2020 National Landscape Architecture Awards Magazine by Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA)

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS NATIONAL 2020

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS NATIONAL 2020

4 Message from the National President

5 Partners

12 The Jury 12 National Jury 13

5 National Partners

6 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA)

Message from the CEO

14 The 2020 National Awards

156

About AILA

Play Spaces

Research, Policy and Communications

168

About the Landscape

Infrastructure

Urban design

Architecture Awards

182

Small projects

Landscape planning

Awards Levels

196

Gardens

Civic Landscape

74 Parks and Open Space 88 Cultural Heritage 98 Health and Education Landscape 112 International 128 Community Contribution 140 Land management 150 Tourism

214 Acknowledgements

MESSAGE FROM THE NATIONAL PRESIDENT

In periods of significant society disturbance, such as the current pandemic, the continuation of organisational rituals and traditions, such as the annual AILA awards, are more important than ever to maintain peer support through times of emotional need. The 2020 AILA Chapter and National Landscape Architecture Awards are a testimony to the devotion of our members to landscape architecture, and to each other in difficult time. The whole program has been delivered under a totally different operating framework and I need to thank  all the Chapter and National jury members and AILA staff who have endured hours of Zoom meetings in the careful discussion and evaluation of entries and granting of Awards to the appropriate standard.

I also thank the AILA Staff and members who worked tirelessly to deliver such quality on-line awards ceremonies across Australia. In terms of the National Jury and the assessment of entries, the themes diversity and equity were consistent.  Our jury proudly comprised diverse representation across our industry and society.  We had to assess amazingly diverse work from across Australia and internationally from different sectors and scales or practice.  We think the decisions we made truly reflect the inherent quality of the design work, rather than just its budget or a profile location.  We were particularly delighted in the strong presence of work that involved true indigenous involvement and outcomes, work that catered for the disadvantaged or less able in society, and the strong representation of small spaces and gardens.

Shaun Walsh FAILA National President

Our AILA Awards categories, which have been refined in recent years, really do help us celebrate and reward the diversity of work created by talented landscape architects across Australia, and make our clients proud of their  investment in the better world created by landscape architects!

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AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS (AILA) ABOUT AILA

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) is the peak national body for Landscape Architecture. AILA champions quality design for public open spaces, stronger communities and greater environmental stewardship. We provide our members with training, recognition and a community of practice to share knowledge, ideas and action. With our members, we anticipate and develop a leading position on issues of concern in landscape architecture. Within and alongside government and allied professions, we work to improve the design, planning and management of the natural and built environment.

In operation since 1966, AILA represents over 3,500 landscape architects and promotes excellence in planning and designing for life outdoors. Committed to designing and creating better spaces in Australia, landscape architects have the skills and expertise to improve the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s liveability through a unique approach to planning issues via innovative integrated solutions. In doing so, landscape architects contribute towards better environmental, social and economic outcomes for all Australians.

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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 architectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 2020, QLD, WA, SA, NSW, VIC & ACT 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 Parks and Open Space Play Spaces Infrastructure Cultural Heritage Land Management Tourism Urban Design Landscape Planning Research, Policy and Communications Community Contribution Small Projects Gardens International

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.

THE JURY NATIONAL JURY

Shaun Walsh FAILA Jury Chair AILA National President

Naomi Barun AILA

Garth Paterson FAILA

Sarah Bendeich AILA

Simon Lee AILA

Allen Kong

Rebecca Lee

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

It is a great honour to introduce the 2020 National Landscape Architecture Awards.

Ben Stockwin AILA CEO

While we may not be celebrating this year’s awards in the traditional way, I encourage you to unreservedly immerse yourself amongst these pages to appreciate the exceptional work and achievements of Landscape Architects. Much talk has occurred in recent months about what the ‘new normal’ will look like in the months and years to come. Now more than ever, Landscape Architects will be called upon to design spaces that reflect the required bringing together of the social, environment and economic elements of our cities. As we emerge from COVOD restrictions there is a growing understanding that living, green infrastructure isn’t a ‘nice to have’, it is a ‘must have’.

These 2020 National Landscape Architecture Awards saw an impressive 130 project entries over 15 unique categories hailing from all conrners of Australia, and, internationally. These awards winners represent the cutting edge of design and challenge us to continue to improve our outdoor spaces. Join me in congratulating all of the entries, Landscape Architects, practices, and winners for their accomplishments. I wish to thank the dedicated National Jury, Shaun Walsh FAILA - Jury Chair, Naomi Barun AILA, Garth Paterson AILA, Sarah Bendeich AILA, Simon Lee AILA, Allen Kong, and Rebecca Lee for your hard work on the Landscape Architecture Awards.

THE 2020 NATIONAL AWARDS

PLAY SPACES

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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.

Image: Natalie McComas / Railway Park Play - Plummer & Smith

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Paperbark Playspace Phillips Marler and Parramatta Park & Western Sydney Parklands Trusts Parramatta Parks and Western Sydney Parklands Trust: Josh French, Director, Parklands Development and Strategy Darug

Image: Simon Wood Photography

Paperbark Playspace is a beautiful playground that resolves a complex set of technical site constraints with considerable skill. Sited within Parramatta Park, the ground beneath the playspace contains significant Aboriginal and European archaeological potential, making excavation and placement of subsurface footings impossible. 18

The solution was a raised no-dig platform, which satisfies the heritage requirements, resolves access and presents an engaging, elegant and playful structure that sits lightly in the wooded landscape. Paperbark Playspace is a sensitive and popular addition to the greater park that encourages children of all ages to engage through play with the layered historical stories of the place. Project Details project Paperbark Playspace entrant practice Phillips Marler and Parramatta Park & Western Sydney Parklands Trusts aboriginal nation Darug client Parramatta Parks and Western Sydney Parklands Trust: Josh French, Director, Parklands Development and Strategy state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of Excellence for Play Spaces

Paperbark Playspace in the historic Gardens Precinct of Parramatta Park is a new allinclusive playspace designed for the Western Sydney Parklands and Parramatta Park Trust and was funded by the NSW Governments 'Everyone Can Play' Program.

The design provides a wide variety of play experiences which are accessible to young children of varying abilities, including wheelchair users within an evocative setting which responds to the cultural significance of its location.

The design combines play with cultural interpretation of the convict site, using the architectural form of play and shade structures, play-interactive artwork and historic images and text.

A rich variety of potential play experiences, to suit young children of varying mobility, including wheelchair users, has been provided in a unique constructed setting which responds to the heritage significance of Parramatta Park. The project has demonstrated technical innovation in its response to archaeological site issues, and design innovation in its integration of play and cultural interpretation.

Image: Simon Wood Photography

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Barrow Park Play Space Ecoscape Australia Pty Ltd City of Cockburn Nyoongar, Whadjuk and Beeliar

Image: Frank Kotai

These mounds are made of dirt. They draw in kids who want to play to the maximum in a sculptural naturalistic landscape, and provide thrill and delight to the entire community. Barrow Park Play is an authentic community playground, firmly grounded in its context, that responds to the needs of locals and successfully provides a space that encourages all users to gather and participate. 20

The area has a large number of families living in townhouses and apartments and the resident children lacked access to the kinds of spaces where they could socialize, express themselves and play in unstructured ways. The genius of the project was to recognize and understand this gap and proceed to undertake a collaborative design process with the local community to develop an authentic play space on an extremely limited budget, and evocative natural landscapes in a confined urban space. Project Details project Barrow Park Play Space entrant practice Ecoscape Australia Pty Ltd aboriginal nation Nyoongar, Whadjuk and Beeliar client City of Cockburn state award 2020 AILA WA Landscape Architecture Award for Play Spaces

The Barrow Park Pump Track and Play Space arose from the needs of the local community to provide active open space activities in a higher density residential neighbourhood. The space caters to a range of ages and features a junior pump track and viewing deck with bike â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;trialsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; features. The space drew inspiration from the surrounding Fremantle vernacular and local pocket parks. The design utilised recycled materials and a coastal plant palette to reflect local character and embody principles of sustainability.

Image: Frank Kotai

The play space is well used by local families and is also a destination via the local bike network. The play space opened in March 2019 and has been a popular destination for local kids who like to ride, skate and scoot. They can be seen frequently moving between home and the track, congregating, socialising and being active whilst visitors from surrounding neighbourhoods also come to share a lap or two. An outdoor hub has been created that complements the broader grounds of the park and activates its centre with vitality and movement.

Image: Ecoscape Australia

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Para Wirra Nature Playspace TCL Trails & Infrastructure / Department of Environment and Water Kaurna

Image: Tash Mohring

What at first appears to be very simple and barely there slowly reveals itself to be a thoughtful and sensitive intervention that capitalizes on its natural setting of mature eucalypts to create a play experience embedded in nature and full of discovery. The Parra Wirra Nature Playspace takes the principles of nature play to the next level and, through the insertion of sculptural elements to encounter and interact with, has created a place where the natural woodland landscape is the stage and inquisitive learning is inspired. 22

Less can be more and the jury recognized that this is not an easy thing to achieve. The combination of built play elements in a palette of materials that appear to be of the place and their careful siting has created an environment for exploration, imagination and wonder that is deeply connected to nature.

Project Details project Para Wirra Nature Playspace entrant practice TCL aboriginal nation Kaurna client Trails & Infrastructure / Department of Environment and Water state award 2020 AILA SA Landscape Architecture Award for Play Spaces

TCL were commissioned to design a nature playspace within the Para Wirra Conservation Park, 38 km north of Adelaide, to extend the experience, visitation and stay of families and day visitors. The play space nestles itself amidst a mature stand of remnant eucalypts; a charming and challenging arcadian play space that upholds the principles of nature play: to engage all of our senses, provoke imaginative and socialised play and, most importantly, inspire inquisitive learning.

Image: Tash Mohring

Under the filtered shade of the tree canopy, the play space weaves a dry creek bed, sandpits, tunnels, rope climbs and natural log balance beams through a natural woodland landscape. The play space succeeds by revealing itself slowly, one discovery after another, be they intended or unintended. Almost unseen at first glance, this landscape of play reveals itself through personal exploration, interaction and encounter. The Playspace provides the South Australian government with a prescription for more opportunities for nature-focussed play environments across all the recreational parks under their management, and continues the transition from structured, unimaginative play environments toward engaging, interactive spaces that meld nature and learning with play.

Image: Tash Mohring

National Award of Excellence Winner Railway Park Play Plummer & Smith Byron Shire Council Bundjalung

Image: Natalie McComas

The Jury celebrated this significant reworking and recrafting of the existing Railway Park in Byron Bay as a sensitive and purposeful collaboration between the council, the local community and the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aboriginal community, the Arakwal people.

Project Details project Railway Park Play entrant practice Plummer & Smith aboriginal nation Bundjalung client Byron Shire Council state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Play Spaces

The Railway Park Play area was part of a broader park upgrade. The adventure and nature play areas were a critical part of reactivating the space- welcoming families and people of all ages back into the public centre of Byron Bay. The play experience encourages and facilitates interaction with nature at all times- whether it be getting close to birds feeding in the canopy or climbing through the mysterious, intoxicating tangle of tree branches.

High quality adventure play coupled with the simplicity of shaded amenity and natural wonder for all ages. Railway Park is the traditional meeting place of Byron Bay. After a number of years of declining community use and increasing levels of degradation of park elements this park upgrade project was about regaining the essence of a community meeting place. A critical part of the park upgrade was the establishment of a high quality play space- a highlight to reinvigorate family and community participation in the space. The main play area and its siting was actually one of the key strategic moves of the whole Railway Park upgrade design. For the on-going health and functionality of this crucial but neglected public space it was absolutely critical that desirable use was encouraged deep into the park. Local families had in large measure ceased to use this space as somewhere to meet and hang out.

Image: Natalie McComas

The new park provides a vital and beautiful outdoor community space. The landscape designers have successfully celebrated, protected, retained and repurposed the significant existing trees throughout the park. These existing trees have been seen as â&#x20AC;&#x153;heroesâ&#x20AC;? and are now totally engaged by young and old members of the community through innovative nature and adventure play that has been intertwined with these living treasures.

The design team engaged with the local Arakwal youth as co-collaborators in embedding stories and meaning into the park, which manifest throughout the park’s fabric as integrated artworks.

One of the key challenges in activating all areas of the park is that its western edge abuts the disused rail corridor. This meant that passive surveillance to a significant portion of the park was very limited. The play was purposely placed in the ‘back’ of the park. Considered upgrades along the ‘front’ edge of the park could allow the public domain of the street to spill into the park and activate it. The back areas required a highlight and focal point to draw users in. Image: Natalie McComas

This park had to become (again) the place to go, stay, socialise and connect with other members of the community. This is a fundamental component of healthy public spaces and it had largely been lost. In the words of the Mayor of Byron Bay Simon Richardson, "So stoked to see how beautiful our newly upgraded park is- enjoyed like never before and finally a genuine reflection of its community".

Image: Natalie McComas

PLAY SPACES NOMINEES

Bentley 360 Northern Parklands

Caloundra Christian College Junior School Play Space

Eddison Park Natural Play

Image: Dion Robeson

Image: Andy McPherson

Image: Karleen Minney

The success of the Bentley 360 Northern Parklands is the result of a partnership formed in 2012 between PLACE Laboratory and Department of Communities. The site was formerly home to Brownlie Towers, a 1960s public housing estate which had fallen into disrepair and fostered antisocial behaviour.

This unique play space at Caloundra Christian College is a bespoke design response for a narrow area sandwiched between an existing building and the new junior school. Design process consulted educators and students to form an extensive brief before design ideas were explored for this constrained site.

PLACE Lab were engaged to provide a natural play focused design solutions for Eddison Park, a significant community parkland in Southern Canberra. The design takes advantage of the existing mature trees, vegetation and pond to create an immersive and unique landscape setting. Themes of the natural landscape and regional farm heritage were also explored and translated into high-value play elements. A focus on inter-generational and accessible play outcomes ensures children and parents can explore the landscape together. The project has been highly commended by the client and specialist natural play contractors for its offer of genuine play value.

Bentley 360 Northern Parklands re-imagines the 12-hectare development site as a vibrant public open space. The transformation marks a new beginning of the emerging Bentley 360 community. The project invites the public onto the site with destination play spaces, walking and cycle paths, programmatic interventions and artworks throughout the area.

The play space is crammed full of adventure with water pumps, control gates, sensory pathway, embankment slide, musical wall, basket swing, tunnels and sand play integrated around a stunning multi-level timber play structure with a variety of access experiences that offer a range of physical challenges and develop students understanding of risk.

Project Details

entrant practice PLACE Laboratory

entrant practice Greenedge Design

entrant practice PLACE Laboratory

aboriginal nation Noongar

Consultants

aboriginal nation Ngunnawal Country

client Department of Communities

aboriginal nation Gubbi Gubbi

client Transport Canberra and City Services

state award 2020 AILA WA Landscape

client Caloundra Christian College

state award 2020 AILA ACT Landscape

Architecture Award for Play Spaces

state award 2020 AILA QLD Landscape

Architecture Award for Play Spaces

Farrer Nature Playspace

George Whittle Reserve

Katanning Welcome Precinct

Image: Ilana Smolyar

Image: Tim Allen

Image: Barry Winterbourne

The Farrer nature playspace was the first completed ‘design and construct’ playspace project following the ACT Governments Better Suburbs Forum model. The Project Brief was notable for its requirement for a co-design process with the Community Stakeholders.

The George Whittle Reserve upgrade has reinvented an already beloved reserve, transforming it into a public space that embraces its youth community and creates a destination for skate, sports, family, and play. The landscape pushes the boundaries of youth play while embracing the sites heritage with an industry vs nature motif.

The Katanning Welcome Precinct is an iconic, multifunctional recreation and tourist hub. PLAN E’s design is an interpretation of the industrial and agricultural heritage of the region, and included repurposing the existing 1980’s All Ages Playground, a heritage site with giant play structures.

Strategic thinking was key to avoiding an over-ambitious, under-delivering project. Redbox worked diligently at each project stage to ensure that the design proposition met the community co-design aspirations. Redbox worked closely with community to help foster ownership, which continues to this day fielding calls from our community partners, guiding their continuing endeavours in realising the full potential of their patch.

Breaking down demographic boundaries, the design welcomes the blend between play, skate, parkour, and sport through the bold arc that leads users through these intersecting spaces. The design process focused on collaboration, and delivered bespoke industrial/urban elements, integrating play, sculpture, skate and parkour to create this unique space.

Restored ‘giant’ play equipment meeting current play safety standards has been integrated with new bespoke play elements, with an impressive aerial walkway linking the two playground areas across the regional drain. The arrangement of the refurbished and new elements creates a highly functional recreation precinct with a greater sense of adventure, fun and engagement for the community.

Project Details

entrant practice Redbox Design Group

entrant practice JPE Design Studio

entrant practice PLAN E

client Transport Canberra and City Services,

aboriginal nation Kaurna

aboriginal nation Kaniyang

ACT Government state award 2020 AILA ACT Landscape Architecture Award for Play Spaces

client City of Prospect

client Shire of Katanning

state award 2020 AILA SA Landscape

state award 2020 AILA WA Award of

Architecture Award for Play Spaces

Excellence for Play Spaces & 2020 AILA WA Regional Achievement in Landscape Architecture

PLAY SPACES NOMINEES

Norris Bank Reserve Play Space

Olinda Playspace

Sydney Park Bike Track

Image: Land Media

Image: FFLA

Image: Jamie Williams

The Norris Bank Reserve Play Space development provides a regional level park and playground to the growing community of Bundoora and surrounds. Located on the North bank of the Darebin Creek, the park provides an accessible and free community space.

Formally part of the Olinda Golf Course, the Olinda Playspace is a new playground nestled amongst the undulating fairways at the top of the Dandenong Ranges. With a backdrop of Mountain Ash trees and views to the Silvan Dam beyond, the nature-based playspace compliments its surroundings and provides opportunities for all ages and abilities to play together.

This project forms part of City of Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major upgrade works to Sydney Park and pushes the envelope of conventional bike track design; moving away from the former roadway-focused track and instead, providing a range of imaginative play opportunities and challenges for both young children and pre-teens.

The reserve development responds to the changing ways community are now interacting with their public open space on a social and individual level. The project balances community need as the primary objective whilst also being critically sensitive to the surrounding landscape. The outcome is not play being imposed into a natural parkland, but rather a playful natural landscape.

A feature of the playspace are installations by local artists and makers whose work references the local flora, fauna and environs. Designed for all ages and abilities, the playspace sits within the landscape, encouraging visitors to discover elements of play, art and ecology.

Sydney Park Bike Track is Stage 1 in a youth precinct that was masterplanned by Turf Ep with Aileen Sage Architects and Fiona Robbe, in collaboration with the City of Sydney. Construction of the next stage, a $2.5million world-class skate park, is currently underway.

Project Details

entrant practice City of Whittlesea

entrant practice Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape

entrant practice Turf Design Studio and

aboriginal nation Wurundjeri Willum Clan

Architecture client Parks Victoria state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award for Play Spaces

Environmental Partnership aboriginal nation Eora Nation client City of Sydney state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Play Spaces

client City of Whittlesea state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape

Architecture Award for Play Spaces

Image: Natalie McComas / Railway Park Play - Plummer & Smith

INFRASTRUCTURE

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.

