2022 AILA SA + NT Landscape Architecture Awards by ailasa

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

SOUTH AUSTRALIA & NT 2022

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

SOUTH AUSTRALIA & NT 2022 4 Partners 5 National & South Australia Partners 6 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) 6 About AILA 6 About the Landscape Architecture Awards 7 Awards Levels 8 The Jury

8 Message from Jury Chair 9 South Australia Jury 10 The 2021 South Australia Awards

10 Civic Landscape 20 Cultural Heritage 30 Health and Education Landscape 32 Infrastructure 38 Landscape Planning 46 Parks and Open Space 54 Play Spaces 60 Urban Design SA 66 Urban Design NT

70 Regional Achievement Award 76 Healthy Parks, Healthy People Award 86 Grown People's Choice Award 90 President's Award 94 Future Leader Award 98 Acknowledgements

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Inside Cover Image: Mitcham Library and Hawthorn Reserve Upgrade. Image by Dan Schultz

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ABOUT THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

The AILA Landscape Architecture Awards program provides a key vehicle for the promotion of the achievements and work of landscape architects in Australia. The Awards process is an opportunity for public and peer recognition of landscape architect’s work, and demonstrates to industry, business, government and the wider community the positive impact the profession has on Australian lives through the planning and design of the built and natural environments.

The AILA Landscape Architecture Awards program has two stages: the first is a Chapter program and the second is the National program. In 2021, NSW, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC & WA 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 Urban Design Landscape Planning

Additional Awards Categories

Regional Achievement Award Healthy Parks Healthy People President's Award

Student Future Leader Award Graduate Future Leader Award People's Choice Award

AWARDS LEVELS

Award of Excellence

The first and highest Award in each Category is the Award of Excellence. The Award is given to the work judged to be the most significant for the advancement of landscape architecture in each Category. There is only one winner of the Award in each Category in any year. The Jury is not obligated to make an Award of Excellence in a category.

Landscape Architecture Award

The second tier is the Landscape Architecture Award. This is a work of excellence demonstrating consummate skill that contributes to the advancement of landscape architecture. Projects given an Award are the best projects in each Category that have not won the Award of Excellence. More than one Award may be given in a Category.

Regional Achievement Award

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

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MESSAGE FROM THE SOUTH AUSTRALIA PRESIDENT & JURY CHAIR

Daniel Bennett AILA South Australia President & Jury Chair

As we emerge from a global pandemic that has reshaped our lives, coupled with the rapid and dynamic consequences of the impacts of a changing climate, the projects in the 2022 South Australian AILA awards demonstrate hope, healing, acknowledgement, and inclusivity.

The sheer tenacity of many of the projects to see fruition is noteworthy, yet hidden behind the pragmatics of design and documentation are stories of genuine inclusion, collaboration and excellence.

Small projects are often the poor cousin of large and well-funded projects, yet once again South Australia’s landscape architects and their clients have once again demonstrated the importance of shaping and delivering projects regardless of budget.

The number of projects entered in the Cultural Heritage category deserve special mention; it is clear our profession is charting a positive facilitation role in recognising Country, the painful past, and creating places for truth telling and reconciliation for the future.

The moving stories of loss and unconscionable disturbance of ancestors at Wangayarta, where the co-design process creates a meaningful and authentic path towards reconciliation with the Kaurna People,

demonstrates the deep conviction and commitment in our role as landscape architects as facilitators to create spaces for truth telling and healing with a small budget and short timeframe.

The care and technical design excellence of Lightsview Linear Park, where a new generation of integrated stormwater management and park design integrate seamlessly, creates a new benchmark for green open spaces in our suburbs.

The integrating of engineering, landscape architecture and architecture is an age-old challenge yet so seemingly effortless in the Hawthorn Reserve and Mitcham Library project, which creates a new climate-positive benchmark for integrated design and delivery in South Australia.

Acknowledging our emerging talent is always a rewarding task, and this year’s field is an outstanding group of future landscape architects who will I am sure shape better projects.

However, the most telling and ubiquitous theme amongst all award recipients in 2022 is facilitation: the ability to help a group of people to work better together, understand common objectives and plan their achievement.

It has been a privilege to Chair and form part of this years’ Jury, where the South Australian profession of Landscape Architecture is not only thriving but living AILA’s values and creating a more inclusive, respectful and civic Australia.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA JURY (CONTINUED)

Kathy Bawden Scott Hawken Claire Arnold Carina Green Kate James Hully Liveris

CIVIC LANDSCAPE

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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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South Australia Award of Excellence Winner

Mitcham Library and

Hawthorn

Reserve Upgrade ASPECT Studios City of Mitcham Kaurna Country

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Project Details

project Mitcham Library and Hawthorn Reserve Upgrade entrant practice ASPECT Studios aboriginal nation Kaurna client City of Mitcham state award 2022 South Australia Award of Excellence for Civic Landscape

Linking a broader strategy of reducing stormwater flooding, the City of Mitcham recognised the opportunity to integrate stormwater works and the green open spaces as part of the redevelopment of the Mitcham Library.

An imaginative and welcoming approach to the design of the green spaces around the new Mitcham Library revives a forgotten creek and a tired older park into an enchanting and contemporary civic space celebrating indigenous and biodiverse landscape values, whilst strongly acknowledging the importance of community and local knowledge.

the previously concrete and stone lined creek to enhance ecological values and to encourage its use as an informal nature-based play space.

ASPECT Studios worked with the Mitcham Library project team at DesinInc to reorient the library to face the creek with its majestic river red gums via a terraced deck and wider reserve. The deck and new green open spaces allow for formal and informal gathering, social interaction, or quiet reading on the steps in an excellent demonstration of the value that landscape architecture brings to our community spaces.

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The deck and new green open spaces allow for formal and informal gathering, social interaction, or quiet reading on the steps in an excellent demonstration of the value that landscape architecture brings to our community spaces.

Image: Dan Schultz

The design includes the ‘rewilding’ of the previously concrete and stone lined creek to enhance ecological values and to encourage its use as an informal nature-based play space.

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South Australia Landscape Architecture Award Winner

Railway Plaza Oxigen City of Victor Harbor Council Ngarrindjeri Country

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Project Details

The design is elevated by thoughtful detailing, material selection and planting design, and reflects the site’s historic context through subtly integrated interpretive elements.

Railway Plaza represents the considered transformation of a previously uninviting car park into vibrant new public open space, making a positive contribution to Victor Harbor.

The project delivers a revitalised public domain, carefully balancing civil engineering requirements with public amenity through respectful multi-disciplinary collaboration and a rethinking of the design brief.

By reorienting the streetscape, the project delivers car parking solutions while prioritising the creation of high quality public open space. The project utilises multiple Water Sensitive Urban

Design (WSUD) interventions to address existing stormwater issues while retaining and celebrating the majestic and iconic Moreton Bay Fig trees. The historic railway station is now framed by inviting new public space, welcoming visitors from the Cockle Train and accommodating a program of events. The design is elevated by thoughtful detailing, material selection and planting design, and reflects the site’s historic context through subtly integrated interpretive elements.

The Jury congratulates Oxigen for delivering an exemplary landscape outcome through an integrated design approach.

Image: Dan Schultz Image: Dan Schultz project Railway Plaza entrant practice Oxigen aboriginal nation Ngarrindjeri client City of Victor Harbor Council state award 2022 South Australia Landscape Architecture Award for Civil Landscapes

NOMINEES

Moonta Street Revitalisation

In the heart of Chinatown, Moonta Street’s pedestrian-focussed dining strip is a well-established cultural destination within the city’s vibrant food precinct linking the Central Market with Gouger and Grote Streets. The revitalisation of Moonta Street seeks to elevate the street environment as an attractive meeting place supporting the local economy. The transformation sees an engaging, contemporary re-framing of the familiar cultural iconography of imposing quintessential Paifang Gateways guarded by Guardian Lions and tiled pagoda awnings clearly identifying Moonta Street as the heart of Chinatown; a dynamic business precinct; a colourful and engaging cultural destination; and a vibrant community event space.

