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Daybeds in the park offer a rare opportunity for Manhattanites to lounge in the sun.

Narratives of place: New York’s Highline and Central Park

8 Apr 2016, Simon Kilbane, Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard

Four landscape architecture students explore two iconic New York parks.

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Grasslands installation at the State Library of Victoria.

Gone to seed

8 Apr 2016, Sarah Hicks

Herbaceous invaders take over the State Library of Victoria, revealing a hint of the site’s pre-European settlement history.

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A private garden in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, by Piet Oudolf.

Piet Oudolf: Landscapes In Landscapes

8 Apr 2016, Claire Martin

A showcase of 30 years of work by landscape’s pioneer of “new wave naturalism,” Piet Oudolf.

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Bundeena Garden

Bundeena Garden

8 Apr 2016, Tempe MacGowan

With a series of careful interventions, 360°Landscape Architects sculpts a journey alongside a Sydney house.

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Walkways dissect the dune-like landscape.

Auckland Airport landscapes

8 Apr 2016, Michael Barrett

Views from both airborne and land-based approaches to Auckland Airport now centre on abstract earth forms.

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The author explains the lie of the land during a NZILA Auckland Branch visit to Gibbs Farm. On yonder hill is Neil Dawson’s 'Horizons' (1994).

A farm out west

8 Apr 2016, Garth Falconer

Garth Falconer muses on the reviews the landscape expression at Gibbs Farm, a 1000-acre private sculpture park.

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Inauguration Day at Tupark.

A continent away

8 Apr 2016, Jessica Staples

How do disaster recovery programmes stack up in other countries?

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The Amphawa settlement in south-west Bangkok.

Asia-Pacific landscape architects meet

8 Apr 2016

This year’s IFLA Asia-Pacific Congress highlighted richness, diversity and boldness of landscape cultures.

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Steps, niches and platforms provide for walking, climbing and sitting.

Stawell Steps

8 Apr 2016, Brett Seakins

A brick spillway by Monash Architecture and Hiroshi Nakao reflects rhythms of human occupation.

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Located on the former Royal Children’s Hospital site, the new park and playspace has injected fresh life into Royal Park.

Seasoned players: Return to Royal Park

8 Apr 2016, Ricky Ray Ricardo

A new park in Melbourne brings landscape back into playtime.

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Circa Architecture designed the lodge entry  around important pockets of native vegetation.

Saffire Freycinet landscape

8 Apr 2016, Catherine Neilson

A degraded caravan park near Tasmania’s stunning Freycinet Peninsula is rehabilitated by Inspiring Place in support of an ecolodge.

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The entrance sign to Williams Landing replicates a large riveted aileron jutting out of the ground, referencing the site’s aeronautical history.

Williams Landing

8 Apr 2016, Julian Bull

A new residential development on the site of a former airfield base in south-west Melbourne.

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The luxury getaway in the Blue Mountains pampers guests with views of the world heritage-listed national park.

Wolgan Valley Resort and Spa

8 Apr 2016, Nicole Porter

Referencing natural and cultural landscape values this sensitive project convincingly combines conservation and luxury.

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The Wiltja nutrition class.

Woodville High School Community Garden Hub

8 Apr 2016, Emma Wood

Outerspace, in collaboration have created a community garden that reflects and values of the school in which it’s located in.

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Avant Gardeners

Avant Gardeners

8 Apr 2016, Cassie Hansen

Avant Gardeners looks at fifty exciting and innovative landscape architects and garden designers from around the world.

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Siliconised balancing beams with softened edges that still look like concrete and steel, in keeping with the materiality of the rest of the High Line.

Metropolitan meadow

8 Apr 2016, Annwyn Tobin

In the ten years since construction began, The High Line has become an exemplar for landscape architects worldwide.

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The liveliest panel discussion of the conference Participation and Spectacle. From left: Ana Abram, Maj Plemenitas, Cees van der Veeken, Tanya Court and Natalie Jeremijenko.

This Public Life

8 Apr 2016, Shannon Satherley

Shannon Satherley reviews the 2015 AILA Festival of Landscape Architecture: This Public Life.

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Melbourne’s Fitzroy Swimming Pool has retained a sign added in the early 1950s reading “Aqua profonda” meaning “deep water” in Italian – a reflection of the great influx of migrants from the Mediterranean during that time.

The Pool in Venice, a preview

1 Apr 2016, Rory Hyde

Rory Hyde discovers themes of identity and cross-cultural understanding behind Australia’s The Pool exhibition at the 2016 Venice Biennale.

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