2021 National Landscape Architecture Awards eMagazine by Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA)

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS NATIONAL 2021

We acknowledge and respect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia, as the traditional custodians of our lands, waters and seas.We recognise their ability to care for Country and their deep spiritual connection with Country. We honour Elders past and present whose knowledge and wisdom ensure the continuation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS NATIONAL 2021

4 Message from the AILA President

5 Partners

12 The 2021 National Awards 12 National President's Award

National Partners

Civic Landscape 24

6 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA)

Community Contribution

Play Spaces

About the Landscape

Gardens

152

Architecture Awards

Research, Policy & Communications

Health and Education Landscape

164

Awards Levels

Small Projects

Infrastructure

172

Tourism

International

184

108

Urban Design

Land Management

198

Message from the Jury Chair

116

Regional Achievement

Landscape Planning

National Jury

124

Parks & Open Space

Message from the CEO

138

8 The Jury

34 Cultural Heritage

Front cover Image: Wondrous World Images/Kaju Yatka (Kalbarri Skywalk)

214 Acknowledgements

MESSAGE FROM THE AILA PRESIDENT

We find ourselves at a unique time in history, with the convergence of a climate and biodiversity emergency, a global pandemic, and treaty and truth telling. The projects celebrated in the 2021 AILA National Awards program illustrate the promise of a green recovery at a time of unprecedented recognition of the value of urban green infrastructure to human and ecosystem health. Landscape architecture brings social, cultural, economic, and environmental benefits to Australian communities. They are exceptional examples and case studies that form the basis of AILA’s advocacy to all levels of government. The project award nominees and winners communicate the value of landscape architecture to the communities they part of, not as projects but as places, 4

platforms for the public life of our cities and regions. This year’s awards program demonstrates the breadth and depth of the Australian profession and reinforces that all scales and methods of landscapes matter, whether in research, policy, strategy, procurement, planning or design - in education, communication, government, and private practice. We are part of a global profession, committed to climate action so we need to share what we have learnt from these projects beyond the AILA awards program with our colleagues, clients, and collaborators and with prospective landscape architects. Share the challenges, the opportunities, and most importantly the knowledge, within our region, and globally - to build our profession’s capacity, and to amplify our impact. On behalf of the AILA board I congratulate and thank you all for being part of the 2021 AILA National Awards Program, and relay our appreciation to the awards jury, and jury chair PetaMaree Ashford, and to the AILA staff for their commitment to making this program possible.

Claire Martin AILA President

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ABOUT THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

The AILA Landscape Architecture Awards program provides a key vehicle for the promotion of the achievements and work of landscape architects in Australia. The Awards process is an opportunity for public and peer recognition of landscape architect’s work, and demonstrates to industry, business, government and the wider community the positive impact the profession has on Australian lives through the planning and design of the built and natural environments. The AILA Landscape Architecture Awards program has two stages: the first is a Chapter program and the second is the National program. In 2021, QLD, WA, SA, NSW, VIC & TAS will be presenting an Awards program, with the winners at Chapter level proceeding to the National Awards. Awards Categories Health and Education Landscape Civic Landscape Community Contribution Parks and Open Space Play Spaces Infrastructure International Cultural Heritage Land Management Tourism Urban Design Landscape Planning Research, Policy and Communications Community Contribution Small Projects Gardens Regional Achievement Award Additional Awards Categories Presidents Award 6

AWARDS LEVELS

Award of Excellence The first and highest Award in each Category is the Award of Excellence. The Award is given to the work judged to be the most significant for the advancement of landscape architecture in each Category. There is only one winner of the Award in each Category in any year. The Jury is not obligated to make an Award of Excellence in a category. Landscape Architecture Award The second tier is the Landscape Architecture Award. This is a work of excellence demonstrating consummate skill that contributes to the advancement of landscape architecture. Projects given an Award are the best projects in each Category that have not won the Award of Excellence. More than one Award may be given in a Category. Regional Achievement Award This is a cross category award given in recognition of landscape architecture that has made a significant difference to improving the healthy communities and/or built and natural environments of regional Australia. The award is given at a chapter level only.

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THE JURY

MESSAGE FROM THE JURY CHAIR In a time of increasing urbanisation and climate variation, the awarded projects demonstrate sensitive, considered and ambitious responses to repairing and improving natural systems unique to Australia landscapes.

Peta-Maree Ashford Jury Chair

The past 18 months has certainly reminded the broader community of what our profession has always known; the irrefutable value green spaces play in strengthening community connectedness and maintaining mental and physical wellbeing. This year’s award entrants certainly represent the diverse and leading role landscape architects play in delivering innovative responses to complex issues and making positive contributions to our regions and cities. This variety of submissions, exemplifies the passion and drive of our AILA members to influence the way we work, live and play. Many projects displayed the conscious and deliberate effort to facilitate environmental stewardship whilst delivering exemplar design outcomes. It is inspiring to observe green infrastructure becoming 8imbedded into projects as the norm.

The jury applauds the continued journey with traditional owners. A strong theme across categories, it’s inspiring to see practices develop indigenous-led design approaches, whether through the way they’ve set up their design processes or through the design outcomes. These principles are not simply interpretation and dialogue, but a living history of what is next, whilst respectfully acknowledging the past. Embedding contemporary and living history sensitively into the design is part of our journey to cultural sustainability. New benchmarks have been set that we can learn from as we continue to build knowledge as a profession. One shift observed was the altered definition of a garden with projects not traditionally associated with this category being considered. With the increasing focus on the mental and physical wellbeing green infrastructure provides, we recognise the increasing significance of the garden by taking aspects of it such as small scale, plants, productive elements, sensory stimulation, and applying it in non-traditional ways. Having chaired in 2019, I warned this year’s jury the difficulty they faced

in deciding national award winners, when each project considered has already been crowned by their peers as award worthy. To all the entrants, thank you for inspiring us through exceptional design and sincere congratulations to our award winners. It has been a privilege to chair the 2021 AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards jury and I wish to thank and acknowledge my fellow jurors; Barrie Barton, Dennis Eiszele, Tessa Leggo, Jen Lynch, Taryn Milroy and Mark Saint Pol for making the whole process such a positive and energizing experience. Collectively, we believe the standard of awarded works this year sets an exciting precedent for built outcomes now and into the future. Demonstrating leadership and advocacy for approaches outside of the norm, the award recipients have succeeded in enhancing local landscapes so that they are an impetus for greater wellbeing and shared understanding within the community.

NATIONAL JURY

Peta-Maree Ashford Jury Chair

Barrie Barton

Dennis Eiszele

Jen Lynch

Taryn Milroy

Tessa Leggo

Mark Saint Põl

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

I am very pleased to welcome you to the 2021 National Landscape Architecture Awards e-mag.

Ben Stockwin AILA CEO

The digital format of the awards has provided us with the ability to showcase a large number of products to the largest possible audience. It is a format that also lends itself to ‘watch parties’ to allow social connections to those out of COVID related restrictions. It is gratifying from an AILA point of view to see an increasing focus on indigenous perspective incorporated in to projects in this year’s awards. Longer term we also hope to see the same levels of integration with projects that have a climate positive focus as our working group develops guidelines and criteria for future awards.

Finally, congratulations to all entrants. Your work is truly inspirational and is a constant reminder for AILA staff that our efforts to support the Landscape Architecture profession is an intensely worthwhile and rewarding endeavour. We hope you enjoy this years emag and feel empowered to share this inspirational work among your network, both professional and social.

2021 NATIONAL PRESIDENT'S AWARD

WINNER: PAMELA CONRAD

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects’ (AILA) President’s Award is awarded to a non-member who at the discretion of the Board has shown commitment and support for landscape architecture in Australia. This contribution may relate to financial, organisational, political and/or media support that increases the profile and capability of landscape architecture. Pamela Conrad is the recipient of the 2021 AILA President’s Award in recognition of her global leadership through the development of the Pathfinder landscape carbon calculator app. The app helps Australian landscape architects to understand how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions embodied or produced by projects, and how to increase their sequestration capacity. It will be an invaluable tool in the implementation

of AILA’s Climate Positive Design Member Action Plan. Pamela is a passionate landscape architect, advocate and communicator who has collaborated with AILA through the refinement of Pathfinder, and through the International Federation of Landscape Architects’ (IFLA) Climate Change Working Group, and the development of IFLA’s Commitment to Climate Action. We thank and commend Pamela for her leadership.

Find out more at: https:// climatepositivedesign. com/pathfinder/

CIVIC LANDSCAPE

Projects in this category are constructed urban landscape projects that are public in nature and capture and contribute to the culture and amenity of the urban environment.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Station Street Mall Frankston Site Office City of Frankston Boonwurrung Country

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This project is a beautiful refurbishment of Frankston’s Station Street Mall.

Its careful consideration of minor and major constraints, fine detailing and opportunistic creativity all contribute to this clever piece of water-sensitive urban design.

Project Details project Station Street Mall Frankston entrant practice Site Office aboriginal nation Boonwurrung client City of Frankston state award 2021 AILA VIC Award of Excellence for Civic Landscape

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This project is a beautiful refurbishment of Frankston’s Station Street Mall. Its careful consideration of minor and major constraints, fine detailing and opportunistic creativity all contribute to this clever piece of water-sensitive urban design. Brilliant elements, such as the central connecting swale and nonprescriptive spaces, combined with a wonderfully designed and executed timber decking and soft lighting, provide the industry with

a great civic design precedent, and give Frankston locals and visitors a special space to enjoy.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Fish Lane Town Square RPS Aria Property Group Turrbal Country

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A once undesirable and derelict concrete underpass in the inner city has become a thriving, subtropical and safe urban parkland realm in this exemplary example of a civic and urban transformation.

Project Details project Fish Lane Town Square entrant practice RPS aboriginal nation Turrbal client Aria Property Group state award 2021 AILA QLD Award of Excellence for Civic Landscape

Fish Lane Town Square reinstates the ability for underutilized, urban and heavily infrastructure-focused spaces to become vibrant and ecologically interesting, beneficial to the public and supportive of local businesses. The project was recognized by the jury as a standout project for a number of reasons – including best-practice client and stakeholder engagement, its collaborative design process, and the delivery of a grounding, “lost landscapes” narrative that was implemented through the planting of

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more than 3,500 low-light-tolerant species. While considering and maintaining local character within a complex project, RPS Group has provided user groups with a truly unique green space that offers varied experiences and elevates landscape architecture.

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Clean, lush, interesting, whimsical and balanced, the landscape approach to Fish Lane celebrates our subtropical climate and sets a new benchmark for adaptive reuse, innovation and tactical urbanism for many of the 'lost spaces' throughout our rapidly developing suburbs and within our CBD.

The designers' vision returns the subtropical rainforest to this once negative space, where it flourishes harmoniously with core infrastructure and delivers an attractive, vibrant and shared public destination which redefines opportunities for valuable public life, discovery, and the reactivation of a revitalised culture.

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CIVIC LANDSCAPE NOMINEES The Kaurna Learning Circle & Karrawirra Parinangku ‚Äì University of Adelaide Northern Campus Redevelopment

WA Museum Boola Bardip

The Canopy Precinct

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Designed by Hassell + OMA and built by Multiplex on behalf of the WA State Government, the WA Museum Boola Bardip is conceived as a ‘collection of stories’ about Western Australia’s diversity, rich history, and contemporary culture. New and old buildings, along with a new public realm have been brought together to create an inspirational cultural attraction. The landscape design engages with the Perth Cultural Centre to stimulate activation, connection and renewal. The Whadjuk inspired, immersive Museum courtyard spaces celebrate stories of people and place through modern and imaginative landscape architecture drawn from extensive stakeholder engagement.

The Canopy is a vibrant urban precinct that reflects the community it serves based around an ambitious client vision. Sited on a former council car park, the high land-take uses including supermarkets and public parking, are situated below grade with the rooftop creating a new ground plane, connecting into the existing town centre. On this level an extensive public open space has been created for the community. Through its combination of laneway and dining experiences, programmable event and activation spaces and large-scale play offering, The Canopy Precinct offers an inclusive experience that intrinsically promotes a shared environment for enjoyment.

A new northern entry to the University of Adelaide called Karrawirra Parinangku (From the Red Gum Forest River) and is an acknowledgement of the Kaurna people, culture and country. This project replaces carparks and bitumen roads with a meeting place and cultural and ceremonial space marked by Kaurna language set in paving and frame by a new Wangu pole art installation. Visitors are greeted by a Welcome to Country statement in Kaurna language and a cultural space that aims to connect the campus physically and spiritually with the Karrawirra Pari (River Torrens).

Project Details

entrant practice Hassell + OMA

entrant practice Scott Carver (Architecture

entrant practice Oxigen Pty Ltd

aboriginal nation Whadjuk

& Landscape Architecture) and Arcadia Landscape Architecture (Development of Reference Design Concept & Stage 1DA) aboriginal nation Cam-mer-ray-gal client Lane Cove Council

aboriginal nation Kaurna

client State Government of Western Australia

client The University of Adelaide

Walker Place

Notts Avenue Safety Upgrade

Newmarket Dining

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The Walker Place project has delivered a new civic heart for Gawler. Initially conceived as part of a parking strategy, the community's involvement through a co-design process has created a unique public space.

Tract Consultants were engaged by Waverley Council to design and document the conversion of Notts Avenue to a 10km/h shared zone.

Newmarket is a bustling new community square for Randwick that is full of life, from the early morning hospital staff stopping by for coffee to locals gathering for lunch in the sun and evening visitors dining al fresco under the green climbers and fairy lights. The Barker Street entrance has been designed to deliver a destinational sense of place to Newmarket Randwick, activating this new neighbourhood with retail space, significant open space amenity and through site links from busy northern end of the site. Integrated fixed furniture, combined with the lighting and amenity, have created a unique precinct character.

The delivery of a quality public realm has transformed Walker Place beyond recognition and the retelling of Kaurna narratives and local stories creates a distinct sense of place.

As part of Waverley Council’s proposed ‘Walking Strategy’ to improve pedestrian access to popular destinations throughout the LGA, Notts Avenue was identified as a key place serving as the main conduit between Bondi Beach and the Coastal Walk.

The shared space design enables Walker Place to meet the community’s everyday needs for accessibility and parking. The integration of removable street furniture and catenary lighting enables the street to become a highly functional event space.

Through Tract’s creative thinking and appreciation of technical challenges, we identified opportunities in the creation of a landscape that was more than a “Shared Zone”. A celebration of the “Dress Circle” locale with panoramic vistas over Bondi Beach.

Project Details

entrant practice WAX Design

entrant practice Tract Consultants

aboriginal nation Kaurna

aboriginal nation Eora

client Town of Gawler

client Waverley Council

Project Details entrant practice Arcadia Landscape

Architecture and Bates Smart (master plan architects) aboriginal nation Eora client Cbus Property

COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION Sponsored by:

Projects in this category included constructed projects or strategies delivered either: As a pro bono service (or significantly reduced fee) to the community, or, have positively impacted a disadvantaged individual or group of users who wouldn’t normally have access to design expertise.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Mission Australia DAYS Courtyard Emerge Associates Mission Australia Whadjuk Noongar Country

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This project has transformed the neglected courtyard of a youth drug and alcohol withdrawal unit into a safe and healing space

Overall, the project demonstrates ways that practices can step outside of their usual scope to extend our range of impact as a profession.

Project Details project Mission Australia DAYS Courtyard entrant practice Emerge Associates aboriginal nation Whadjuk Noongar client Mission Australia state award 2021 AILA WA Landscape Architecture Award for Community Contribution

This project has transformed the neglected courtyard of a youth drug and alcohol withdrawal unit into a safe and healing space, demonstrating the impressive impact a small project can achieve and the leadership role landscape architects can play in delivering charitable work. The jury was impressed with the design’s thoughtful responses to the various constraints posed by the project—limited budget, small size of space, and a range of maintenance and safety requirements. In meeting these challenges, the

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landscape team demonstrated sensitivity and strategic thinking, from the earliest stages of the design process (developing design concepts with the DAYS community) through the project’s construction (forming innovative approaches to securing funding, supplies and labour). Overall, the project demonstrates ways that practices can step outside of their usual scope to extend our range of impact as a profession.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Inglenooks Four Landscape Studio Inglewood of Beaufort Badtjala

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This project demonstrates the transformative outcomes that can be achieved through creative and authentic collaborations between landscape architects and local communities.

Despite its small scale, the project demonstrates significant strategic thinking and impact.

Project Details project Inglenooks entrant practice Four Landscape Studio aboriginal nation Whadjuk Noongar client Inglewood of Beaufort state award 2021 AILA WA Landscape Architecture Award for Community Contribution

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This project demonstrates the transformative outcomes that can be achieved through creative and authentic collaborations between landscape architects and local communities. Inglenooks comprises two small pocket parks and a connecting footpath. Despite its small scale, the project demonstrates significant strategic thinking and impact.

precinct and formed a range of new connections within the Inglewood community. The project also demonstrates leadership in its innovative approaches to funding and in its overall framing as an advocacy initiative, promoting further Council investment in community landscapes and the leadership of landscape architects.

The jury commends the project’s innovative approach to engagement—throughout the design process and through its constructed outcomes, the project has formed a high level of community investment in the

The design developed around the two spaces and connecting streetscape thoughtfully considers ways the space can be modified (by food trucks and night markets, adjacent businesses, community programming) and the project’s impact is already evident. Overall, Inglenooks demonstrates how community-driven public spaces can benefit from the leadership of landscape architects.

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The project also demonstrates leadership in its innovative approaches to funding and in its overall framing as an advocacy initiative, promoting further Council investment in community landscapes and the leadership of landscape architects.

Overall, Inglenooks demonstrates how community-driven public spaces can benefit from the leadership of landscape architects.

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COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION NOMINEES

Erskineville Public School

Poona Community Infrastructure Plan

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Since nearly closing in the early 2000s, and saved at the 11th hour by the passionate local community, Erskineville PS has grown to be one of the best performing public schools in NSW. Sadly its grounds missed this rebirth.

The Poona Community Infrastructure Plan is a practical community resource developed by Fraser Coast Regional Council and Archipelago to pragmatically guide infrastructure planning for a permanent community of 481 residents that swells to many thousands each holiday season and every long weekend. Noteworthy for its bespoke practicality, the Infrastructure Plan sets in place a capital expenditure plan for both hard and soft community infrastructure. Fundamentally the project evidences the grass roots practicality of landscape architects and their unparallel ability to be parallel advocates both stewards of the natural environment and champions of sensitive change for people in special places.

Over the past 9 years LSA Design has helped transform the grounds - originally consisting of little more than some worn out lawn and an asphalt carpark - into an engaging series of spaces. Conceived by the students through workshops, LSA Design provided guidance, design expertise and management, delivering positive results beyond what the limited fund would usually afford.

Project Details

entrant practice LSA Design Landscape

entrant practice Fraser Coast Regional

Architecture

Council and Archipelago aboriginal nation Badtjala client Tracey Genrich (Fraser Coast Regional Council)

aboriginal nation Eora client Erskineville Public School

CULTURAL HERITAGE

Projects in this category are constructed projects or strategies that demonstrate the restoration, conservation, enhancement, maintenance, or adaptive reuse of culturally significant sites.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Wunggurrwil Dhurrung REALMstudios Wyndham City Council Wathaurung Country

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Wunggurrwil Dhurrung – “An Aboriginal Place in Aboriginal Hands” – is a place of regenerative processes, culture and healing of Country and of community.

Guided by an understanding of the co-existence between people and Country, the sacredness of water, and a need to reclaim place as integral to identity, Wunggurrwil Dhurrung is a wonderful outcome.

Project Details project Wunggurrwil Dhurrung entrant practice REALMstudios aboriginal nation Wathaurung Country client Wyndham City Council state award 2021 AILA VIC Landscape Architecture Award Winner for Cultural Heritage

Wunggurrwil Dhurrung – “An Aboriginal Place in Aboriginal Hands” – is a place of regenerative processes, culture and healing of Country and of community. This free-flowing, grounded design of naturally connected spaces shows no need for direction, other than intuition.

alive, breathing and drinking, as we all are, and it is recognized as a beautiful example of cultural sustainability.

Guided by an understanding of the coexistence between people and Country, the sacredness of water, and a need to reclaim place as integral to identity, Wunggurrwil Dhurrung is a wonderful outcome. As a community heart, it is

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Fairbridge Childrens Park CLOUSTON Associates Old Fairbridgians Association (OFA) Wiradjuri Country

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Fairbridge Children’s Park is an emotive journey of interpretation and living memory

The site lends itself to travellers and community, providing a place for rest and reflection, and opportunities to connect to the stories associated with a sad past, but a bright future.

Project Details project Fairbridge Childrens Park entrant practice CLOUSTON Associates aboriginal nation Wiradjuri Country client Old Fairbridgians Association (OFA) state award 2021 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award Winner for Cultural Heritage & Regional Achievement Award

Delicate yet powerful, Fairbridge Children’s Park is an emotive journey of interpretation and living memory curated through light touches, seamless planting, materiality, art and signage installations.

Fairbridge Children’s Park is an example of landscape architecture’s ability to contribute to healing and the reconciliation process.

The site lends itself to travellers and community, providing a place for rest and reflection, and opportunities to connect to the stories associated with a sad past, but a bright future. In its understanding of the ways that history, memories and experiences shape lives, the design is revealing and captivating.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Ngajarli Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions Ngarluma, Yindjibarndi, Yaburara, Mardudhunera, Woon-goo-tt-oo (collectively known as Ngarda-Ngarli) Country

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Ngajarli seamlessly weaves together cultural expression with a deep knowledge of the site.

Project Details project Ngajarli entrant practice Department of Biodiversity,

Conservation and Attractions aboriginal nation Ngarluma, Yindjibarndi, Yaburara, Mardudhunera, Woon-goo-ttoo (collectively known as Ngarda-Ngarli) Country client Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions state award 2021 AILA WA Award of Excellence for Cultural Heritage

Situated on the Burrup Peninsula in Murujuga National Park, Ngajarli seamlessly weaves together cultural expression with a deep knowledge of the site. The project is a remarkable example of collaboration between disciplines and demonstrates how scientific knowledge can be mixed with traditional knowledge to achieve a design outcome that is respectful, contemporary, sensitive and durable. The project overcomes the many challenges of its remote location and enables and encourages access while respecting the

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sensitive nature of the site and its significance for the Ngarda-Ngarli people. The design enhances the area’s particular sense of place and allows visitors and locals to connect to the phenomena of the landscape during their visit. The jury commends the approach of using minimal infrastructure and interventions that emphasize and give expression to the landscape’s natural forms, while ensuring their protection and preservation for future generations. The result is a stunning, jointly managed project that is considered, complex and striking.

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The project is a remarkable example of collaboration between disciplines and demonstrates how scientific knowledge can be mixed with traditional knowledge to achieve a design outcome that is respectful, contemporary, sensitive and durable.

The result is a stunning, jointly managed project that is considered, complex and striking.

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CULTURAL HERITAGE NOMINEES

Red Point, Port Kembla

Victor Harbor Amphitheatre

WA Museum Boola Bardip

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Taylor Brammer's involvement in the restoration of the northern edge and foreshore of Red Point, Port Kembla has seen significant improvements to this important site.

The Victor Harbor Foreshore Amphitheatre uses spatial planning and language to reconnect people to Country. The design of the amphitheatre and concrete bleachers create waymakers, recognising significant Ngarrindjeri and Ramindjeri landmarks.

The integration of the local Indigenous Elders stories is a key part of recognising the site’s importance to the Illawarra Region and to history. Through liaison with the local Elders and artists their story of the Wadi Wadi people is woven into the ‘robust fabric’ of the place. The outcome is a project that respects indigenous culture, provides community benefit and is appropriate in its scale and form to the location.

Indigenous names are seeded into concrete surfaces. Each word is read from the land looking to the sea, recognising the First Nation People's perspective. English names are sandblasted into the concrete steps. The words' orientation from the shoreline, looking towards the land, representing a sense of arrival, occupation or settlement. The project creates a new destination along the foreshore, providing new information and learnings about the local area.

Project Details

entrant practice Taylor Brammer Landscape

entrant practice WAX Design

Architects

aboriginal nation Ngarrindjeri

aboriginal nation Dharawal

client City of Victor Harbor

client Michael Massih (Sydney Water)

Project Details entrant practice Hassell + OMA aboriginal nation Whadjuk client State Government of Western Australia

GARDENS Sponsored by:

Projects in this category include constructed private and public gardens that contribute to the role and understanding of the garden in contemporary society and culture.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Salt Wind Garden Oxigen Pty Ltd Penelope Dargaville Kaurna Country

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This little garden is celebrated for its big spirit and deep connection to landscape and place.

Composed of native plants and locally sourced materials, the garden exists in harmony with the patterns of the sun, the wind and the changing seasons.

Project Details project Salt Wind Garden entrant practice Oxigen Pty Ltd aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client Penelope Dargaville state award 2021 AILA SA Award of Excellence for Gardens

This little garden is celebrated for its big spirit and deep connection to landscape and place. Composed of native plants and locally sourced materials, the garden exists in harmony with the patterns of the sun, the wind and the changing seasons. It challenges preconceived notions of residential gardens as empty assemblages of parts with limited connections to place or appreciation of the value of ecosystem services.

different ways, offering a range of immersive experiences in this coastal setting. It shows how a sensitive response to the specifics of place can create connection to nature and provide experientially rich spatial opportunities, this is a fine example of a developing imperative to bring nature back into residential gardens.

Here instead, carefully considered garden rooms are curated to relate to the landscape and dwelling in

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Lucent Form Landscape Architects Cavcorp Yuggera Country

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Lucent demonstrates the value that landscape architects can bring to all stages of a project, when involved from the outset.

The split roof awnings are a wonderful innovation for this environment, supporting cascading and climbing plants while drawing sunlight and air into the ground-level retail spaces.

Project Details project Lucent entrant practice Form Landscape Architects aboriginal nation Yuggera Country client Cavcorp state award 2021 AILA QLD Award of

Excellence for Gardens

From its broader urban design response through to the smallest landscape detailing, Lucent demonstrates the value that landscape architects can bring to all stages of a project, when involved from the outset.

architecture. Careful species selection, based on sun studies and microclimate conditions, ensures a depth and density of planting that is particularly successful for a building of this scale.

Collaboration with the local council and consultants has resulted in full perimeter activation, with blurred building edges creating verdant, multifunctional spill-out spaces that positively interact with the public realm. The split roof awnings are a wonderful innovation for this environment, supporting cascading and climbing plants while drawing sunlight and air into the groundlevel retail spaces.

The landscape responds well to its context to provide maximum amenity and extensive opportunities for multiple layers of landscape, creating a compelling offering for high-density urban living.

A rigorous horticultural approach seamlessly integrates soils and planting structures into the

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Coastal Woodland Garden Robyn Barlow Design Lizzie Burns Boon Wurrung Country

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A masterful composition of textures and colours creates a sequence of intriguing and evocative vistas, with the building and pool merging seamlessly into the landscape.

Project Details project Coastal Woodland Garden entrant practice Robyn Barlow Design aboriginal nation Boon Wurrung Country client Lizzie Burns state award 2021 AILA VIC Award of Excellence for Gardens

The Coastal Woodland Garden masterfully blends and embeds the site’s residence by composing a flowing landscape layer that works with the existing mature gums and compliments the challenging terrain. A masterful composition of textures and colours creates a sequence of intriguing and evocative vistas, with the building and pool merging seamlessly into the landscape.

interest, this strategy works well with the coastal microclimate and heavy clay soils. Robyn Barlow Design has considered ecological vegetation classifications and observations of nearby habitats and soil conditions to develop an understanding of the growth habits and species diversity of the coastal woodlands as well as a succession planting and maintenance strategy.

The landscape architect collaborated closely with the client and the local nursery to prioritize indigenous planting, interspersed with selected exotic species. Contributing both biodiversity and

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Coogee Common Seedesign Studio FJM Property and Things in Common Whadjuk Noongar Country

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Coogee Common is a productive food garden established to provide fresh supplies for the new bar and restaurant of the historic Coogee Hotel.

The result is a fruitful landscape that serves as a valuable demonstration garden and showcases possibilities for urban agriculture in communities and

Project Details project Coogee Common entrant practice Seedesign Studio aboriginal nation Whadjuk Noongar Country client FJM Property and Things in Common state award 2021 AILA WA Landscape Architecture Award for Gardens

Coogee Common is a productive food garden established to provide fresh supplies for the new bar and restaurant of the historic Coogee Hotel. However, the design goes beyond this purpose to serve the local community as an attractive destination garden that revives the relevance of the hotel within the neighbourhood.

provide an attractive backdrop to the hotel, with strong visual connections into the landscape. The result is a fruitful landscape that serves as a valuable demonstration garden and showcases possibilities for urban agriculture in communities and neighbourhoods across Australia.

A thoughtful, practical design resolution allows budget to be spent where it matters. The sloped site is terraced to maximize yield, and salvaged mature fruit trees and vines have been brought in as windbreaks to mitigate the coastal site conditions. The grounds

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National Award of Excellence Winner The Phoenix Gallery 360 Degrees Landscape Architects Judith Neilson Eora Country

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Phoenix Central Park Gallery demonstrates a harmonious integration of nature, sculpture and space.

Project Details project The Phoenix Gallery entrant practice 360 Degrees Landscape Architects aboriginal nation Eora Country client Judith Neilson state award 2021 AILA NSW Award of Excellence for Gardens

Phoenix Central Park Gallery demonstrates a harmonious integration of nature, sculpture and space. The maturity of the design is revealed in the artistic and restrained yet bold selection of species to create interest and drama through the interplay between form, texture and lighting. Both courtyards demonstrate how multifunctional spaces can play host to a range of programmatic requirements without compromising their integrity as calming, tranquil places that can be enjoyed equally by individuals or

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groups. The roof garden highlights Sydney’s diverse species range and proves that a xerophytic landscape need not be devoid of interest or softness. The courtyard garden takes advantage of its microclimate to introduce a much-needed green balance and an immediate sense of calm to the main entrance. The project is a testament to the collaboration between the consultants and a beautiful example of how landscape, architecture and art can be seamlessly interconnected to create an outcome that is greater than the sum of its parts.

