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Y3 Garden by Dan Young Landscape Architect with Donovan Hill.

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 / urban
The ubiquitous backyard pool is reconsidered as an elevated outdoor room for retreat and recreation.

James 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 / urban
Casuarina Garden by Prandium Studio with Vokes and Peters.

Casuarina 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 / urban
By architecture practice Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Less is designed to be a non-commercial public space that users can activate as they see fit.

Dairy Road Masterplan

Molonglo Group, David Chipperfield Architects (residential), Assemble (UK) (industrious), Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture, Craig Tan Architects, Oculus Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Oculus Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, David Chipperfield Architects, Assemble (UK) with JAM and Ell Ell Architects, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture

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 / cultural
The installation was adapted from an entry the design team submitted to the NGV Architecture Commission competition.

The Roundtable by Common and Enlocus

Enlocus, Common

Circular in more than one sense, The Roundtable demonstrates the power and potential of small, temporary public installations.

Landscape / urban
The Spanish Steps, one of the precinct’s two 
main pedestrian axes, is edged by masses of lush, textured plantings.

Restorative 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 / urban
Access to and from the ferry terminals is enhanced by clear crossing points and visual clues along the riverside bike path, to minimize conflict between ferry passengers and cyclists.

Brisbane’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 / urban
The collaborators have taken advantage of the overhead railway line to create a lush, shady sanctuary in the middle of subtropical Brisbane.

Tactical urbanism: Fish Lane

Richards & Spence, Aria Property Group

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 / cultural
The bridge’s aerofoil edge references wartime forms, subtly speaking to the memory of military ships and planes.

Differing 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 / urban
Raising the railway line above ground, as Cox Architecture did for their work along the Caulfield to Dandenong Corridor, provides an opportunity to transform the land beneath.

On track: Level Crossing Removal Project

Cox Architecture, MGS Architects in partnership with Jacobs, Grimshaw Architects

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 / urban
Reclaimed land was removed to create an artificial inlet that returns the city to the water’s edge.

The 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
The square’s design integrates architecture, landscape and art, including a nine-metre statue, Wirin, designed by Tjyllyungoo (aka Lance Chadd) and sculpted working with Stuart Green from Big Spoon Art Services.

‘Genuinely inclusive’: Yagan Square

Lyons Architecture with Iredale Pedersen Hook and Aspect Studios

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 / cultural
The bulk of the Green Square Library is buried underground, with parts emerging from the ground plane as a series of built elements and sunken voids.

A diorama in a messy city: Green Square Library and Plaza

Studio Hollenstein ‎in association with Stewart Architecture

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 / cultural
The 2018 NGV Architecture Commission Doubleground reflects on the fractured nature of memory and the iconic Roy Grounds-designed spaces of its location. Bottom left: Draped Seated Woman (1958), Henry Moore.

Memory lane: Doubleground

Muir, Openwork, Higgins Coatings

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 / urban
Located behind Kerr and Knight’s Parliament House, the members’ annexe provides 102 offices for members of the Parliament of Victoria.

Parliament 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 / cultural
Plastic Palace is the first iteration of what will be an annual commission by Albury City Council and Murray Art Museum Albury. The project makes visible the growing problem of waste management.

Loving 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 / cultural
The Riverlink Building is part of a broader masterplan to reconnect the parallel corridors of Maitland’s High Street and Riverside Walk.

Ebbs 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 / cultural
Visitors clamber through the fantastically twisty timber treehouse at the Ian Potter Children’s Wild Play Garden.

Wild Senses: The Ian Potter Children’s Wild Play Garden

ASPECT Studios, Botanic Gardens and Centennial Parklands

A new garden in Sydney’s Centennial Parklands celebrates learning through nature play, immersing children in habitats with a roguish sense of adventure.

Landscape / urban
The square manifests as a complex constructed topography of open lawns and jagged architectural forms punctuated by lookouts, ramps and staircases.

Everyday civic: Yagan Square

Lyons Architecture with Iredale Pedersen Hook and Aspect Studios

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 / cultural
The core of the Home of the Arts (HOTA) stage and theatre spaces reside beneath a “mountain” landscape made up of succulents, rainforest species and grasses from the wider Gold Coast region.

Voronoi verve: Home of the Arts Outdoor Stage

ARM Architecture, Topotek 1, CUSP, City of Gold Coast

The Gold Coast’s new outdoor stage cleverly melds landscape and architecture to provide a flexible, functional and surprising space for future gatherings.

Landscape / urban
The sober plan and existing buildings are overlaid with a cacophony of colour and architectural expression. Landscape architects TCL created terraces on the rooftops and one at street level, featuring Peter Elliott’s relocated Bowen Terrace Loggia.

Setting 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 / urban
Hi-Lights by Lot-ek.

Lampposts of progress: Hi-Lights

Lot-ek Architecture and Design

These new additions to the Gold Coast landscape by Lot-ek, Office Feuerman and Urban Art Projects engage with notions of sustainable luxury.

Landscape / urban
The entry courtyard is a mix of shades of grey and green that highlights various foliage textures, with a ground layer of travertine pavers over sandstone river pebbles.

Foliage 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 / urban
The Calyx forms a protective layer that unfolds to display a precious botanical interior.

Botanical 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 / urban
Access to and from the ferry terminals is enhanced by clear crossing points and visual clues along the riverside bike path, to minimize conflict between ferry passengers and cyclists.

Going 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 / urban
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Summer Architecture Commission by John Wardle Architects activates the gallery’s under-used garden space.

NGV 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 / urban
The Flinders University Commons is situated just north of the Main Assembly Building (MAB), which is now an open-air community space.

Canopy 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 / cultural
The pavilion is often surrounded by a sea of colourful family tents during sporting events.

Clarence High School Oval Sports Pavilion

Dock4 Architects has successfully configured this school sports pavilion in suburban Hobart to accommodate a broader community.

Landscape / urban
Aerial perspective of Sydney Park.

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.

Landscape / urban
A durable palette of precast concrete, Corten steel, washed aggregate paving and porphyry setts was used in the hardscaping of the project.

Come 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