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Originally inward-looking and with a narrow public street address, the centre now opens up to its surrounds and generates a welcoming atmosphere.

The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland

The inventive refurbishment of an existing performance venue extends the community’s opportunities and opens up the growing suburb’s civic heart.

Public / cultural
The first impression is one of clear sightlines and generous spaces in which abundant light and fresh air welcome Central Station’s commuters.

Sydney Metro Upgrade of Central Station

A long-awaited expansion to Central Station’s Northern Concourse reworks decades of disparate elements to deliver clear wayfinding, strong civic scale and ample natural light.

Public / cultural
The plaza sits between Mirvac’s EY Centre by FJMT, Lendlease’s 180 George Street by Foster and Partners, and Studio Hollenstein’s Jacksons on George, whose roof terrace is at a similar height to the plaza’s building terrace.

George Street Plaza by Adjaye Associates with Daniel Boyd

Adjaye Associates with Daniel Boyd

In Sydney’s CBD, a small, collaborative project makes a significant contribution to the city’s public spaces, encouraging us to consider multiple perspectives and our own place in the universe.

Public / cultural
The new Rockhampton Museum of Art engages with the city’s 1901 Customs House and helps to activate the public space surrounding it.

Venturous and engaging: Rockhampton Museum of Art

On Rockhampton’s riverbank, a new art museum designed by local and national practices in partnership connects the city’s architectural heritage with contemporary art and culture.

Public / cultural
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
Broadmeadows Town Hall represents a gradient of transformation, from subtle restoration at one end to full reconstruction and addition at the other.

Town Hall Broadmeadows by Kerstin Thompson Architects

Kerstin Thompson Architects used the gamut of conservation strategies to create a new optimistic future for a much-loved suburban town hall affectionately known as “the pink elephant.”

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The perpendicular alignment of the pews
and the entry and alter creates an intimate space.

Saint Mary of the Cross, MacKillop Chapel

Sensory engagement is a defining feature of a Melbourne chapel by Woods Bagot.

Interiors
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
The porte-cochère at the convention centre entrance provides shade and shelter for visitors and staff arriving and leaving the plaza.

The Plaza at the Brisbane Showgrounds

A generous, layered events space for the RNA Showgrounds Regeneration Project by Lat27.

Landscape / urban
A composition of Washington palms perforates the paved area at the entrance to the pool.

Prince Alfred Park

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

Landscape / urban
Queensland Maple and Brown Penda decking from the site were recycled into the new built structures.

Cairns Foreshore Development

A landmark collaborative project led by the landscape architecture team at RPS.

Landscape / urban
The vacant public spaces in Aurora signal a need for occupation.

Aurora

A six-hundred-hectare flagship development in Melbourne’s north by Place Victoria, seven years on.

Landscape / urban, Residential
The entrance sign to Williams Landing replicates a large riveted aileron jutting out of the ground, referencing the site’s aeronautical history.

Williams Landing

A new residential development on the site of a former airfield base in south-west Melbourne.

Landscape / urban, Residential
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
Robust seating walls, lawn embankments and park facilities have created a popular new waterfront.

The Ponds

A sustainable residential development with landscape architecture by Clouston Associates.

Landscape / urban, Residential
Planting is layered and massed, using indigenous species.

Saltwater Coast

Tract Consultants used landscape as the starting point for this new residential subdivision.

Landscape / urban, Residential
Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects’ proposal, “100 Forests/100 Gardens,” features a flexible “tartan” grid informed by the Griffins’ water axis.

The National Arboretum, Canberra

An ambitious scheme that transformed a fire-ravaged site into a project for the research and display of trees.

Landscape / urban
Community group VISION 2020 collaborates with John Mongard Landscape Architects onsite through a process running that has been running over six years.

Bingara’s living classroom

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

Landscape / urban
Victoria Square, Adelaide: Key moves of the project.

Taylor Cullity Lethlean: Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga

TCL interview about Adelaide’s Victoria Square project.

Landscape / urban
Patterns in the landscape are more visible in these early years.

The National Arboretum Canberra

A grand dream realized by Taylor Cullity Lethlean with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects.

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
The perpetual gridlock of Parramatta Road as it currently exists.

Adrian McGregor: Strategies for Parramatta Road

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

Landscape / urban
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