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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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 simple and elemental pavilion at Wilkinsons Point, delivered as part of Stage Two, juts out into the bay.

Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park (GASP)

Room 11 completes its award-winning work at the Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park in Tasmania.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
New but nostalgic: colours, material and form speak of pools past.

Prince Alfred Park Pool

Neeson Murcutt Architects and Sue Barnsley Design embed memory and art into a Sydney urban space.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Howard Place, Bendigo, by Williams Boag Architects.

Howard Place

A lightweight civic structure by Williams Boag Architects is embraced by the Bendigo locals.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
An oversized off-form concrete portal marks the entry.

Hinze Dam Visitor Centre and Parkland

Malcolm Middleton Architects and AECOM add a human dimension to civic infrastructure.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The symmetrical courtyard consists of levelled seating, paving and grass, leading to  the memorial fountain.

Australian War Memorial

A valuable and historic national project is treated with solemnity and respect while embracing context and symbolism.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural