton Hill transforms a formerly grimy space into a public park.

Terragram’s redesign of this inner-Sydney park demonstrates that there is more than one way to occupy public space.

Fifteen years ago it was one of Sydney’s most contaminated and degraded sites but today it is used and loved by the community.

Aspect Studios creates a civic waterfront parklands for the Tweed Shire community.

This memorial designed by Katherine Rekaris Landscape Architecture is dedicated to 70,000 Australian ex-servicewomen.

This park by Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture uses materials that celebrate the character of the site.

With a number of landscape architecture firms behind its design, Western Australia’s Ellenbrook Estate is worth reflecting on.

There is much for children and young people to enjoy in Site Office’s collaborative reimagining of these two public spaces.

Vee Design’s twenty-hectare parkland in Springfield, Queensland acts as a community hub and a child-friendly playground.

Remnants of the site’s industrial history colour McGregor Coxall and Choi Ropiha’s Sydney harbourside park.

A bridge and a fabricated concrete creek edge by studio SMLWRLD reveal the benefits of collaborative work.

Gamble McKinnon Green’s SW1 is a new community model for inner-urban living in Brisbane.

A tribute to the pioneer women of South Australia, this garden designed by Elsie Marion Cornish was first unveiled in 1941.

Hassell transforms a former drive-in theatre into a residential site, retaining valued bushland and parkland.

Tempe MacGowan reviews BVN’s masterplan in early 2011. Since then Fitzpatrick + Partners has undertaken a new masterplan.

Deicke Richards has created a generous shade structure that provides a transition space for pedestrians.

Büro North’s tree-like wayfinding signage system at Falls Creek helps visitors navigate their way around in all seasons.

This corporate industrial park by Gamble McKinnon Green shows industry being woven into a backdrop of vegetation and wetlands.

A series of sculptures along Tasmania’s Battery Point waterfront explores the treasured and varied past of the area.

Occupying the former Caltex site on the Birchgrove peninsula this new park is raw, challenging and wildly beautiful.

A rooftop garden by Bent Architecture provides a welcoming retreat from the hustle and bustle of Melbourne city life below.

Twelve kilometres south of the Sydney CBD, Port Botany has experienced a transformation by AECOM that aims to unify the site.

Oculus explores how Franklin Wharf is, and could be, simultaneously occupied by members of the public and local dock workers.

This lakeside project provides a quiet place to enjoy the water, without overindulging in architectural statements.

A world-class sporting and educational complex is the latest addition to Redfern’s slowly growing community facilities.

The City Square is finding its place after years of additions and alterations and not living up to expectations.

Hassell’s Trainshed Way shared space provokes questions about the design of such environments.

Rush\Wright Associates hopes this pedestrian boulevard revitalizes the social and economic capacity of Bendigo.

35 resource consents, 45 building consents, 2 district plan changes, 16 months of construction and bam! Hello waterfront.

McGregor Coxall’s Australian Garden at the National Gallery of Australia is a complex and controversial project.

A valuable and historic national project is treated with solemnity and respect while embracing context and symbolism.

Nestled behind the Adelaide Zoo, this pedestrian bridge creates an opportunity to engage with the meandering River Torrens.

Sydney’s awarded waterside park by Aspect Studios, Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects and CAB Consulting.

The Adelaide Zoo Giant Panda Forest and Entrance precinct announce the arrival of the mega fauna pin-up for endangered species.

The psychology of imaginative play and the spirit of the river’s edge are explored in this new park in Brisbane.

The Comfortably Chaotic character of this playground works within the overall context of a rolling parkland.