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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 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 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
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
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
The provision of seating responds to the site’s northern exposure.

Brookfield Place

A pragmatic urban plaza by Hassell facilitates social richness in an otherwise corporate address.

Landscape / urban
Artist’s impression of Alkmios Beach, WA, looking west to the beach from the Marmion Avenue Regional Centre.

Michael Chapman: Building Alkimos Beach

Lend Lease Communities

Interview from the 2013 Urban Issue of Landscape Architecture Australia about Alkimos Beach, WA.

Landscape / urban
Looking down Highpoint Boulevard.

Ellenbrook Estate – revisited

Western Australian Government Department of Housing and Works (DHW) , Morella [now Live Work Play (LWP)]

With a number of landscape architecture firms behind its design, Western Australia’s Ellenbrook Estate is worth reflecting on.

Landscape / urban
The town of Claremont allocated 30 percent of the site to public open space.

Lakeway drive-in redevelopment

Hassell transforms a former drive-in theatre into a residential site, retaining valued bushland and parkland.

Landscape / urban