Tag: Urban design

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Prime Minister announced as patron of Australian Urban Design Awards

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced his patronage of the Australian Urban Design Awards.

Byron Bay Town Centre designed by McGregor Coxall.
News | ArchitectureAU Editorial | 20 Jun 2016

Byron Bay adopts McGregor Coxall Town Centre masterplan

The Byron Shire Council has adopted the Byron Bay Town Centre masterplan designed by landscape architecture and urban design practice McGregor Coxall.

Ngarara Place at RMIT University's city campus by Greenaway Architects.
News | Louisa Wright | 31 May 2016

Indigenous garden opens in heart of Melbourne

Ngarara Place, an Indigenous landscape designed by Greenway Architects, has opened at RMIT University’s city campus.

Tubular steel spells out climbable words linked to flour milling: wheat, flour, blend and purify.
Review | Jo Russell-Clarke | 3 May 2016

Writing history: Harts Mill Surrounds

A playspace by Aspect Studios at a historic mill leads the revitalization of Port Adelaide’s post-industrial waterfront.

Splashes of intense colour enliven the space as seen from the air.
Review | Kate Gamble | 3 May 2016

Cultural infusion: Dandenong Civic Square

A colourful new civic square in Dandenong offers a welcoming and intimate space to its diverse community.

Aerial view of Londscale Street in Central Dandenong. Streetscaping by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and BKK Architects.
Review | Beau Beza | 3 May 2016

Revitalising Central Dandenong

A $290 million urban renewal initiative aimed at revitalizing central Dandenong.

Luigi Russolo, The Revolt, oil on canvas (1912)
Practice | Jordan Lacey | 3 May 2016

We need a new relationship with urban noise

We denigrate it and try to escape from it, but urban noise might be the contemporary world’s most expressive moment.

Illawarra flame trees (Brachychiton acerifolius) provide shade over the terraced steps.
Review | Suzanne Kyte | 3 May 2016

The Plaza at the Brisbane Showgrounds

A generous, layered events space for the RNA Showgrounds Regeneration Project by Lat27.

A composition of Washington palms perforates the paved area at the entrance to the pool.
Review | Julian Raxworthy | 3 May 2016

Prince Alfred Park

Sue Barnsley Design and Neeson Murcutt Architects’ upgrade of Sydney’s Prince Alfred Park + Pool.

The graphic surface of the multipurpose area allows for a variety of sports and activities to occur simultaneously.
Review | Bonnie Grant | 3 May 2016

Box Hill Gardens Multipurpose Area

A sport and recreation space by Aspect Studios doubles as a backyard for local residents.

Queensland Maple and Brown Penda decking from the site were recycled into the new built structures.
Review | Peter Skinner | 3 May 2016

Cairns Foreshore Development

A landmark collaborative project led by the landscape architecture team at RPS.

The vacant public spaces in Aurora signal a need for occupation.
Review | Helen Day | 3 May 2016

Aurora

A six-hundred-hectare flagship development in Melbourne’s north by Place Victoria, seven years on.

North Lakes was developed by Stockland and expects a final population figure of around 25,000.
Review | Mark Fuller | 3 May 2016

North Lakes and Fitzgibbon Chase

In South East Queensland, two master-planned communities are spearheading regional growth.

Workers from the adjoining Brookfield Tower descend on the plaza for lunch.
Review | Julian Bolleter | 3 May 2016

Brookfield Place

A pragmatic urban plaza by Hassell facilitates social richness in an otherwise corporate address.

Planting is layered and massed, using indigenous species.
Review | Marcus Baumgart | 3 May 2016

Saltwater Coast

Tract Consultants used landscape as the starting point for this new residential subdivision.

New but nostalgic: colours, material and form speak of pools past.
Review | Philip Goad | 3 May 2016

Prince Alfred Park Pool

Neeson Murcutt Architects and Sue Barnsley Design embed memory and art into a Sydney urban space.

Spaces are controlled and formal along Kendall Lane.
Review | Sueanne Ware | 3 May 2016

New Acton Precinct

Canberra’s New Acton Precinct incorporates art, retail, hospitality facilities and apartment complexes.

Victoria Square, Adelaide: Key moves of the project.
Practice | Perry Lethlean and Kate Cullity | 3 May 2016

Taylor Cullity Lethlean: Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga

TCL interview about Adelaide’s Victoria Square project.

Artist’s impression of Alkmios Beach, WA, looking west to the beach from the Marmion Avenue Regional Centre.
Practice | Michael Chapman | 3 May 2016

Michael Chapman: Building Alkimos Beach

Interview from the 2013 Urban Issue of Landscape Architecture Australia about Alkimos Beach, WA.

The perpetual gridlock of Parramatta Road as it currently exists.
Practice | Adrian McGregor | 3 May 2016

Adrian McGregor: Strategies for Parramatta Road

A conversation from the 2013 Urban Issue of Landscape Architecture Australia.

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