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Year completed
Y3 Garden by Dan Young Landscape Architect with Donovan Hill
This artfully composed outdoor room reconsiders the central courtyard of a seminal Queensland home, providing a dog-proof filter between the house and the street.
Landscape / urbanJames Garden Pavilion by UME Architecture
Set in the subtropical verdure of Brisbane’s New Farm, this outdoor room is an ornamental frame of blockwork and foliage that contributes to an elevated, extroverted domestic life.
Landscape / urbanCasuarina Garden by Prandium Studio with Vokes and Peters
The garden at a new house on the Tweed coast is a subtropical romance, with house and outdoor room lying in delicate concert.
Landscape / urbanDairy Road Masterplan
On a site east of Canberra and adjacent to wetlands, a collaborative team whose process inverts the “master” plan paradigm is gradually designing a diverse neighbourhood in a restored landscape.
Commercial, Landscape / urban, Public / culturalThe Roundtable by Common and Enlocus
Circular in more than one sense, The Roundtable demonstrates the power and potential of small, temporary public installations.
Landscape / urbanRestorative effects: Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS)
The design of the Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) by Hassell capitalizes on the benefits of greenery on health while laying down the framework for a successful future pedestrian precinct in inner-Brisbane.
Health, Landscape / urbanBrisbane’s flood-resilient ferry terminals
Eight ferry terminals have been stitched to their Brisbane River sites in a generous, flood-resilient scheme that elevates the public transit experience.
Landscape / urbanTactical urbanism: Fish Lane
A neglected post-industrial area of central Brisbane is transformed into a vibrant arts precinct through a collaborative private delivery model with a nuanced approach at both the strategic and the fine-grain scale.
Commercial, Landscape / urban, Public / culturalDiffering perspectives: Bridge of Remembrance
On a highly contested site, valued as both a place of memorial and a green space available for the people, DCM has worked with local partners and government to create a symbolic and functional structure that changes with viewpoint, inviting a variety of interpretations.
Landscape / urbanOn track: Level Crossing Removal Project
Level crossing removals have been part of Melbourne’s strategy since 1929. With more removals in 2018 than ever before, it is pertinent to assess three of these new projects that strive to extend the public realm.
Landscape / urbanThe unfinished business of Perth’s Elizabeth Quay
In Perth, the Elizabeth Quay precinct has proven popular but its success depends on “unfinished business.”
Landscape / urban, Public / cultural‘Genuinely inclusive’: Yagan Square
The collaborative design for Yagan Square in the heart of Perth returns the site to its origins as a people’s meeting place and links previously disconnected parts of the city.
Landscape / urban, Public / culturalA diorama in a messy city: Green Square Library and Plaza
In the evolving urban precinct of Sydney’s Green Square, the unconventional organization of a library and its plaza – designed by Studio Hollenstein in association with Stewart Architecture – is driven by an urban approach that loosens the division between inside and outside.
Landscape / urban, Public / culturalMemory lane: Doubleground
Marked by fluid boundaries and tilted terrain, Muir and Openwork’s installation is a potent reflection on architecture, experience and the relationship of memory to place.
Landscape / urbanParliament of Victoria, Members’ Annexe Building
A companion building delicately grafted into the garden setting of Victoria’s Parliament House realizes the long-anticipated extension to one of Melbourne’s most prominent civic landmarks.
Landscape / urban, Public / culturalLoving and confronting: Plastic Palace
In the face of Australia’s accelerating waste crisis, a temporary structure in Albury by Raffaello Rosselli Architect lays bare the true cost of our reliance on hard plastic.
Landscape / urban, Public / culturalEbbs and flows: Maitland Riverlink
Chrofi with McGregor Coxall’s revival of the city centre of Maitland, New South Wales, is a sublime lesson in addition and subtraction. Chrofi’s gateway building is a delicate aperture in the otherwise solid streetscape, forging a strong connection between city and river.
Landscape / urban, Public / culturalWild Senses: The Ian Potter Children’s Wild Play Garden
A new garden in Sydney’s Centennial Parklands celebrates learning through nature play, immersing children in habitats with a roguish sense of adventure.
Landscape / urbanEveryday civic: Yagan Square
At Perth’s new urban square, Yagan Square, flexibility and history provide a platform for engaging with changing notions of national identity, Reconciliation and civic life.
Landscape / urban, Public / culturalVoronoi verve: Home of the Arts Outdoor Stage
The Gold Coast’s new outdoor stage cleverly melds landscape and architecture to provide a flexible, functional and surprising space for future gatherings.
Landscape / urbanSetting the stage: New Academic Street
A collaboration between five architectural practices, RMIT University’s New Academic Street revels in diversity as a series of “theatrical stage sets” reinvigorates utilitarian buildings and reconnects them to their urban setting.
Education, Landscape / urbanLampposts of progress: Hi-Lights
These new additions to the Gold Coast landscape by Lot-ek, Office Feuerman and Urban Art Projects engage with notions of sustainable luxury.
Landscape / urbanFoliage fervour: Bungalow Garden Rooms
A series of diverse, textural and dynamic “garden rooms” are the result of a close collaboration between architect and landscape architect and celebrate a life lived outdoors.
Landscape / urbanBotanical enigma: The Calyx
The latest addition to the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, by PTW Architects with landscape architecture by McGregor Coxall, presents a striking geometric volume that is a protective layer and a lens that frames cinematic moments.
Landscape / urbanGoing with the flow: Brisbane’s new ferry terminals
Eight ferry terminals have been stitched to their Brisbane River sites in a generous, flood-resilient scheme that elevates the public transit experience.
Landscape / urbanNGV Summer Architecture Commission 2015
John Wardle Architects’ design for the National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural Summer Architecture Commission nods to Melbourne’s modernist past, while also speaking to the new and emerging.
Landscape / urbanCanopy of industry: Tonsley Main Assembly Building Redevelopment
A former car assembly building redeveloped by Tridente Architects and Woods Bagot plays a central role in the ongoing development of the sixty-one-hectare precinct of Tonsley.
Landscape / urban, Public / culturalClarence High School Oval Sports Pavilion
Dock4 Architects has successfully configured this school sports pavilion in suburban Hobart to accommodate a broader community.
Landscape / urbanWaste 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.
Landscape / urbanCome to pass: Bowen Place Crossing
A “refreshingly minimalist” design by Lahz Nimmo Architects with Spackman Mossop Michaels offers safe passage for pedestrians and cyclists under Canberra’s Kings Avenue Bridge.
Landscape / urban