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Green Ladder by Vo Trong Nghia Architects.

Bamboo beginning: Green Ladder

Vo Trong Nghia Architects

Sandra Kaji-O’Grady previews Vo Trong Nghia Architects’ pavilion Green Ladder, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation’s 2016 Fugitive Structures commission.

Landscape / urban
Excavated sandstone blocks are used to re-create the pre-colonial landform of the Barangaroo Reserve site, a former shipyard.

A naturalized landscape: Barangaroo Reserve

Bruce Mackenzie examines the design thinking, vegetation, soil science and collaboration that created Barangaroo Reserve.

Landscape / urban
Frank Gehry’s Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at the UTS Business School borders The Goods Line to the south-west, attracting tourists to the area.

Walks of life: The Goods Line

Aspect Studios and CHROFI create an elevated, pedestrian-scale linear park in Sydney that maintains a constant level of public life.

Landscape / urban
The largest and most “designed” of the 2014 plantings took the form of a 2.4-kilometre-long spiral on the site of the former Moe public hospital.

Seeds of Change: Get Sunflowered

Office of Urban Transformations Research (OUTR), School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University

A project in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley offers a happy intervention to a region facing serious economic and social challenges.

Landscape / urban
In the central rain garden native sedges and grasses grow from a bed of local crushed granite. Artwork: Weeping Women by Sanné Mestrom, 2014 (sculptures).

The Ian Potter Sculpture Court

The Ian Potter Sculpture Court at Monash University’s Caulfield campus is a place of stillness and calm.

Landscape / urban
A plunge pool has been created from a concrete water tank craned onto the site and tiled in mosaics.

A new rural: Garland Garden

In the inner-city Brisbane suburb of New Farm, Landscapology presents a compelling vision of a new-century rural garden.

Landscape / urban, Residential
Monument Park sits between Victoria Harbour and the new McBride Charles Ryan-designed development The Quays.

Ghost town: Monument Park

Callum Morton, Oculus and McBride Charles Ryan deliver an engaging new public artwork in Melbourne’s Docklands worthy of a visit.

Landscape / urban
Lush, tropical vegetation is fast enveloping the steel arbour in the Secret Garden.

Lady Cilento Hospital landscapes

For Brisbane’s new Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, Conrad Gargett created an impressive suite of rooftop gardens full of drama and novelty.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital occupies a prominent site in South Bank, Brisbane and serves as an urban counterpoint to the CBD.

Urban vigour: Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital

Brisbane’s new children’s hospital by Conrad Gargett Lyons is a powerful work of city making.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Tubular steel spells out climbable words linked to flour milling: wheat, flour, blend and purify.

Writing history: Harts Mill Surrounds

A playspace by Aspect Studios at a historic mill leads the revitalization of Port Adelaide’s post-industrial waterfront.

Landscape / urban
The Convic-designed Esplanade Youth Plaza is set between giant stands of Araucaria at Fremantle’s Esplanade Park.

Freo’s “Happy Park”: Esplanade Youth Plaza

Fremantle’s Esplanade Youth Plaza successfully balances youth recreational activities with family space.

Landscape / urban
A continuous landscape character is woven through the Fiona Stanley Hospital precinct, connecting courtyards, plazas, parklands, rooftops and bushland.

Botanical remedy: Fiona Stanley Hospital landscapes

Perth’s new hospital provides many well-crafted landscapes that service the needs and moods of patients and visitors alike.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Splashes of intense colour enliven the space as seen from the air.

Cultural infusion: Dandenong Civic Square

A colourful new civic square in Dandenong offers a welcoming and intimate space to its diverse community.

Landscape / urban
Triangular geometries and concrete walls retain layers of rocky shale.

Banking biodiversity: The Australian Plantbank Garden

A new plant conservation laboratory presents an infrastructure that is critical to the task of banking Australia’s diverse flora.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The path system allows for unexpected juxtapositions.

Strangely familiar: Mount Penang Gardens

The Mount Penang Gardens are considered an enduring and radical contribution to public garden design in Australia.

Landscape / urban
Entrance artwork by Jon Tarry, based on an insect chrysalis.

Child’s play: Rio Tinto Naturescape

Plan E has delivered a play area in Perth’s Kings Park with the specific aim of reconnecting children with nature.

Landscape / urban
A cascading steel mesh staircase is bolted onto a rock face adjacent to the MacKenzie River.

Of Stone and steel: MacKenzie Falls Precinct

A bold yet highly site-specific gesture rarely seen in Australian national parks and conservation areas.

Landscape / urban
A rammed earth wall in different soil types gives the project a layered, tactile quality.

Heavy Metal Retaining Wall

Monash Art Design & Architecture (MADA)

A semipermanent intervention on the front lawn of Tasmania’s MONA by Monash University’s Design-Make program.

Landscape / urban
Chevron-shaped window hoods identify the principal inpatient, acute care wards of the main hospital building at Perth’s Fiona Stanley Hospital.

Natural healing: Fiona Stanley Hospital

The Fiona Stanley Hospital employs evidence-based design principles to make tangible contributions to patients’ wellbeing.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
A crisp plane of paving is positioned within a square of four plane trees.

Zinc House

A contemporary pared-back garden that elides the distinction between gallery space and domestic living.

Landscape / urban
Lush tropical plantings at the rear of the garden are reflected on the pool’s surface.

Parsley Bay Garden

This lush Sydney villa garden is enriched by a collection of bespoke artworks.

Landscape / urban
Dramatic rocks tower from Circular ponds in the water feature by artist Ashika Ostapkowicz.

Mount Eliza Garden

An artful composition by landscape architects Sinatra Murphy on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

Landscape / urban
Aerial view over the entire Australian Garden near Cranbourne in Victoria.

The Australian Garden

A spectacular garden by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Paul Thompson explores the Australian identity.

Landscape / urban
PlantBank viewed from the north, with the administration wing on the left and the research wing on the right.

Australian PlantBank

BVN Donovan Hill gives architectural voice to a botanical ark in Mount Annan, New South Wales.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Looking back at the house from across the dam.

Roogulli

Fresh Landscape Design has transformed a drought-ravaged property outside of Canberra into a resilient garden.

Landscape / urban
Tamarama kiosk along the southern cliff aligns to the surfers’ boardwalk to the beach.

Tamarama Kiosk

Lahznimmo Architects, Waverley Council Recreation & Community

A pavilion by Lahznimmo Architects brings the glamour back to Tamarama beach in Sydney.

Hospitality, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The bedroom courtyard is structured around an elegant reflective pool in the Adelaide villa garden.

Two Adelaide Villas

A contemporary play on Renaissance and other historic garden styles.

Landscape / urban
The horizontal planes of the house contrast with the ragged verticality of the nearby eucalyptus grove.

The garden at Medhurst

A contemporary take on modernist landscape design by Tract Consultants in Victoria’s Yarra Valley.

Landscape / urban
The above-ground concrete pool was designed by architects James Stockwell and Jonathan Temple.

Forest Edge Garden

In a bushland clearing high above the Hunter Valley, a sublime garden by Jane Irwin.

Landscape / urban
Aerial view of Londscale Street in Central Dandenong. Streetscaping by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and BKK Architects.

Revitalising Central Dandenong

A $290 million urban renewal initiative aimed at revitalizing central Dandenong.

Landscape / urban