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The maturity of the design is revealed in the artistic and restrained yet bold selection of species to create interest and drama through the interplay between form, texture and lighting.

The project is a testament to the collaboration between the consultants and a beautiful example of how landscape, architecture and art can be seamlessly interconnected to create an outcome that is greater than the sum of its parts.

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GARDENS NOMINEES

Riverbank House

3BC

Acton Residence

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The Riverbank House, created for a Brisbane family brings together a place for its owners and the natural environment to co-exist. The home straddles two landscapes: to the south a riverbank escarpment resplendent with mature figs and eucalypts, and a curated ‘wild’ courtyard to the north. The unencumbered views to the north and south are ‘borrowed’ into the garden settings which envelop the home. Occupation of the site is a partnership with the client and the environment, a respect for an ancient landscape, and a wilful act of conservation practice, resulting in a place for reflection, creation, recreation and regrowth.

A unique small sheltered courtyard with multiple living zones has resulted in a well utilised outdoor living space that is used daily as an extension to the living spaces of the home. At the centre of the design is an outdoor fireplace that is visible through the home, flanked with a raised decking space for casual entertaining and a inward facing built in seating for reclining and connection to the courtyard. Creating multiple planted areas at different levels within the courtyard has created a sense of depth and greenery within the small space.

Acton House presented the opportunity to integrate old and new landscapes and materials through the development and implementation of a master plan for the property. Working with Circa Morris-Nunn Chua Architects, Playstreet designed and constructed courtyard gardens that respond sensitively to newly-built wings at the rear of the heritage-listed 1826 Georgian home. The work included the redesign of the entry and planning and planting a variety of gardens. Using a palette of weathered stone, timber and steel, the gardens blend new and old built fabric and provide a place of retreat which has become the outdoor heart of the home.

Project Details

entrant practice Tristan Peirce Landscape

entrant practice Playstreet

Architecture

aboriginal nation Paredarerme

aboriginal nation Wajuk

client Saul & Linda Eslake

entrant practice Wilson Architects aboriginal nation Yuggera client Private client

client Saul Harben

Caribbean Park Public Realm (Stages 1+2)

The Ritz-Carlton and The Towers Elizabeth Quay

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A fine network of public spaces, streets and promenades underpins the foundation for this next-generation business centre in Melbourne’s east.

Building on the award -winning work on the public realm of Elizabeth Quay, TCL have created a series of exterior landscape spaces and gardens inspired by the patterns, forms and biodiversity of the wondrous and varied landscapes of Western Australia. These landscapes can be experienced as views from above or within the two buildings - The Ritz-Carlton Hotel and The Towers Apartments, while podium level recreation gardens encourage relaxation, rejuvenation and socialisation through the use of a myriad of facilities such as BBQs and picnicking areas, pools, terraces, decks, shelters and varied seating areas within the gardens.

The multi-layered landscape uses a predominately native planting palette with an emphasis on texture and seasonal change. Water is central to the character of the site and is reflected in the architecture, water features and material vocabulary. Caribbean Park’s green spaces are completely immersive. The park's occupants exist in an environment more akin to a botanical retreat where excellence and high performance flourish.

Project Details

entrant practice OCULUS

entrant practice TCL

aboriginal nation Kulin Nation

aboriginal nation Whadjuk Noongar

client Caribbean Park

client Far East Consortium

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Projects in this category are constructed landscape projects in and surrounding institutional spaces including educational, health or aged care facilities. Projects in this category demonstrate how the design contributes to the usability and operation of the facility and the wellbeing of the user.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Hillbrook Anglican School Campus Redevelopment Vee Design Hillbrook Anglican School Turrbal Country

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The design language flows through the space, unifying the differing levels and binding it as a place of community.

Delicately softened with thoughtful plantings, this is a diverse landscape that celebrates the learning environment.

Project Details project Hillbrook Anglican School Campus Redevelopment entrant practice Vee Design aboriginal nation Turrbal Country client Hillbrook Anglican School state award 2021 AILA QLD Award of Excellence for Health and Education Landscape

The new heart of Hillbrook Anglican School is a considered and intricately detailed project. The design language flows through the space, unifying the differing levels and binding it as a place of community. Each connection that allows passage also ties the buildings together; each level that is created also provides niches and spaces that welcome the students.

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The school’s values have been woven into the landscape’s form and function, and the articulation of these values has resulted in an environment that balances comfort and opportunity for interaction. Delicately softened with thoughtful plantings, this is a diverse landscape that celebrates the learning environment.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Albert Park College Senior Campus Site Office Albert Park College & VSBA (Victorian School Building Authority) Boon Wurrung Country

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Just as the school’s campus has grown into this space, the landscape has grown to support the physical and emotional wellbeing of the students.

This is a sophisticated project and a composition of compelling, bold, beautifully detailed ideas.

Project Details project Albert Park College Senior Campus entrant practice Site Office aboriginal nation Boon Wurrung Country client Albert Park College & VSBA state award 2021 AILA VIC Award of Excellence for Health and Education Landscape

Just as the school’s campus has grown into this space, the landscape has grown to support the physical and emotional wellbeing of the students. The strong and simple narrative of cultivated native grass, which references Indigenous landmanagement practices and grows seed stock for future plantings, sets the basis for this stunning landscape.

enable the retention of mature trees, which provide depth of character to the site. This is a sophisticated project and a composition of compelling, bold, beautifully detailed ideas.

The soft grasses hover lightly, surrounding those walking through each connected space. The designer worked responsively within Tree Protection Zones to

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Bilya Marlee UDLA University of Western Australia Whadjuk Noongar Country

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By balancing the value of the building and the landscape, the development of Bilya Marlee – the University of Western Australia’s new School of Indigenous Studies – has followed an Indigenous method of design.

With the landscape flowing into the form of the building, and the site oriented to physically and visually connect to the river, this project feels at home here.

Project Details project Bilya Marlee entrant practice UDLA aboriginal nation Whadjuk Noongar Country client University of Western Australia state award 2021 AILA WA Landscape Architecture Award for Health and Education Landscape

The cultural narrative “a place of learning by the river” is an articulation of the beauty and balance found within this landscape, providing a forum for further learning as well as an example of what can be learned if we allow ourselves to be a part of the landscape. By balancing the value of the building and the landscape, the development of Bilya Marlee – the University of Western Australia’s new School of Indigenous Studies – has followed an Indigenous method of design. The marri and jarrah trees, which predate the

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campus, are considered a family and the removal or damage of any family members was not considered viable; this led to an authentic “landscape-first” approach. With the landscape flowing into the form of the building, and the site oriented to physically and visually connect to the river, this project feels at home here.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) and Public Realm, Herston Quarter Hassell Australian Unity Turrbal, Jagera & Yuggera Country

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Lush and intense planting fills the spaces generously, supporting therapeutic principles and biophilic design by relieving the senses of patients and medical workers.

Project Details project Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) and Public Realm, Herston Quarter entrant practice Hassell aboriginal nation Turrbal, Jagera & Yuggera Countryl client Australian Unity state award 2021 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Award for Health and Education Landscape

This is a brave and significant landscape. Lush and intense planting fills the spaces generously, supporting therapeutic principles and biophilic design by relieving the senses of patients and medical workers. The Herston Quarter has benefitted greatly from these works, articulated as a series of intimate spaces that combine into one cohesive and bold vision. The iconic Spanish Steps effectively connect the facilities across a major level change and provide a strong visual presence. An

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exemplary project, the landscape is so deeply integrated with the hardscapes of the built environment that the result is simultaneously dramatic and sensitive.

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The iconic Spanish Steps effectively connect the facilities across a major level change and provide a strong visual presence.

An exemplary project, the landscape is so deeply integrated with the hardscapes of the built environment that the result is simultaneously dramatic and sensitive.

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HEALTH AND EDUCATION LANDSCAPE NOMINEES

McAuley Community School

SALESIAN COLLEGE SUNBURY Earth & Sky Forecourt (Stage 1)

Woodcroft College ELC Outdoor Learning Area

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McAuley Community School, with associated ALIVE Early Learning Centre, is a rich and contemporary learning environment that inspires educational and pedagogical change for children from Birth – Year 6.

Salesian College, Sunbury is a catholic school located on the former grounds of the Victorian Heritage listed mansion Rupertswood. The location is highly significant to the Wurundjeri people as there are ceremonial bora rings located on the school’s grounds near Jacksons Creek. The landscape design aspired to celebrate the cultural and heritage significance, promote the school’s philosophy and beliefs while creating a forecourt for the future Chapel and engaging entrance to the school. The end result was the creation of a sacred, educational & explorative landscape with strong ties to the area's rich cultural heritage and local indigenous history.

The Woodcroft College ELC Outdoor Learning Area is a landscape solution that melds the natural landscape, civil engineering solutions and flexible teaching platforms.

Project Details

entrant practice Swanbury Penglase

entrant practice Orchard Design

entrant practice Swanbury Penglase

aboriginal nation Kaurna

aboriginal nation Wurundjeri

aboriginal nation Kaurna

client Catholic Education South Australia

client Salesian College, Sunbury

client Woodcroft College

The design of the school is driven by the combination of Reggio Emilia principles with the manifestation of Australian landscape typologies to create connected and diverse outdoor learning opportunities that enable children to create, explore and discover. Narrative forms inspired by local topographies of a jetty and creek line weave throughout the landscape and manifest the journey of children through their Early Years education by connecting the spine of the school.

This space is an educational landscape that accommodates children from ages 3 to 5, with an infrastructure-led design solution that marries nature play and the Reggio Emilia philosophy of the facility. This project’s innovative outcome is the display of the engineering design required to store 100m3 of water. An above ground swale and dry creek bed anchors the space and creates a varied educational platform, which mimics the natural water cycles of the Onkaparinga River.

International School of WA Playground Enhancement

Swancare Leisure Precinct Landscape

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The Dillwynia Women’s Correctional Centre Expansion Project has been designed with trauma informed principles to support reduced reoffending & provide a facility that promotes rehabilitation.

The International School of WA’s playground enhancement project is a beautiful, fun, creative and curated set of play, pedagogical and cultural interventions. However, equally as impressive as the built outcome, is the Student and Staff input into the design process. Four Landscape studio ran a series of workshops with both staff and students to identify what is required to create a truly unique, exciting, ISWA-centric campus, which was supplemented with weeks’ worth of in class work undertaken by the ISWA students relating to playground design, this included; persuasive writing, mapping, scale drawing, brainstorming and artworks.

Bentley Park is a SwanCare community home to more than 1,000 residents, offering a range of retirement living and aged care accommodation options. Extensive redevelopment plans have been undertaken which revolve around the development of a new, landmark Leisure Precinct. Working in conjunction with Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects, REALMstudios have provided a clear connection and interface between the Leisure Precinct and a variety of complex pre-existing sites for a range of abilities and services, to: •Ensure inclusive accessibility •Legible way finding •Distinct hierarchy of movement •Places of rest, interest, play, socialisation and solitude •Improved safety and visibility

Project Details

entrant practice NBRS Architecture

entrant practice Four Landscape Studio

entrant practice REALMstudios

aboriginal nation Darug

aboriginal nation Whadjuk Noongar

client Corrective Services New South Wales

client International School of Western

client Swancare

Dillwynia Correctional Centre Expansion

NBRSARCHITECTURE have created a microsociety with greenspace, accommodation, education, work, health, spiritual & visitation opportunities that replicates familiar aspects of life outside the institution helping to maintain normality and contribute to healing. The design seeks to create a responsive and therapeutic environment by incorporating natural tones, natural materials, soft and curved surfaces, seasonal planting and providing views to nature, whilst respecting the security overlay required for this facility.

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HEALTH AND EDUCATION LANDSCAPE NOMINEES

Pembroke Middle School Redevelopment

Westmead Hospital Redevelopment - Central Acute Services Building

MLC Nicholas Learning Centre and Principal's Terrace

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Pembroke Middle School Redevelopment delivers a high-quality and engaging external environment which celebrates and enhances the school’s teaching and learning program.

The Westmead Health Precinct’s Central Acute Services Building (CASB) is a major redevelopment which has transformed Westmead Hospital and created much needed, publicly accessible green space for the health precinct. Biophilic design principles are integrated throughout the dynamic and complex landscape to create a multilevel garden sanctuary to this urban hospital environment. High-quality green spaces with generous vegetation and canopy provide a variety of external experiences, providing much needed respite opportunities that ultimately improve; staff, patient and visitor wellbeing whilst facilitating functional and operational requirements of the largest tertiary hospital in western Sydney.

In 2016 TCL were engaged together with McIldowie Partners to deliver the new Nicholas Learning Centre and adjacent spaces, including the redesign of the Principal’s Terrace and Rooftop Garden in the heart of Methodist Ladies College (MLC) Senior School campus, Kew. The Principal’s Terrace, which had challenging levels, has been transformed into a versatile and spacious lawn, offering ramped access through an expansive lawn, framed by seasonally expressive gardens, with ample seating. Edged by timber seating and circular decking, the Rooftop Garden provides additional green space, outdoor learning, social and functional areas with expansive views of Melbourne’s city skyline.

Project Details

entrant practice WAX Design

entrant practice Tract Consultants

entrant practice Taylor Cullity Lethlean

aboriginal nation Kaurna

aboriginal nation Darug

aboriginal nation Kulin Nation

client Pembroke School

client HDR Architects (on behalf of Multiplex

client Methodist Ladies' College

The unique triangular site and angled orientation of Kensington influenced and provided context for the landscape design. A series of outdoor courtyards across the campus ‘village’ provide a strong relationship between external and internal spaces, connecting students and staff with their surrounding natural environment as they move through all three building levels. This innovative, multi-dimensional approach to the landscape extends to the internal planting design, which frames the internal atrium and reinforces the value of the buildings natural systems.

on behalf of NSW Health Infrastructure)

Susan Wakil Health Precinct

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Set on Gadigal country, Wakil Gardens is the landscape and public realm for the Susan Wakil Health Precinct, a purpose-built facility for medicine and health students, researchers and staff to learn and work in at the University of Sydney. An interpretation of the cycle of healing, stirring the body, mind and soul, Wakil Gardens reflect the Gadigal people’s approach to healing through the engagement of all the human senses. Arcadia’s landscape strategy reimagines the fundamental effects of the landscape character in a contemporary setting, to engage the senses and elicit a physiological response to place.

Project Details entrant practice Arcadia Landscape

Architecture aboriginal nation Eora client The University of Sydney

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INFRASTRUCTURE Sponsored by:

Projects in this category are constructed landscape infrastructure projects, landscape strategies or works associated with civil infrastructure that demonstrates the successful integration of landscape values and which contribute to a future sustainability.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Reimagining Your Creek REALMstudios Melbourne Water Wathaurong, Wurundjeri & Boon Wurrung Country

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This body of interrelated work, carried out across an interconnected landscape, creates channelized waterways for viability and sustainability in creek naturalization – socially,

It is an exemplar in its provision of an appropriate level of intervention and design for surrounding communities and how they interact with the completed waterways.