Image: FFLA / Eastern Regional Trails Strategy - Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape Architecture

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Oaklands Crossing Grade Separation Project ASPECT Studios and Cox Architecture Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure Kaurna

Image: Sweet Lime

At its best, active and public transport integrates railways, footpaths and cycleways. The Oaklands Crossing Grade Separation Project creates a holistic project that provides an effortless resolution to a complex tangle of infrastructure. The jury commends the design team in the significant role the landscape architect played in this public realm improvement. 34

This leadership saw great environmental outcomes achieved through water urban sensitive design, the planting of more than 200 new trees and the retention of the remnant Eucalyptus camaldulensis (river red gum). The results display the potential for landscape architects to provide significant value to public infrastructure delivery.

Project Details project Oaklands Crossing Grade Separation Project entrant practice ASPECT Studios and Cox Architecture aboriginal nation Kaurna client Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure state award 2020 AILA SA Award of Excellence for Infrastructure

The Oaklands Crossing Grade Separation project provides an enhanced station precinct with greatly improved pedestrian and bicycle connectivity and safety along with high quality amenities that support the Australian and South Australian Governments and the City of Marionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aims to increase public transport patronage. A quality public realm in the form of a Station Plaza and surrounding well considered landscaped areas work seamlessly with the new lowered station including extensive planting, public art, urban furniture and pathway connections.

Image: Sweet Lime

With the fundamental objective of reducing chronic road congestion, Oaklands Crossing showcases the successful integration of urban greening, people connectivity and sustainability within a typically hard engineered infrastructure project. Over 200 trees have been planted in a site that is heavily laden with below and above ground services, and clearance restrictions to roads and rail infrastructure. Existing trees have been retained to provide continuation of habitat value and urban amenity, anchoring the site and provide a link to pre-European history.

Image: Sweet Lime

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Aerodrome Road Intersection Hassell Sunshine Coast Council Gubbi Gubbi & Kabi Kabi

Image: Christopher Frederick Jones

The Aerodrome Road Intersection advocates for peopleoriented design in transport projects, embodying an interesting combination of both civic and infrastructural qualities. The value of landscape architects is exemplified with an outcome that supports wayfinding for pedestrians, extends Maroochydoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s green network and celebrates the experience of walking with a generous and rhythmic planting strategy. 36

The jury commends the initiative taken by the team in its close collaborative approach with the engineers, local council and community stakeholders to provide a holistic outcome and activated city hub while also meeting its traffic objectives.

Project Details project Aerodrome Road Intersection entrant practice Hassell aboriginal nation Gubbi Gubbi & Kabi Kabi client Sunshine Coast Council state award 2020 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Award for Civic Landscape

The Aerodrome Road intersection in the heart of Maroochydore defines the gateway and transitional space between the city’s historic centre and its emerging CBD. As part of a multidisciplinary team, Hassell led the reimagining of a traditional brief for this road infrastructure project; simplifying and improving the legibility of the proposed complex traffic configuration to unlock solutions that better support Maroochydore’s environment and people.

The project has delivered a significant new public space that celebrates the Sunshine Coast’s subtropical landscape and lifestyle; with cooling canopies, community amenities, and better active and public transport links that strengthen connections within the city. The results see substantial native tree plantings to encourage public occupation and activity, while increasing biodiversity and countering the urban heat island effect They also see a significant reduction in the footprint of the proposed hard road infrastructure – resulting in the release of space for the gateway park and green city links.

Image: Christopher Frederick Jones

National Award of Excellence Winner Eastern Regional Trails Strategy Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape Architecture Maroondah City Council Wurundjeri Woiwurrung

Image: FFLA

The Eastern Regional Trails Strategy is a brilliant document that establishes priority linking projects across multiple local government areas with a view toward an interconnected shared trail network.

Project Details project Eastern Regional Trails Strategy entrant practice Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape Architecture aboriginal nation Wurundjeri Woiwurrung client Maroondah City Council state award 2020 AILA Victoria Award of Excellence for Infrastructure

The Eastern Regional Trails Strategy was prepared to provide the strategic direction required to allow local government and other land management authorities to work together towards an interconnected and well-used shared trail network. The strategy concentrates on higher-order regional trails, and covers seven municipalities (from Boroondara in the west, to Yarra Ranges in the east) that together make up a quarter of Melbourne's total population.

The strategy document is the culmination of a process that involved intensive engagement, as well as a physical audit (by bicycle) of all of the 250 kilometres of existing regional trails. The recent COVID-19 outbreak has seen a massive increase in the use and appreciation of the urban trail network, as people look for safe ways to travel and exercise individually in the midst of a pandemic. These trail networks don't happen by accident. The Eastern Regional Trails Strategy provides the strategic direction for the development of the regional trail network in eastern metropolitan Melbourne. The existing trail network is quite extensive, but it has been developed in an opportunistic way, taking advantage of left-over land and 'piggy-backing' on other transport infrastructure. This has not always resulted in the best outcomes for a trail network.

Image: FFLA

It is an exemplary guiding document that will underpin the development of a cohesive trail network in Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outer-east by equipping decision-makers with tools to advocate for investment in open-space infrastructure.

The strategy is underpinned by a comprehensive research and audit process and demonstrates excellent leadership by the landscape architect in stakeholder engagement and management.

There are a lot of missing links in the network - missing sections of trail, missing connecting links between trails, and missing connections to key destinations. The strategy focusses upon the higher-order regional trails, where this connectivity is most critical.

Image: FFLA

The project was an exciting one to undertake. FFLA had previously undertaken similar strategies, but it seemed that the attitude toward trails was shifting. At around the time the project commenced, words like 'active transport' were starting to appear in state government strategies and there was a growing recognition that providing safe and attractive routes for pedestrians and cyclists ticked a lot of boxes: congestionbusting, public health, climate change. Twenty two existing or potential regional trails were identified within the study area. Most already exist, but more than half have incomplete sections. One of the main purposes of the strategy was to create an agreed prioritised list of trail improvement projects (including construction of these 'missing links'), to assist in the distribution of project funding.

INFRASTRUCTURE NOMINEES

ACT Healthy Waterways

Caboolture to Wamuran Rail Trail

Gore Hill Reserve

Image: Indesco

Image: MBRC

Image: Will Taylor Photography

ACT Healthy Waterways is a joint initiative of the ACT and Australian governments to improve the quality of Canberra / Queanbeyan storm water flowing into the Murrumbidgee River system.

The Caboolture to Wamuran rail trail is a 10.5 km long shared pathway extending from Beerburrum Road, Caboolture to Atwood Street, Wamuran.

Tract prepared a Landscape Masterplan, Plan of Management and stage 1 documentation for the redevelopment of Gore Hill Park.

The project includes the construction of naturalised infrastructure â&#x20AC;&#x201C; wetlands, ponds, channel modifications and bio-retention rain gardens â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as well as research trials, a community education campaign and ongoing water monitoring practices lead by ACT HW to aid future water quality projects.

It connects the Caboolture CBD & train station to the Wamuran township cutting through a diverse landscape transect including residential, industrial, farming and rural industry. Two out of three stages have been constructed, with works due for completion in 2020.

Stage 1 documentation encompassed the redevelopment of the oval and construction of a new playground. Integral to this was the development of stormwater management systems, including onsite detention, and the reconfiguration of the oval to meet the needs of the dominant code (AFL) while providing flexibility for others.

The ACT Healthy Waterways was a visionary large-scale water quality improvement project to benefit both Canberra and the downstream Murrumbidgee River basin.

The project is the culmination of 10 years of planning and design which began with a feasibility investigation into the potential uses for the decommissioned Caboolture to Wamuran railway corridor.

This project demonstrates the re-visioning of a facility to meet the changing needs of the community and a desire to increase yearround usage of the facility.

Project Details

entrant practice Indesco | Enviro Links Design

entrant practice Moreton Bay Regional Council

entrant practice Tract

aboriginal nation Ngunnawal

aboriginal nation Kabi Kabi

aboriginal nation Cammeraygal people

client Construction Control | ACT Healthy

client Moreton Bay Regional Council

client Willoughby City Council

Waterways state award 2020 AILA ACT Landscape Architecture Award for Infrastructure & Regional Achievement in Landscape Architecture Award

state award2020 AILA QLD Landscape

state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of

Architecture Award for Infrastructure

Excellence for Infrastructure

Isabella Pond wetlands

Image: ELD

Lake Tuggeranong is directly downstream of Isabella Pond Wetlands. The Lake has a record of ongoing blue green algae limiting recreational use on water and impacting on adjoining land use.

Image: Sweet Lime / Oaklands Crossing Grade Separation Project - ASPECT Studios

The Isabella Pond wetlands will remove over 462,000 kilograms of nitrogen, phosphorous and suspended sediment every year. This is equivalent to over 18,000 25kg bags of dynamic lifter saved from being emptied into Lake Tuggeranong. The Isabella Pond wetlands resulted in the planting of 96,000 macrophytes which is a substantial new functional natural environment and habitat for native fauna.

Project Details entrant practice Enviro Links Design aboriginal nation Ngunnawal client Alluvium & ACT Government IFCW

TCCS state award 2020 AILA ACT Landscape

Architecture Award for Infrastructure

Image: Hassell / Aerodrome Road Intersection - Hassell

SMALL PROJECTS

Projects in this category include those considered to be â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;smallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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.

Image: Brett Boardman / Mahon Pool Amenities and Maroubra Seals Swimming Clubhouse - Sue Barnsley Design

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner RMIT Building 100 Pedestrian Improvements Openwork Pty Ltd RMIT University Property and Campus Services for the School of Architecture and Urban Design. Kulin Nation

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This project, commissioned to keep a prominent public space safe from hostile vehicle attack, is about the horrifying side of contemporary society. But the RMIT Building 100 Pedestrian Improvements project turns this dynamic on its head and turns potential terror into a place that actually protects and nurtures public gatherings, not with bollards but through a beautifully articulated urban solution. 46

The improvement not only serves the purpose of preventing undesired vehicular activity, but also enhances the experience of pedestrian progression through space. The resulting intervention is an object of wonder, an intriguing retrofit punctuation of a space that provides an appropriate adjunct to the adjoining architecture.

Project Details project RMIT Building 100 Pedestrian Improvements entrant practice Openwork Pty Ltd aboriginal nation Kulin Nation client RMIT University Property and Campus Services for the School of Architecture and Urban Design state award 2020 AILA Victoria Award of Excellence for Small Projects

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The Building 100 project is an urban intervention responding to a brief to provide a visual and physical deterrent to prevent vehicles from entering the public space at speed. Sceptical of the message that bollards transmit about permission and use in public space, the proposal is not a bollard, but a land-form that invites the body to use it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to sit at its edges, to lie upon it and to gather. The project makes a public space of invitation rather than exclusion and which projects an idea of new civic generosity rather than one of fear or risk mitigation

The project demonstrates sustainable innovation on a number of levels. The timber that forms its top surface is sustainably plantation grown and the design utilised a detailed three-dimensional model and computer number controlled (CNC) milling ensured that wastage was eliminated. The project makes a claim for a specifically Melbournian response to what has become a universal and international problem. Rather than operating from a generic position of fear, it instead starts by transmitting an idea of Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renowned urban design of occupiable edges. The project sees the urban edge as a space of heightened social adjacency and inclusion.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner First Avenue Reserve City of Marion Kaurna

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The jury commends the City of Marion for a thoughtful and sensitive design process for a local playground upgrade that empowered the community. The partnership with multiple groups, including the Miyurna Kumangka Mens Group and Migrant Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Group, gave local artists the chance to upskill and contribute to the play space of their communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children. 48

In return, local students worked together with the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s landscape architects to develop concepts for the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art sculptures and learned the value of giving back to their community. This collaboration between different generations from a variety of cultural backgrounds struck the jury as much as the finished play area with its distinctive timber elements. This project demonstrates the critical role of engagement in Project Details project First Avenue Reserve entrant practice City of Marion aboriginal nation Kaurna state award 2020 AILA SA Landscape Architecture Award for Small Projects

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First Avenue Reserve is a small project with a lot of heart. A local community playground was due for an upgrade with a restricted budget, however this constraint was turned into an opportunity.

The result is a playground with a community feel which goes beyond the limitations of budget and demonstrates what can be achieved when local groups work together.

The City of Marion worked with local community groups to create a space with a sense of collaboration and connection. The groups included LKCC (Living Kaurna Cultural Centre) Miyurna Kumangka Men's Group, Westminster School and the Cooinda Migrant Womens group.

The First Avenue Reserve project is small in size and budget, however demonstrates creativity and a level of invention beyond these constraints. The City of Marion Landscape Architect responsible for the delivery of the project pushed the boundaries of their role to create opportunities for engagement and partnerships which had not been implemented before on a project of this scale.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner System Garden Rainforest Boardwalk SBLA Studio Melbourne University Wurundjeri

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Providing access to a somewhat mysterious space within the University of Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parkville campus, the System Garden Rainforest Boardwalk uses a light touch and outstanding detailing to make the insertion into the landscape appear effortless.

It solves complex site issues in a visually simple and economical way with its site-responsive raised path of steel mesh, which makes this space more inviting and useable, improving definition and protection. It allows opportunities for a myriad of unusual plants to be seen up close, while keeping them free from the impact of human footsteps. Project Details project System Garden Rainforest Boardwalk entrant practice SBLA Studio aboriginal nation Wurundjeri client Melbourne University state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award for Small Projects

The 60 metre long System Garden Rainforest walk offers a small scale nature walk and education space for Melbourne University. It sits lightly above the forest floor and offers area for respite and pause. The seating elements take inspiration from the Brachychiton tree located within the garden, highlighting it's pink foliage during the summer months. SBLA were engaged by Melbourne University to design and deliver a site sensitive walkway that allows people to access the garden and to tread lightly.

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This secret spot within the garden has now become a place for relaxation and rest. SBLA have utilised rhinograte steel-mesh to provide a sturdy, yet permeable walkway. Its design is visually light-weight, a nonintrusive structure that allows the varying plants to be the focus of attention. Along the boardwalk breakout spaces for one to sit back and immerse themselves in this damp, cooling microclimate are provided. SBLA have designed and delivered pastel pink perforated steel lounge suites. The pink powdercoat colour matches that of the Brachychiton flowers which bloom in late spring/summer. The seats coupled with the Brachychiton

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National Award of Excellence Winner Mahon Pool Amenities and Maroubra Seals Swimming Clubhouse Sue Barnsley Design Randwick City Council Eora

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Mahon Pool Amenities is a simple yet memorable and poetic project which speaks of profound respect for its sublime coastal surrounds. A seamless physical and visual connection is inserted, joining the clubhouse with the Maroubra rockpool beyond.

Project Details project Mahon Pool Amenities and Maroubra Seals Swimming Clubhouse entrant practice Sue Barnsley Design aboriginal nation Eora client Randwick City Council state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of Excellence for Small Projects

A red-brick toilet block and change rooms were removed from the cliff edge to make way for a quieter, more comfortable pool amenities building. Giving the building a more generous curtilage that allows safe gathering, sunning and a place to take in this rugged coastline.

Rather than purely concerned with access and pathways, the project evolved into an enquiry about place, the morphology of the landscape, the opportunities for habitation and the possibility to recover the sense of wildness and raw power of this coastal site.

The landscape is direct and spare, building above the rock shelf and remnant concrete slabs in a process of ongoing sedimentation and protection. Transforming a disturbed site into a public place that resonates with a raw beauty and draws on the sensation of the ocean pool below- intimate and elemental.

We championed the benefit of involving the Landscape Architect in the construction process. Assuring quality, guiding changes, avoiding defects and suffusing design thinking throughout the delivery process. The renewal enables universal access to the new building and the sensitive articulation of a public concourse and seating edge within this rock platform. Transforming a disturbed site into a public place. The project provides access to the new building and pool, completes a missing link in the Eastern Beaches Coastal Walkway, while keeping a discrete footprint. The scale of works matching the budget and anticipated contamination of the site.

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The forms are skilfully considered and precisely executed, mirroring and blending with the ground below and clifftop forms beyond.

Disciplined and confident, the outcome appears almost effortless, giving the insertion permission to be part of something bigger and making this project incredibly special.

The community refined the building programme and the Maroubra Seals asked to make a place on the cliff edge that would be protected from the southerly winds. Where they could shelter in the winter sun after races. Our aspiration was to bring together the recreational, the social and the ecological in the remaking of this community parkland. Framing places to sit and enjoy the view, making access to the pool easier, bringing back the coastal sandstone heath and showcasing the beauty of the cliff edge. Telescoping scale from the grain and immediacy of the wind worn rocks to the panorama of the coastline.

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The innovation in this small project is best understood in the way the landscape engaged with the morphology and tectonics of this rock platform, setting in place conditions that invite locals to come and find their place within its fault lines, cracks and crevices.

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SMALL PROJECTS NOMINEES

Canberra Grammar School courtyard

Colobus Sky Trail

Commonwealth Bank Roof Terrace, Darling Square

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ELD designed / documented the landscape surrounds to the new classroom building at Canberra Grammar. The site was previously hidden, dark, steep, overgrown and an unused space of the school. The landscape design formalised the visual and physical links to the new classroom block, existing path networks and drew out historic links to the past use of the site.

WAX Design was engaged to undertake a small-scale upgrade of the Colobus exhibit at Adelaide Zoo. Using a cylindrical mesh construction, WAX created over 90 linear metres of elevated Sky Trail that allows visitors to see the Colobus roaming amongst the trees. The robust design achieves exceptional structural performance with enough cross-sectional area to encourage natural behaviours in the primates.

The Commonwealth Bank roof terrace is a combined intensive/extensive roof terrace at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia building in Darling Square. The building, home to 3000 staff, is a component of the larger Darling Square precinct, a new city neighbourhood located in Haymarket, in Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s southern CBD.

Within the confined space ELD was able to create a space which has been so well received and used by the students, that the school subsequently expanded the amphitheatre, adding an additional terrace to further accommodate the achieved demand for the space.

Walking through the Zoo, you are greeted by the chatter of the Colobus out exploring the treetops, socialising, and inquisitively watching visitors below. Through collaborative and innovative design, WAX has delivered a hugely successful, world-first in small primate exhibit design.

The roof terrace cleverly combines extensive planting areas on soil profiles as shallow as 200mm, with mounding and raised planters. The result is a topographic landscape that is accessible and comfortable, that also provides a green outlook from adjacent residential towers.

Project Details

entrant practice Enviro Links Design

entrant practice WAX Design

entrant practice ASPECT Studios

aboriginal nation Ngunnawal

aboriginal nation Kaurna

aboriginal nation Eora

client Canberra Grammar School, Senior

client Zoos SA

client Lendlease

Campus

state award 2020 AILA SA Award of Excellence

state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape

state award 2020 AILA ACT Landscape

for Small Projects

Architecture Award for Small Projects

Flower Street Office

May Contain Seeds

Radford College, The Commons

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Flower Street is a private garden that complements and enhances the evolution of a suburban character residence into offices for the Mercy Partners.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;May Contain Seedsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is part of a larger research project funded by the University of Newcastle, which socially and environmentally responds to the challenges mosquitoes impose on social spaces, recreational activities and human health.

