Tag: Wetland

The freeway runs through a landscape of mangroves and intertidal samphire ecologies, disturbed over the years by industrial and horticultural activities.
Review | Tanya Court | 24 Jun 2022

Salt and samphire: Northern Connector

In Adelaide’s north, a freeway project by Tract carefully negotiates surrounding salt fields, mangroves and wetlands.

The project created a shore beach connecting the Maali with the river and a safe island beach nesting habitat. Photo: Veronica Mcphail, Friends of the South Perth Wetlands.

A black swan event: Djirda Miya Island

On the southern edge of Perth’s CBD, a new haven created for the iconic Maali (black swan) offers a precedent for considering incremental approaches to regenerating urban river systems.

The Malvolio Road reserve site in Coolbellup, WA in December 2016 (left), and again in March 2017 (right) after it was cleared to make way for the Perth Freight Link.
Practice | Andrea Gaynor | 11 Apr 2017

Roe 8: From freight link to green link

With the Perth Freight Link now cancelled, the community that grew around resistance to this project looks forward to beginning the work of replanting and restoring.

Aerial perspective of Sydney Park.
Review | Ricky Ray Ricardo | 26 Sep 2016

Waste not, want not: Sydney Park

Occupying a former landfill site, the Sydney Park Water Re-use Project by Turf Design Studio and Environmental Partnership is an impressive fusion of design, science, art and ecology.

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