Project Details project Reimagining Your Creek entrant practice REALMstudios aboriginal nation Wathaurong, Wurundjeri, Boon Wurrung Country client Melbourne Water state award 2021 AILA VIC Award of Excellence for Infrastructure

This body of interrelated work, carried out across an interconnected landscape, creates channelized waterways for viability and sustainability in creek naturalization – socially, economically and environmentally. Simple and bold, the project integrates the landscape exceptionally well within the local context. It is an exemplar in its provision of an appropriate level of intervention and design for surrounding communities and how they interact with the completed waterways.

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The work displays an understanding of how to develop sustainable watercourses that allow nature’s intrinsic qualities to return, while co-existing with people. The projects also demonstrate how to provide a successful landscape outcome that is integrated with engineering infrastructure with multifunctional value. This, in turn, enables beautiful structures and associated landscape solutions for water management. Using water as a catalyst, human and natural ecologies are optimized.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner CBD and South East Light Rail – NSW ASPECT Studios Transport for NSW Bidjigal (Bedegal) and Gadigal People of Eora Nation Country

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This new mass public transport system is integrated with a 12-kilometre linear public domain upgrade in the heart of Sydney, creating an urban corridor of high quality and amenity.

[...] this integrated public domain and light rail project plays an important role as a catalyst for active transport, making the urban realm a better place for people.

Project Details project CBD and South East Light Rail – NSW entrant practice ASPECT Studios aboriginal nation Bidjigal (Bedegal) and Gadigal People of Eora Nation Country client Transport for NSW state award 2021 AILA NSW Award of Excellence for Infrastructure

This new mass public transport system is integrated with a 12-kilometre linear public domain upgrade in the heart of Sydney, creating an urban corridor of high quality and amenity. The landscape architect has been instrumental in enhancing the city fabric so that each section through which the light rail passes responds to its context. Communities are provided with pedestrian-focused infrastructure along the route and at each of the precincts that it connects. Elements include moveable or reprogrammable planter boxes.

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Functioning as safety devices, they divide spaces gently and guide people – equally and comfortably – on a monumental scale. Street trees have also been incorporated along the entirety of the line. By significantly reducing the volume of private vehicles in these centres, this integrated public domain and light rail project plays an important role as a catalyst for active transport, making the urban realm a better place for people.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Pacific Highway Upgrade Centre for Urban Design Transport for NSW Transport for NSW Worimi, Biripi, Dainggatti, Gumbainggir and Bundjalung Country

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This sweeping green highway provides panoramic views to the Great Dividing Range and forests, farmland and coastline.

Project Details project Pacific Highway Upgrade entrant practice Transport for NSW aboriginal nation Worimi, Biripi, Dainggatti, Gumbainggir and Bundjalung Country client Transport for NSW national award 2021 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Infrastructure & Regional Achievement Award

In this legacy project that has been undertaken over a 24-year period, the landscape architect has been instrumental in the delivery of sustainable outcomes associated with the planning, design and implementation of the 675-kilometre duplication of the highway between Hexham, New South Wales and the Queensland border. This sweeping green highway provides panoramic views to the Great Dividing Range and forests, farmland and coastline. The sustainable outcomes have been exceptional and include

the provision of an important connection to Country and the creation of an environmentally sensitive and responsive landscape. Social and environmental outcomes include the minimizing of visual impacts, the provision of rest areas and parks, the integrated design of bridges, tunnels and walls, and the maximizing of landscape spatial qualities such as soils, planting and seeding. These measures have significantly improved the design and created an outstanding outcome for both the community and the stakeholders. The depth of thought and leadership demonstrated in this project has resulted in a national benchmark for highway design with an ecological dimension.

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The sustainable outcomes have been exceptional and include the provision of an important connection to Country and the creation of an environmentally sensitive and responsive landscape.

Social and environmental outcomes include the minimizing of visual impacts, the provision of rest areas and parks, the integrated design of bridges, tunnels and walls, and the maximizing of landscape spatial qualities such as soils, planting and seeding.

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INFRASTRUCTURE NOMINEES

Elara Linear Park (TC02)

Kingsford Smith Drive Upgrade Project

Woodcroft College ELC Outdoor Learning Area

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This is a 2.1 hectare linear parkland which now forms part of a new 30,000+ residential planned community. It is built over a subterranean 8 x 2 metre Dia. piped stormwater system linking into the riparian parklands which function as the primary WSUD treatment of this massive, 220 hectare, urban catchment. Transforming what was initially earmarked as a turfed open drainage channel into a popular local parkland represents a successful and extensive collaboration between Paterson Design Studio, Blacktown City Council and the consulting Civil Engineers (J. Wyndham Prince).

The Kingsford Smith Drive upgrade involved widening the existing road from four to six lanes between Theodore Street, Eagle Farm and Cooksley Street at Hamilton to provide increased road capacity. Significantly, the project has delivered improved pedestrian and cycle facilities with the addition of a new Riverwalk between Newstead House and Northshore Hamilton. Two new landscaped public spaces have also been created at Cameron Rocks Reserve and Bretts Wharf with a multi-functional plaza linking Racecourse Road to the Citycat stop. This critical upgrade has created a new subtropical entry boulevard into the city with the Brisbane River as its centrepiece.

The Woodcroft College ELC Outdoor Learning Area is a landscape solution that melds the natural landscape, civil engineering solutions and flexible teaching platforms.

Project Details

entrant practice Paterson Design Studio

entrant practice Lat27

Project Details

aboriginal nation Darug

aboriginal nation Yugara/Yugarapul People and

client Stockland

Turrbal People client Brisbane City Council

entrant practice Swanbury Penglase aboriginal nation Kaurna client Woodcroft College

East End Revitalisation - Hay Street Pedestrian Priority Precinct

HOTA Green Bridge

Northern Connector Project

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The Hay Street Pedestrian Priority Precinct (PPP) is a unique and innovative project between the City of Perth and Main Roads Western Australia (MRWA) which challenges typical shared space schemes; providing a safe amenity for people of all abilities without compromising the functionality of the street.

The Home of the Arts (HOTA) Green Bridge joyfully expresses the seamless unification of form and function achieved when a progressive client in the City of Gold Coast engages a design led collaboration of landscape architecture, architecture, art, engineering, and construction professionals. The Green Bridge design has been intimately inspired by the sitewide voronoi design language and the Gold Coast’s intimate relationship with water. The bridge arrangement equitably accommodates river traffic, cyclists and pedestrians whilst choreographing an array of stunning cityscape, river, lake and HOTA views and sensitively weaving a suite of engaging places into the local urban fabric.

Engaged by Lend Lease as the Urban and Landscape designers for bridge, active transport networks and landscape, Tract drew contextual inspiration for the Northern Connector design from Barker’s Inlet, surrounding market gardens, salt pans and crystalline forms as well as the habitat of migratory bird species that utilise the wetlands. These are represented in the forms of the bridges, abutment walls, screens and plantings to provide habitat connections along the 15.5 km Northern Connector. The six-lane freeway with an SUP along its full length provides the missing freight and commuter link between the Northern Expressway, Superway and Port River Expressway.

Project Details

entrant practice City of Gold Coast and

entrant practice Tract

Archipelago with Cusp aboriginal nation Bundjalung client City of Gold Coast

aboriginal nation Kaurna

entrant practice City of Perth aboriginal nation Whadjuk Nyoongar client City of Perth

client Department of Infrastructure

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INTERNATIONAL

Projects in this category include constructed or strategic projects that demonstrate a contribution to landscape architecture internationally. Please note the International Awards are part of the National Awards program and are not judged at the state level.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Colma Creek Climate Adaptation Planning Hassell Bay Area Regional Collective Ohlone Ramaytush Land

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The project’s acknowledgement of the local community’s active role in the site’s ecology and the way it has developed engagement strategies to build stronger, ongoing ties between the community and the

While still in the planning stages, the project’s impact is evident in its reception by the community and the momentum this has generated around securing

Project Details project Colma Creek Climate Adaptation Planning entrant practice Hassell indigenous nation Ohlone Ramaytush Land client Bay Area Regional Collective

This project develops a climate adaptation strategy for an urban creek in South San Francisco that expands the creek’s hydrological capacity, its environmental role and its system of access. The project’s acknowledgement of the local community’s active role in the site’s ecology and the way it has developed engagement strategies to build stronger, ongoing ties between the community and the creek set it apart from other projects of a similar nature. Over an 18-month period, the designers developed innovative

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engagement approaches that responded to the diversity of cultures, languages and ages within the community. These ranged from organizing walks along the creek and other public events, to the development of educational resources and the creation of a multilingual children’s book about the site that was widely distributed. These initiatives were seen as an opportunity to form a community of stewards that might play a more active role in the creek’s ecology into the future. While still in the planning stages, the project’s impact is evident in its reception by the community and the momentum this has generated around securing funding to advance the work.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Xichong Coast Recovery Plan Hassell Shenzhen Bureau of Urban Planning and Natural Resource / Administrative Comittee of Shenzhen Dapeng New District

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This speculative proposal provides a holistic approach to a coastal tourism region near Shenzhen that is impacted by climate change.

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this project demonstrates the thinking that landscape architects can bring to complex landscapes undergoing climaterelated change in the coming decades.

Project Details project Xichong Coast Recovery Plan entrant practice Hassell client Shenzhen Bureau of Urban Planning and Natural Resource / Administrative Comittee of Shenzhen Dapeng New District

This speculative proposal provides a holistic approach to a coastal tourism region near Shenzhen that is impacted by climate change. Negotiating environmental, economic, social and cultural aspects of the region through a long-term, multifaceted and multiscalar strategy, the project is underpinned by a strong reading of the site’s ecology and an exploration of how new infrastructures and tourist facilities can shape more resilient landscape systems. Collaborating with an engineer, the landscape team has developed hybrid approaches

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to infrastructure that support tourism while defending the coastline against typhoons. The jury commends the proposal’s critique of the region’s existing tourist economy and the alternative approach developed, which involves community management of the local industry and the landscapes that support it. Overall, this project demonstrates the thinking that landscape architects can bring to complex landscapes undergoing climaterelated change in the coming decades.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Nayara Tented Camp VIDA MASTERPLANNING + DESIGN Nayara Resorts Maleku Ancestral Land

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This project demonstrates the ecological impacts and striking experiential outcomes made possible by the leadership of landscape architects in the ecotourism space.

Project Details project Nayara Tented Camp entrant practice VIDA MASTERPLANNING + DESIGN indigenous nation Maleku Ancestral Land client Nayara Resorts

This project demonstrates the ecological impacts and striking experiential outcomes made possible by the leadership of landscape architects in the ecotourism space. The landscape team weaves a strong appreciation for site and ecology through all aspects of the brief, which introduces a new resort to an eight-hectare former agricultural site in Costa Rica. At all phases and scales of the project, the design responds sensitively to context. At a large scale, it balances the requirements of the resort with

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a comprehensive reforestation strategy, extending an existing sloth sanctuary; at a site scale, a well-researched planting strategy establishes habitat corridors and privacy for guests; at a small scale, details incorporate local volcanic geology to stunning effect in a series of terraced thermal pools. The work demonstrates leadership beyond the project itself, forming part of the landscape team’s longer-term advocacy for the more widespread use of native flora. The jury was first stunned by the outcomes achieved and then impressed by the layered thinking behind the project.

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At all phases and scales of the project, the design responds sensitively to context

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The work demonstrates leadership beyond the project itself, forming part of the landscape team’s longer-term advocacy for the more widespread use of native flora.

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INTERNATIONAL NOMINEES

FishNest Island

Jiangyin Docklands

Bodu Canal Renewal Wuxi

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“FishNest Island” by GVL Gossamer & Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning & Design Institute is an international competitionwinning scheme for a regionally significant island located at the confluence of the Fuchun, Qiantang, and Puyang Rivers, Hangzhou, China. The design draws from deep historical and cultural research, leveraging an ancient legacy of riverlife, and fishing culture to propose a sensitive outcome that provides economic and climatic resilience, extends village typologies, remediates agriculture & aquaculture and regenerates local ecosystems.

This 4km long landscape is the first stage in Jiangyin city’s docklands redevelopment. The project rehabilitates microhabitats and links two indigenous eco-system corridors. The design maintains traces of the site’s various histories, ancient and industrial. A former ship building site retains a rich palimpsest and supports inclusive and diverse open spaces and activities. Three ancient port sites have been identified and developed as active cultural nodes.

The Bodu Canal is an ancient canal created centuries ago through the low lying farmlands of the Yangtze River Delta. The renewal of the canal corridor is creating a vital integrative open space corridor that meanders through over twenty kilometers of the urban metropolis of Wuxi City, connecting older communities, newly developing areas, mixed use business areas, intact ecological wetlands and forests; a living cross section of the new urban Chinese landscape. It’s main aim to bring its community to the water again, to reflect, to meet, to mingle, play and to renew the ties between community and landscape.

Project Details

entrant practice GVL Gossamer

entrant practice Brearley Architects +

entrant practice Earthasia (Shanghai) Co. Ltd

client Hangzhou Yongjiang Development

Urbanists BAU client Jiangyin Landscape Bureau

client Construction Project Management

Leading Group Office & Hangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau

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The design introduces an extensive array of leisure programs novel to the city. A 4km jogging track links numerous sports and fitness opportunities. Another path connects playgrounds, skate park, plazas and other unprogrammed spaces.

Center of Xinwu District

Sanlin InCity Mall (now as Suntec Place Sanlin)

Daishan Island Urban Regeneration Strategy

National Museum of Qatar ‚Äì Dhow and Dahl Playgrounds

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By reviving a local retail development that was on the decline, we gave Shanghai’s Sanlin neighbourhood more than a new mall. We created a new social hub, lifestyle destination and community heart. Hassell worked closely with the developers to regenerate the existing mall, combining our architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and retail planning expertise to transform an enclosed environment into an open, vibrant destination. By blending the architecture and surrounding landscape with new plants and trees, we’ve also established an urban ‘oasis’ for around-the-clock activities and events.

Daishan Island Urban Renewal Strategy repositions the destination as an important cornerstone for tourism, fishing, and marine economy in the Zhoushan Archipelago. Environmental, urban and social data inform an optimised biourban intervention that exceeds regional ecological restoration, placemaking and economic vitality benchmarks. Restoring mountain and seaside ecosystems, the strategy integrates new and existing tourism, commercial, and public space infrastructure through a placeled landscape, urban and environmental design that captures the Island’s rich village culture through its modernised, artistic temperament.

TCL led a team of local and international consultants for the design of two playgrounds for the National Museum of Qatar. The immersive landscapes reveal trade narratives and Qatari cultural history, extending the tenor of the museum in interactive and educational play. The Cave of Wonders playground translates the geology, fauna and history of Qatar’s natural caves (dahl), into a sensory play environment. The Adventure Ship playground is cast across the sand, ready to explore. It interprets the ‘shipwreck’ and cargo of the legendary trader Erahmah Bin Jaber. Innovative technologies developed for the project promote inclusivity and mitigate climatic extremes.

