Community Contribution
Projects
Acknowledgement of Aboriginal Country Signage is a simple yet powerful gesture to acknowledge traditional owners and their Country.
Everyone Can Play provides a comprehensive suite of principles, case studies and “tool kit” examples that support more inclusive play spaces in New South Wales
This project invites the visitor to enjoy the sublime beauty of the quarry space by creating a simple elegant viewing platform.
Interpretive Wonderings is an important and beautiful body of design research, a collation of interrelated events that originated from an invitation to map the landscape of an aboriginal community owned station property in southern NSW.
This project is an exemplifier of deep listening and the role of landscape architects in providing a holistic People and Place approach to visioning that goes beyond spatial design.
The Plant Bank is a research institute, seed repository and public building set amongst the Australian Botanic Gardens at Mount Annan in the south-western suburbs of Sydney.
This project succeeds in creating a transformational parkland that artfully integrates play into the natural landscape.
This project demonstrates excellence in leadership from planning through to execution and provides the town of Newman with a wonderful legacy project that will continue to build community interaction that is socially and financially sustainable.
Rigorous attentions to detail has resulted in a place that is devoid of clutter and reflects the calmness of its Moreton Bay outlook.
With the urgent need for cities to tackle climate change and the urban heat island effect, as well as increasing population growth and diversity, it is encouraging to see projects such as the University Square Master Plan embrace these issues through effective and well researched urban and landscape planning.
Healthy Communities
Projects
This project is a wonderful example of the university’s strategy to promote outdoor learning spaces.
On an undulating hillside within Centennial Park one enters a secret garden in which the play elements merge with the landscape setting, creating a journey of discovery for children and their families.
The Mukanthi Playspace at Morialta has transformed an underutilised part of the Morialta Conservation Park into a significant community facility that encourages physical activity, exploration, adventure and imagination, while fostering valuable connections to nature
This project invites the visitor to enjoy the sublime beauty of the quarry space by creating a simple elegant viewing platform.
The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) has transformed thinking about what is possible in health design in Australia through intrinsically integrating the curative benefits of access to landscape, views, natural light and sunshine within the design
The Southern Parklands Vision 2036 demonstrates excellent leadership and sustainable outcomes for ‘Sydney’s Biggest Backyard’, consisting of some 1500 hectares, which is 28% of Sydney’s parklands
The Ballam Bumps Regional Playspace is awarded because it is a generous design that pushes the expectations about who a playground is for and how it can be used.
The Darebin Yarra Trail Link is an exciting and beautifully executed project. The leadership, vision and dedication of a multidisciplinary team have delivered an iconic infrastructure project that is an exemplar for Australia.
The design team is commended for this great revitalisation and the high level of quality and functionality delivered in The Link.
This organic / eco food based destination master plan envisages the future role of wineries in promoting local and regional tourism.