ELD in collaboration with Stewart Architecture and Cardno transformed a deep, degraded and overgrown storm water gully into a central green space within the Secondary School.

The garden nourishes the spiritual practice for those that wander its paths. Its nook are places to gather, contemplate and learn, forming a landscape design that embodies a depth of meaning at an intimate scale. We aspired to create a landscape that can make you feel, and allow you some space to be.

Our hypothesis is simple, certain aromatic plants repel mosquitoes because they cannot smell blood and are confused as a result, if we are able to encourage seedbombing around campus; we may be successful in creating areas where mosquitoes do not like to go. Simply, consisting of a gumball machine housing the seedbombs portrays a recognisable armature, actively engaging the community to co-create their surrounding urban environments.

The new space addresses drainage and flooding issues and allows students to gather and socialise, as well as be utilised for outdoor class activities. Retained existing remnant eucalypt trees provide shade and habitat to the space. The watercourse is a supplemented feature to the green space that highlights the educational value and importance of natural eco systems within the school.

Project Details

entrant practice FRED St Pty Ltd

entrant practice The University of Newcastle

entrant practice Enviro Links Design

aboriginal nation Yuggera

aboriginal nation Awabakal and Worimi People

aboriginal nation Ngunnawal

client Mercy Partners

client The University of Newcastle, Callaghan

client Radford College

state award 2020 AILA QLD Landscape

Campus

state award 2020 AILA ACT Landscape

Architecture Award for Small Projects

state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape

Architecture Award for Small Projects

GARDENS

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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.

Image: Tom Ross / Arkadia Apartments - OCULUS

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Clifftop Garden Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture Eora

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Clifftop Garden offers the profession a front-seat masterclass in design crafting, plant appreciation, garden placemaking and unique site understanding. The jury found the garden timeless in its appreciation and use of endemic plant material and admired the creative reuse of site-derived sandstone waste materials. 60

Ultimately the garden just fits into the cliff site, the adjacent new house and unique exposed context. The garden is quiet and subtle and does not shout out â&#x20AC;&#x153;look at me,â&#x20AC;? which is not often the case on sites as significant as this clifftop position.

Project Details project Clifftop Garden entrant practice Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture aboriginal nation Eora state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of Excellence for Gardens

Building on the idea of exposing the cliff face, a tiered complex of roughback sandstone, groundcovers and grasses, traverses the space in between a lawn and a pond amassed with planting. The series of rocky outcrops, terraces that step and fold, feel as if the topography of the escarpment is pushing up through the garden bed. Grasses wave in the wind, pick up the sun, and collect little drops of water, reflecting the light.

The resulting garden is a delicate balance of functionality and framing, creating a space for both humans and wildlife underscored by a slightly wild, rugged landscape. We wanted to work with what was on site, and expose the true nature of the escarpment. Building on the idea of exposing the underlying geology, for this garden to speak to the craggy cliffs, to tie it and the house back to this harsh, but dramatic and very alive environment. The garden's design is an exercise in contextualising the house, grounding and orienting its relationship to an extraordinary position, whilst considering the sensitive, and often introspective garden spaces that can both complement and counterpoint such a grand setting.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Nightingale 2.0 SBLA Studio Hip V Hype/Nightingale Housing Wurundjeri Woiwurrung

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The Nightingale 2.0 gardens demonstrate a different approach to rooftop and vertical gardens through the use of native plants that are suited to the microclimates created by built form. The project draws from naturally occurring landscape systems that parallel the microclimatic condition and explores alternative plants to those typically found in urban environments. 62

The rooftop gardens provide a beautiful backdrop to the communal spaces of the development while the vertical garden delivers an enchanting cascade of stag horns that welcomes residents and visitors on their arrival.

Project Details project Nightingale 2.0 entrant practice SBLA Studio aboriginal nation Wurundjeri Woiwurrung client Hip V Hype/Nightingale Housing state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award for Gardens

SBLA were engaged to undertake the planting design for Six Degrees Nightingale 2.0 in Fairfield. The planting takes inspiration from windy, mountainous Australian landscapes - treating the building as microclimate. Dry sclerophyll planting sits on the rooftop, whilst Australian rainforest species cascade down the southside of the building into a welcoming arrival garden. The apartment building has a strong social and environmental ambition - born from the Nightingale Housing model

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where social wellbeing and environmental outcomes are at the forefront of the development. The ‘Nightingale’ development model is a new building model that looks at social and environmental aspects of a building’s design to be on an even playing field to its financial factors”. SBLA were engaged by Hip v Hype during the conception stage of the project. SBLA were able to work with the architects to develop soil profiles and suitable planting conditions from the outset, which meant the expectations of the project were met upon completion of the project. Expectations were managed around the idea of an ‘instant garden’.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Domic James Birrell Design Lab Evgeny Skigin Kabi Kabi

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The Domic landscape garden merges the architecture of this house with its spectacular coastal setting. A garden project such as this has the potential to polarize opinions: it is an intensely developed and very large-budget project, located in close proximity to Noosa National Park. These values are seen in juxtaposition many times around the Australian coastline and, in this case, against a very demanding site yield. 64

It is apparent that the landscape architect and architect have worked together to achieve a garden that blurs the interface of site landscape and building: garden as architecture and architecture as garden. The project embraces the local flora and allows itself to be sculptured and engulfed by the forms and vegetation of Sunshine Beach. The project exhibits technical aspects of environmental sustainability, however its ultimate achievement will be the way in which the developing garden will further soften and envelop the building. Project Details project Domic entrant practice James Birrell Design Lab aboriginal nation Kabi Kabi client Evgeny Skigin state award 2020 AILA QLD Award of

Domic (Russian for House of Domes), is an off-the-grid eco lair on the doorstep of Noosa National Park overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The house is nestled into the sand dune wrapping itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roof and walls in a blanket of natural vegetation endemic to the area.

Our response to this was to bring the Noosa National Park over the top of the building (blurring the lines between landscape and building) integrating the landscape typologies of the Sunshine Beach sand dunes with materials, colours, habitat and vegetation to engender a primal sense of belonging to the place.

The abode is cave like and dramatically connected to the natural and primeval surroundings The brief was to create a building that is harmonious with its natural surroundings.

The project explored bespoke designs and innovations in green roof and green wall systems so that the landscape could be seamlessly integrated with the architecture.

Excellence for Gardens

In many ways the landscape informed the architectural design which was a refreshing dynamic throughout the design process.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner 320 George Street Fiona Harrisson and Simon Ellis Landscape Architects Spider Properties Kulin

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In this project, the ugly becomes habitable through the skill of the landscape architect. The project is both striking and serene and illustrates how ordinary spaces â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in this instance, the garden of a 1960s-era block of six apartments â&#x20AC;&#x201C; can be transformed into something exceptional. 66

This delightful, well-executed garden negotiates the complexities of private, common and public spaces with a continuous series of intimate spaces featuring considered detailing, sensitive reuse of materials and a lush planting palette. It demonstrates the breadth of the landscape architecture profession to bring joy to the world and, in this case, improve the amenity of a less-thanoptimal residential complex. This award acknowledges the change that landscape architects can accomplish at any project scale. Project Details project 320 George Street entrant practice Fiona Harrisson and Simon Ellis Landscape Architects aboriginal nation Kulin client Spider Properties state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award for Gardens

320 George Street is a wholly re-purposed 1960â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s six unit block of flats including the garden complete with established palm trees. The design creates a strong sense of continuity for the whole garden with a sequence of transitions public, semi-private and private thresholds. The client and the design team (both architects and landscape architects) were unified in their desire to work in close relationship with the existing condition and create a sustainable garden.

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The result is a lush and resilient garden that carefully weaves layers of privacy and access. A key strategy for the George street garden was to create strong sense of continuity throughout the whole garden at the same time to design a sequence of transitions to allow for varying levels of privacy and which could be experienced as thresholds. The continuity was created through creating a sense that the building sat in a garden. This was created through the planting and the treatment of the ground plain. The decision to use large-leafy dark subtropical plants, which are proven garden plants in Melbourne was a way to integrate the existing established plants already in the garden and to profit from the cavern-like spaces.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Arkadia Apartments OCULUS Defence Housing Authority Eora

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The Arkadia Apartments project illustrates the role the garden can play in connecting residents to their place, its history and, importantly, to each other.

Project Details project Arkadia Apartments entrant practice OCULUS aboriginal nation Eora client Defence Housing Authority state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Gardens

Located in Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alexandria, the recently opened Arkadia apartment development offers a compelling model for high-density urban living while reflecting the character of its surroundings. Designed by DkO Architects, Breathe Architects and OCULUS for Defence Housing Australia, the project sets new benchmarks in how a multi-residential project can foster community, social interaction and neighbourhood integration through a collaborative design process.

As landscape architects, OCULUS provided design and documentation services for the public and private domain, including an integrated ground plane (Huntley Green park), through-site links, a series of courtyard gardens and atriums, a communal edible garden and expansive rooftop terrace. The concept for the Arkadia development was selected through a mandatory competitive design process by the City of Sydney. Key reasons for its success included: Integration with the surrounding neighbourhood through generous offsets, two public through-site links, and pocket park with public artwork; Consideration of heritage through materiality, built form and site layout; Close integration of architecture and landscape, through ground level public spaces and communal roof garden and terraces; High landscape amenity, with productive gardens and chicken coop.

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The landscape architecture practice has shown great thought leadership in the design and realization of a productive, human-centric, high-performing garden in high-density urban living â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a fantastic asset for the residents and the surrounding neighbourhood.

The high-quality, environmentally sensitive materials and exceptional planting palette demonstrate the value and contribution of such high-performing private spaces to the overall dialogue of landscape architecture.

The belief shared across all the design partners was that this development should contribute positively to its neighborhood something that is often promised but rarely achieved. Arkadia has enhanced its location by providing new through-site connections, a pocket park free for anyone in the neighborhood to use, and is the largest ever recycled brick project of its kind, proudly marking the suburb and siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history as a place of brick manufacturing. Image: Tom Ross

And for the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents, they are afforded with ample open space and long views into surrounding suburbs and to the city, generous apartments, and access to productive garden plots, garden sheds and a shared chicken coop enabling them to grow their own produce while living in an inner city apartment.

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The public domain is integrated through the ground plane, with generous through site links, that allow a comfortable and open link between the open space of Sydney Park and the fine grain close-knit community of Alexandria.

GARDENS NOMINEES

Kodo Apartments

Reed House

Valencia Residences

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Inspired by the adjacent Victoria Square and Adelaide Central Market, the developer and design teams’ key goals of the Kodo Apartments rooftop garden was to create a Village Green in the sky providing communal, dining and gathering spaces for residents whilst boasting sweeping panoramic 180-degree views to the Adelaide Hills.

Realising nostalgic spatial memories of the clients and memories they want to instil in their daughters, this landscape presents a series of strong garden concepts with ephemeral connective colour and texture themes. Merging inside/outside living with a unique garden for every room of the house, this project boasts a bio-diverse plant palette of at least 70 species.

Valencia successfully pushes the boundaries of apartment development in Brisbane to move beyond the standard offerings to consider the ability of apartment projects to significantly contribute to green open space in the city, regardless of constrained boundaries and limited outdoor space footprints.

The Kodo Apartments Rooftop terrace is a sound example of how apartment living doesn’t mean you have to forego quality open spaces. As with traditional public gardens, rooftops can offer people a place for social interaction as well as a place of respite above the bustling streets of the CBD.

A bold experimental landscape exploring the close combination of local native with exotic and productive species and an exciting fourmetre-high vegetated cascade. The Reed Family love this fun, diverse landscape with its pink fluffy courtyard heart and dramatic green, seasonally golden cascade.

A true multi-generational approach has been executed that encourages inclusiveness, fosters rich and layered experiences, whilst maximising small outdoor spaces and narrow frontages for the benefit of both the building’s residents and neighbourhood.

Project Details

entrant practice Tract

entrant practice Banksia & Lime

entrant practice RPS

aboriginal nation Kaurna

aboriginal nation Whajuk Noongar

aboriginal nation Turrbal

client Flagship Group

client Reed Family

state award 2020 AILA QLD Landscape

state award 2020 AILA SA Landscape

state award 2020 AILA WA Award of

Architecture Award for Gardens

Excellence in Gardens

Image: Tom Ross / Arkadia Apartments - OCULUS

PARKS AND OPEN SPACE

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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.

Image: Simon Wood / Dyuralya Square - OCULUS

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Sunvale Community Park Brimbank City Council Kulin

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Sunvale Community Park represents the rebirth of the old Sunvale Primary School into a vital community asset. The new park was the outcome of a collaboration with the council and the community, creating a shared vision and ultimately a series of wonderful, unpretentious park uses and elements that have been adapted by users of all ages and social and cultural backgrounds. 76

Effective water harvesting via a 100,000 litre underground tank and reuse of this critical resource enables year-round green lawns for ball games.

Project Details project Sunvale Community Park entrant practice Brimbank City Council aboriginal nation Kulin state award 2020 AILA Victoria Award of Excellence for Parks and Open Space

Sunvale Community Park demonstrates the important role landscape architects have in the local government sector in leading the re-purposing of community infrastructure to sustain the ongoing liveability and well-being of the community.

Given the closure of park infrastructure but not parks, Sunvale Community Park offers the community a place for walking, exercising and connecting to nature. This connection is vital in supporting community resilience through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through an integrated design approach the old Sunvale Primary School has been transformed to a sustainable and resilient urban landscape and perhaps more importantly, a new community destination.

Thinking, Leadership, Results Sunvale Community Park is far more than a playground. This park is the outcome of four years of community advocacy, engagement and design. Today the park offers a lively, busy green space with opportunities to connect park users of all cultures, ages and abilities to each other and the environment.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Julia Reserve Youth Park JMD design Landcom Dharawal

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Julia Reserve Youth Park is a wonderfully vibrant multi-generational park for the growing Oran Park community. It capitalizes on its key pedestrian and bicycle connections to the adjacent community centre, shopping centre, schools and residential areas. The jury loved the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s positioning of active youth spaces at the centre of the community and its recognition of this demographic as an important part of the fabric of Oran Park. 78

The design was commended for achieving a delicate balance not only between stakeholder demands, a wide variety of activities and user group needs, but also with the ecological conditions of the land. The sensitive integration of detention basins and rain gardens responds to the quality of stormwater entering Julia Creek further downstream and is celebrated as part of the design strategy. These multi-layered narratives advocate for the foundations of landscape architecture as a profession that integrates social, economic and ecological perspectives. Project Details project Julia Reserve Youth Park entrant practice JMD design aboriginal nation Dharawal client Landcom state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Parks and Open Space

The new Julia Reserve Youth Park lies at the heart of Oran Park Town. It provides 2 hectares of diverse recreational, social and leisure opportunities that respond to the need for flexible, robust and vibrant open space in which to play, watch and learn. A large informal lawn, skate precinct, parkour facilities, multipurpose courts, arbour structure, pedestrian network and picnic facilities are integrated with a stormwater treatment zone to cater for a wide range of age groups, skill sets and recreational interest.

The Park has a scale and intensity that celebrates the new and growing community of Oran Park. JMD design has been working with Landcom and Greenfields Development Company since 2007 to deliver the public domain component of Oran Park Town. The 1,119 hectare development includes a 30 hectare Town Centre, 7500 homes, schools, aged care and senior living, playing fields, parks, playgrounds, a community centre, riparian corridors, OSD water treatment and a bicycle/ pedestrian network. At the heart of Oran Park Town, and a key part of the Civil Precinct is Julia Reserve Youth Park. This 2 hectare public open space area provides diverse recreational, social and leisure opportunities.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Minda Coast Park Oxigen Pty Ltd City of Holdfast Bay, Key Partners: State Government, Minda Incorporated Kaurna

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Minda Coast Park is an exemplar coastal development project that focuses on its environment, culture and community. The project successfully implements a critical missing link in a 70-kilometrelong shared-use path along Adelaideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coast. The built outcome is beautiful yet functional, providing an accessible environmental scheme overlayed with cultural and environmental interpretation. 80

The ongoing management and care of the coastal environment will continue to benefit the community as the project matures.

Project Details project Minda Coast Park entrant practice Oxigen Pty Ltd aboriginal nation Kaurna client City of Holdfast Bay, Key Partners: State Government, Minda Incorporated state award 2020 AILA SA Award of Excellence for Parks and Open Space

Oxigen were engaged by the City of Holdfast Bay as part of a multidisciplinary team charged with the conceptual and detailed landscape architectural design of Minda Coast Park; a 500 metre long pedestrian and cyclist connection through the remnant coastal dunes of North Brighton. Located within land owned by Minda Incorporated, one of the key principles for the project is to provide access for all users of the community. The Coast Park path integrates elevated boardwalks and on-grade paving to complete an important link from Kingston Park to Glenelg and further north along the metropolitan coastline.

The remnant primary and secondary dunes present a unique opportunity for greater understanding of coastal systems, fauna/flora and cultural heritage. As an integral component of the project, the restoration and revegetation of the dunes will significantly enhance the natural environment whilst also providing an engaging opportunity for education. Interpretation is focused on the key elements of the site, including the natural history, Kaurna culture and more recent stewardship and preservation by Minda Incorporated. Art, interpretation and access meld together to enhance connection with the physical and cultural identity of the dunes.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Dyuralya Square OCULUS City of Sydney Eora

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This project is an example of a former brownfields site done right, reflecting the contemporary needs of a densifying population while providing strong links to the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural and industrial past. Dyuralya Square is a wellconsidered piece of recreational and social infrastructure that provides much-needed open space for a new community. This contemporary park establishes a strong sense of place and is welcoming and accessible to all, with spaces and diverse activities that cater to different ages and cultures. 82

The highly collaborative approach led by the landscape architects has produced a multi-layered place. The site’s historical and ecological connection with water is at the fore, beautifully represented and detailed through a practical, dynamic and playful water element. Technical challenges have been deftly handled and materials thoughtfully selected in this well-crafted project that is set to receive new layers of meaning as its community develops around it. Project Details project Dyuralya Square entrant practice OCULUS aboriginal nation Eora client City of Sydney state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Parks and Open Space

Surrounded by a new neighbourhood of medium to high-density apartments, Dyuralya Square provides a vital recreational and social infrastructure for the community while establishing a strong senseof-place to this former brownfieldsite. The square was designed as a place for small events, incidentalplay, day-to-day recreation and outdoor dining, through a series of garden-rooms.

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The site's rich natural and cultural history is interpreted through different ways such as highlighting the landscape terraces that used to occupy the site while feature paving references the original swamp-line. Furniture, paving and tree-pits reflect recent industrial history, specifically factory alignments shown by brass-inlays in the paving. The design process was exhaustive and focused, with a high level of design collaboration with urban designers and landscape architects from the City of Sydney. From the initial concept design process and early design development, we worked closely with the client in developing a ‘water story’ overlay throughout the square.