Project Details

entrant practice Hassell

entrant practice McGregor Coxall

entrant practice TCL

client Vanke SCPG / Cinve

client Urban Planning & Design Institute of

client Qatar Museums

Shenzhen (UPDIS)

LAND MANAGEMENT

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Projects in this category are constructed projects or strategies for the restoration, conservation or management of significant landscapes that demonstrate a tangible physical outcome. The project may recognise and reconcile the natural and cultural values of communities and the landscape in which they are placed.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Ellendale Place Design Group Cedar Woods Property Limited Yuggera Nation of the Turrbal people

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An exemplar project, Ellendale highlights the results of an improved approach and practice in the context of suburban residential development

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The jury was impressed by the value placed on retaining topography and existing vegetation, and the commitment to rehabilitation of identified park linkages.

Project Details project Ellendale entrant practice Place Design Group client Cedar Woods Property Limited aboriginal nation Yuggera Nation of the Turrbal people state award 2021 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Award for Land Management

An exemplar project, Ellendale highlights the results of an improved approach and practice in the context of suburban residential development. It showcases the positive influence of landscape-led design solutions in a traditionally infrastructurefocused environment. The jury was impressed by the value placed on retaining topography and existing vegetation, and the commitment to rehabilitation of identified park linkages.

on environmental health. Extra measures for existing and future fauna are commendable, with ongoing monitoring indicating the continued commitment shown by the client. This project is the product of a strong, trusting relationship between landscape architect, client and local authority.

The ongoing fauna management and rehabilitation highlights the ecological priority placed

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National Award of Excellence Winner Lalang-gaddam Marine Park Visitor Plan Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions and Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation Dambimangari Country

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Project Details project Lalang-gaddam Marine Park Visitor Plan entrant practice Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions aboriginal nation Dambimangari Country client Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions and Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation national award 2021 AILA WA Landscape Architecture Award for Land Management

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The Lalang-gaddam Marine Park Visitor Plan sets a benchmark for partnerships with key stakeholders in visitation management of the remote Kimberley coast to ensure sustainable and culturally appropriate tourism. The plan proactively strategizes the complex balance between land, people and tourism. The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions’ heavy investment in mapping and understanding the values of the Dambeemangarddee people, while remaining considerate of all stakeholders, has resulted

in a clearly articulated map for culturally sensitive, respectful future access and use. The leadership role of the landscape architect is outstanding and deserving of the Award of Excellence.

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The plan proactively strategizes the complex balance between land, people and tourism.

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The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions’ heavy investment in mapping and understanding the values of the Dambeemangarddee people, while remaining considerate of all

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LANDSCAPE PLANNING

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Projects in this category are constructed or strategic projects and include strategic design and guiding policy documents and visual assessments for urban development, residential and planned communities, local community and rural or regional planning.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Suburb Improvement Program Review - Greening Onkaparinga City of Onkaparinga (Entrant & Client) Kaurna Country

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Through its early findings, the City of Onkaparinga identified that areas with low canopy cover and an increased urban heat island effect are more often linked to social vulnerability, where households are less likely to have cars and are more dependent on the walkability of their streets.

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The jury was impressed by the City’s ability to clearly communicate the project motivations and implementation strategies, and its patience in remaining

Project Details project Suburb Improvement Program Review - Greening Onkaparinga entrant practice & client City of Onkaparinga aboriginal nation Kaurna Country state award 2021 South Australia Award of Excellence for Landscape Planning

A Suburb Improvement Program often starts with an honest selfassessment. Through its early findings, the City of Onkaparinga identified that areas with low canopy cover and an increased urban heat island effect are more often linked to social vulnerability, where households are less likely to have cars and are more dependent on the walkability of their streets.

initiated more than 10 years ago and reviewed in 2018. This project speaks volumes about the value the City places on the health and wellbeing of its most vulnerable constituents and its belief in the value of greener suburbs.

The jury was impressed by the City’s ability to clearly communicate the project motivations and implementation strategies, and its patience in remaining committed to a program

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National Landscape Architecture Award A Manual for Evaluating the Visual Impact of Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Inspiring Place Pty Ltd Lairmairrener Country

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Defining landscape, its importance and how to evaluate its worth with appropriate sensitivity, the manual clearly articulates how to identify and recognize view types and landscape value

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Project Details project A Manual for Evaluating the Visual Impact of Pumped Hydro Energy Storage entrant practice & client Inspiring Place Pty Ltd aboriginal nation Lairmairrener Country state award 2021 TAS Award of Excellence for Landscape Planning

The jury was impressed with the landscape architect’s leading role in creating a layman’s manual for evaluating the visual impact of construction, specifically pumped hydro projects. Defining landscape, its importance and how to evaluate its worth with appropriate sensitivity, the manual clearly articulates how to identify and recognize view types and landscape value for preliminary landscape assessment work. The project scope included education on its application as a tool for a large infrastructure company.

The potential of this manual extends beyond its current tenure. Its ability to provide an understanding of early mitigation opportunities and the impact of projects that change a landscape is easily transferable to any project. The jury applauds the initiative of the designers in proactively promoting the role of the landscape architect within this infrastructure industry.

A manual for evaluating thefor Tender Request Street New Norfolk visual impactHigh of pumped Concept Urban Design hydro energy storage

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LANDSCAPE PLANNING NOMINEES

Hornsby Biodiversity Conservation Strategy

Greater Shepparton City Council Play Space Strategy

The Aldinga Framework Plan

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The Strategy was developed in conjunction with Council and community to conserve, manage and plan for the region's biodiversity. In a ground-breaking approach, Rhizome hosted several design charrette workshops that brought community and stakeholders together to collectively develop a spectrum of biodiversity planning recommendations, underpinned by a set of spatially accurate and ground-truthed ‘Green Infrastructure Framework’ plans. This framework brought together biodiversity protection, ecological connectivity planning and urban design considerations to reveal a range of complementary benefits, including urban heat island mitigation and active transport and WSUD considerations and herald a new approach to collaborative, cross-disciplinary biodiversity conservation planning.

The Play Space Strategy provides strategic guidance and direction to Council for the future provision and development of play spaces. The strategy incorporates an analysis of the distribution, quality of play experiences, age groups catered for, access and improvement opportunities of existing play spaces within Greater Shepparton.

The Aldinga area is known for its unique environmental attributes and its lively historic township. The Aldinga Framework Plan (AFP) brings together known information about the Aldinga region and identifies key issues and opportunities.

Project Details

entrant practice Rhizome

entrant practice Spiire

entrant practice City of Onkaparinga

aboriginal nation Ku Ring Gai

aboriginal nation Yorta Yorta

aboriginal nation Kaurna

client Hornsby Shire

client Greater Shepparton City Council

client City of Onkaparinga

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It provides an overview of the importance of play in childhood development and includes design guidelines for best practice play space design for quality play provision.

Developed by the City of Onkaparinga as a pro-active input to State Government led planning and infrastructure projects for Adelaide's southern metropolitan fringe, the AFP is an evolving planning tool for use across different stages of design and planning process.

This Strategy will guide policy, priorities and future capital works projects and ensure equitable distribution of well-designed spaces and opportunities for play throughout Greater Shepparton long term.

Paul Keating Park Masterplan

Freycinet Peninsula Master Plan

Southport Spit Masterplan

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The Paul Keating Park (PKP) masterplan is a strategic response to Bankstown CBD’s predicted rapid growth over the next 20 years, embedding a revitalised greenspace central to the urban setting to unite new and existing public amenity and infrastructure. PKP embodies an urban forest’s pivotal role by creating positive environmental outcomes that make regional centres more accessible, attractive, habitable, and comfortable. PKP forms the crux of an urban regeneration strategy that promotes community engagement, economic and commercial prosperity through an intuitive public realm and the creation of a balanced microclimate.

The Freycinet Peninsula is one of the state’s premier destinations. Access is via Coles Bay, through which all traffic must pass. The existing visitor centre has struggled to manage increasing visitation.

The master plan delivers a cohesive blueprint for The Spit’s future, built on a foundation of inclusiveness, collaboration and consensus between stakeholders and the community. The plan sets a clear direction for the 201 hectare Spit, balancing tourism, recreation, environment and cultural heritage. This master plan will unlock potential for 1800 new jobs, 800 new short-term accommodation rooms, a new Aboriginal Cultural Centre and the protection and improvement of over 138 hectares of public greenspace. The project outcomes reflect strong leadership, good governance, high levels of community engagement and design collaboration, along with excellence in planning and urban design practice.

Project Details

entrant practice Playstreet in collaboration

entrant practice Aspect Studios

with ERA Planning & Environment aboriginal nation Paredarerme client Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania

aboriginal nation Bundjalung

entrant practice McGregor Coxall aboriginal nation Darug client City of Canterbury Bankstown

Playstreet, in collaboration with ERA Planning & Enivironment and a broader consultant team, was appointed to develop a tourism-focused master plan for the peninsula. A key outcome was to reduce the reliance on private vehicles within the national park. The master plan proposes a visitor gateway hub to be located before visitors arrive at Coles Bay, incorporating a shared-transport base while minimising potential adverse impacts from growing tourism numbers.

client Department of State Development,

Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning

PARKS AND OPEN SPACE Sponsored by:

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Projects in this category are constructed public parks and open space, or strategic open space projects that balance the demand for recreation, culture and the environment.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Tullamore Southern Gully Reserve MDG Landscape Architects Mirvac Wurundjeri Country

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Tullamore Southern Gully Reserve feels like an established suburban community asset as the retention of the existing trees has allowed this parkland to have the character of a much older site.

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The multitude of different recreational opportunities within the reserve extends its value to the community.

Project Details project Tullamore Southern Gully Reserve entrant practice MDG Landscape Architects aboriginal nation Wurundjeri Country client Mirvac state award 2021 AILA VICLandscape Architecture Award for Parks and Open Space

Tullamore Southern Gully Reserve feels like an established suburban community asset as the retention of the existing trees has allowed this parkland to have the character of a much older site. The leadership qualities of the landscape design team have resulted in a high quality, peoplecentric outcome.

The multitude of different recreational opportunities within the reserve extends its value to the community.

The project is notable for its sensitive treatment of topography and the integration of water quality and overland flow issues sets this project apart from more conventional developments.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Bina Parkland Ecoscape City of Stirling Whadjuk Noongar Country

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This project demonstrates a strong engagement process that intentionally strove to include as much of the community as possible.

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Through their process, the designers have helped to foster a sense of ownership over the space by the community and created a local asset that is as diverse in the opportunities it provides, as it is beautiful.

Project Details project Bina Parkland entrant practice Ecoscape aboriginal nation Whadjuk Noongar Country client City of Stirling state award 2021 AILA WA Award of Excellence for Parks and Open Space

Our best public facilities are inclusive and accessible. This project demonstrates a strong engagement process that intentionally strove to include as much of the community as possible. A clear focus on meaningful engagement led to the identification of culturally appropriate design opportunities. Workshops and collaborations with Wadjuk Northside and the city’s Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Community (CALD), as well as students from North Balga Primary School and Balga

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Senior High School have set this project up to be of huge benefit to the community. Through their process, the designers have helped to foster a sense of ownership over the space by the community and created a local asset that is as diverse in the opportunities it provides, as it is beautiful.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Riverside Green – South Bank Parklands Hassell South Bank Corporation Turrbal & Jagera Country

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Riverside Green provides a completely new offering within an iconic destination. The project sits within Southbank’s highly trafficked waterfront area, but does not compete with

Project Details project Riverside Green – South Bank Parklands entrant practice Hassell aboriginal nation Turrbal & Jagera Country client South Bank Corporation national award 2021 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Award for Parks and Open Space

Riverside Green provides a completely new offering within an iconic destination. The project sits within Southbank’s highly trafficked waterfront area, but does not compete with or overshadow surrounding attractions. The project is a stunningly elegant approach to reimagining the site that demonstrates a clever spatial resolution. Each part of the design has its own character and intent. The river lawn is a spacious setting that is always in demand; the rainforest deck and pavilion offers an equitable and programmable

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space perfectly shaded for the climate; the rainforest supports the site’s subtropical character; and the grotto provides a sunken seasonally dynamic treasure. The designers have succeeded in creating an elegant, coherent project that is greater than the sum of its parts.

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The project is a stunningly elegant approach to reimagining the site that demonstrates a clever spatial resolution.

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The designers have succeeded in creating an elegant, coherent project that is greater than the sum of its parts.

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PARKS AND OPEN SPACE NOMINEES

Gladstone East Shores Auckland Point

St Leonards Park Master Plan and Upgrade

Lathlain Precinct Community Parkland

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The Gladstone East Shores, Auckland Point, represents a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a world-class waterfront for Queensland’s most significant Port city. Urbis led a multi-disciplinary team to re-imagine the future of its waterfront and extension of their current parklands, through master planning, design and delivery. Once privatised industrial land, Gladstone Ports Corporation had the foresight and generosity to deliver a publicly accessible waterfront parkland to benefit the community and offer residents and visitors to Gladstone, giving them the opportunity to engage with each other, the city’s history, as well as its greatest physical asset, its waterfront.

St Leonards Park, is one of the oldest parks in Sydney. It is an item of state significance and a rare example of a largely intact Victorian era park. In recent years, the park has come under pressure from increased demand, as people seek space for recreation, play, exercise, and respite. Council sought a carefully crafted and sensitive master plan that would address conflicts, balance competing demands and protect the park’s unique features. Gallagher Studio in collaboration with North Sydney Council developed a landscape master plan and has undertaken upgrade works to the park.

REALMstudios and Urbis were each commissioned separately by the Town of Victoria Park to develop and deliver the vision for Lathlain Park Community Zones.

Project Details

entrant practice Urbis Pty Ltd

entrant practice Gallagher Studio in

entrant practice REALMstudios & Urbis

aboriginal nation Gureng Gureng

collaboration with North Sydney Council aboriginal nation Eora client North Sydney Council

aboriginal nation Whadjuk Noongar

client Gladstone Ports Corporation

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The design scheme provides a parkland precinct with a range of diverse recreation spaces within the former Lathlain Park and Tom Wright Reserve. These spaces are organised around a structure of pedestrian links to create an easily navigable precinct. The design builds on the existing site attributes, retaining trees and providing play and interpretation opportunities. This approach incorporates endemic species, avenue planting and the provision of generous landscaped zones to enhance the retained site vegetation.

client Town of Victoria Park

Warril Parkland

Inglis Park

Munro Martin Parklands, Cairns

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Warril Parkland is the first priority project delivered as part of the Oxley Creek Transformation Master Plan. The parkland sets the benchmark for all future open space projects, revitalising the Oxley Creek corridor from the Brisbane River to Larapinta into a world class green, lifestyle and leisure destination.

Arcadia’s vision for Inglis Park captures the lively atmosphere once created by the Newmarket sales. The intention is that every day in Inglis Park feels like it did on those few occasions each year, when people travelled from over Australia to gather under the canopy of the original fig tree by the sales ring. Connecting people with Newmarket’s past is central to the design strategy. Inglis Park has become the new heart of Randwick, providing residents and visitors with outdoor space for relaxation, fitness, children’s parties and BBQs, dog-friendly areas and a great place to meet family and friends.

