Posts in Sustainability
The Lily Pads

The Lily Pads are Inspiring Place’s competition-winning entry to replace the ageing deck over the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens’ famous lily pond as part of the Gardens’ bicentennial celebrations.

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Da Nang Railway Connectivity Improvement & Urban Redevelopment Study

Drawn out of mutual respect and collaboration, this project demonstrated cross-cultural knowledge exchange and building the capacity of 15 local Vietnamese professionals through an intensive nine month exercise in best practice approaches to landscape architecture, urban design and planning.

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Monash University Civil Engineering Hydraulics 'Living Lab'

Living Lab is a remarkable contribution to sustainable, relational and productive design that has extraordinary benefits for practitioners and industry.

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Southern Parklands Vision 2036

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

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Oaklands Park and Wetland

At the heart of the project is a functional wetland which harvests 500 Megalitres of water from the Sturt River for use in irrigation of 30 other open spaces and for groundwater recharge.

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Temaiku Land and Urban Planning

Tamaiku Land and Urban Planning is a brave, necessary and compelling project that addresses one of the greatest injustices played out today – the loss of home, community, culture due to climate change.

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Green Infrastructure Planning a National Green Network

The panel was struck by this novel landscape architectural design-based exploration of the spatial implications of environmental policy and ecological theory objectives that aim to safeguard Australia’s biodiversity.

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The Living Knowledge Stream for Curtin University

This in-depth and impactful study for Curtin University, interprets two songlines and integrates indigenous knowledge into meaningful design outcomes for all people.

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Plant bank

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.

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K2K Urban Design

This project was developed through a close collaboration of both landscape architect and architect, working together to deliver a fully integrated, high quality urban design which not only accommodates future growth but greatly improves local amenity and liveability within an existing urban fabric. 

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City of Adelaide Park Lands Management Strategy

With a focus on increasing activation, accessibility and resilience while maintaining and stren gthening the Parks’ distinct character, the strategy sets a robust framework for future park management and development and illustrates the significant contribution that the Park Lands make to the social life of Adelaide.

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Forest Edge Garden

Design restraint is an important tool in the landscape architecture profession, and Forest Edge uses this tool to perfection. The approach has been to bring together the site’s geology, flora and aspect, along with the transitional patterns of fire and drought, to deliver a garden that draws its aesthetic appeal from the landscape in which it sits.

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