Image: Simon Wood

PARKS AND OPEN SPACE NOMINEES

Activating Heywood Park

Bim'bimba Park

Katanning Welcome Precinct

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Image: Paul Fletcher

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As one of the largest open space areas in the City of Unley, Heywood Park is valued for its social, cultural, environmental and historical significance to the Unley Community. Over the past 5 years, The City of Unley has sought to strategically activate Heywood Park, providing new physical and virtual experiences and services, in balance with enhanced biodiversity initiatives.

Bim’bimba Park began life with the working title of The "Hub Park". Located in the centre of the Gainsborough Greens master planned residential estate, it was planned precisely as that; the central focal point or beating heart of the community connecting a masterplanned network of open space, linear greenways and environmental reserves intertwined around the Gainsborough Greens Golf Course.

Activating Heywood Park has found new ways to engage the local community, and utilised 'smarter' technologies to better enliven, manage and sustain one of Unley’s oldest parks, all the while, preserving the natural character of the beloved park.

The park provides an impressive public realm that encourages community gatherings such as concerts, markets, impromptu sport and providing an enticing playground attraction for the wider community of the northern Gold Coast.

Project Details

entrant practice City of Unley and Clover

entrant practice Form Landscape Architects

entrant practice PLAN E

Greenspace

aboriginal nation Bundjalung

aboriginal nation Kaniyang

aboriginal nation Kauna

client Mirvac Queensland Pty Ltd

client Shire of Katanning

client City of Unley

state award 2020 AILA QLD Landscape

state award 2020 AILA WA Landscape

state award 2020 AILA SA Landscape

Architecture Award for Parks and Open Space

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Railway Park

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Railway Park, at the heart of Byron Bay, has always been the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting place. Since the closure of the train line in 2004 this heritage edged park had lost its identity. This project was a reimagining of this civically important space through extensive and careful open space upgrades. The park provides a much needed public social hub that is off the beach - a place for gatherings, play, and environmental connection and contemplation. Nostalgia is acknowledged and maintained through retentions and interventions both natural and cultural. Woven through the site are Arakwal stories told by Arakwal people.

Project Details entrant practice Plummer & Smith aboriginal nation Arakwal Country in the

Bundjalung Nation client Byron Shire Council state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Parks and Open Space

Image: Emma Cross / Sunvale Community Park - Brimbank City Council

PARKS AND OPEN SPACE NOMINEES

Rockingham Foreshore

Shale Hills Dog Park

Valley Creek

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Following their work on the Rockingham Foreshore Master Plan (2015), PLACE Laboratory was commissioned to develop three key public spaces along Rockingham foreshore: upgrade the historic Railway Terrace, design a new pedestrian plaza, and widen the waterfront promenade.

The Shale Hills Dog Park provides five hectares of fun for Western Sydney dogs and their humans. TYRRELLSTUDIO’s design places people and their pets at the heart of the design. The park includes a large offleash area, slopes and play mounds, a dog agility course, a training and exercise course and a sensory garden for dogs.

A creek hidden under the ground in a culvert, has been brought back to the surface as the centre piece for the landscape associated with a new student residence at Monash University. Delivering on Masterplan ambitions, Glas has restored the creek back to the surface, allowing it to visibly run through the landscape for the first time in over 100 years.

Extensive community consultation and place planning informed the design of the new plaza that together with the board walk and Railway Terrace upgrade, forms a new civic heart and tourist destination for Rockingham. The result is a creative, playful urban environment which responds to the unique natural and cultural characteristics of the site, accommodating the needs of residents and tourists alike.

Design excellence was core to the project brief by Western Sydney Parklands Trust (WSPT) and building on the vision for the Parklands to “create a place that offers diverse experiences, celebrates its natural qualities and creates an identity for local communities”

The creek was completed in October 2019 and whilst the landscape is still in the early stages of restoration, the amenity and ecological potential of this restored landscape is evident.

Project Details

entrant practice PLACE Laboratory

entrant practice TYRRELLSTUDIO | Western

entrant practice GLAS Landscape Architects

aboriginal nation Noongar

Sydney Parkland Trust aboriginal nation Gandangara Clan Darug client Western Sydney Parkland Trust state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of Excellence for Parks and Open Space

aboriginal nation Bunurong

client City of Rockingham state award 2020 AILA WA Award of

Excellence for Parks & Open Space

client Monash University state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape

Architecture Award for Parks and Open Space

Image: Brett Boardmann / Julie Reserve Youth Park - OCULUS

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.

Image: David Jones / North Gardens Sculpture Park Landscape Master Plan, Ballarat - Tharangalk Art, Romanis + BASALT: Art + Deakin University

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner University of Western Australia Cultural Heritage Mapping UDLA University of Western Australia, Campus Planning Whadjuk Nyoongar

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This is an important piece of work that not only reveals and maps the cultural heritage of the University of Western Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crawley campus but also provides a framework for future campus development based on redefining our preconceptions and our Western approach to seeing the landscape. The depth of thinking, the approach to consultation, engagement and collaboration, and the leadership demonstrated by the landscape architects impressed the jury. 90

The cross-cultural “living” spatial knowledge that was revealed was guided and directed by Whadjuk Noongar Elders and Leaders, in recognition of the importance of first asking traditional custodians who have the authority and respect to speak for Country. The resultant mapping is beautifully presented through a richly layered artwork representing the shared knowledge and stories of the Crawley area. The University of Western Australia should also be commended for its vision of a place of learning on Country. Project Details project University of Western Australia Cultural Heritage Mapping entrant practice UDLA aboriginal nation Whadjuk Nyoongar client University of Western Australia, Campus Planning state award 2020 AILA WA Award of Excellence for Cultural Heritage

The UWA Cultural Heritage Mapping project provides direction to recognise, inform, reveal, link and map the Cultural Heritage that underpins the heritage of the UWA Crawley precinct. The UWA Cultural Heritage Mapping project evolved alongside the UWA Masterplan Vision to directly influence the spatial planning and physical development of the Crawley Precinct. The UWA Cultural Heritage Mapping project is a unique example of landscape architects’ ability to facilitate a process

of meaningful, in-depth engagement, coupled with spatial understanding and site knowledge. We were able to facilitate a process to recognise, inform, reveal, link and map the Cultural Heritage for a place of learning on Country that underpins the heritage of the UWA Crawley precinct. The UWA Cultural Heritage Mapping project evolved alongside the UWA Masterplan Vision to directly influence the spatial planning and physical development of the Crawley Precinct. It is intended that all UWA campuses undertake a similar approach to the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage of their specific places.

Image: Jason Thomas

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National Award of Excellence Winner North Gardens Sculpture Park Landscape Master Plan, Ballarat Tharangalk Art, Romanis + BASALT: Art + Deakin University City of Ballarat Nation

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Deep listening has enabled this project’s landscape team to produce a strong and genuine consultation process with traditional custodians.

Project Details project North Gardens Sculpture Park Landscape Master Plan, Ballarat entrant practice Tharangalk Art, Romanis + BASALT: Art + Deakin University aboriginal nation Wadawurrung client City of Ballarat state award 2020 AILA Victoria Award of Excellence for Cultural Heritage

This project sought to prepare a master plan for the North Gardens precinct of the Lake Wendouree Parklands in partnership and guided by the Wadawurrung (Watharurung Aboriginal Corporation) and Wadawurrung community, to heal, renew, and ensure cultural attunment for the future of this precinct in hosting a national-level Indigenous sculpture park venue. While a core part of this agenda was an appraisal of the current environment and its capacity to host an Indigenous Sculpture Park and sculptures, and the

formulation of an environmental restoration and interpretative strategy to accommodate the client’s policies and needs, it rapidly became evident that unravelling a Wadawurrung narrative for the place was the first priority. In Wadawurrung eyes, this project successfully and respectfully addressed their aspirations for a landscape design project. They were listened to and their values were incorporated into the underpinnings and framework of the design. In Wadawurrung eyes, it is an exemplar of the manner of consultation, engagement and respect they wish of the City of Ballarat and other agencies. For the City of Ballarat, the project has “… met, and exceeded [their] … expectations for the project. The master plan now offers a culturally-innovative Strategy document for daily use by the City of Ballarat in its landscape management operations as well as guiding the future creation of an Indigenous Sculpture Park on the site.

Image: David Jones

The landscape masterplan for this park in Ballarat, Victoria is remarkable for its significant and in-depth analysis of the cultural values and knowledge of the landscape on the edge of Lake Wendouree. The masterplan reframes the ambitions and aspirations of a number of Western practices, in particular â&#x20AC;&#x153;sustainability,â&#x20AC;? replacing them with Wadawurrung concepts of nurturing, healing, learning, sharing and cultural relationship-building.

The project demonstrates how strategies for landscape change can be generated by and with traditional custodians, how they can be grounded in a deep understanding of country and how they can create ripples of effect beyond the immediate scope of the project.

The cultural nuances of the place have been carefully articulated in the drafting of goals, objectives and the identification of opportunities.

Image: Tharangalk Art, Romanis + BASALT: Art + Deakin University

The Innovation is in its precedent and benchmark status by the Wadawurrung (Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation), its integrated and listened to Engagement and Partnership methodological approach, the high praise by the City of Ballarat as to future project processes with the Corporation, and thus an idea piece for use elsewhere in Victoria. The Western idea of ‘Sustainability’, in this project, has also been replaced by Wadawurrung concepts of nurturing, healing, learning, sharing and cultural relationship– building. Additionally, for the future Indigenous artist, there is now a very clear narrative about the meaning and aspirations of the site from the Wadawurrung perspective.

Image: David Jones

CULTURAL HERITAGE NOMINEES

Behan Carpark - Trinity College

City Botanic Gardens - Hill's Avenue Boardwalk

Mays Hill Masterplan

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Image: Michelle Gosnal

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This unique project by John Patrick Landscape Architect's combines the practicalities of permeability with a trafficable paving system that was customised to blend into a heritage setting. Adbri Masonry Turfgrid pavers were tinted to a sandstone colour to allow the product to match the sandstone facade of the 1930's heritage building.

The Hills Avenue Boardwalk is a 100m-long, timber boardwalk in Brisbane’s beautiful City Botanic Gardens, which was opened by Brisbane City Council in late 2019.

Originally part of the Governor's Domain and still a key part of the visual curtilage to the World Heritage listed Parramatta Park, the Mays Hill Precinct was severed by the construction of the Western Rail Line in 1860. In 2017 it became the site for the new Parramatta Aquatic Centre.

This stunning addition to the gardens was designed to fit carefully into the avenue of historic fig trees and improves connectivity across the gardens to the all-abilities playground and Queens Park lawn.

The colour change created a balance between form and function, providing a soft and subtle ground treatment to the carpark and allowing the building to be the main focus. The flexibility and customisation embraced by this project have resulted in an attractive landscape solution for the carpark.

Meeting the contemporary needs of Parramatta’s growing population in the World Heritage context of Parramatta Park presented a range of major challenges. TYRRELLSTUDIO empowered the client, engaged the community and managed complex political and stakeholder expectations – no small feat when siting a multimillion-dollar leisure facility within a world heritage landscape.

Project Details

entrant practice John Patrick Landscape

entrant practice Brisbane City Council

entrant practice TYRRELLSTUDIO PTY LTD

Architects client Trinity College state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award for Cultural Heritage

aboriginal nation Turrbul & Yuggera

aboriginal nation Burramatta People of Darug

client Natural Environment, Water and

Nation client Parramatta Park Trust state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Cultural Heritage

Sustainability (NEWS) Branch state award 2020 AILA QLD Award of Excellence for Cultural Heritage

Your Parramatta Park 2030 Conservation Management Plan and Plan of Management

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Your Parramatta Park 2030 (YPP 2030) combines the Conservation Management Plan for the park with its Plan of Management. It establishes the vision and direction for the Park to 2030 and provides a framework where the heritage values of the Conservation Management Plan directly inform the vision, objectives and strategies of the Plan of Management, and aligns the ongoing operations and activation of the Park with the conservation of its heritage significant cultural landscapes.

Project Details entrant practice Parramatta Park Trust aboriginal nation Dharug state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of

Excellence for Cultural Heritage Image: Jason Thomas / University of Western Australia Cultural Heritage Mapping - ULDA

HEALTH AND EDUCATION LANDSCAPE

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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.

Image: Nyamba Buru yawuru / Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa (Cultural Wellbeing Centre) - Nyamba Buru Yawuru / MudMap Studio

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Paringa Park Primary School Peter Semple Landscape Architects Paringa Park Primary School Kaurna

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The beautiful outcome represented by the Paringa Primary School stage one project demonstrates what effective, meaningful and engaging collaboration between the landscape architect, students and teachers can achieve with a modest budget. Simple and practical analysis of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heat and acoustic map informed the design process and enabled a direct heat and noise reduction in the final design. 100

This small project represents a collaborative and inspired approach to the design of creative naturebased play with long-lasting and resilient results for the whole school community.

Project Details project Paringa Park Primary School entrant practice Peter Semple Landscape Architects aboriginal nation Kaurna client Paringa Park Primary School state award 2020 AILA SA Award of Excellence for Health and Education Landscape

Paringa Park Primary Schools ambition was to green the asphalt, to provide a comfortable climate resilient environment in which to play and learn. The spaces needed to function for play but also meet the educators needs. The journey to achieve this required genuine consultation with all members of the schools community. This was collated in parallel with an innovative landscape and environmental site analysis.

This information informed an ambitious site masterplan and identified a stage 1 scope; that included a creative play area integrated with formal and informal outdoor learning and play experiences. The play landscape is conscious of play affordance. Play is suggested in the form of stepping rocks and grounded logs that direct travel and provide low level challenges. Creative play values are more obvious at least to children in the malleability and creative qualities of loose rocks, sand and water. This project combines nature play design principles with biophilic and sustainable design best practise.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa (Cultural Wellbeing Centre) Nyamba Buru Yawuru / MudMap Studio Nyamba Buru Yawuru Yawuru

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This project is exceptional for its engagement in an open and, frankly, difficult discussion about how the notions of Country and strong cultural connection can remain in a highly altered landscape. Understanding what “liyan” (wellbeing) means to the local Yawuru community was the crux of a project that sensitively integrates story, people and place.

Project Details project Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa (Cultural Wellbeing Centre) entrant practice Nyamba Buru Yawuru / MudMap Studio aboriginal nation Yawuru client Nyamba Buru Yawuru state award 2020 AILA WA Award of Excellence for Health and Education Landscape | 2020 AILA WA Regional Achievement in Landscape Architecture | 2020 AILA WA Medal

The Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa (Cultural Wellness Centre) is a community meeting place located in Cable Beach, Broome on the grounds of Nyamba Buru Yawuru. The Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa is a place to honour and celebrate Yawuru people and a place for healing and reconciliation, designed to maximise cultural wellness for the community. It includes an outdoor gathering space and nurlu (dancing) area; outdoor art and meeting spaces; a community garden; playgrounds and artworks; surrounding a multipurpose building and community

hall; Country Managers’ workshop; café and commercial kitchen as well as an extension of Nyamba Buru Yawuru’s existing language and archiving centre. A carefully planned community engagement process ran alongside and throughout each of these phases, allowing for regular and clear communication between Mudmap Studio, the client and Yawuru community representatives. Within this process, goals and objectives of both client and community could be clearly shared. The resulting Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa landscape shows how a thoughtful and coherent design strategy can facilitate the conversations essential to gaining an understanding of what liyan (wellbeing) means in a specific community context.

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These conversations, undertaken in many forms and over many years, ensured that the design for Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa aligns with both client and community goals, and supports health and wellbeing in a way that is right for this place and its people.

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Most importantly, this was achieved in a manner explicitly informed by Yawuru people in order to facilitate healing and reconciliation. The project is commended for its recognition of local artists, cultural advisers and Elders as paid experts in their field to design and construct the rich history of their proud community.

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The Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa Cultural Wellbeing Centre is a landscape that captures the essence of liyan in Yawuru life, from family, community and Country to culture, language and history.

MudMap Studio worked together with Yawuru community representatives to research and develop a collective understanding of what mabu liyan might look like when embodied in a place. MudMap Studioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s engagement method for Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa was innovative and demonstrated leadership in landscape architecture. While business-asusual engagement methods invite community members to contribute in a volunteer capacity, the process for Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa embedded community input into each stage of the project.

Image: Nyamba Buru yawuru

In the case of Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa, community contributors (artists, cultural advisors and Elders) have been recognised as experts on their place and included as paid consultants.

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The Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa landscape has been designed to reach out to every aspect of Yawuru life that makes liyan feel good; family and community; country; culture and language; history. There is nowhere else in Broome or in Yawuru country that has its infrastructure entirely influenced by the values of what makes mabu liyan.

HEALTH AND EDUCATION LANDSCAPE NOMINEES

All Hallows Catholic Primary School

Cairnsfoot Special Needs School

Early Start Discovery Space

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Image: Alex Mayes

Image: Taylor Brammer Landscape Architects

All Hallows Catholic Primary School allowed TYRRELLSTUDIO to demonstrate the value of smart design to educational spaces. Our process of logical analysis, creative thinking and careful detailing helped this project to deliver huge benefits for its community.

Learning through play is an integral part of a child’s development and particularly for the development of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The landscape design of Cairnsfoot School balances the two key principles of ‘shelter’ and ‘challenge’. Shelter being at the heart of human need for safety and Challenge being key to a child’s development.

The design of the Discovery Space fulfils the brief “where curiosity rules” through an integrated program that aligns and facilitates the aims and objectives the Early Start program. The location of the Early Start Centre forms a positive and inclusive role of the University of Wollongong campus as part of the centre of excellence.

The result is a sequence of high impact spaces where children feel welcome to inhabit and express themselves. Although the space has not increased, there’s now room to run wildly, play a competitive game of handball or sit quietly in the sun or shade with friends, all while feeling part of a connected and vibrant space. The grounds of AHCPS now send a message of care, intent and joy to its community, illustrating the power and potential of landscape architecture to transform people and place.

By integrating these ideas into play, over time students develop confidence and skills to reach their full potential. Facilities include achievable balance beams, a climbing hill with tunnel through, an in-ground trampoline and pedestrian crossings with signage that create connections to the real world.

The landscape design principles & values that make the campus a memorable place are embodied in the Discovery Space. The detailed design of the play elements understands & embodies these broader principles in their materiality, arrangement & scaling making this an approachable & textural space.

Project Details

entrant practice TYRRELLSTUDIO

entrant practice NBRS ARCHITECTURE

entrant practice Taylor Brammer Landscape

aboriginal nation Eora

client Sydney Catholic Schools

client NSW Department of Education

state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of

state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape

Excellence for Health and Education

Architecture Award for Health and Education

Architects Pty Ltd aboriginal nation Tharawal Nation client The University of Wollongong state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape

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Georgeff Quadrangle, QEII Medical Centre

Homebush West Public School

IONA Presentation College Junior Campus

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Image: Mike Chorley

Image: Silver Tone Photography

The Georgeff Quadrangle was an unwelcoming and under-utilised forecourt space that functioned only as a pedestrian thoroughfare, lacking identity and amenity. A key objective was to transform this utilitarian space into a vibrant, welcoming and useable precinct for social gathering and outdoor meetings for visitors, patients and students. Sinuous low brick walls and wide insitu concrete steps create effective, elegant terracing and definition of spaces to subtly and sensitively reinforce level transitions, and provide informal seating opportunities.

