PROJECTS

The garden at a new house on the Tweed coast is a subtropical romance, with house and outdoor room lying in delicate concert.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sue Barnsley Design and Neeson Murcutt Architects’ upgrade of Sydney’s Prince Alfred Park + Pool.

A sustainable residential development with landscape architecture by Clouston Associates.

John Mongard Landscape Architects and the NSW Bingara community strategize to future-proof the town.

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

A conversation from the 2013 Urban Issue of Landscape Architecture Australia.

A once inaccessible Sydney site is repurposed by Hassell as an environmentally sensitive community space.

With a series of careful interventions, 360°Landscape Architects sculpts a journey alongside a Sydney house.

JMD Design creates an invigorating playground at Sydney Olympic Park with moulded terrain and supersized equipment.

Sydney’s award-winning Darling Quarter playground by Aspect Studios.

Terragram’s redesign of this inner-Sydney park demonstrates that there is more than one way to occupy public space.

Fifteen years ago it was one of Sydney’s most contaminated and degraded sites but today it is used and loved by the community.

Aspect Studios creates a civic waterfront parklands for the Tweed Shire community.

This park by Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture uses materials that celebrate the character of the site.

With a past life as a private zoo, this house and garden are full of eccentricity and delight.