Munro Martin Parklands is part of the Cairns Performing Arts Precinct revitalising two aging CBD sites to increase the city's capacity to host performing arts. The outdated Civic Centre replaced, and a 3,000-audience amphitheatre integrated into the largely underutilised park opposite. To encourage park usage a tropical vines and foliage theme was developed. Steel pergolas displaying spectacular flowering vines cross pathways creating covered walks, the stage emerging from a gigantic trellis framing a high gabion wall backdrop. The park now is a vital part of Cairns' cultural life and a destination for locals and visitors admiring the changing floral spectacle

Project Details

entrant practice Arcadia Landscape

entrant practice Andrew Prowse Landscape

Architecture

Architect Pty Ltd (since merged with LA3 Landscape Architects) aboriginal nation Gimuy-walubarra yidi client Cairns Regional Council, Cairns Qld

With a strong connection to its surrounding natural landscape, the nature-based adventure parkland has been designed to repair a bushland site damaged by past sandmining activity, and to create a place that challenges and engages children and adults alike, enticing them outdoors with the promise of creating their own adventure quest.

Project Details entrant practice Place Design Group aboriginal nation Yuggera Ugarapul client Oxley Creek Transformation Pty Ltd

aboriginal nation Eora client Cbus Property

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PLAY SPACES Sponsored by:

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Projects in this category are constructed play spaces or strategies which promote the notion of active play and embraces the temporal elements of the active play space.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner The Sales Ring Playground Arcadia Landscape Architecture Cbus Property Eora Country

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This play space is not about sitting on the edges – rather, the play elements draw the visitor in.

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The design is engaging, challenging but also accessible, and completely deserving of its obvious popularity.

Project Details project The Sales Ring Playground entrant practice Arcadia Landscape Architecture aboriginal nation Eora Country client Cbus Property state award 2021 AILA NSW Award of Excellence for Play Spaces

The Newmarket Sale Ring once played a central role in the life of the Newmarket Racecourse. Arcadia have honoured the site’s heritage and repurposed the central sales ring structure, restoring its prominence by transforming it into the central play element of a broader, themed play space within this residential precinct.

day narrative. The design is engaging, challenging but also accessible, and completely deserving of its obvious popularity.

This play space is not about sitting on the edges – rather, the play elements draw the visitor in. Imaginative play is stimulated through public art which builds on the site’s historical and present-

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Bradbury Park Scooter Track Form Landscape Architects and Brisbane City Council Brisbane City Council Yuggera Country

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The Bradbury Park scooter track is a strong and simple concept catering for the transitioning of skill development and confidence for beginner riders – skate, scooter and bike.

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In a gender-balanced environment, the design encourages children to be outdoors and to exercise in a meaningful, playful and original way.

Project Details project Bradbury Park Scooter Track entrant practice Form Landscape Architects and Brisbane City Council aboriginal nation Yuggera Country client Brisbane City Council state award 2021 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Award for Play Spaces

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Bradbury Park Scooter Track caters for the transitioning of skill development and confidence for beginner skate, scooter and bike riders. While seemingly simplistic in form, the technical aspects of the design are subtle, nuanced and well-resolved. In a gender-balanced environment, the design encourages children to be outdoors and to exercise in a meaningful, playful and original way.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Deep Creek Eco Play Playce Pty Ltd with Agency of Sculpture Cardinia Shire Council Boon Wurrung Country

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Deep Creek Eco Play celebrates play experiences that are challenging, imaginative and inclusive.

Project Details project Deep Creek Eco Play entrant practice Playce Pty Ltd with Agency of Sculpture aboriginal nation Boon Wurrung Country client Cardinia Shire Council state award 2021 AILA VIC Award of Excellence for Infrastructure

Deep Creek Eco Play celebrates play experiences that are challenging, imaginative and inclusive. The project embodies an important progression in terms of how we approach play space design. The project approaches equitable design not just by providing separate opportunities for play, but by developing a holistic approach that opens up opportunities for personal liberation. The strength of the project lies in its rich consultation process and deep

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understanding of how to design play opportunities for all abilities which have resulted in an outcome that connects to the sensory and tactile aspects of landscape in a fun and extremely playful way.

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The project approaches equitable design not just by providing separate opportunities for play, but by developing a holistic approach that opens up opportunities for personal liberation.

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The strength of the project lies in its rich consultation process and deep understanding of how to design play opportunities for all abilities which have resulted in an outcome that connects to the sensory and tactile aspects of landscape in a fun and extremely playful way.

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PLAY SPACES NOMINEES

Eltham North Adventure Playground

Little Roo's Playground - Whitfield State School

The Magic Forest of Bradbury Park

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The Eltham North Adventure Playground was commissioned by Nillumbik Shire to replace the iconic Eltham Woolshed playground destroyed by fire in December 2017.

Little Roo’s Playground builds on a short story created by the Whitfield State School teachers to assist children transition from preschool into Prep. The narrative is brought to life with the creation of a series of play experiences featuring little Roo’s new friends, each character based on animals found in North Queensland. Continuous connections between each space are emphasised with the footprints of Little Roo. The outcome has resulted in a space that functions beyond the basic purpose of a playground, by providing prompts for lessons on the natural environment, relationships, resilience and fostering an environmental stewardship for later life.

A nature play space constructed within an existing grove of mature Melaleuca and Waterhousia trees, The Magic Forest of Bradbury Park offers a source of intrigue and delight for all who enter. Natural features of the site informed a mythical narrative including Rivers of Gold, a Valley of Giants and a Guardian’s Throne, and the subsequent subtle placement of various sculptural trinkets and carved elements. By providing subtle cues rather than prescribed play opportunities, children are able to create infinite interpretations of the narrative and engage in the ‘choose your own adventure’ play experience for hours at a time.

Project Details

entrant practice Jeavons Landscape

entrant practice Landplan Landscape

entrant practice Form Landscape Architects

Architects with Gardiner Architects and Naturform aboriginal nation Wurundjeri client Nillumbik Shire Council

Architecture

and Brisbane City Council aboriginal nation Yuggera client Brisbane City Council

The design team (Jeavons Landscape Architects, Gardiner Architects and Naturform Pty Ltd) engaged substantially with the community to create a new Eltham North icon. The result is a three-dimensional play structure under a massive, contemporary roof that extends its reach into a complex, planted landscape. The new inclusive play environment evokes the previous design and is rich in connections to the natural and indigenous cultural landscape - offering challenge, creative/sensory/nature play, artworks, and spaces for picnicking and gathering.

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aboriginal nation Gimuy-walubarra Yidinji client Whitfield State School

Kawana Waters State College Prep Play Space

Summerland Farm Park

Wilfred Taylor Reserve Nature Playspace

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This natural play space with bespoke design timber play structures was conceived through engagement with the school teachers and students. There is a sense of wonder exploring the pebble creek or hand pumping water as well as adventure by climbing the fallen tree or scaling the unique timber play obstacle course sited amongst the shady grove of mature trees.

The expansion of Summerland Farm was a Government grant funded project. It represents a continuation of the founding legacy of Summerland Farm as a place of inclusion, where people with a disability are central to the operation. As a direct result of the project an extra 50 employment roles have now been created.

Wilfred Taylor Reserve Nature Playspace layers storytelling, cultural significance, site history, and education to provide an inclusive destination for people of all ages and abilities to explore, roam and enjoy the reserve’s stunning natural environment. As the largest regional playspace in Adelaide’s South the project responds to community needs and demonstrates the benefits that engaging with nature has on the cognitive, emotional, and physical development of children. Green open space, sensory gardens, art works, bespoke play and education equipment are all sensitively integrated with the required infrastructure for a playspace of this scale, while remaining complimentary to the natural environment.

Additional pedagogical influences were introduced including 100 colour pebbles (10 of each colour) mortared into the creekbed which provides arithmetic learning. The play space is successful with the broader community who visit the farmers markets held at the school every weekend.

Plummer & Smith worked closely with DFJ Architects and Project Fort Awesome to realise an inclusive park and playspace that showcases the landscape and environment of its regional hinterland setting. The design focuses on non-prescriptive imagination based play to improve users connection with each other and the environment.

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entrant practice Greenedge Design

entrant practice Plummer & Smith

entrant practice City of Onkaparinga and Peter

aboriginal nation Gubbi Gubbi

aboriginal nation Bundjalung

client Kawana Waters State College

client Summerland Farm- Aruma Services

Semple Landscape Architects aboriginal nation kaurna client City of Onkaparinga

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RESEARCH, POLICY AND COMMUNICATIONS Sponsored by:

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Projects in this category include published works in research and or practice that extend the knowledge base and advocacy of landscape architecture.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Guide to Green Building Elements Lat27 for Brisbane City Council - City Planning and Economic Development Branch Brisbane City Council - City Planning and Economic Development Branch Yugara/Yugarapul People and Turrbal People Country

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Overall, the document enables a richer and more productive discussion between the profession and our clients around a typology of growing importance.

Project Details project Guide to Green Building Elements entrant practice Lat27 for Brisbane City Council - City Planning and Economic Development Branch aboriginal nation Yugara/Yugarapul People and Turrbal People Country client Brisbane City Council - City Planning and Economic Development Branch state award 2021 AILA QLD Award of Excellence for Research, Policy and Communications

This comprehensive report responds to the rising incorporation of green building elements – green walls, green roofs and terrace planters – in new developments and forms a valuable design and advocacy resource for the profession and councils alike. By providing thinking around the design, technical and regulatory aspects of these elements, as well as metrics for evaluating their benefits and risks, the document offers an invaluable tool for designers who wish to develop and promote better

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approaches to vertical, rooftop and podium landscapes. For local councils, these materials enable more effective assessment of green building elements and identify opportunities to support more extensive and successful incorporation into cities. Overall, the document enables a richer and more productive discussion between the profession and our clients around a typology of growing importance.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Place Value Ashfield To & Fro Studio Future West & The University of Western Australia, School of Design Whadjuk Noongar Country

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The project demonstrates leadership in all aspects of the project: through the landscape-led design outcomes developed; through the landscape architect-led collaboration and coordination approaches across the project’s multidisciplinary team; and through the research and advocacy material the project has generated. 156

the project responds to the gap it identifies with creativity and rigour, providing useful knowledge, tools and precedent to the profession.

Project Details project Place Value Ashfield entrant practice To & Fro Studio aboriginal nation Whadjuk Noongar Country client Future West & The University of Western Australia, School of Design state award 2021 AILA WA Award of Excellence for Research, Policy and Communications

This design-based research project explores the leadership landscape architects can provide to medium-density infill projects, using one of Perth’s inner-city suburbs as its testing ground. While the landscape scope of infill projects is typically minimal and understood on a site-by-site basis, this project brings landscape from periphery to foreground, exploring the site, precinct and suburb-scale opportunities introduced by this shift.

project: through the landscapeled design outcomes developed; through the landscape architectled collaboration and coordination approaches across the project’s multidisciplinary team; and through the research and advocacy material the project has generated. Overall, the project responds to the gap it identifies with creativity and rigour, providing useful knowledge, tools and precedent to the profession.

The project demonstrates leadership in all aspects of the

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National Award of Excellence Winner LXRP Indigenous Design Guidelines Level Crossing Removal Project Kulin Nation Country

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Concise but comprehensive, the document provides guidance around meaningful collaboration with Traditional Owners throughout the design process and around the respectful integration of Aboriginal knowledge and culture into the built environment.

Project Details project LXRP Indigenous Design Guidelines entrant practice Level Crossing Removal Project aboriginal nation Kulin Nation Country client Level Crossing Removal Project state award 2021 AILA VIC Award of Excellence for Research, Policy and Communications

The LXRP Indigenous Design Guidelines introduce a new dimension to the thinking around infrastructure in Victoria and form a valuable Indigenous-led design and advocacy resource for Australian designers. The guidelines recast infrastructure as spaces that can express and support culture and promote landscape architects’ role in developing Indigenous-led design approaches and outcomes. Concise but comprehensive, the document provides guidance around meaningful collaboration

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with Traditional Owners throughout the design process and around the respectful integration of Aboriginal knowledge and culture into the built environment. These best practice approaches are presented clearly and illustrated by local precedents, forming a valuable resource that is transferrable to other disciplines and project types. The document’s communication is clear and accessible to nondesign audiences, making them a powerful advocacy tool. Overall, the guidelines provide a document that has been missing in the profession, and set a preliminary benchmark to learn and build from.

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These best practice approaches are presented clearly and illustrated by local precedents, forming a valuable resource that is transferrable to other disciplines and project types

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Overall, the guidelines provide a document that has been missing in the profession, and set a preliminary benchmark to learn and build from.

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RESEARCH, POLICY AND COMMUNICATIONS NOMINEES

Public Space Ideas Competition 2020

City of Perth Urban Forest Soil Specification and Tree Details

The Australian Main Street in a Post-COVID-19 World -A Local Response

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The Public Space Ideas Competition was imagined to inspire and advocate for quality public space in our city, to increase expectations of what public space in Sydney can be. With the aim of engaging a wide audience the competition created the opportunity to reimagine, inspire, create, include, and bring awareness to great public spaces across Greater Sydney. We invited entrants to showcase ideas to transform public space across Sydney. What became clear during COVID-19 is how important good public space is; making this objective and raising expectations of public space, vital to making our city work for everyone.

Healthy soils are a critical component in supporting tree establishment, health and the development of high quality canopy for our urban forests. Using an evidence based approach, including a review of current practice, site visits, soil testing and analysis, the multidisciplinary consultant team successfully combined a range of skills and expertise to work effectively and collaboratively with city staff to develop a soil specification tailored to the needs of the City’s Urban Forest.

The global pandemic fast-tracked an inevitable shift from car-dominated cities to people-centric spaces and places. As many cities globally responded with ‘how-to guides’ for transforming now-abandoned urban spaces where activity was, we recognised an opportunity to advocate for good public spaces using our existing community assets. We prepared the Local Main Streets booklet and social media content for Australian communities, local councils and decisionmakers. We saw it as an opportunity to demonstrate the value of our profession and good design - at a time when there was a premium value on public space as access to it everywhere was prohibitive.

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entrant practice Committee for Sydney

entrant practice UDLA

/ Department of Planning, Industry and Environment / AECOM aboriginal nation Eora, Dharug and Ku Ring Gai client Committee for Sydney

aboriginal nation Whadjuk Noongar

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client City of Perth

entrant practice Urbis Pty Ltd aboriginal nation (No specific location)

Australian Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Country. client Urbis - Public Realm Advocacy & Thought Leadership

The Politics of Public Space

Is There a Better Approach to Providing Urban Greenspace?

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The Politics of Public Space is a quarterly publication of transcripts that speak directly to the city and the way we read it. Over three years, OFFICE have curated a public lecture series titled The Politics of Public Space as part of their university teaching, inviting speakers to present in and around Melbourne—and more recently online. Holding the series outside the conventional spaces of the institution has allowed these discussions to be directed at the city’s forms and the issues at stake in their development. To preserve and disseminate these events, OFFICE has compiled this content into a quarterly publication.