The Department of Education engaged CONTEXT to create a future-focused and best practice learning environment for the community of the Homebush West Public School. Creating a learning environment was a collaborative process done in close consultation with the school community and Department of Education. A strong focus was placed on the potential of the landscape to create an environment where students would feel comfortable, stimulated and connected to nature and the surrounding community of Homebush.

IONA was a campus divided in two. Classrooms were separated from external spaces by retaining walls, fencing and ramps. The brief was to bridge this divide, create external teaching spaces, breakout opportunities and utilise site topography to create interesting playspaces that challenge existing students and attract new ones. The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success is visible upon viewing students using the space at every available opportunity.

Drawing on its surrounds and namesake for design cues, the final result creates a muchneeded open space destination for the QEII campus.

The final landscape outcome reflects a positive image that encourages parents, students and the community to take pride and engage in their school.

Previously, students spent lunchtimes seated on the oval or in under covered areas. Now, students playfully transition between classrooms and the oval. In addition, staff have noticed an increase in concentration and upper body strength in students.

Project Details

entrant practice PLAN E

entrant practice Context Landscape

entrant practice Four Landscape Studio

aboriginal nation Wajuk

Architecture

aboriginal nation Whadjuk

client QE11 Medical Trust

aboriginal nation Dharug Tribe

client IONA Presentation College

state award 2020 AILA WA Landscape

client Department of Education

state award 2020 AILA WA Landscape

Architecture Award for Health and Education

state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape

Architecture Award for Health and Education

HEALTH AND EDUCATION LANDSCAPE NOMINEES

Jona Children's Sensory Garden

Kambri, Australian National University

King's Baptist Grammar School ELC Landscape

Image: Anne Fowler

Image: Florian Groehn

Image: David Seivers

Jona Children’s Sensory Garden is a therapeutic garden and play space within the Queen Elizabeth Centre at Noble Park. This centre provides a state-wide residential support service to families experiencing serious social difficulties.

This revival of the heart of the Australian National University reframed the centre of the campus through introduction of new buildings and associated public domain to create a bustling place for socialising, learning and interacting with the wider Canberra Community.

Accompanying a new early learning centre, the landscape at King’s Baptist Grammar School exemplifies best practice in early childhood education design. A direct extension of the Reggio Emilia learning principles applied indoors, the Outdoor Learning Area brings excellence in nature play and empowers children in the confident exploration of varied environments.

The sensory garden/play area is a purposedesigned early childhood space with two primary functions: used by QEC staff for play-based developmental programs with children while parents are with therapists, a space where residential parents can play informally with their children. Teaching parents to play outside has become a key function of the space. The garden was the subject of a Research program conducted Deakin University in 2017.

Project Details entrant practice Jeavons Landscape Architects aboriginal nation Woi wurrung, the territory

of the Wurundjeri and Boonerwrung (or Bunurong) tribes of the Kulin Nation client Queen Elizabeth Centre state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award for Health and Education 108

Engagement with traditional custodian groups was an important part of the project and led to the name ‘Kambri’ being gifted by the groups to the university to rename the place. Respect for both the site’s indigenous heritage and the strength of the city’s urban framework designed by Burley Griffin have underpinned our design approach.

The design capitalizes on existing level changes and panoramic views, with a variety of inviting routes to traverse the site and learning and play elements to explore. The ELC Outdoor Learning Area inspires children to be challenged, take risks and engage in creative play to shape their learning future.

Project Details

entrant practice ASPECT Studios

entrant practice JPE Design Studio

aboriginal nation Ngunawal Country, Ngambri

aboriginal nation Kaurna

country, Ngunnawal Country, and Ngarigu Country client The Australian National University state award 2020 AILA ACT Award of Excellence for Health and Education Landscape

client King's Baptist Grammar School state award 2020 AILA SA Landscape

Architecture Award for Health and Education

QUT Education Precinct and Pedestrian Spine, Kelvin Grove Campus

Image: Christopher Frederick Jones

The QUT Education Precinct creates a new teaching and learning hub for the Faculty of Education, and the campus as a whole. Large, interconnected, terraced internal and external garden spaces connect the new building with the existing campus library, to reinforce the campus heart and create a strong memorable identity for the building. As part of the project masterplan, the Ring Road was pedestrianised providing a strong circulation spine with engaging outdoor social learning spaces and a memorable identity for the building. A hallmark of this project is the redemptive, restorative and calming power of landscape experienced by users when surrounded by a living landscape that transitions from the internal atrium to external stairways and the pedestrianised campus spine.

Project Details entrant practice TCL aboriginal nation Turrbal client Queensland University of Technology state award 2020 AILA QLD Landscape

Architecture Award for Health and Education Landscape

Image: Nyamba Buru yawuru / Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa (Cultural Wellbeing Centre) - Nyamba Buru Yawuru / MudMap Studio

HEALTH AND EDUCATION LANDSCAPE NOMINEES

St.Bernard's College Chapel Forecourt

The Giant's Causeway - St Francis Xavier College GPFLA

University of Queensland Community Garden, St Lucia

Image: Andrew Lloyd

Image: Francis Xavier Clarke

Image: Lat27

St.Bernard’s College is a Catholic boys’ school located in Melbourne’s inner western suburbs, Australia. In 2018 the school embarked on the first of a series of planned modernisation upgrades to the school buildings and grounds.

Inspired by the natural phenomenon, the 'Giant's Causeway' this project explores a transitional extruded landscape to creatively access the 1st level of a new learning facility St Francis Xavier College. Conscious of our evolving educational system, the project was intent on showcasing a unique, flexible and interpretative landscape approach, which was particularly important for this 'General Purpose Flexible Learning Area'.

The transformation of this key space at the arrival to the University of Queensland St Lucia campus supports the university’s profile, delivering an identifiable space that underpins the it’s community and sustainability ethos. The project challenges the traditional aesthetic based, campus landscape typology, creating a multifunctional and productive space encouraging community engagement.

In what is intended to be a creative learning environment, the project's portrayal of the Giant's Causeway seeks to inspire the students to think differently, creatively and engage with a new and unfamiliar environment.

Additionally, the project demonstrates that a high quality and contemporary aesthetic can be achieved using a native plant palette. The activation of this space is intended to attract users from beyond the campus, welcoming visitors throughout the calendar year, broadening its reach to the community.

Project Details

entrant practice Papworth Davies

entrant practice Orchard Design

entrant practice Lat27

aboriginal nation Woiworung

aboriginal nation Boonwarrung

aboriginal nation Turrbal & Yuggera

client St.Bernard's College

client St Francis Xavier College

client University of Queensland

state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape

state award 2020 AILA QLD Landscape

Architecture Award for Health and Education

Architecture Award for Health and Education Landscape

The first of these was the creation of a new central chapel precinct at the heart of the campus comprising a new chapel building, spiritual centre, reflective courtyard and staff centre. The Chapel Forecourt is intended to set the benchmark for the renewal of the campus grounds, raising the quality of the school setting, improving social interaction, functionality and presentation.

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Image: Nyamba Buru yawuru / Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa (Cultural Wellbeing Centre) - Nyamba Buru Yawuru / MudMap Studio

INTERNATIONAL

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Projects in this category include constructed or strategic projects that demonstrate a contribution to landscape architecture internationally.

Image: GVL Gossamer / Feng River Park - GVL Gossamer

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Dragon Skin River – The Ecological Spine of Xi’an Gossamer Sha’anxi Xixian New Area Development Group Co

Image: Gossamer

Dragon Skin River is an ambitious plan that combines the site’s history of traditional architecture, the Silk Road merchant trade and agricultural innovation with contemporary environmental science and systems approach. The multi-layered response creates a new interface between the Jing River and the future two million residents of Jinghe City, acting as both remediation of past environmental mistakes and a new world-class waterfront for the greater Xi’an region. 114

The river is respected as an entity of flux rather than a hard line of water to be contained. Employing traditional land management techniques and interpretation of local typologies, a soft, intermediary landscape of wetlands, mounding earth and carving channels allows the river to expand and contract while mitigating the socioeconomic impacts of flooding. This project expands the field of landscape architecture to inform patterns of urban development that not only considers social and economic perspectives but also is innovative, ecological and systems-based. Project Details project Dragon Skin River – The Ecological Spine of Xi’an entrant practice Gossamer client Sha’anxi Xixian New Area Development Group Co

Located 30km from Xi’an, the Dragon Skin River Masterplan is a vision for the largest open space system of Jing City, the region’s next major urban centre. This ambitious plan structures over 20sqkm of new waterfront, parks, gardens, agricultural areas and urban forests for the future 2 million residents of the new city. The project combines the region’s cultural mythology and history with innovative landscape architectural and environmental engineering responses. As lead consultant, Gossamer also brought together some of Australia’s best

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environmental engineers and local consultants, raising the bar for environmental design within a Chinese market. As the project’s social sustainability strategy the Cultural Skin addresses the challenges of a growing Chinese middle class and an evolving contemporary urban milieu. The project relied heavily on local cultural, historic, landscape and architectural analysis as the foundation of design responses across the site. Local landscape patterns and farming typologies were used as a starting point for the restoration and expansion of sustainable agriculture areas and seasonal gatherings and events were used as way to lay out specific program across the site.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner LOOP - Pioneering Community Consultation for Shanghaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Laneways Gossamer Creater

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This project highlights the critical role the landscape architect plays in developing collaborative relationships through which the beauty of the everyday can be celebrated. It delivers urban regeneration through micro-destinations, engaging with the intricacies and complexity of local culture and lifestyle.

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In proposing a series of community-driven strategies that celebrate China’s unique cultural identity and historical architecture, it offers a new approach to the modernization of Shanghai through a place-based approach.

Project Details project LOOP - Pioneering Community Consultation for Shanghai’s Laneways entrant practice Gossamer client Creater

Located in one of Shanghai’s most historic neighbourhoods, Gossamer worked with residents and local authorities to deliver LOOP, one of the city’s first community consultation urban regeneration project. The project is a demonstration in new, innovative planning and design with local authorities and residents. Driven by a multi-staged public engagement process LOOP will provide 6 co-designed mico-destinations each tailored to the community and offers a benchmark for placemaking in China.

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LOOP occupies two entry points off one of Shanghai’s historic high streets – Yuyuan Road - and runs in a horseshoe configuration. The lane serves an established ‘gated’ community spanning many generations within long-standing colonial style homes. Gossamer was engaged to deliver a new vision for the public domain to respond to the area’s rapid urbanisation and changing needs. The complexity of this historic and fragile urban ecosystem called for a highly sensitive approach that balances and preserves traditional lifestyle and culture with new development.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Singita Kwitonda Lodge, Rwanda Context Landscape Architecture Milton Group

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The Singita Kwitonda Lodge is situated in northwest Rwanda at the foothills of the Volcanoes National Park, the natural habitat of the critically endangered mountain gorilla. The lodge is intended to attract sustainable tourism investment in order to diversify the economy, and partner in the protection of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural and cultural assets. 118

The lodge is built and operated to the highest level of sustainability and the landscape architect has achieved an outcome that speaks of the place and excels in integrated water management and use of endemic plants to reforest the landscape. A permanent plant nursery grows stock to supply the ongoing reforestation and produce to supply the lodge. A suite of design elements maximizes locally available materials and draws on the skillset of the local workforce. Project Details project Singita Kwitonda Lodge, Rwanda entrant practice Context Landscape Architecture client Milton Group

The reputation of Singita, as an African hospitality brand, and the investment group behind it afforded the project the unique position as the only tourism operation within the 800m national park buffer zone. The development and consultant team, led by Milton Group, adopted the internationally recognised One Planet LivingÂŽ framework to provide a clear and actionable approach to creating, implementing and monitoring the performance of a sustainable community.

CONTEXT designed the landscape to meet the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategic objectives through a design that aimed to rehabilitate a degraded landscape, respond to the climate and unique site characteristics, and create a space that caters to a high-end tourism market. The design aesthetic was inspired by traditional Rwandan architecture, which promoted the use of locally available materials and ensured a large percentage of the construction spend stayed within the local community. As a result, it responds to the dynamic climate, maximising passive heating and cooling and reducing energy consumption by an estimated 44% and water consumption by 82% (estimates generated using EDGE modelling).

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National Award of Excellence Winner Feng River Park GVL Gossamer Shaanxi Xixian Cultural Tourism Industry Group

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Feng River Park in Xixian New City, China is a significant achievement in open space and environmental planning, design and delivery.

Project Details project Feng River Park entrant practice GVL Gossamer client Shaanxi Xixian Cultural Tourism Industry Group

Surrounded by the “Xixian International Development Zone” Feng River Park is an 880,000sqm stretch of remediated public parkland stitching together new communities, local history and the broader river ecology of the region. Located at the origin of the Silk Road, Xi’an is one of China’s four ancient capitals and continues to play a pivotal role the nation’s growth. Over centuries the banks of the Feng have been stripped of the once vibrant ecological and cultural amenity. Feng River -Park reverses this trend by leveraging

future development as a catalyst for environmental and cultural remediation. Over centuries of urbanisation the banks of the Feng have been stripped of the once vibrant ecological and cultural amenity. Feng River Park reverses this trend by leveraging future development as a catalyst for rich environmental and cultural remediation. To achieve this, the project team worked with three themes that underpinned each stage of the design. Social - Ancient River, Hidden Poetry to tie in the Feng River’s history and culture. Transforming what have become lifeless grassy shores, the project restores the ecological and social vitality that once blossomed in the area. The design reinterprets the historic river landscape though the reinstatement of local ecologies, seasonal planting and poetically themed destinations across the site.

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At first glance, this park is to be experienced; a strolling garden on a grand scale filled with lush formal plantings, poetic gestures and lyrical moments that weave together environmental, historic, cultural and economic meaning.

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Underlying the intensely Instagrammable scenes are ecological systems to clean the air, filter the water and allow the riparian zone to heal, with diverse birdlife returning to the Feng River.

Environmental - Sustainable ecology, Seasonal Experience for ecological diversity, unique landscape experiences and WSUD. Located in the Xiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an new district, the design showcases what is be possible for future development. It is hoped that this demonstration of resilience and sustainability will continue to support biological systems as well as influence future development in the area. Economic â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Innovative Infrastructure, Micro Tourism for a new model park tourism that can exist prior to the planned development.

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The combination of innovative self-service facilities with social attractions enable the park to function successfully as a standalone regional destination. This model sets a precedent for future development, encouraging ecological remediation as a viable the first step in the development process.

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INTERNATIONAL NOMINEES

Ayla Golf

Children’s Bike Park at Bangkok International Airport

Danaoke Mountain

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Ayla Golf consists of an 18-hole course, 9-hole par 3 academy, driving range, clubhouse and comfort stations.

The Children’s Bike Park is part of the larger Happy and Healthy Bike Lane around Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport. This 23.5km innovative public cycling track around the airport perimeter, completed in 2015, provides a specialist cycling facility for Bangkok.

The steep geology of Danaoke Mountain underlies a wild landscape. Ancient forests provide a range of natural environments to explore. Nature provides the back drop for a diverse range of planned active eco-adventures. The 500 hectare park is designed to be the hiking and mountain biking mecca of Shenzhen.

The supporting landscape provides a naturalistic desert context. Rugged compositions of plant species reinforce the natural beauty of surrounding desert landscapes. A thread of water elements wind through the course, visually linking to the Gulf of Aqaba, reinforcing the concept of Ayla as an Oasis. Rocky outcrops emerge, drawing reference to surrounding mountain ranges.

After noticing the track’s popularity with families and young children, the client commissioned Jeavons Landscape Architects and our sub-consultant team to create a bike complex specifically for children, aimed at creating a fun experience where they could develop their riding skills. Opened in late 2018, the Children’s Park includes over 1.6km of trails encompassing a variety of skill levels.

Whether conquering the highest peak, playing sport or taking a relaxing walk along the Nuizuizi Reservoir floating board walk there is something for everyone to enjoy. At the heart of the park lies the Danaoke Mountain Base containing the Mountain Base Hub, Park Ranger Headquarters, Sports Park and Urban Park.

Project Details

entrant practice Form Landscape Architects

entrant practice Jeavons Landscape

entrant practice McGregor Coxall

client Ayla Oasis Development Company

Architects client Mr David Mulligan, Managing Director, Cycling Track Management Co Ltd

client Shenzhen Longhua District

A sustainable approach informed plant selections that would flourish within a finite irrigation allowance. Water is sourced from subsurface aquifers and is distributed sparingly to sustain plant life.

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Hangzhou Jiangwan Riverfront Landscape Belt Conceptual Design

Hefei Central Park Master Plan

Jiangyin Greenway

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Hangzhou (population 7,600,000) is one of the ancient capitals of China, situated on the banks of the Qiantang River. As part of the city’s revitalization program a new 4km foreshore river park that is being planned will bring some welcome green lungs to the city. The site is of high natural and cultural significance and the design has woven aspects of history into this unique river setting.

In the heart of the Chinese city of Hefei is the decommissioned Luogang Airport, which once served the Anhui Province. The Hefei Central Park Master Plan, designed by Hassell, reimagines this redundant infrastructure as a multi-layered ‘city living room’ for the future gateway precinct and urban activity centre.

Firmness, commodity and delight. The Jiangyin Greenway belongs to a growing movement in China towards healthy, sustainable transportation and urban enjoyment. It demonstrates that large scale Infrastructure has the potential and the responsibility to create meaningful places in the urban environment.

It celebrates the site’s historic uses, while guiding the development of central park to offer engaging new journeys and destinations. Urban places that blend with regenerated natural systems to improve liveability in the city – supporting the wellbeing of Hefei’s people, fauna and environment, and building greater resilience to weather and climate events.

The Jiangyin Greenway by BAU is a 6km segment of a bicycle and pedestrian path that weaves through the city’s park network. The greenway provides uninterrupted pedestrian access by bridging over seven roads. BAU expanded the brief by utilising the height of the path to include playgrounds, amphitheatres, elevated plazas, arbors, pavilions and more.

Project Details

entrant practice KI STUDIO PTY LTD

entrant practice Hassell

entrant practice BAU Brearley Architects

client Hangzhou CBD Construction

client Hefei Municipal Bureau of Planning

+ Urbanists client China Construction City Development Jiangyin Ltd

As well as implementing sponge city concepts, as a key part of re-establishing a natural ecology for this city park, the scheme also articulates people movement through integrating multi-level circulation routes, including skywalks.

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INTERNATIONAL NOMINEES

Karst Park

National Museum of Qatar – Dhow and Dahl Playgrounds

Panda Land Master Plan

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McGregor Coxall participated in the international design competition for the 11th Horticulture Expo in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Spanning 6.9 km2 the proposed site is planned to be open by September 2020 and will promote the development of the horticulture industry in the province, hosting 1.5 million visitors.

