Tag: Gardens

A new Sensory Garden by Andrew Laidlaw was completed in December 2020.
News | ArchitectureAU Editorial | 15 Jan 2021

The next 20 years for Melbourne’s botanic gardens

An underground herbarium has been proposed for Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in a 20-year masterplan.

The proposed Healing Garden at Heide Museum of Modern Art by Openwork.

A healing garden for Heide

The Healing Garden by Openwork will be planted between Heide founder Sunday Reed’s original heritage-listed kitchen garden and the Heide cottage.

Guilfoyle’s Volcano at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne designed by Andrew Laidlaw.
News | ArchitectureAU Editorial | 29 Jan 2019

Vic govt. pledges $5m for new nature and science precinct at Royal Botanic Gardens

The Victorian Government has committed $5 million to begin work on the planning and design of a new nature and science precinct at the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Aerial view of Taylor Cullity Lethlean’s garden Cultivated by Fire, Australia’s contribution to the 2017 International Horticultural Exhibition (Internationale Gartenausstellung) in Berlin.
Review | Dianne Firth | 5 Oct 2018

An Australian garden in Berlin

TCL’s Cultivated by Fire garden for the 2017 International Horticultural Exhibition in Berlin fosters an understanding of Australia’s rich cultural and environmental history.

Charles House garden: Scleranthus biflorus (cushion bush) grows around granite boulders and clumps of grasses capture the golden morning light.
News | Emily Wong | 22 Feb 2018

Living landscapes: Five residential gardens

From the conscious chaos of the Towers Road Residence garden to the restrained elegance of Fairfield House, Landscape Australia editor Emily Wong rounds up five recent projects that explore landscapes as spaces for living.

Low-level textural plantings and the reflective surface of the infinity pool enhance the outstanding borrowed views at Halls Ridge, Carmel Valley, California.
Practice | Howard Tanner | 5 Feb 2018

California dreaming: The gardens of Bernard Trainor

Only a handful of Australian designers have pursued careers abroad and achieved international recognition. One of them is landscape designer Bernard Trainor, whose California-based practice has built an impressive portfolio of projects on the west coast of the USA.

The entry courtyard is a mix of shades of grey and green that highlights various foliage textures, with a ground layer of travertine pavers over sandstone river pebbles.
Projects | Ricky Ray Ricardo | 17 Jan 2018

Foliage fervour: Bungalow Garden Rooms

A series of diverse, textural and dynamic “garden rooms” are the result of a close collaboration between architect and landscape architect and celebrate a life lived outdoors.

A fire pit designed by Michael Bates in the Snowy Mountains.
Review | Howard Tanner | 14 Dec 2017

The New Australian Garden: Landscapes for living

Howard Tanner reviews Michael Bates’ book The New Australian Garden: Landscapes for living.

Photos from the 1990s: Slit drums from Vanuatu.
Report | Neil Hobbs | 1 Nov 2017

National Gallery of Australia Sculpture Garden

Thirty years after planting, this serpentine trail is now a destination in its own right.

The proposed station at Parkville, designed by Weston Williamson and Partners and Hassell.
News | Patrick Hunn | 13 Oct 2017

Could the grass be greener above the Melbourne Metro Tunnel?

Melbourne’s underground rail project also contains a plan to actively improve, increase and preserve Melbourne’s inner-city “living infrastructure.”

The garden at the Owen Architecture-designed Rosalie House in Brisbane, designed by Dan Young Landscape Architect, eschews typical responses such as screening and bordering.
Practice | Ricky Ray Ricardo | 5 Oct 2017

Dan Young and Paul Owen: Rethinking the suburban landscape

Dan Young began his landscape architecture practice with the help of friend and collaborator Paul Owen (Owen Architecture), working on a number of residential projects in Brisbane. Landscape Australia caught up with the duo to talk collaboration, private practice and planting design.

The huge leaves of Wigandia caracasana work tricks with depth of field and scale in the garden.
Review | Fiona Harrisson | 27 Sep 2017

Charles House: A new bush garden

Featuring eclectic combinations of plant species, this garden in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs is an immersive space full of diversity and delight.

Burnley Living Roofs by Hassell is a research and demonstration garden at the University of Melbourne’s Burnley Campus.

Fine-tuning the planting design cycle

Green wall and roof garden projects pose many challenges to good planting design outcomes, particularly synergizing design intent and management. How can the processes be improved?

Blairgowrie Beach House by Acre. Brett Robinson of Acre Studio won Best in Category in Landscape Design - Rural or Coastal.

Winners announced: AILDM National Awards

The Australian Institute of Landscape Designers and Managers (AILDM) announced its annual awards in Sydney.

Landscape contractor and designer Michael Bates.
Practice | Michael Bates | 30 Aug 2017

Michael Bates: The education of a gardener

Michael Bates, arguably the most enterprising landscape contractor in the Sydney region, reflects on his education as a gardener in this excerpt from his recent book, The New Australian Garden.

Western view from the big house.
Review | Howard Tanner | 25 Jul 2017

Horse Island: A garden of grandeur

Trevor and Christina Kennedy have created a significant and substantial garden on their own private island near Bodalla on the South Coast of New South Wales.

The Jeremy Vine Texture Garden by Matt Keightley with its geometric concrete forms in views framed by dwarf Pinus mugo.
Review | Howard Tanner | 1 Jun 2017

Spring bloom: A postcard from the 2017 Chelsea Garden Show

Howard Tanner visits the oldest and most distinguished garden trade show in the world and finds a breathtaking range of design ideas and plant material.

Towers Road Residence by TCL.
Places | 25 May 2017

Structured chaos: Towers Road Residence Gardens

The Towers Road garden by Taylor Cullity Lethlean fosters a ‘sense of embrace’ — a poetic garden of structured chaos.

Professor Emeritus Marc Treib visited Australia throughout October and November 2016, delivering lectures on the work of Isamu Noguchi.
Practice | Fiona Johnson | 12 May 2017

Marc Treib: Attending place

Noted historian and critic of landscape architecture, Marc Treib, speaks with Fiona Johnson about his new book Austere Gardens, Isamu Noguchi and landscape design.

A Cubist’s dream.
Review | Cassandra Chilton | 28 Apr 2017

Sh*t Gardens of Melbourne II: A celebration not a condemnation

Cassandra Chilton reviews the recent exhibition Shit Gardens of Melbourne II: A Celebration Not a Condemnation – an unofficial fringe event to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.

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