Project Details

project Moonta Street Revitalisation entrant practice City of Adelaide aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client City of Adelaide

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Lot Fourteen Space Canopy

Simon Cecere

Lot Fourteen, provides a collaborative ecosystem focussing on innovation, entrepreneurship, research, education, culture and tourism. The brief was to provide a sheltered space, adjacent to the Australian Space Discovery Centre, allowing groups to assemble while being protected from the elements.

The passage between the State Heritage buildings required a sensitive insertion with minimal impact. The project illustrates the benefit of true collaboration between parties, with different expertise, and in many ways communicates the innovative spirit of Lot Fourteen.

Project Details

project Lot Fourteen Space Canopy entrant practice Oxigen in collaboration with Tridente Boyce and ARUP aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client The Urban Renewal Authority, South Australian Government

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CULTURAL HERITAGE

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

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South Australia Award of Excellence Winner

Wangayarta Co-designed

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by Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation (KYAC), the Kaurna Community and Oxigen South Australian Museum Kaurna Country

Project Details project Wangayarta

entrant practice Co-designed by Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation (KYAC), the Kaurna Community and Oxigen aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client South Australian Museum state award 2022 South Australia Award of Excellence for Cultural Heritage

In our journey towards reconciliation, acknowledgement and words are often not enough. The stories of unconscionable disturbance of ancestors across Kaurna Country are stories of hurt, pain and our history.

Wangayarta is the result of actions from the Kaurna community to recognise that whilst ancestors can never be returned to their original places of burial, they can be laid on Kaurna Country, in a place designed to care for them forever.

Co-designed by the Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation, the Kaurna Community and Oxigen, Wangayarta

is a memorial park dedicated to the reburial of 134 ancestors disturbed from their original burial locations by the development of Adelaide and sent to the South Australian Museum.

Through an authentic design process, elevating cultural authority is at the centre of Wangayarta, following over 2 years of collaboration. The design process, facilitated by Oxigen, was a listening exercise to create a culturally safe place for reburial on Country, with a depth of understanding to create a space for all to gather and remember.

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At the forefront of the process was the idea of spreading soils from across Kaurna Country, as a ‘way of bringing the land that the ancestors walked across’ back to them.

The design features nine sandstone boulders, carved by Kaurna artist Alan Sumner, as the entry into the space which includes a central lawn ceremony area on the shape of the Kaurna Shield, a symbol of protection. Four burial areas on the edge of the central lawn reflect the size and extent of Kaurna Country across the Adelaide Plains.

This is a nationally significant and model project for authentic reconciliation, focused on the sensitive repatriation of ancestors that memorialises the challenges, fortitude, and tenacity of Kaurna People with everyone, so that truth telling is clear and we can all share, learn and hear their stories.

At the forefront of the process was the idea of spreading soils from across Kaurna Country, as a ‘way of bringing the land that the ancestors walked across’ back to them.

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South Australia Landscape Architecture Award Winner

Yunggorendi Mande Cultural Gathering Space WAX Design Flinders University Kaurna Country

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Project Details

The creation of a new external cultural teaching space on a difficult site is the result of a collaborative and authentic design process at Flinders University.

Working with the Yunggorendi First Nations Centre for Higher Education and Research, Kaurna Elders and students, Wax Design facilitated the design and development of the new space, on a steep site within existing bushland adjacent to the existing Centre.

The extensive process of engagement provided deep insights and direction for the space, with a theme to ensure the experience is that of ‘walking on something that is living’, resulting in a series of circles to represent a connection to Country. Access for all was also a key design objective, with places to sit, stand and be in nature, on nature.

Minimising western approaches to cut and fill to attain access for all, the design responds with a series of steel and mesh platforms that float over the site, creating a central space on ground for gathering, cooking and smoking ceremonies, with views across to the Gulf St Vincent.

The effective design approach resulted in a short construction period, minimising disruptions to the area and enabling the realisation of a 30 year vision, and as described by Associate Professor Ali Gumillya Baker, a Mirning Woman, that the new Cultural Space is the ‘first step in the decolonisation of the Flinders University’.