Our response to the brief sought to deliver a playground that would provide a destination in The National Museum of Qatar grounds to be valued as place for refuge, retreat, education and play. The culture and learning opportunities extend beyond the Museum to deliver an interactive and fun place, complementing the captivating internal galleries in delivering history, science and storytelling.

The Panda Land Master Plan proposes a connected, immersive and authentic Panda Trail across the city of Chengdu that tells the conservation story of China’s iconic giant panda – inviting visitors to explore, discover and dream.

Today the site rises steeply from the river plain as an elevated Karst geology of weathered limestone hills and scarred landscape remnant of it's industrial past. Located on a former mining quarry used to extract calcium for cement making, 'Karst Park' boasts spectacular industrial landforms and derelict factory buildings suitable for repurposing.

The playground design encourages visitors to learn more about the local history and culture of Qatar in a fun, engaging, sensory and emotional way. The two interrelated playgrounds- The Cave of Wonders inspired by local Dahl or cave structures, and The Adventure Ship reminiscent of traditional boats and trade.

This Hassell-led plan was among the winning proposals in a design competition initiated by the Chengdu Government. It’s based on the key principles of conservation, brand, destination, resilience and custodianship, and high sensitivity towards the existing conservation sites and sanctuaries in the region. Importantly, it aims to change the way people perceive and engage with wildlife, dissolving the idea that humans are dominant over nature.

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entrant practice McGregor Coxall

entrant practice TCL

entrant practice Hassell

client Jiangsu Horticultural Exposition

client NMoQ – Curatorial Affairs Department /

client Chengdu Tianfu Greenway

Construction Development Co. Ltd

Qatar Museums

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Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes

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Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes examines how landscapes improve our cities and how landscape values can translate into policy. It presents concepts and case studies to help Landscape Architects advocate for biological greening as a priority adaptive strategy. UML addresses the big questions about who should decide, who should manage, and how to finance the biological greening of our urban environments. This book explores contemporary themes including heat island effect, food security, healthy living, biodiversity, and sustainable development and how different cities around the world have incorporated landscapes into the metropolitan planning schemes and what we can learn from these case studies.

Project Details entrant practice Australian National University client Routledge International

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COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION

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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 wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normally have access to design expertise.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Saint Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nature Play Master Plan Ecoscape Australia Pty Ltd St Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catholic Primary School Miriwoong

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This masterplan provides an authentic and engaging design outcome for a school in the geographically isolated town of Kununurra, Western Australia. Despite its preliminary stage, the project exemplifies the role of the landscape architect in collaborative and culturally sensitive partnerships. Recognizing that the school was the future of the community, the design team consulted with major stakeholder groups including the Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre and Waringarri Aboriginal Arts centre. 130

As a result, the final design is rich in its cultural connectivity. The masterplan builds on the existing school curriculum and fosters continued learning of the Miriwoong language through outdoor classrooms, language posts and artworks. The contribution to the wider community is significant, building greater community involvement with St Joseph’s and the continued preservation of the culture and language of the Miriwoong people, of which fewer than 20 fluent speakers remain.

Project Details project Saint Joseph’s Nature Play Master Plan entrant practice Ecoscape Australia Pty Ltd aboriginal nation Miriwoong client St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School state award 2020 AILA WA Award of Excellence for Community Contribution

Starting with an immersive trip to Kununurra to listen, respect, visualise and laugh with the Saint Joseph's community, we were excited to be part of their journey. This trip was the most significant aspect of the project, as it afforded the community with an opportunity to communicate stories, ideas and experiences. The bond between community and landscape architect has given meaning, connection and a way for the school to articulate their vision.

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The Plan will provide St Joseph’s with an engaging and safe learning environment, fostering a 21st century approach to learning, embedded in Miriwoong culture and language. The design rationales explore elements of the landscape and how the community engage with country for recreation as inspiration for the nature playground’s design. The combination of the nature playground spaces, the language nest program and the potential new art and recycling programs identified have defined a pathway for the school community to facilitate an amazing integration of culture and country within the school environment in an artistic and sustainable way.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner The Living Pavilion Clean Air & Urban Landscape Hub (CAUL) The University of Melbourne Kulin

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The Living Pavilion existed, like a good conversation, for only a moment in time, however its influence may extend beyond its physical manifestation. The fleeting but memorable provocation was a temporary event space at the University of Melbourne for the 2019 Climarte festival. The methods and programming invited public interaction and imagining of alternative futures (and pasts) for the site.

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A transdisciplinary effort, The Living Pavilion revealed the cultural significance and hidden ecologies of the university’s Parkville campus. Data capture from the exhibition should provide aspirational “next steps” for future development, demonstrating that ecological expression can provide immediate, measurable benefits to human health.

Project Details project The Living Pavilion entrant practice Clean Air & Urban Landscape Hub (CAUL) aboriginal nation Kulin client The University of Melbourne state award 2020 AILA WA Award of Excellence for Community Contribution

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The Plan will provide St Joseph’s with an engaging and safe learning environment, fostering a 21st century approach to learning, embedded in Miriwoong culture and language. The combination of the nature playground spaces, the language nest program and the potential new art and recycling programs identified have defined a pathway for the school community to facilitate an amazing integration of culture and country within the school environment in an artistic and sustainable way.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Murama Healing Space & Dance Ground Murama Cultural Council in partnership with the Sydney Olympic Park Authority Wangal

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The Murama Healing Space and Dance Ground provides long-overdue recognition of the need for dedicated places for Indigenous communities to gather and participate in cultural and spiritual activities.

Project Details project Murama Healing Space & Dance Ground entrant practice Murama Cultural Council in partnership with the Sydney Olympic Park Authority aboriginal nation Wangal state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of Excellence for Community Contribution

The Murama Healing Space is inspired by community and enabled by SOPA as an evolving hub for local, regional and international Indigenous arts, learning and collaboration.

community with places to gather and participate in cultural and spiritual activities. As an installation over 2.5km; The Wangal Walk can provide a venue for events and programs.

The project has been seed funded by Create NSW ‘Western Sydney Making Spaces Initiative’ and is becoming a symbol for community healing and a new way of government and community working together.

Mindful of Sydney Olympic Park’s status as a national and global ‘hots spot’ for landscape architecture, the project was approached considering the significant potential to showcase knowledge in the co-design and co-making of communitylandscapes with reconciliation action and innovation at heart.

The Murama Dance ground and Yarning Circle is a functional art installation providing the

The Murama project journey started with lots of active listening, openness and building trust. SOPA’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), Youth Eco Summit (YES) and Murama Healing Space; together contributed 9 credits within SOPA’s recent recognition as 6 star ‘international best practice’ under the Green Building Council of Australia : Green Star Communities urban sustainability program. Image: Story Motive

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The project demonstrates excellence in collaboration both in its co-creation and through its ongoing use as a hub for local, regional and international Indigenous arts and a place of knowledge-sharing and the celebration of cultural values.

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This is a project that delivers beyond its physical manifestation, providing opportunities for cultural revival, shared learning and social benefit, as well as bringing new knowledge to the landscape architecture profession through its co-creation process.

Wangal Walk is weaving together interpretive art installations designed to provide a unique free visitor offer offset by commercial opportunities including team building programs; sponsorship and corporate social giving; cultural tourism products; a bushfoods garden & café partnership and weekend cultural markets. Wangal Walk requires grassroots support, community custodianship and best practice in Indigenous Government cocreation that will set The Wangal Walk apart locally and globally. Image: Story Motive

The project design also required compliance with Heritage Controls (Newington Armory is listed as state significant) and a Parklands Approval Permit (PAP) recognising and protecting the bio-diversity values of the Murama Healing Space setting - in terms of built and natural heritage.

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The plan for a cultural discovery trail for park visitors is part of Murama’s ‘River Ranger’ program as a longer term vision for building sustainable economic pathways including opportunities for indigenous employment and training with several partner organisations.

COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION NOMINEES

Ferrars Street Education and Community Precinct

Hummingbird House

out(fit)

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Fishermans Bend is Australia’s largest urban renewal project and is planned to transform a series of industrial precincts to a 455 hectare modern development of inner Melbourne. Ferrars Street Education and Community Precinct is one of the first major projects in Fishermans Bend and includes the new South Melbourne Vertical School, Kirrip Park Open Space.

Hummingbird House is a dedicated standalone respite and hospice facility established to be an Australian leader in paediatric palliative care. It is unique in Queensland offering a comprehensive continuum of care to children and teens with life-limiting conditions and their families in a home-like environment.

out(fit) is a collective of students and industry volunteers drawn from the architecture and design professions. Undertaking community specific projects across the Newcastle, Hunter Region and Regional NSW areas. Operating from the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, out(fit)’s core mission is to promote and support womxn and students seeking careers within the built environment sector.

The design represents a contemporary approach to the co-locating and clustering of community facilities within an urban context. In considering rapid population growth, designers and planners are increasingly tasked with delivering projects that maximise amenity for a broad user group within smaller urban footprints.

Saunders Havill Group provided landscape consultancy services from 2014 to early 2017 during planning, design and construction phases of the project. SHG assisted with delivery of vibrant and detailed outdoor spaces complementing the foundation’s objectives. Our work included detailed design, engagement with stakeholder groups, coordination of other contributors, cost control and input during construction.

Project Details

entrant practice Tract

entrant practice Saunders Havill Group

entrant practice The University of Newcastle

aboriginal nation Boon Wurrung and

aboriginal nation Yuggera

aboriginal nation Awabakal and Worimi People

Woiwurrung, Kulin Nation client City of Port Phillip state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award for Community Contribution

client Hummingbird House - joint initiative

client Warlga Ngurra Community Centre;

of Hummingbird House Foundation & Wesley Mission Qld state award 2020 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Award for Community Contribution

Jenny's Place Women's Domestic Violence & Homeless Services; St Dominic's Centre; St Kevins/Hunter Aspect School; Allambi Care state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Community Contribution

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This is achieved by engaging in hands-on, design and build projects with disadvantaged and underrepresented communities. These projects typically focus on spaces for womxn, children and groups in need, including renovation works, landscape refurbishments and pop-up activation

Tiny Wetland

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We re-fitted our street planter box as an experimental wetland. This unassuming simple garden bed is a space where we can test ideas, learn and nurture wetland planting. The Tiny wetland has become a local celebrity, kids love the fish, neighbours stop for a chat and bees and other insects hover overhead. We love watching the plants grow and change. The lessons we have learned have directly impacted our designs for much larger public realm projects. Small can be beautiful, social and perhaps ecological. www.instagram. com/tinywetland

Project Details entrant practice GLAS Landscape Architects aboriginal nation Wurundjeri, Kulin Nation client GLAS landscape architects state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape

Architecture Award for Community Contribution

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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 Your Parramatta Park 2030 - Conservation Management Plan and Plan of Parramatta Park Trust Darug

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Your Parramatta Park is about the future of green space for our growing cities. The significant site is a complex piece of open space that consists of remnant Cumberland Plain Woodland, the Parramatta River and its creeks, open grasslands, sporting fields and heritage structures. There is a sense of leadership and passion from the leading team at the Trust and this plan effectively balances the many themes and needs to bring them together harmoniously. 142

The extensive understanding of site from a multitude of disciplines and cultures informs a rich, responding strategy. The plan provides the opportunity to preserve history and a platform for learning to manage the anticipated future needs. Your Parramatta Park is a beautifully presented document that has been well thought out to be accessible to a broad audience. Project Details project Your Parramatta Park 2030 Conservation Management Plan and Plan of Management entrant practice Parramatta Park Trust aboriginal nation Darug state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of Excellence for Land Management

The majority of Park users visit the Park for recreational or amenity purposes and Your Parramatta Park has also been prepared as an advocacy document to promote, as well as inform, the heritage values of the Park and as well as the Trustâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to the Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ongoing care, development and activation. The use of illustrations, images and key text have been selected and aimed at capturing a broader audience than is typically targeted for these types of conservation and management plans. Your Parramatta Park 2030 was adopted by the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces on 26 February 2020.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Small Creek Naturalisation - Stages 1 and 2 Landscapology and Bligh Tanner Ipswich City Council Yuggera

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Small Creek Naturalisation is an exemplary project in how to return a concrete drain back to a living waterway. The naturalisation of the creek has restored and given back to the community far more than a concrete drain would have achieved. This hardworking project demonstrates how much value landscape architecture can have on the urban system when working towards ecological solutions. Project Details project Small Creek Naturalisation Stages 1 and 2 entrant practice Landscapology and Bligh Tanner aboriginal nation Yuggera client Ipswich City Council state award 2020 AILA QLD Award of Excellence for Land Management

The Small Creek naturalisation is one of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most significant waterway restoration projects. Following a rich community engagement process, the vision has become a reality. Stages 1 and 2 works have recreated 1,180 metres of healthy functioning waterway within a public parkland setting, delivering multiple benefits to the community and the environment. Through a deliberately integrated approach, the design has responded in equal parts to biodiversity, flooding and

resilience, drainage, health and safety, and maintenance. Small Creek is now as notable for its ecological restoration outcomes as for its stormwater management and invigoration of an undervalued drainage corridor. Until recently the 1.6 km Small Creek corridor served a single function: flood conveyance. About forty years ago the original meandering waterway was converted into a linear concrete channel focussed solely on drainage. The naturalisation of the channel was funded as a stormwater quality offset project, with improved water quality a key driver, but the project provided the opportunity to deliver outcomes beyond pollutant reductions. Big Plans For Small Creek proposed a multi-functional waterway that embodied the needs of a wide range of stakeholders. The waterwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important drainage functions are maintained so that flooding is not worsened for any adjacent properties.

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The result extends beyond the primary objective of stormwater and water quality to deliver environmental benefits including wildlife habitat, urban heat reduction, active transport link.

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The jury commended the co-design process with wholehearted community engagement including the Design your Creek program to ensure local residents will continue to be the custodians of the creek for many years to come. This innovative and forwardthinking project shows how waterways should be managed.

Layered upon this are a range of new enduring features so that the Small Creek corridor will provide a canvas for a range of community uses, such as community gardens, nature play, creek care, mat weaving, dog-walking, and cycling. The waterway is designed to give the creek freedom to move laterally within the corridor— buried rock armouring is strategically placed to prevent the creek straying too close to private property. Unlike many such projects, Small Creek has not been designed to be ‘locked’ in place, it has instead been designed to reinstate natural regenerative processes, including erosion and deposition and natural regeneration.

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A shared path provides a critical connection, whilst informal pathways invite users to take ‘the road less travelled’ and experience different parts of the waterway. A yarning circle, lomandra mat weaving area, and specific plant selections directly respond to requests from the traditional owners. Image: Alan Hoban

LAND MANAGEMENT NOMINEES

Glenthorne National Park Master Plan

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The Glenthorne National Park Master Plan sets a vision for the transformation of a network of some 1500 hectares of open space in Adelaideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s south into a 21st century park destination, with the Glenthorne property as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recreational, environmental and cultural heart. The culmination of an authentic and extensive co-design process involving numerous stakeholders and the wider community, the Master Plan balances community aspirations with environmental objectives and economic sustainability.

Project Details project Glenthorne National Park Master Plan entrant practice ASPECT Studios aboriginal nation Kaurna client The Department for Environment & Water state award 2020 AILA SA Award of Excellence for Landscape Management 148

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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 Mindeerup Piazza South Perth Foreshore PLACE Laboratory City of South Perth Noongar

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An iconic gateway destination into the heart of South Perth, Mindeerup Piazza is a modern revitalization of the riverfront. The playful sculptures weave local narratives into the foreshore, linking to the nearby Perth Zoo while enticing visitors into a whimsical Instagram moment in the era of social media.

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The meerkat sculptures are an absolute delight. The integration into Mends Street with feature lighting ensures activation of the plaza night and day – a boost for local businesses.

Project Details project Mindeerup Piazza South Perth Foreshore entrant practice PLACE Laboratory aboriginal nation Noongar client City of South Perth state award 2020 AILA WA Landscape Architecture Award for Tourism

Mindeerup Plaza transforms Mends St Jetty into a memorable arrival destination for visitors to South Perth from Perth city. PLACE Laboratory's design treats Mindeerup Plaza with the gravitas expected of a State icon and regional foreshore parkland while also provide a welcoming, vibrant place for the local community. The design re-imagines the foreshore park as a destination along the popular tourist journey from Elizabeth Quay to Perth Zoo, extending the zoo experience, enhancing city views, and supporting local businesses.

The ‘parade’ of animal sculptures has sparked people’s imagination, generating publicity and support for local businesses and the zoo. The design re-imagines the foreshore park as a key destination on the popular tourist journey from Elizabeth Quay to Perth Zoo. The design maximises and enhances city views and boosts local business outcomes. Spectacle and curiosity encourage people to stop and pause along their journey. The ‘parade’ of animal sculptures big and small has sparked people’s imagination, generating publicity and support for local businesses and the zoo. The installation has been curated to provide public theatre, immersing people into a dreamtime world of water, animals and spirits.

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TOURISM NOMINEES

Children's Zoo

Queens Park Nature Centre & Discovery Hub Master plan

Rockingham Foreshore

Image: Dan Schultz

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The Children’s Zoo has delivered innovative and interactive animal enclosures reflective of the Zoo’s animal welfare charter, whilst fostering a new level of engagement between people and animals. Children learn, play and explore amongst goats, chickens, guinea pigs, rabbits and quokkas as they move through a series of interactive experiences.

The Queens Park Nature Centre master plan represents a design-led approach interweaving cultural heritage, ecology, and education. A gateway to Ipswich’s key habitat areas the Centre celebrates the ecological diversity of the region by establishing a zoned habitat. Immersive educational experiences highlight threats to native habitats and the potential for recovery with Conservation education central to the strategic vision.

An extension of the existing elevated walkway and play experiences provides a seamless connection to Nature's Playground, whilst catering for all ages and abilities. The result is an exemplary open space for animals, adults and children to play and experience one another in new and wonderful ways.

The strategy provides opportunity for sensitive interventions of traditional knowledge with a layer of integrated programming featuring guided interpretive walks, storytelling and Bush Tucker tastings. The master plan will be implemented in phases balancing the well-being of the

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entrant practice WAX Design

entrant practice Vee Design Pty Ltd

entrant practice PLACE Laboratory

aboriginal nation Kaurna

aboriginal nation Jagera, Yuggera and

aboriginal nation Noongar

client Zoos SA

Ugarapul client Ipswich City Council state award 2020 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Award for Tourism

client City of Rockingham

state award 2020 AILA SA Award of Excellence

for Tourism

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state award 2020 AILA WA Award of

Excellence for Tourism

Image: Peter Bennetts / Mindeerup Piazza South Perth Foreshore - PLACE Laboratory

RESEARCH, POLICY AND COMMUNICATIONS

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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.