This empirically led Doctoral research critically examines the challenges for cities in providing adequate greenspace to support urban populations, focusing on municipal government. It extends the knowledge base of landscape architecture (greenspace provision) mobilising findings from a systematic quantitative literature review, and qualitative data from two case studies from Australia and Canada. This research delivers new principles for improved approaches for urban greenspace provision, and conceptual models illustrating how various factors shape urban greenspace provision. Results have been widely disseminated with multiple publications in international academic planning journals, and conference proceedings, presented to industry audiences locally and globally.

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entrant practice OFFICE

entrant practice The CityGreen Lab Pty Ltd

aboriginal nation Kulin Nation

aboriginal nation Australia: Yuggera, Turrbal,

client This was a self initiated project

Yugarabul, Jagera and Yugambeh peoples; Canada: Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Qayqayt and Tsawwassen First Nations client Cities Research Institute, Griffith University

SMALL PROJECTS

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Projects in this category include those considered to be ‘small’ in terms of size or budget. Projects are recognised that have been constrained by size or budget restrictions, but have achieved a level of invention and creativity beyond these constraints.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Albert Park Office + Depot Openwork + Christina Silk Office For Planting Parks Victoria Boon Wurrung & Wurundjeri Country

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A masterfully conceived and detailed interplay between the landscape and architecture helps to blend the building into the park grounds.

Project Details project Albert Park Office + Depot entrant practice Openwork + Christina Silk Office For Planting aboriginal nation Boon Wurrung & Wurundjeri Country client Parks Victoria state award 2021 AILA VIC Award of Excellence for Small Projects

Albert Park Office and Depot provides a new base for the caretakers of the park and the wider region for Parks Victoria. A masterfully conceived and detailed interplay between the landscape and architecture helps to blend the building into the park grounds. It creates a building that is clearly of the park where the boundaries between inside and outside, and public and private are blurred. The architecture is cleverly articulated to provide a diversity

of habitats and favourable microclimates for planting and people. A variety of planting forms are successfully applied for passive climate control while still allowing for visual permeability. The endemic species strategy contributes to increased biodiversity and showcases native flora. The combined and stacked facility provides a smaller footprint on the park, but with maximum planting across different planes to create vertical relief in a largely lawned landscape. The overgrown ground, walls and ceilings add seasonal interest to the architectural façades contributing biophilic benefit to the users and visitors. It demonstrates best practice collaboration between consultants, achieving a building that is part of nature.

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A variety of planting forms are successfully applied for passive climate control while still allowing for visual permeability.

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[the project] demonstrates best practice collaboration between consultants, achieving a building that is part of nature.

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SMALL PROJECTS NOMINEES

Living Street Program

The Magic Forest of Bradbury Park

Max Ruddock Reserve Playground

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The City of Unley has less than 3% green open space, and to achieve the City’s vision of a more enviable lifestyle. Rethinking how local streets can become places for people.

Max Ruddock Reserve Playground is a community playground located in Winston Hills, NSW. The project presents a new working model for the design and practical ongoing management of a ‘local’ scale play space. The project challenges the commonly accepted, maintenance driven typology of the local playground and offers practical solutions to the common difficulties that are typically associated with nature play and custom fabricated playgrounds.

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entrant practice City of Unley

entrant practice Form Landscape Architects

entrant practice City of Parramatta

aboriginal nation Kaurna

and Brisbane City Council aboriginal nation Yuggera client Brisbane City Council

aboriginal nation Eora

The Living Streets Program enables Council design staff to work with interested residents to ‘co-design’ local streets to help foster a greater sense of community and return our local streets to greener, safer places where we can meet, walk, ride and even play. The staged approach that balances strategic aspirations and technical requirements of Council with the expectations of local community to enable small scale changes to local streets.

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The Mill Interim Activation

Shifting Sands

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The Mill Interim Activation visually showcases Landscape Architectures ability to step in and deliver an exceptional and engaging urban landscape from a large blank canvas with a limited budget and even more limited design and construction time. This landscape achieves a level of quality and richness belying the limited resources. Designing and constructing a vibrant linear and functional place for students and visitors within three months, the poetic and pragmatic collaboration between the building, civil and landscape contractors together with the structural engineer, furniture designer and landscape architects delivers a stunningly cohesive and creative place.

Shifting Sands is a ‘Living Lab’ and a tangible outcome of the UWA research project aimed at encouraging communal and educational activities concerning both sustainable design and Perth’s unique landscape. Each clustered formation refers to coastal sand dunes, sandy limestone and the Darling Scarp ecosystems. The design principles include sustainability (using recycled material -PVC pipes and low water species), biodiversity (using native Western Australian plant species), aesthetics (used pipes are an interactive piece of art– showing the complexities of nature/culture relations) and education (interactive and dynamic full-oflife hub for students, staff and visitors).

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entrant practice Moreton Bay Regional Council

entrant practice School of Design, University

and Archipelago aboriginal nation Yuggera client Paul Cunningham (Moreton Bay Regional Council)

of Western Australia aboriginal nation Whadjuk Noongar client Maria Ignatieva

TOURISM

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Projects in this category are constructed or strategic projects that demonstrate excellence in landscape design and demonstrate a tangible contribution to tourism, either nationally or in the local region that significantly enhances the profile of the area.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Cradle Mountain Visitors Centre Playstreet in collaboration with Cumulus Studio Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania Lairmairrener Country

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The Cradle Mountain Visitors Centre provides an outstanding visitor arrival experience to one of Tasmania’s most valued natural wilderness destinations, and an impressive gateway to

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The design of the public realm creates an appropriate sense of place and a legible experience for the visitor.

Project Details project Cradle Mountain Visitors Centre entrant practice Playstreet in collaboration with Cumulus Studio aboriginal nation Lairmairrener client Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania state award 2021 AILA TAS Landscape Architecture Award for Tourism

The Cradle Mountain Visitors Centre provides an outstanding visitor arrival experience to one of Tasmania’s most valued natural wilderness destinations, and an impressive gateway to the state’s Wilderness World Heritage Area. The project interprets the narrative of the site through a bold landscape design and sensitive plantings of slow-growing alpine vegetation. The project takes a considered approach to planting design in a protected alpine context, with the outcome resulting in minimal negative impacts to what was a previously

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disturbed site. The design of the public realm creates an appropriate sense of place and a legible experience for the visitor. As visitors approach the centre, they are drawn into the story of the landscape through plantings of native flora and landscape features that subtly reference aspects of the surrounding ancient landscape. The theme expressed in the plantings will continue to grow and evolve, embedding the alpine theme deeper into the project over time enforced within 50 years, when it reaches its true form.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Summerland Farm Plummer & Smith with DFJ Architects Summerland Farm- Aruma Services Bundjalung Country

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The project creates a wonderfully successful place of inclusion where people with disabilities are central to a farm’s operation.

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Employment opportunities that enable people with disabilities to work have been emphasised, elegantly creating a new socially and economically sustainable

Project Details project Summerland Farm entrant practice Plummer & Smith with DFJ Architects aboriginal nation Bundjalung client Summerland Farm- Aruma Services state award 2021 AILA NSW Award of Excellence for Tourism

The project creates a wonderfully successful place of inclusion where people with disabilities are central to a farm’s operation. The design has created an interactive, family-friendly activity park that provides both tourism and employment opportunities for the local region. The project offers an insight into the regional identity as a visitor attraction. The design response has evolved out of an understanding of the relationship between the site and its context. The resulting campus provides a sensitive and passive landscape

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and is an excellent example of how a tourism project might be integrated with a working farm. The farm creates jobs and benefits the local economy, using landscape as a tool. Employment opportunities that enable people with disabilities to work have been emphasised, elegantly creating a new socially and economically sustainable facility for the local community.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Kaju Yatka (Kalbarri Skywalk) Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions Nanda Country

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The highly successful outcomes of this work include the creation of site-specific and cultural interpretations of art with Nanda Traditional Owners and artists.

Project Details project Kaju Yatka (Kalbarri Skywalk) entrant practice Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions aboriginal nation Nanda client Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions state award 2021 AILA WA Award of Excellence for Tourism

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This striking project encapsulates two spectacular lookouts projecting out over the rim of the Murchison Gorge. The highly successful outcomes of this work include the creation of site-specific and cultural interpretations of art with Nanda Traditional Owners and artists.

an experience that is light to look and touch and entwined with deep cultural storytelling and cultural messaging by the Nanda people. The project encourages longer visits to the region through the provision of safe and comfortable visitor gathering areas and access ways.

The lookouts, while technically heavy pieces of infrastructure, nonetheless still look and feel light – a result of an exceptional design effort and innovative thinking. The design marries structural and landscape design to create

The project delivers a key tourism focal point within a national park that offers a highly memorable experience of the cultural, visual and natural environments and will encourage visitation to the area for many years to come.

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The design marries structural and landscape design to create an experience that is light to look and touch and entwined with deep cultural storytelling and cultural

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The project delivers a key tourism focal point within a national park that offers a highly memorable experience of the cultural, visual and natural environments and will encourage

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TOURISM NOMINEES

Elderslie Street Winton

Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame

Penguin Parade Visitor Centre

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Elderslie Street sets a scene for a stage play of outback life. It is place for celebrations as well as for the everyday. It is a place to relax and welcome visitors, to show them a good time.

The Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame is one of Australia’s most well-known and iconic tourist destinations in Australia. Set amongst the rugged, yet vibrant rural landscape and community of Longreach, we thought it was vital that the landscape works for this project be reflective of the iconic themes that Australians and International visitors have come to associate with the Outback. Respecting the existing iconic built form was important to the client as was re-enforcing the concept of the ‘Australian Billabong’. Natural earth toned materials and reflections of the sunrise and sunset inspired the design colours and material choices.

The new Penguin Parade Visitor Centre is a critical piece of infrastructure with a significant budget ($40M+). The placement of the building, parking areas and other infrastructure which developed from the site planning process (Tract) was significant in that it allowed for the re-establishment of ecological features and wildlife movement patterns across the broader coastal landscape and for an overall increase in wildlife numbers. These changes ultimately result in more wildlife viewing opportunities and a better visitor experience.

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entrant practice RPS

entrant practice O2LA

entrant practice Tract

aboriginal nation Koa Country

aboriginal nation ININGAI

aboriginal nation Bunurong

client Winton Shire Council

client Australian Stockman‚Äôs Hall of Fame

client Phillip Island Nature Parks

The street was refurbished by Winton Shire Council in 2019 to showcase Winton’s history, to bring locals together, and to celebrate the authentic characters for which Winton is renowned. Situated within a rugged yet beautiful outback landscape, the refurbished street is the result of local people making the effort to share the strength and resilience of Winton as an authentic outback experience.

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Projects in this category are constructed or strategic projects that demonstrate how the design, construction management and built outcome contributes to the wellbeing of the urban setting through the improvement of social interaction, economic activity, liveability, accessibility and safety.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Caloundra Main Street Urban Revitalisation Sunshine Coast Council Kabi Kabi Country

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The design has created a vibrant, green, and community-focused place that demonstrates a strong process of design development.

Project Details project Caloundra Main Street Urban Revitalisation entrant practice Sunshine Coast Council aboriginal nation Kabi Kabi client Sunshine Coast Council state award 2021 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Award for Urban Design

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The jury recognizes Caloundra Main Street Urban Revitalization for exhibiting the rare and valued qualities of progressiveness, innovation and creativity.

The design has created a vibrant, green, and community-focused place that demonstrates a strong process of design development.

As Australia’s “first smart city urban streetscape demonstration and testing facility” the project deserves considerable acknowledgement, but for a project to remain playful while staying true to place is what makes this project truly successful.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Logan Central Civic and Community Precinct Plan Logan City Council and Archipelago Ella du Plessis (Logan City Council) Yuggera Country

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The plan outlines key strategies for place activation, promoting sustainability, creating green networks and nurturing social wellbeing.

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[the project] demonstrates the many benefits of involving landscape architects in master planning work.

Project Details project Logan Central Civic and Community Precinct Plan entrant practice Logan City Council and Archipelago aboriginal nation Yuggera client Ella du Plessis (Logan City Council) state award 2021 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Award for Urban Design

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The designers of Logan Central Civic and Community Precinct Plan have undertaken an in-depth research and engagement process to create a proposal that benefits existing communities.

The project provides clear guidance for the future staging and prioritizing of projects within the plan and demonstrates the many benefits of involving landscape architects in master planning work.

The plan outlines key strategies for place activation, promoting sustainability, creating green networks and nurturing social wellbeing. Connections are made between the site’s broader context and the local place vision, and key moves in the plan set up achievable goals.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Design King William City of Unley with Outerspace Landscape Architects and BMD Group City of Unley Kaurna Country

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In terms of its aim of creating a “more beautiful street,” Design King William has undoubtedly succeeded.

Project Details project Design King William entrant practice City of Unley with Outerspace Landscape Architects and BMD Group aboriginal nation Kaurna client City of Unley state award 2021 AILA SA Award of Excellence for Urban Design

In terms of its aim of creating a “more beautiful street,” Design King William has undoubtedly succeeded. With a significant amount of new street trees and planting, additional pedestrian safety and comfort outcomes, technical innovations and improved functionality, King William Road in inner-city Adelaide now shines as a main street. In awarding this project, the jury acknowledges the rigorous and collaborative process which has thoughtfully responded to the interests and ideas of

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stakeholders and the local community. Design King William stands out as inspiring example of civic design and a great community achievement that is notable for the journey undertaken by all involved.

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With a significant amount of new street trees and planting, additional pedestrian safety and comfort outcomes, technical innovations and improved functionality, King William Road in inner-city Adelaide now shines as a main street.

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Design King William stands out as inspiring example of civic design and a great community achievement that is notable for the journey undertaken by all involved.

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URBAN DESIGN NOMINEES

East End Revitalisation - Hay Street Pedestrian Priority

Batemans Bay Waterfront Master Plan and Activation Strategy

Brunswick Street Streetscape Plan

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Working with a regional Council, uncertain about the role of activation and quality urban design in stimulating economic results, the challenge of this project was as much about bringing people on a journey as it was about resolving site planning issues. Through its iterative approach to engagement, critical observations, informative presentations and inspired site planning, Inspiring Place has delivered a robustly argued strategy that has enthused Council and the community take action to bring their waterfront to life. The project demonstrates the role of landscape architects as advocates for excellence, as facilitators of community ideas and as motivators for action.

What makes Brunswick Street “Brunswick Street?”

The wide-ranging answers to this questionsought from many perspectives- lie at the heart of this contextually responsive and gritty public realm plan for Brunswick Streetand the streets surrounding Fitzroy Town Hall and Atherton Gardens. The master plan proposes street wide improvements alongside creative design propositions for a series of new social spaces that support an inclusive and vibrant street life. The objective is to ensure Brunswick Street continues to be a place of evolving eclectic character, artistic expression and layered history that attracts and welcomes a diverse community, both local and visiting.

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entrant practice Inspiring Place Pty Ltd

entrant practice Rush Wright Associates

entrant practice City of Perth

aboriginal nation Yuin

aboriginal nation Wurundjeri

aboriginal nation Whadjuk Nyoongar

client Eurobodalla Shire Council

client City of Yarra

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Mount Street Pocket Parks

Carl Street Urban Common

Putney Hill Development

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This project will create 4 hectares of new public open space for the residents in one of the fastest densifying precincts in the City of Stonnington. As part of the Council’s ‘Strategies for Creating Open Space’, GLAS landscape architects have progressed the Mount Street Masterplan 2019 (by Tract) to develop concepts for four new open spaces and five shared streets that will provide new connectivity and environmental amenity for the precinct. GLAS’ designs have been developed with engagement from the community (during COVID) to achieve approved designs, with cost certainty and Council sign-off to allow the project to progress.