Image: Tom Roschi Photographer Image: Tom Roschi Photographer project Yunggorendi Mande Cultural Gathering Space entrant practice WAX Design aboriginal nation Kaurna client Flinders University state award Landscape Architecture Award

NOMINEES

Providing therapeutic cultural landscapes is not something that the youth justice system often provides. Through working closely with Aboriginal Elders and Youth Justice, the recently opened Kurlana Tapa Cultural Connection Space offers a new understanding of how the landscape can foster community and social interaction through the sharing of indigenous culture.

The core objective of this project was to create a cultural landscape that would instil a sense of pride in Aboriginal youth at the centre, while offering a safe, secure, respectful, and inclusive cultural natural environment for young people to foster connection, community, social interaction and encourage meaningful change.

Project Details

project Kurlana Tapa Cultural Connection Space entrant practice DesignWELL Landscape Architects aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client Youth Justice Services, Department of Human Services, Government of South Australia

Image: Tara Graham-Cochrane Kurlana Tapa Cultural Connection

HEALTH & EDUCATION LANDSCAPE

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.

NOMINEES

Hamilton Secondary College

The Hamilton Secondary College project delivers a new school arrival hub to their unique planetarium, arts, performance and music centre, and canteen facility. A series of surrounding external courtyards provide a sense of arrival, external education and outdoor performance opportunities, along with outdoor dining and socialisation facilitation.

A truly collaborative and integrated design process has successfully delivered indoor and outdoor areas for the new Performing Arts Building, fostering collaborative and multi-purpose learning, and championing the value of external learning opportunities.

Project Details

project Hamilton Secondary College entrant practice WAX Design aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client Hamilton Secondary College

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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.

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South Australia Landscape Architecture Award Winner

Lightsview Linear Park ASPECT Studios PEET Limited Kaurna Country Image: Dan Schultz

Over 75,000 trees, shrubs and aquatic plants contribute to a rich biodiverse landscape which is delightfully wild.

Lightsview Linear Park is a successful integration of recreation, environmental and engineering outcomes, achieved through a ‘ground up’ design process led by landscape architects.

Across 6.5ha of open space, clever treatment of level changes maximises recreation use, providing a network of accessible paths across open spaces, connecting residents and their broader neighbourhood. Lower level hard surfaces and rockscapes allow the community to interact and experience nature in a delightful way.

The project team have created a park based on increasing biodiversity, reducing flooding impacts and creating significant amenity and recreation opportunities. Over 75,000 trees, shrubs and aquatic plants contribute to a rich biodiverse landscape which is delightfully wild. The jury commends the rich plant palette that complements large expanses of green grass and stretches of open water, creating a point of difference that sets an exemplar for residential developments.

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aboriginal nation

client PEET Limited state award

Project Details project Lightsview Linear Park

ASPECT Studios

Kaurna

Landscape Architecture Award

North-South

The R2P Project set a benchmark for greening in a complex urban infrastructure project, within the North-South corridor The Green Infrastructure Plan was developed by ASPECT Studios, as part of a highly collaborative design team and through ongoing engagement with key stakeholders. The comprehensive plan articulates the design vision, methods and targets set to achieve climate resilience of the project. It set a framework for ongoing performance monitoring and tracking against the Green Infrastructure targets. The built work is a testament to rigour adopted by the project team to deliver exceptional green infrastructure outcomes through this plan.

Project Details

projectNorth-South Corridor - Regency Road to Pym Street (R2P) Project Green Infrastructure Plan entrant practice ASPECT Studios aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client Department for Infrastructure and Transport

Image: Iain Bond Corridor - Regency Road to Pym Street (R2P) Project Green Infrastructure Plan

NOMINEE

LANDSCAPE PLANNING

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

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South Australia Landscape Architecture Award Winner

North-South Corridor - Regency Road to Pym Street (R2P) Project Green Infrastructure Plan ASPECT Studios Department for Infrastructure and Transport

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Project Details

project North-South Corridor - Regency Road to Pym Street (R2P) Project Green Infrastructure Plan

ASPECT Studios have implemented quality green spaces that demonstrate careful landscape design and construction. These quality landscapes are evidence of the contribution landscape architects can make to transport infrastructure.