Image: Jock Gilbert / Report on culturally appropriate First Nations consultation with Barkandji Maljangapa Nation Jock Gilbert and Sophia Pearce, RMIT University Landscape Architecture Discipline

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Contemporary Art and the Transformation of Space into Place: Lake Burley Griffin and contour 556 Harris Hobbs Landscapes University of Canberra, Faculty of Arts and Design Ngunnawal and Ngambri

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How can temporary art transform space into place? This was the central research question explored through the inaugural iteration of the public art biennial Contour 556. A case study for Neil Hobbsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; PhD research project, the event sought to change the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perception of space by using temporary art installations to highlight the key design principles of Lake Burley Griffin. Artists and landscape architect worked together so installations could play and interact with the physical, cultural and historic landscape. 158

Audience responses were documented, revealing that through engaging with the art their interpretation and experience of the landscape was altered. This thoroughly researched project successfully demonstrates public art can impact on peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reading and memory of place. Importantly for the profession, it has revealed that a careful, landscape architecture-driven approach to siting works and performances can enhance the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appreciation and reading of a designed place. Project Details project Contemporary Art and the Transformation of Space into Place: Lake Burley Griffin and contour 556 entrant practice Harris Hobbs Landscapes aboriginal nation Ngunnawal and Ngambri client University of Canberra, Faculty of Arts and Design state award 2020 AILA ACT Award of Excellence for Research, Policy and Communications

Contour 556 brings together landscape architectural analysis of a site to the curatorial selection of temporary art interventions. Landscape site analysis draws out the design principles of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. The embedded design creates opportunities for temporary artworks to reinforce or subvert this geometry and symbolism of place. Invited artists engaged in a process with the landscape architect to play and interact with the physical, cultural, and historic

landscape; audiences were questioned to determine their responses to these interventions. The thesis asks: how can temporary art transform space into place? The outcomes from contour 556 confirm that a public art exhibition closely integrated with and within a designed landscape can transform space. The 2016 and 2018 iterations reveal that a careful, landscape architectural approach to siting works and performances within a designed place may enhance an audiences appreciation of that place. It further confirms that temporary exhibitions can activate and enliven underutilised public space.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Sunshine Coast Design Strategy and Book Sunshine Coast Council Jinibara and Kabi Kabi People

Image: Andy Maccoll

The Sunshine Coast Design Strategy establishes a simple set of design principles to guide a new era of place-based decision making in a fast-growing region. Far from being a dry technical guide or a ubiquitous â&#x20AC;&#x153;vision,â&#x20AC;? this work puts place and landscape at the centre of the dialogue concerning how the Sunshine Coast will grow well. 160

The communication methods and advocacy built into this project signal an exciting new direction for landscape architects as advocates for place-led design within our communities, Australia wide.

Project Details project Sunshine Coast Design Strategy and Book entrant practice Sunshine Coast Council aboriginal nation Jinibara and Kabi Kabi People state award 2020 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Award for Research, Policy and Communications

The Sunshine Coast Design Strategy has been developed to educate, inspire and raise awareness of the value of good design and how to achieve good place-based design to help protect and enhance all that is loved on the Sunshine Coast. The Strategy includes a hardcover design book, videos, website and implementation plan. Sunshine Coast Design presents a set of simple and accessible values and ten design principles to help design homes, buildings, parks, public spaces, streets and

neighbourhoods. It is for everyone designing, influencing or funding a project on the Sunshine Coast. The project is underpinned by Sunshine Coast Councilsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vision to be Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most sustainable region and is guided by councils 3 key strategies, the Community Strategy, the Environment and Liveability Strategy and the Regional Economic Strategy. The successful delivery of Sunshine Coast Design, and the enthusiastic support of industry, community and Council has been underpinned by strong vision and leadership, significant community and stakeholder engagement, a commitment to bringing council staff and councillors on the journey, development of innovative resources and dedication to the outcome.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Report on culturally appropriate First Nations consultation with Barkandji Maljangapa Nation Jock Gilbert and Sophia Pearce, RMIT University Landscape Architecture Discipline NSW Department of Planning, Industry & Environment | Water Division Barkandji Maljangapa

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This comprehensive report on the process and findings of consultation undertaken with the Barkandji Maljangapa nation for the development of Water Resource Plans in New South Wales describes an innovative, culturally appropriate methodology for consultation, providing valuable insights for future consultation with First Nations people.

Project Details project Report on culturally appropriate First Nations consultation with Barkandji Maljangapa Nation entrant practice Jock Gilbert and Sophia Pearce, RMIT University Landscape Architecture Discipline aboriginal nation Barkandji Maljangapa client NSW Department of Planning, Industry & Environment | Water Division state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of Excellence for Research, Policy and Communications

This report outlines the process and findings of consultation undertaken with the Barkandji Maljangapa Nation for the development of Water Resource Plans (WRPs) in New South Wales, for accreditation by the Murray Darling Basin Authority, under requirements of Chapter 10 of the Murray Darling Basin Plan.

the management of their waterdependent values and uses.

It outlines the consultation process and methodology, making recommendations for future consultation with First Nations people. It presents findings on the objectives and outcomes of the Barkandji Maljangapa people for

Jock Gilbert is a landscape architect and academic at RMIT University and was engaged by Kulpa Mardita to collaborate with Sophia on the development of the framework around the consultation process, the undertaking of that consultation through staging of regional workshops and the writing and compilation of the report.

Kulpa Mardita is an Indigenousowned consultancy led by Sophia Pearce. Sophia is a Barkandji woman and sociologist who is conducting Phd research in anthropology through La Trobe University.

December 2019 in order to engage with the first draft of this report â&#x20AC;&#x201C; providing valuable feedback on both process and material content as it was represented from each workshop. In each case, representation of material presented through the report was endorsed.

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Landscape architect Jock Gilbert and Barkandji anthropologist Sophia Pearce (as Kulpa Mardita) aim to present the Barkandji Maljangapa nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s objectives and outcomes for the management of water, based on consultation in communities in Wentworth, Menindee, Broken Hill, Bourke and Wilcannia. This is a region where water resources are essential to community, environmental, spiritual and cultural wellbeing.

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To quote the report, â&#x20AC;&#x153;As custodians of the Baaka, the Darling River, Barkandji Malajangapa people take their Custodianship extremely seriously, feeling a sense of responsibility for all people on their Country and in neighbouring Nations. Their world-view integrates elements of people, place and Country, placing water in an interconnected relationship with all things.â&#x20AC;? The innovative methodology to formulate thematic categories representative of Barkandji Maljangapa nation perspectives is an excellent achievement. The jury felt that this report may provide a beacon of hope in future consultation processes. Analysis of the qualitative data that was gathered drew connections and recurring themes through categories and subcategories. This was a major strategic innovation of the project allowing data to be arranged in five thematic categories:. Traditional cultural, Contemporary social, Family, Place, Jurisdictional and governance (voice). The process of undertaking this project required a strategic positioning with innovations based around specific cultural and community concerns.

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In doing so, the project team worked with a range of stakeholders through engagement and partnership building as a methodological approach to sustainable relationship building with social, environmental, economic and importantly cultural ramifications. We believe that this report offers insight and leadership into the ways the profession might negotiate and develop deeper relationships with the First Peoples of this continent. Image: Jock Gilbert

RESEARCH, POLICY AND COMMUNICATIONS NOMINEES

CRC For Low Carbon Living: Guide to Low Carbon Landscapes

NSW Department of Education Landscape Review

The Future Park Competition

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Image: GALLAGHER STUDIO

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Data about the design and technology of low carbon building is widely available, but information about the materials and technology is far less accessible. This Guide responds to this gap in three ways. First, it illustrates the aesthetic qualities of low carbon landscapes at a range of scales. Second, it explains how the design and construction of the selected landscapes meet low carbon performance indicators.

The NSW Department of Education commissioned Gallagher Studio to undertake a review of contemporary school landscapes across NSW. The aim of the project was to assess the quality and amenity of these landscapes and to identify opportunities to improve educational, social and environmental outcomes.

The Future Park Competition highlights the value of a design competition as a powerful engagement strategy for bringing together Universities, AILA, designers, government and the wider community. It demonstrates how an ideas competition can attract the imagination of mainstream media and the community, offering a valuable profileraising strategy for landscape architecture and the importance of public space in Australian cities.

Finally, the Guide identifies the benefits that designed landscapes provide for low carbon, sustainable places. The Guide is the first related specifically to designed landscapes funded and produced by the CRC For Low Carbon Living.

Our team developed a unique approach to examine the characteristics of these spaces and to capture the daily experience and aspirations of their primary users. Using this approach, we developed a series of guiding principles and detailed recommendations to inform better design of these critical public spaces.

Project Details

entrant practice University of New South

entrant practice Gallagher Studio Pty Ltd

entrant practice University of Melbourne

Wales client Cooperative Research Centre For Low Carbon Living (CRC LCL) state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Research, Policy and Communications

aboriginal nation Eora, Dharug, Darkinung,

client Melbourne School of Design

Wiradjuri, Wonnarua, Biripi client Liliana Ructtinger Manager, Research, School Learning Environments and Change, NSW Department of Education state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Research, Policy and Communications

state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape

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The competition generated extensive television, print and radio coverage, with over 2000 people visiting the exhibition. A competition publication (in development) aimed at developers, local and state government will provide a further catalyst for advocacy and research.

Architecture Award for Research, Policy and Communications

Visual Impact Assessment Research in Urban Environments

WaterLore: Learning from the Drylands

Image: RMIT

Image: Antonia Besa and Gini Lee

This entry includes a body of on-going research in the field of Visual Impact Assessment (VIA) focused on urban environments. Informed by practice, the research is disseminated by a PhD dissertation at QUT University (2011-2017) and a series of publications in peer-reviewed journals undertaken at RMIT University.

WaterLore records the cultural waters of two of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great river systems, the regulated Millewa Murray and Barka Darling Rivers flowing to the sea at the Coorong and the unregulated Kunari Cooper Creek draining into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre. This deep mapping project is a medium for shared knowledge, novel systems and sustainable ecologies for dry regions towards community collaboration for local programs.

Also, the research findings are applied to a real-world project in Gold Coast in development of a new method to define building heights. The research aimed to extend the knowledge and capacities of the field of VIA and advocate the role of landscape architecture in guiding the vertical growth of Australian cities.

The WaterLore Exhibition is a large-scale water map of dryland Australian landscapes formed by surface and ground water conditions overlaid with contemporary and historic water values maps and imagery, time based projections and scientific and creative research

Project Details

entrant practice RMIT University

entrant practice Antonia Besa and Gini Lee

aboriginal nation Woiworung

client Melbourne School of Design University

client QUT & RMIT Universities

of Melbourne state award 2020 AILA Victoria Award of Excellence for Reseach, Policy and Communications

state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape

Architecture Award for Reseach, Policy and Communications

URBAN DESIGN

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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.

Image: Frasers Property Australia and Sekisui House Australia / Central Park Public Domain - Turf Design Studio with Jeppe Aagaard Andersen

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner South Eveleigh Youth Space Convic Mirvac Gadigal People/ Eora Nation

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The South Eveleigh Youth Space celebrates younger people using the space for recreation while actively embracing the previous industrial uses associated with the Eveleigh Railway Workshops. The space does not fit the typical typology of a skatepark/action sports zone.

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The designers have incorporated existing trees into a series of plaza spaces and introduced numerous multi-purpose elements inspired by the railways that are used by passive and active users of the public realm. Lights are turned out at 10 pm ready for the next day.

Project Details project South Eveleigh Youth Space entrant practice Convic aboriginal nation Gadigal People/ Eora Nation client Mirvac state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Urban Design

Strategically nestled between contemporary high-rise and existing trees the South Eveleigh Youth Space aspires to truly reflect an urban skate plaza within inner city Sydney. The historic locomotive workshop and industrial era that drove the development of the original Australian Technology Park inspired the plaza design and innovative custom material palette. The South Eveleigh Youth Space is an initiative to mix commercial office and retail space with

public domain; creating a popular active recreation destination that encourages families and youth to bring a vibrant liveliness to the working development. The new Youth Space is responsive to the local character of South Eveleigh, which occupies the site of the former Eveleigh Railway Workshops. Originally one of the largest and most advanced Railway Workshops in the southern hemisphere, locomotives were shunted down a central railway corridor featuring many phases of their workshop fabrication. CONVIC developed a desing response that reflects community wants and needs while interpreting and celebrating the unique railway industrial heritage of South Eveleigh.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner The Rocks Laneway UDLA City of Greater Geraldton Yamatji

Image: Josh Monagan

The Rocks Laneway transforms Geraldton with its ephemeral sense of place. It performs its primary function of connection between the foreshore and the key attractions of the city and then goes on to play in the space of past memory and future potential: light and shade; inside and outside; building and non-building. 172

Overall, the project is a valuable incision in the city centre delivered with a high level of competence and imagination, as well as a commitment to public consultation. It is a meaningful and engaging urban space.

Project Details project The Rocks Laneway entrant practice UDLA aboriginal nation Yamatji client City of Greater Geraldton state award 2020 AILA WA Award of Excellence for Urban Design

This new pedestrian link via the transformed ‘Rocks’ building provides an additional connection between the Foreshore, through to Marine Terrace (the main retail precinct) through to the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery. The project employs a number of innovations including: • The conversion of a vacant building to a laneway, • The revitalising of the town square with a ‘Ghost Office’ shade structure and • A bold metagraphic that unites the ground plane and building facades.

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The project was identified by UDLA during the Geraldton City Centre Masterplanning project. The City of Greater Geraldton had already acquired The Rocks building (previously the Rock’s Newsagency) in order to provide an improved connection from the primary retail area on Marine Terrace to the City’s waterfront. UDLA highlighted the opportunity for this link to continue across an upgraded town square, along Post Office Lane to the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, to create a new sequence of public spaces as well as enabling links to the foreshore. The Rocks Laneway has been a catalytic urban project for the Geraldton CBD, and since it’s opening in September 2019 has already helped to attract and retain people and further improve physical and visual links between the foreshore and the town centre.

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National Award of Excellence Winner Central Park Public Domain Turf Design Studio with Jeppe Aagaard Andersen Frasers Property Australia and Sekisui House Australia Eora

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Central Park Public Domain is a significant legacy project, a distinctive and richly layered urban landscape set to be enjoyed by Sydneysiders for years to come.

Project Details project Central Park Public Domain entrant practice Turf Design Studio with Jeppe Aagaard Andersen aboriginal nation Eora client Frasers Property Australia and Sekisui House Australia state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Urban Design

It was in 2007 when Turf Design Studio with Jeppe Aagaard Andersen was commissioned by Frasers Property to reimagine the public domain of the Carlton United Brewery site.

Now almost complete, this vibrant new urban village has breathed new life into what was a baron and desolate stretch of Broadway, while adding to the vitality of inner-city Chippendale.

Within the context of highly collaborative design workshops in Sydney, London and Paris, TURF conceived an expanded and interconnected network of new places - streets, lanes, parks and plazas; each unique yet forming a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Sustainability is at the core of the Central Park mission, including minimum Five Green Star Certification and the achievement of carbon and water neutrality over the life of the project. It was critical that every stage of the development process embraced these sustainability principles, striving for innovation and measurable achievement in sustainability. Furthermore, the size of the development provided a rare opportunity to explore a variety of initiatives and innovations for a truly world-class sustainability outcome, moving the development towards a 6 Green Star rating. A large public park was always central to the masterplan intent. Orientating the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long axis with the frontage of existing Chippendale terraces proved vital

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This new collection of spaces, in its scale and arrangement, materiality, historic references and pedestrian connectivity, deftly stitches new uses and forms together with the old city fabric and the memories it evokes.

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The outcome is a celebration of the public realm, reflecting this projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s careful execution, from masterplan through to staged delivery.

in creating a place of meaning and connectedness for the community. The park is set back from Broadway - creating an intimacy rarely achieved by a park of this size within a CBD. TURF has conceived a new city precinct, delivered via an expanded and interconnected network of new places; streets, lanes, parks and plazas - breathing new life and vitality into inner city Chippendale. Central Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public domain design meets the challenge of forging a robust and intelligent public domain that serves the local community and the city as a whole. Since opening in 2012, Central Park has quickly become a much-loved new addition to city life. From the everyday dog walk or yoga class, to hosting bi-monthly markets and numerous annual major events, Central Park has been embraced by the community at all levels.

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At the heart of the site, a precious family heirloom, the state heritage listed C&U Brewery building will soon be completed; transformed into a bustling mix of market, community and creative work places.

URBAN DESIGN NOMINEES

ANU Acton Campus Master Plan and Design Guide

Braddon Precinct Place Vision and Strategy

Darling Square

Image: ARUP

Image: OCULUS

Image: Brett Boardman

The ANU Acton Campus Master Plan provides a transformative new structure of spaces and activities, responding directly to the University’s vision and the unique place attributes of the campus and its setting.

Braddon is one of Canberra’s most eclectic suburbs. In 2018, OCULUS, Right Angle Studio and CoDesign Studio were engaged by the Canberra Renewal Authority to develop a Place Proposition, Placemaking Plan and Preliminary Sketch Plans for the precinct. Informed by an extensive community engagement process, the plans outline the place characteristics that should be preserved or enhanced as Braddon evolves into a higher density mixed-use neighbourhood.

Darling Square embodies a new urban typology; fusing landscape, architecture, art, food and culture - a captivating new world-class urban neighbourhood that has rejuvenated the heart of Sydney.

The campus has grown organically along a dispersed College model interspersed with at-grade car parks and remnant landscapes. In response, the master plan creates a framework for holistic strategic renewal of the campus over time, providing a strong ordering structure for public spaces and activities that has not previously existed, providing a network of shared spaces and public ‘connective tissue’ for community life.

The design strategies focused on locating and prioritising ambitions brought out in community consultation, as well as putting forward new measures that build on suitable local and international precedents for creating vibrant community spaces.

On the site of the former Entertainment Centre, with a renewed sense of place and position, urban connections are forged; realigning and reconverging with the city. With a new, public square as its focal point, the precinct comprises a network of pedestrian focused streets, laneways, and is bisected by Tumbalong Boulevard. Darling Square is both a destination and reconnection of Darling Harbour to its urban context of Central Station, Ultimo and Chinatown.

Project Details

entrant practice Arup

entrant practice OCULUS

entrant practice ASPECT Studios

aboriginal nation Ngunnawal

aboriginal nation Eora

client Australian National University

client Canberra Renewal Authority

client Lendlease

state award 2020 AILA ACT Landscape

state award 2020 AILA ACT Award of

state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of

Architecture Award for Urban Design

Excellence for Urban Design

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Military Road and Main Street Precinct

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The Military Road and Main Street Precinct presented the opportunity to revitalize a key part of the Henley Beach area. The design provides plentiful natural shade and balances public and private outdoor dining spaces. The result is an environment that gives the highest level of service to pedestrians while not compromising parking and access for all modes of transport. The concepts prepared by JPE Design Studio consider the context of the spaces within the Henley Precinct. Developed with the community, the street environments will provide an adaptable, vibrant and inspiring place for the City of Charles Sturt and its community.

Project Details entrant practice JPE Design Studio aboriginal nation Kaurna client City of Charles Sturt state award 2020 AILA SA Landscape

Architecture Award for Urban Design

Image: Lewis Best / Central Park Public Domain - Turf Design Studio with Jeppe Aagaard Andersen

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University of Adelaide North Terrace Campus Public Realm Concept Design

Milton Urban Common

ROW52

Image: Michelle Gonsal

Image: EPCAD

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Milton Urban Common is an urban recreational green space opened by Brisbane City Council in the suburb of Milton in innercity Brisbane in late 2019. The new park offers the local community in this thriving urban area new recreational opportunities in a relaxed, green setting of subtropical landscaping and a range of amenities.