Brisbane City Council opened Carl Street Urban Common, an urban recreational green space in the inner-city suburb of Woolloongabba, in late 2020. Located opposite the Buranda Village shopping centre and within walking distance of the Princess Alexandra Hospital and the Eastern Busway, the new park provides the local community in this fast-evolving urban area with a recreational space to enjoy the outdoors. Serving as a hub for Woolloongabba’s diverse community, Carl Street Urban Common offers a range of amenities including green, shady spots to meet with family and friends and areas designed for fitness activities.

Environmental Partnership was part of the multidisciplinary team for the 14 ha Putney Hill project for Frasers Property since 2010. Our role included landscape strategy development, master planning and landscape design for the project which includes a mix of detached housing, multi residential and apartment development on a complex site. Putney hill been noted as redefining the new Australian medium density neighborhood with over 50% open space including a 2.4-hectare WSUD focused park at the heart of the development. Putney Hill has been used as the anchor precedent in the presentation of the NSW Government’s “Medium Density Design Guide”.

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entrant practice GLAS Landscape Architects

entrant practice Brisbane City Council - City

entrant practice ENVIRONMENTAL

aboriginal nation Kulin Nation

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PARTNERSHIP

client City of Stonnington Council

aboriginal nation Turrbal/Yugara-Yugarapul/

aboriginal nation Darug

Jagera client Brisbane City Council - Natural Environment, Water and Sustainability (NEWS) Branch - Michelle Seward

client Frasers Property Australia

URBAN DESIGN NOMINEES

Liverpool City Centre Public Domain Master Plan

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The Liverpool City Centre Public Domain Master Plan delivers on the Greater Sydney Commission’s vision for a Metropolis of Three Cities, the Western Parkland City and Liverpool Collaboration Area Place Plan. The plan was developed through crossdiscipline collaboration, distilling over 40 existing strategies into one comprehensive document, with 76 people-focused design interventions to be delivered through private and public sector investment. The proposed enhancements will improve the quality of life for people, economy and environment, supporting Liverpool’s transition into Sydney’s third CBD and gateway to the Western Sydney (Nancy-Bird Walton) International Airport.

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REGIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

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This is a cross category award given in recognition of landscape architecture that has made a significant difference to improving the healthy communities and/ or built and natural environments of regional Australia.

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National Regional Achievement Award Winner Batemans Bay Waterfront Master Plan and Activation Strategy Inspiring Place Pty Ltd Eurobodalla Shire Council Yuin Country

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The landscape architects have thoroughly considered funding and policy strategies and have served as facilitators, the champions of community ideas and as the

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The design draws on local knowledge to develop an inclusive and wonderfully activated foreshore that provides significant amenity.

Project Details project Batemans Bay Waterfront Master Plan and Activation Strategy entrant practice Inspiring Place Pty Ltd aboriginal nation Yuin Country client Eurobodalla Shire Council

The Batemans Bay Waterfront Master Plan and Activation Strategy brought council and community together to envisage alternative solutions for the waterfront. The landscape architects have thoroughly considered funding and policy strategies and have served as facilitators, the champions of community ideas and as the drivers of action plans for the project. The project included multiple workshops with council and business leaders and “walk and talks” events with the wider community and shop owners that

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aimed to illustrate the potential of a foreshore transformation. The value of the landscape architect’s role in offering fresh angles on a site’s potential that challenge perceptions is evident here. This work has led to a proposal that addresses both healthy lifestyles and environmental upgrades. The design draws on local knowledge to develop an inclusive and wonderfully activated foreshore that provides significant amenity.

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National Regional Achievement Award Winner Barossa Adventure Station Birdseye Studios The Barossa Council Ngadjuri Country

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This bespoke play and open space park is an exceptional example of a community asset which the community will benefit from for the foreseeable future.

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Art is embedded into the site in unexpected ways encouraging people to interact with the environment.

Project Details project Barossa Adventure Station entrant practice Birdseye Studios aboriginal nation Ngadjuri Country client The Barossa Council

This bespoke play and open space park is an exceptional example of a community asset which the community will benefit from for the foreseeable future. Multilevel terrain cleverly integrates play elements with a natural and curated landscape, resulting in a space that intersects the natural with the industrial.

engaging spaces to gather. The station is a space for everyone. It creates an abundance of amenity value that integrates well with the surrounding infrastructure and encourages the community to actively utilize the area. Increased tourism and retail opportunities in this rehabilitated environmental setting will likely enhance the local economy.

Art is embedded into the site in unexpected ways encouraging people to interact with the environment. The project provides passive and active recreational opportunities that foster community connectivity and provide safe, accessible and

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National Regional Achievement Award Winner Eromanga Township CUSP (QLD) Pty Ltd Quilpie Shire Council and Eromanga Natural History Museum Wangkumara

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The jury commends the Quilpie Shire Council for commissioning a landscape architect to develop Eromanga’s Masterplan based on the vision for Eromanga to be a tourism flagship destination. The landscape architect's approach to addressing the town’s overall identity and dilapidated amenities was one of collaboration with the local community. 204

The community responded very positively to the consultation process; it was given a ‘voice’ to express its short- and long-term issues, including flooding vulnerability, and few activities for the young. Drawing inspiration from the local perspective, CUSP provided well-considered and clearly articulated opportunities and constraints mapping, which identified a number of core strategies and highlighted potential staged Project Details project Eromanga Township entrant practice CUSP (QLD) Pty Ltd aboriginal nation Wangkumara client Quilpie Shire Council and Eromanga Natural History Museum

Eromanga township, while small in size, plays an essential role as an outback tourism destination. This project is important for the town’s community in terms of offering an opportunity to be heard and to influence the town’s future.

development and improving liveability. It will be a valuable project for years to come.

To have a town’s masterplan guided by landscape architects is a significant investment. The project’s core principles have been developed with the understanding that improving tourism to the town must also improve daily life. The project strengthens the attractions and amenities of the town, fostering local economic

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National Regional Achievement Award Winner Kaju Yatka (Kalbarri Skywalk) Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions Nanda Country

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Kaju Yatka enables an unforgettable experience of the landscape of the Murchison River – an experience like no other.

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This is an exemplar regional project that provides a world class national park experience and cements Kalbarri as a major tourism destination on the global scale.

Kaju Yatka enables an unforgettable experience of the landscape of the Murchison River – an experience like no other. Central to the project is the delivery of a visitor’s centre and new skywalk that is cantilevered over the gorges' edge to provide a platform for truly absorbing the landscape.

This is an exemplar regional project that provides a world class national park experience and cements Kalbarri as a major tourism destination on the global scale.

Cultural messaging by the Nanda Traditional Owners is embedded throughout the site, providing visitors with an understanding of the Nanda's past and ongoing connection to country and culture.

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REGIONAL ACHIEVEMENT NOMINEES

University of Newcastle -COVID Pop ups

Gladstone East Shores Auckland Point

Fairbridge Childrens Park

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Following public health advice and governmental restrictions, the University of Newcastle had responsibilities to ensure safe environments for its staff and students. Transient pop-up installations were commissioned in cross-school projects to enhance the built environment to comply with the new requirements. Four installations were realized across two campuses. These extended the functionality of classrooms to the outdoors and provided infrastructure to high-traffic areas. Playful and creative designs were developed in response to student and staff consultation. The project, achieved through the communal effort of volunteers, provided a focal point for social interaction with a purpose, in an otherwise isolated time.

Fairbridge Childrens Park marks the legacy in Australia of one of Britain’s largest child migration schemes. From 1938 to 1973, 1000 children made the journey to a new life at the Fairbridge Farm School outside Molong in Wiradjuri Country, regional NSW. The Old Fairbridgians Association engaged CLOUSTON Associates to create an interpretive park to convey the poignant story of the children’s journey to Australia and through life. The park is a place of reflection and tranquility – an antidote to the hardship and isolation of its former residents.

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entrant practice Urbis Pty Ltd

entrant practice CLOUSTON Associates

aboriginal nation Gureng Gureng

aboriginal nation Wiradjuri

client Gladstone Ports Corporation

client Old Fairbridgians Association (OFA)

entrant practice University of Newcastle,

School of Architecture & Built Environment aboriginal nation Awabakal client University of Newcastle, Julie Rich, Director Infrastructure of Facilities and Services

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Greater Shepparton City Council Play Space Strategy

Southport Spit Masterplan

Pacific Highway Upgrade

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Landscape architecture and urban design input into the planning, design and implementation of the duplication of the 657km long Pacific Highway from Hexham to the Queensland border between 1996 and 2020.

It provides an overview of the importance of play in childhood development and includes design guidelines for best practice play space design for quality play provision. This Strategy will guide policy, priorities and future capital works projects and ensure equitable distribution of well-designed spaces and opportunities for play throughout Greater Shepparton long term.

Project Details entrant practice Spiire aboriginal nation Yorta Yorta client Greater Shepparton City Council

Project Details entrant practice AECOM, ARUP, CM+, Context,

Project Details entrant practice Aspect Studios aboriginal nation Bundjalung client Department of State Development,

Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning

Corkery Consulting with Studio Colin Polwarth, DEM, DesignInc, Environmental Partnership, HBO+EMTB, Hassell, Jackson Teece, KI Studio, Spackman Mossop Michaels, TractandtheentreforUrban Design aboriginal nation Worimi, Biripi, Dainggatti, Gumbainggir and Bundjalung client Transport for NSW

REGIONAL ACHIEVEMENT NOMINEES

Caloundra Main Street Urban Revitalisation

Taylor Riverfront Precinct

Strathdale Park Play Space

Image: Andrew Maccoll

Image: Grant Schwartzkopff

Image: Chris Mather

Sunshine Coast Council (SCC) has transformed a declining regional main street into a vibrant and liveable community space through the Caloundra Main Street Urban Revitalisation Project. The project became Australia’s first smart city streetscape demonstration and testing facility, showcasing the latest smart city technologies.

Located on the banks of the River Murray, the Taylor Riverfront Precinct is the jewel in the crown of Renmark town centre. This setting has been greatly enhanced for community and visitor use through the recent redevelopment of the space. Designed by a Team led by Jensen PLUS it transformed existing features such as the captivating Harry Clark “Wine Glass” Fountain into future-proofed park features. The space includes a new river-deck, water-play space and “miniature Murray” art, sheltered BBQ facilities, plentiful seating and landscaping and safe access. The Precinct encourages appreciation of South Australia’s foremost landscape feature, the River Murray.

Strathdale Park Playspace has been effectively transformed into a vibrant, lively and popular play hub for local residents and visitors to the City of Greater Bendigo. Being a first in Bendigo for a regional Playspace in its design, richness and highly cost-effective delivery, Strathdale Park Playspace takes its inspiration from the surrounding bush land setting, explores the nature of water and provides a diverse range of colourful and artistic play opportunities for children of many ages and abilities.

Project Details

entrant practice Jensen PLUS with Renmark

entrant practice City of Greater Bendigo

Paringa Council aboriginal nation Erawirung client Tony Siviour, Chief Executive Officer, Renmark Paringa Council

aboriginal nation Wurundjeri

SCC Design and Placemaking Services designed and delivered the four stage project valued at over $12 million. The new vibrant and colourful streetscape was combined with a creative placemaking program that resulted in a community embracing innovation and activation, with an increased sense of identity and selfdetermination.

Project Details entrant practice Sunshine Coast Council aboriginal nation Kabi Kabi client Sunshine Coast Council

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client City of Greater Bendigo

Raymond Terrace Public Domain Plan

Townsville Botanic Gardens Masterplan 2020-2030

Summerland Farm

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Image: Natalie McComas

Preparation of a Public Domain Plan and Streetscape Design Guidelines to provide a 20 year vision for Raymond Terrace town centre. The direction and creation of which was informed by, guided through and final vision supported with extensive community and stakeholder engagement.

The Townsville Botanic Gardens consists of three distinct and treasured public gardens that celebrate the regions unique history, diverse landscape and tropical character. The purpose of the Townsville Botanic Masterplan 2020 – 2030 is to provide direction for the future development of Queens Gardens, Anderson Gardens and the Palmetum. The masterplan is intended to identify the necessary renewal, upgrade and new development works required over the next 10 years to ensure they become a collective destination and a resilient Community Facility for visitors and locals to enjoy and prosper from for years to come.

The expansion of Summerland Farm’ was a Government grant funded project. It represents a continuation of the founding legacy of Summerland Farm as a place of inclusion, where people with a disability are central to the operation.

The final Plan proposes appropriate town centre improvements including a hierarchy of streetscapes, creating new and improved public domain spaces for people, improved pedestrian connections throughout town centre, with a strengthened emphasis on town centre connections to the riverfront.

As a direct result of the project an extra 50 employment roles have now been created. This shows an enormous strengthening of the on-going sustainability of the overall business and also of this facility as a place of inclusiveness- for employees, visitors and users alike. The project improves the facilities offering for both travellers to Northern NSW and the local community.

Project Details

entrant practice Tract Consultants and Port

entrant practice Tract

entrant practice Plummer & Smith with DFJ

Stephens Council aboriginal nation Worimi client Port Stephens Council

aboriginal nation Bindal and Wulgurukaba

Architects

People client City of Townsville

aboriginal nation Bundjalung client Summerland Farm- Aruma Services

REGIONAL ACHIEVEMENT NOMINEES

The Nan Tien Institute - Education & Cultural Centre

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From landfill to a centre of education and cultural exchange, the Nan Tien Institute is a shining example of our most undesirable landscape’s potential for social, educational and cultural contribution. Nan Tien Institute and Cultural Centre, designed for the Taiwanese Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order, is Australia’s first government accredited educational institution grounded in Buddhist wisdom and values. The Campus reflects the Institute’s aims to foster a holistic education, and is designed to provide an environment conducive to teaching and learning in the 21st century by creating a setting for community interaction, education and cultural exchange.

Project Details entrant practice 360 Degrees Landscape

Architects aboriginal nation Dharawal People client International Buddhist Association of

Australia (IBAA)

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS NATIONAL 2021

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AILA would like to thank our partners, all the entrants and those who joined our awards evening. AILA Georgina Scriha, National Manager- Events, Partners and Communciations Gemma Fischer, National Events and Marketing Coordinator Felipe Coral, Design and SmallChapter Support Officer AILA Awards Jury Peta Maree Ashford, Jury Chair Barrie Barton Dennis Eiszele Tessa Leggo Jen Lynch Taryn Milroy Mark Saint Põl Rewatch the 2021 Awards: https://youtu.be/3kcXfcqu7OQ View the 2021 Winners Gallery: https://aila.awardsplatform.com/ gallery/jdQNaRDM

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Image: Dan Harmon / Clifftop Garden, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS NATIONAL 2021

Image: Rory Gardiner / Reimagine your Creek, REALM Studios