In the context of a dominant and large multilane road, ASEPECT Studios have implemented quality green spaces that demonstrate careful landscape design and construction. These quality landscapes are evidence of the contribution landscape architects can make to transport infrastructure. The jury encourages the Department for Infrastructure and Transport to champion green infrastructure as a central component of the landscape planning of future projects.

The project is the first in Australia to be assessed under the Infrastructure Sustainability Council Australia’s (ISCA) sustainability design rating tool version 2.0, achieving a gold rating for design and construction, representing a new

policy direction in Australia. As a key component of this success, ASPECT Studios, working closely in collaboration with Mott MacDonald’s environmental team, developed a comprehensive Green Infrastructure Plan that guided the design and delivery of strategies to deliver urban amenity and greening.

The Jury notes that the translation of the plan to a built project has resulted in thoughtful planting design and visually stimulating public art elements. The Jury encourages a larger role for landscape architects in the planning of major transport infrastructure in South Australia and greater rigor around active transport outcomes and green infrastructure metrics.

entrant practice ASPECT Studios aboriginal nation Kaurna client Department for Infrastructure and Transport Image: Iain Bond Image: Iain Bond

South Australia Landscape Architecture Award Winner

Greening Port Pirie SA Water and Aurecon SA Water Nukunu Country

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Project Details

Without elaborate design techniques or expensive changes to infrastructure, these water-saving initiatives allow for more efficient water use and reuse, while contributing to the overall amenity and health of the place.

So how do you “green” a town like Port Pirie?

A collaboration between SA Water and Aurecon along with expert advice from Water Sensitive SA and Northern and Yorke Landscape Board, the ‘Greening Port Pirie’ project sets out to do just that. The project establishes a series of guiding principles that offer pragmatic solutions to combat water issues that have plagued the growing community of Port Pirie for some time.

With ever-increasing fuel prices in this car-reliant town, the need for cooler and walkable streets is clear. A town with a severe lack of shade and an abundance of dust, this proactive approach to advocate to government bodies and align incentives for successful funding applications, delivers smart initiatives

for water use and reuse through a series of demonstration projects that are easy for the community to implement.

The Jury commends project for starting the consultation, to steer policy change and drive themes that offer simple solutions with tangible benefits. Without elaborate design techniques or expensive changes to infrastructure, these water-saving initiatives allow for more efficient water use and reuse, while contributing to the overall amenity and health of the place. Ideas that when implemented would elevate social interaction by encouraging people to walk instead of drive, while fostering an increased awareness of climate change issues.

Image: Aurecon Image: Aurecon project Greening Port Pirie entrant practice SA Water and Aurecon aboriginal nation Nukunu Country client SA Water state award Landscape Architecture Award

State Sports Park Master Plan

The State Sports Park Master Plan was a project lead by the Office for Recreation Sport and Racing to build upon the previous Structure Plan for the area.

The State Sports Park Master Plan has been a collaborative and multi-disciplinary journey, with time taken to allow for a much greater level of engagement than is typical, resulting in a stronger plan, and the formation of new partnerships with site users and stakeholders. The project reimagined strategy projects, with landscape design being a fundamental component of the planning process- pushing beyond what is usually expected for a project of this nature.

Project Details

project State Sports Park Master Plan entrant practice Jensen PLUS aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client Office for Recreation Sport and Racing

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NOMINEE

PARKS AND OPEN SPACES

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

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South Australia Award of Excellence Winner

Lightsview Linear Park ASPECT Studios PEET Limited Kaurna Country

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Project Details

project Lightsview Linear Park entrant practice ASPECT Studios aboriginal nation Kaurna client PEET Limited state award AILA SA Award of Excellence for Parks and Open Space

The design embraces the need for a storm water management solution, incorporating several wetlands, a lake, an adventure playground, and cycle and walking paths within the broader Lightsview development.

Lightsview Linear Park is a successful integration of recreation, environmental and engineering outcomes, achieved through a ‘ground up’ design process led by landscape architects.

based on increasing biodiversity, reducing flooding impacts and creating significant amenity and recreation opportunities. Over 75,000 trees, shrubs and aquatic plants contribute to a rich biodiverse landscape which is delightfully wild. The jury commends the rich plant palette that complements large expanses of green grass and stretches of open water, creating a point of difference that sets an exemplar for residential developments.

