From an expansive garden of sweeping waves and axial geometries on Mornington Peninsula to a landscape in a bush clearing overlooking the Hunter Valley, Landscape Australia rounds up a selection of projects that demonstrate the range and depth of exploration across residential landscape design.
1. Mount Eliza Garden by Sinatra Murphy
Set on a four-hectare site in Victoria’s beachside suburb of Mount Eliza, the spaces and the way they are articulated create a rare experience, enriched by the views, the ground-cover materials and the planting. More…
2. Garland Garden by Landscapology
When the Amalie Wright was briefed to redesign the forlorn backyard of an 1894 house in New Farm, she developed her own vision of a new-century rural garden. The home’s much-used back verandah is the main observation point for the back garden and hovers above the garden, enjoying views down into it as well as more distant vistas of the city and mountains. More…
Garland Garden by Landscapology in New Farm, Brisbane.
Image: Christopher Frederick Jones
3. The Garden at Medhurst by Tract Consultants
As a contemporary expression of modernist landscape design – something unusual in Australia, especially in the rural environment – Medhurst might even be considered a provocation. Here Steve Calhoun and Helen Wellman from Tract Consultants eschew the traditional design devices of spatial and material complexity, and typical planting, to create an immersive garden experience. More…
4. Bundeena Garden by 360 Degrees Landscape Architects
The design is a journey, from the turn-off into the Royal National Park to the car park at street level above the beachfront. A garden of acacias greets visitors on arrival, while a mature Port Jackson Fig was brought in to frame the view out to the water. More…
Bundeena Garden by 360 Degrees Landscape Architects in Port Hacking, New South Wales.
Image: Brigid Arnott
5. Forest Edge Garden by Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture
The garden supplements the spatial quality of a remnant sequence of clearings. House, studio and outbuildings are gathered in a gently flared geometry in the largest clearing on the escarpment edge. The verticality of the forest dissipates, and the view unfurls towards a series of intricately layered ranges in the far distant horizon. More…
Residential gardens or landscapes is a category in the annual Houses Awards program. Entries to the 2021 Houses Awards program close 5 March 2021. For more information and to enter your project, go here.