A deteriorated vehicle-centric laneway, is transformed into a multi-use pedestrian orientated urban space. A simple, modern design has been successfully implemented to provide a space that caters for events and everyday use, with focused consideration on safety, flexibility of the space, social interaction amongst not only the public, but the interfaces with adjacent tenancies and the use of greening opportunities.

The plan provides a clear representation of the vision to transform and elevate the University of Adelaideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North Terrace Campus as a state-of-the-art learning precinct. The Concept Design realises the Campus as an extension of the City, a place where students, staff and the public are attracted, day and night, for learning, social connection and events.

As is the case for all Australian capital cities, Brisbane is tasked with accommodating a strong projected population growth in city areas close to employment, community infrastructure and transport. Brisbane City Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response is to develop new neighbourhood plans to manage urban renewal and redevelopment within the inner suburbs of Brisbane to accommodate this projected population growth in the city.

The space has become a culturally sensitive space providing intimate seating areas, colourful arbors and impromptu elements of whimsy in the addition of the coloured hopscotch courses.

Founded on the proposition of moving cars off campus and through extensive engagement with key stakeholders including Kaurna representatives, the plan proposes a suite of pedestrian friendly spaces, laneways and activity hubs that reimagines the public face of the campus.

Project Details

entrant practice City Projects Office

entrant practice EPCAD

entrant practice ASPECT Studios

aboriginal nation Turrbul & Yuggera

aboriginal nation Wadjuk

aboriginal nation Kaurna

client Natural Environment, Water and

client Town of Victoria Park

client The University of Adelaide

Sustainability (NEWS) Branch state award 2020 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Award for

state award 2020 AILA WA Landscape

state award 2020 AILA SA Award of Excellence

Architecture Award for Urban Design

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Wangaratta Railway Precinct Master Plan

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Recognising that streets can be the most democratic of public spaces, the Wangaratta Railway Precinct Master Plan unlocks the potential of the rural cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inner streetscapes to guide the development of a lively new centre and regional gateway for Victoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s High Country, designed to attract locals and visitors alike. Hassell worked closely with the Rural City of Wangaratta and local community to deliver a plan that reflects local needs and aspirations. It draws from their experiences and ideas for their city, presenting sustainable design strategies to transform three static transport corridors into active green links and places for people.

Project Details entrant practice Hassell aboriginal nation Waveroo client The Rural City of Wangaratta state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape

Architecture Award for Urban Design

Image: Turf Design Studio / Central Park Public Domain - Turf Design Studio with Jeppe Aagaard Andersen

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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.

Image: REALM studios / Siting and Design Guidelines for Structures on the Victorian Coast - REALM studios

National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Darwin Civic and State Square Masterplan TCL with Troppo Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics / Northern Territory Government Larrakia

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Darwin Civic and State Square Master Plan demonstrates an exemplary place-specific approach to revitalizing a cultural centre. The use of local and traditional knowledge results in a sensitive approach to both contemporary and ancient cultures.

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Heat mitigation research guides the creation of a series of spaces that locals and visitors will be able to use throughout Darwin’s dry and wet seasons.

Project Details project Darwin Civic and State Square Masterplan entrant practice TCL with Troppo aboriginal nation Larrakia client Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics / Northern Territory Government state award 2020 AILA NT Award of Excellence for Landscape Planning

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Located between the waterfront and edge of the city, the Redevelopment of the State and Civic Square Masterplan is the type of project we love- a project with an inspirational brief and extensive stakeholder consultation, as well as the the opportunity to collaborate with local and nationally recognised architects – Troppo, artists and other professionals to create a lively public space that is emblematic of the relaxed Darwin and NT lifestyle…. and the bonus is we have been able to escape winter down south!

The Masterplan builds on the City CBD Masterplan and the government’s heat mitigation studies to create a diverse array of spaces that draw a myriad of locals and tourists to the site night and day and through the Top End’s dramatic wet and dry seasons. The existing green park atmosphere is amplified with a flexible and activated ‘central heart’ adjacent a new NT Art Gallery with a shady grand verandah, as well as the creation of a series of tropical gardens, cooling and expressive waterfeatures, shelters and walkways inspired by the rich living First Nation and migrant history and local landscape character.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Maribyrnong Waterfront IWM REALM Studios City of Melbourne Kulin

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The jury was impressed by the rigorous approach and innovative re-imagining of blue-green infrastructure demonstrated in the Maribyrnong Waterfront IWM. It is rare to find a project that embraces both the destructive and beautiful elements of water while maximizing its social and ecological opportunities.

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Using nature-based climate adaptation solutions to create new hydrological, biological and social ecosystems, the Maribyrnong Waterfront IWM is a flagship example of how cities can deal with stormwater management as well as add unique social, cultural and natural values to increase liveability for their residents.

Project Details project Maribyrnong Waterfront IWM entrant practice REALM Studios aboriginal nation Kulin client City of Melbourne state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Award for Infrastructure

Maribyrnong Waterfront encompasses an area of urban renewal on the Maribyrnong Riverbanks currently compromised by flood inundation. Rezoned from commercial to mixed-use developable lots, the precinct offers the opportunity to re-imagine the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s climate resilient future considering inundation as an opportunity to establish a new and enabling outcome. REALMstudios has developed a series of scenarios which unlock the land to accommodate flooding and a growing community, where

Image: REALM Studios

built form and infrastructure engage with and express the impacts of fluctuating water levels and build a new social and cultural capital. A new urban ecology is the starting point for the solutions. The approach considers infrastructure beyond its base objective, adding co-benefit value to all aspects of the public realm and river environs. The proposed blue-green infrastructure considers all the disparate elements that collectively constitute a comprehensive urban environment as mutually inclusive and of equal importance, integrating these elements into an outcome which serves the community and the natural environment in equal portions.

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National Landscape Architecture Award Winner Urban Tree Canopy Cover Study Gold Coast Arup City of Gold Coast Yugambeh

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This urban tree cover study is a modern-day call to action, a practical guide to combating climate change.

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The City of Gold Coast and the project consultants have created an accessible and well-written plan that outlines the current tree canopy in the Gold Coast and delivers practical metrics and methods for maintaining and improving the urban tree canopy and reducing urban heat island effects for the future of the region.

Project Details project Urban Tree Canopy Cover Study Gold Coast entrant practice Arup aboriginal nation Yugambeh client City of Gold Coast state award 2020 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Award for Landscape Planning

The City of Gold Coast (COGC) has a commitment to preserving and enhancing their world-class natural assets, which include the trees growing where people live, work and move around their City. To achieve the best possible balance between vibrant and resilient natural assets, the COGC commissioned Arup in collaboration with Dr Lyndal Plant, Urban Forester, to establish an understanding of the existing tree canopy cover across the urban footprint, and how it has changed over the past 10 years.

This project explored the extent and distribution of urban tree canopy, to build an evidence-base for planning cooler and greener neighbourhoods. The project results demonstrated a strong strategic narrative around the history and trends associated with the COGC, identifying opportunities to review policy, approvals and guidance around the retention and enhancement of tree canopy cover. The results were illustrated through a range of legible mapping, data tables, and gradation plans to clearly articulate the findings in the form of a community and public facing document. The Urban Tree Canopy Study and the recommendations showcase COGC leadership in advancing sustainability across all of their natural asset classes, including the trees growing amongst the

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National Award of Excellence Winner Siting and Design Guidelines for Structures on the Victorian Coast REALM Studios Elizabeth Patterson, DELWP

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Siting and Design Guidelines for Structures on the Victorian Coast is a compelling, accessible and important planning document that promises to lead to more sensitively designed and placed structures in Victoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special coastal landscapes through raising design literacy and knowledge of place.

Project Details project Siting and Design Guidelines for Structures on the Victorian Coast entrant practice REALM Studios client Elizabeth Patterson, DELWP state award 2020 AILA Victoria Award of Excellence for Landscape Planning

Meandering for nearly 2000 kilometres from Nelson in the west to Malacoota in the east, the Victorian Coastline is a multifaceted physical, cultural and poetic landscape with few parallels in the world. Its unspoiled landscapes range from sandy beaches, rich wetlands and heathland to forests, dramatic cliffs and rocky shores. National, state and coastal parks cover much of the coastline, with dozens of reserves, parks and sanctuaries protecting the coastal lands, waters and their habitats.

At once graphically evocative and informative the document outlines a case for coastal design and siting from a distillation of good design principles into 15 fundamental considerations. It provides an immediate and clear set of guidelines that consider siting and design challenges in response to pressures of population growth and climate change. It's simple 'what' and 'why' approach helps the user identify successful practices to reduce the vulnerability of the coastline while managing coastal land and infrastructure, maintaining public access and enhancing visitor experience. The significant transformation of the VCSDG document from its predecessor has been driven by changing conditions along the coast, shifts in human usage and attitudes and an evolving landscape of governance and policy.

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In this landscape-led document, coastal forms are the evocative starting point. From there, principles for sensitive environmental design responses are unpacked and illustrated.

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The photography and use of precedent skilfully communicate what might otherwise have been a dry planning document, resulting in an aspirational publication that will be a joy to use.

To ensure that these expanded considerations and their subsequent development into the Guidelines were both relevant and applicable, the project team conducted extensive stakeholder and user group consultations and testings. The resulting outcomes from this engagement provided broadbased input into the continued refinement of the Guidelines, leading to a comprehensive but clear design and assessment tool. Image: REALM studios

Siting and design guidelines for structures on Victorian Coast

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The resulting Guidelines frames issues of siting and design through clear and direct processes, resulting in a document that empowers proponents, assessors and communities in sound decision-making respecting the legacy of the Victorian Coastline. This document provides a clear set of guidelines that consider siting and design challenges in response to pressures posed by population growth and climate change. It outlines effective practices to protect the character and quality of the coastline while managing land and infrastructure, maintaining public access and enhancing visitor experience.

LANDSCAPE PLANNING NOMINEES

Horsley Park Urban Farming Master Plan

Quarry Hills Parkland Regional Parkland Landscape Master Plan

The Greater Sydney Green Grid Spatial Framework and GIS Dataset

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The Horsley Park Urban Farming Master Plan is a strategic document guiding the development of urban farming, associated practices and recreation opportunities in the central area of Western Sydney Parklands.

Quarry Hills Regional Parkland is one of the defining landscape features of the City of Whittlesea and contributes strongly to the character of the Mernda and Wollert growth corridor. It is considered City of Whittlesea’s ‘jewel in the crown’ public open space asset due to its natural character, empowering scale, landscape context, benefit to community health and well-being and potential for community activation.

In 2015, Government Architect NSW completed the strategic vision for the Sydney Green Grid. This work won a National AILA award in 2016.

This Master Plan: • details the WSPT vision and desired future character for the Urban Farming Precinct, • explores land use and agritourism • aims to enhance the Precinct’s natural environment, • sets the framework for sustainable farming practices, • will be a blueprint for the Precinct’s future planning • aims to complement agribusiness development around Western Sydney Airport

The Quarry Hills Regional Parkland Landscape Master Plan guides the future development and conservation of the Parklands with the vision of high-quality landscape settings which protect and enhance biodiversity for the municipality.

In 2016, TYRRELLSTUDIO were engaged to develop the existing strategy into the Sydney Green Grid Spatial Framework. Through a rigorous process of mapping, synthesising and communicating data, TYRRELLSTUDIO and GANSW embedded a high-level green infrastructure strategy into Sydney’s district plans. In 2018, TYRRELLSTUDIO was engaged to provide the next level of development of the Spatial Framework, developing a methodology (the Green Grid GIS Dataset) that enables different agencies to coordinate the delivery of green infrastructure across government.

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entrant practice GroupGSA in collaboration

entrant practice City of Whittlesea

entrant practice TYRRELLSTUDIO

with the Western Sydney Parklands Trust aboriginal nation Dharug client Western Sydney Parklands Trust state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Landscape Planning

aboriginal nation Wurundjeri Willum Clan

aboriginal nation Eora

client City of Whittlesea

client Government Architects NSW

state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape

state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of

Architecture Award for Landscape Planning

Excellence for Landscape Planning

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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 Brunswick Town Hall Precinct Streetscape Upgrade Moreland City Council Wurundjeri Woiwurrung

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This project sets the standard for what local streetscapes and community spaces should represent across Australia. The use of technology showed great innovation and enabled strong community engagement via simple and effective communication allowing for a deep collaboration.

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Textured finishes and gorgeous rain gardens help create a timeless project that considers both social and environmental results. The social connectivity of the space creates an inviting and welcoming community space. This project demonstrates how beautiful outcomes can be delivered with restraint and a limited budget. Project Details project Brunswick Town Hall Precinct Streetscape Upgrade entrant practice Moreland City Council aboriginal nation Wurundjeri Woiwurrung state award 2020 AILA Victoria Award of Excellence for Civic Landscape

The Brunswick Structure Plan sets a vision for the future growth of Brunswick including public realm improvements in the Brunswick Civic & Cultural Precinct. This precinct includes key civic, art and education buildings such as Brunswick Town Hall, Brunswick Library, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick Baths, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, RMIT, & Brunswick Secondary School. The three projects delivered as part of this precinct include: • Brunswick Town Hall & Brunswick Mechanics Institute Forecourts

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• Dawson Street Streetscape Improvement • Saxon Lane Public Space Upgrade These projects have strengthened civic and cultural focus of the precinct & provided the community of Moreland with improved pedestrian amenity utilising key sustainability initiatives. Water sensitive urban design rain gardens and passively irrigated tree pits are used extensively in the project, co-funded by Melbourne Water’s Living Rivers Funding. The design of the water sensitive urban design elements provide improvement to the stormwater quality and is visually pleasing.

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Award of Excellence Winner The Garden of Cloud and Stone Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture City of Sydney Eora

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The Garden of Cloud and Stone has resolved a technically complex urban site with a lyrical, poetically modern and local interpretation of Chinese Buddhist and Taoist philosophies.

Project Details project The Garden of Cloud and Stone entrant practice Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture aboriginal nation Eora client City of Sydney state award 2020 AILA NSW Award of Excellence for Civic Landscape

The Garden of Cloud and Stone arose from a Public Domain Plan for Chinatown, developed by City of Sydney and the community. The Plan celebrates the unique character and heritage of Chinatown, creating more space for pedestrians, public art, outdoor markets and events. Improvements and traffic changes to the surrounding streets were part of this plan. The curatorial theme for this space was developed artist Lindy Lee, working with the City, and the design team. A garden for the new century, shaped by Chinese

Buddhist and Taoist philosophy invoking the elements of fire and water with native flora. The vision for this project is to recognise past and present cultural identity through landscape architecture, place design and public art, while maintaining and enhancing the teeming, informal and open street life that makes Chinatown the lively, exciting, culturally rich and artful place that it already is. This exploration of design seeks to integrate art into the process and production of public domain design - with the intention of creating artfully designed places, rather than spaces with art. Public art becomes part of the fabric of the place. In addition, this project seeks to clarify and better accommodate pedestrian movement along Thomas Street, connect areas south of Hay Street more effectively with the Dixon Street share way and to greatly increase the amenity and usable space for pedestrians within Chinatown.

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The jury recognised the high-level thinking and research that went into developing the design and were impressed by the collaborative approach that allowed for a seamless space with a strong design narrative. Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture has used all the tools in the kit to unravel the parameters and needs of Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chinatown, allowing the design solution to flow.

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The result is an elegant and cleverly curated place for the community, for the community to successfully boost local business and creating places for the community to enjoy. Put simply, The Garden of Cloud and Stone resonates.

Two main interventions achieve this. The first is to strengthen pedestrian movement on the western side of Thomas Street with widened footpaths to accommodate movement around Market City. The second is through the creation of a shared zone between Ultimo Road and Thomas Lane which will allow service vehicles to retain the working authenticity characteristic of Thomas Street, but also be a place of respite for pedestrians. Image: Dianna Snape

The project also balanced the integration of the City paving and furniture palette, for streets and shareways, while creating a richer palette to reflect the themes of the artwork. The result is a project where art and landscape are interwoven â&#x20AC;&#x201C; where one cannot be separated from the other.

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CIVIC LANDSCAPE NOMINEES

Mindeerup Plaza South Perth Foreshore

Patyegarang Place (Marrickville Library)

Shellharbour Civic Centre

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Patyegarang Place fosters connection and enhanced public life through thoughtfully scaled spaces, generously designed softscapes and macro-integration with the new library building and surrounding streetscapes.

A new public domain serves as a meeting place in Shellharbour CBD and connection to the new Shellharbour Civic Centre. This project is a major milestone in the masterplan vision for Shellharbour, giving the city centre an iconic heart that the community can be proud of.

The design re-imagines the foreshore park as a destination along the popular tourist journey from Elizabeth Quay to Perth Zoo, extending the zoo experience, enhancing city views, and supporting local businesses. The ‘parade’ of animal sculptures has sparked people’s imagination, generating publicity and support for local businesses and the zoo.

Together with the building, the landscape creates the backdrop to rich, communal experiences and enhances the quality of life of locals and visitors.

The public domain is a green, welcoming urban place that is soft, informal and offers a place of both activity and respite in the city centre.

Project Details

entrant practice PLACE Laboratory

entrant practice ASPECT Studios

entrant practice Turf Design Studio

aboriginal nation Noongar

aboriginal nation Gadigal people of the Eora

aboriginal nation Dharawal (Thuruwal)

client City of South Perth

nation client Inner West Council state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape

client Shellharbour City Council

state award 2020 AILA WA Award of

Excellence for Civic Landscape

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state award 2020 AILA NSW Landscape

Architecture Award for Civic Landscape

Union Road Streetscape Improvements

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The Union Road Streetscape Renewal Project demonstrates Moonee Valley City Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to make Union Road a more accessible place for pedestrian activity for the whole community, particularly for our elderly residents and those suffering from dementia. The project has made Union Road a place to visit, sit, spend time and linger, through the thoughtful landscape upgrades that have enhanced this heritage and distinctive shopping precinct.

Project Details entrant practice Moonee Valley City Council aboriginal nation Wurundjeri, Kulin Nation client Moonee Valley City Council state award 2020 AILA Victoria Landscape

Architecture Award for Civic Landscape

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS NATIONAL 2020

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AILA would like to thank our partners, all the entrants and those who joined our virtual awards evening. AILA Georgina Scriha, National Manager - Events, Partners and Communication Gemma Fischer, National Events and Marketing Coordinator AILA Awards Jury Shaun Walsh - FAILA Naomi Barun - AILA Garth Paterson - FAILA Sarah Bendeich - AILA Simon Lee - AILA Allen Kong Rebecca Lee Rewatch the 2020 Awards: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=NncnqRwonNM&t=6s View the 2020 Winners Gallery:  https://aila.awardsplatform. com/gallery/daMPBJrB

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS NATIONAL 2020