Image: Dan Schultz

Lightsview Linear Park demonstrates the important role green open space plays in strengthening community engagement with nature and encouraging increases in outdoor activity.

Image: Dan Schultz

The linear park is a wonderful new and integrated asset for new residents as well as the broader community, with landscape architects leading the charge.

Image: Dan Schultz

NOMINEE

The City of Onkaparinga and GDstudia worked with the local community, State Government of South Australia and the Roger Rasheed Sports Foundation (RRSF) to transform Morton Reserve, Christie Downs into a sports, recreation and active community hub which is now known as Niipuniipu Wama/Morton Park.

The design team created a benchmark process to deliver high quality recreational facilities to a low socio-economic community, promoting social inclusivity and ownership. Niipu-niipu Wama/Morton Park is an active, family friendly destination featuring a skate park, multi-use courts, junior and youth play spaces, seating, shelters, barbecue facilities, half-court basketball, irrigated lawn areas and new amenities.

Project Details

project Taylor Riverfront Precinct entrant practice GDstudia and The City of Onkaparinga aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client The City of Onkaparinga

Image: Taylor Riverfront Precinct/ Jensen PLUS. Image by Grant Schwartzkopff Image: JKTP Niipu-niipu Wama/Morton Park

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.

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South Australia Landscape Architecture Award Winner

George Street Reserve, Marion Historic Village City of Marion Open Space & Planning City of Marion Kaurna Country

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Project Details

project George Street Reserve, Marion Historic Village entrant practice City of Marion Open Space & Planning aboriginal nation Kaurna client City of Marion state award Landscape Architecture Award

The George Street Reserve upgrade creatively and sympathetically adapts a culturally significant site, resulting in a playful and educational response. Historical narratives celebrate the past through tactile and interactive elements.

Located in the Marion Historic Village, the George Street Reserve upgrade challenges the notion of approaches to play and historic references, unearthing and celebrating stories of the clay brick in the area from the 1840’s through to the 1940’s. Play elements such as the sandpit and water play reference the use of the site as a ‘Pug’ and the drawing of water from Sturt River for brick making.

The George Street Reserve upgrade creatively and sympathetically adapts a culturally significant site, resulting in a playful and educational response. Historical narratives celebrate

the past through tactile and interactive elements.

The Jury commends City of Marion Open Space and Planning’s approach to an authentic and sympathetic consultation process which fosters a greater sense of community. The collection and reuse of 130 clay bricks from members of the community is a heart-warming way for the public to connect to the play space and create their own history.

Image: Peter Semple Image: Peter Semple

Capella Reserve Youth Space

The Capella Reserve Youth Space is a strategic response in providing active youth recreation facilities for the community. This space provides a multi-use area for all ages to enjoy. A space to play, teach and learn, through active recreation and social inclusion. The design explores the integration of an active youth recreation precinct with landscape amenity in response to the unique natural environemnt of the Hallet Cove suburb and the vibrant and diverse youth culture within it. This is reflected in the collective of users coming together to create a network of active and passive spaces that program the space.

Project Details

project Capella Reserve Youth Space entrant practice Convic, JPE Design Studio and City of Marion aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client City of Marion

NOMINEE

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URBAN DESIGN - SOUTH AUSTRALIA

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

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South Australia Landscape Architecture Award Winner

Moonta Street Revitalisation City of Adelaide City of Adelaide Kaurna Country

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Project Details

project Moonta Street Revitalisation entrant practice City of Adelaide aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client City of Adelaide state

The cultural richness and complexities of Moonta Street will evolve over time as businesses and the community engage with the space, adding their own flares and flourishes.

The Moonta Street Revitalisation demonstrates restraint in design can lead to richer outcomes.

Through continued stakeholder engagement and a considered urban design strategy, the project team, led by the City’s internal landscape architecture team, have re-invigorated an important part of Adelaide’s Chinatown.

The pedestrian street is reprogrammed to cater to the needs of the businesses, customers, and wider community. Through lighting, contemporary art and bold entry statements, the design enhances and celebrates the cultural vitality of the precinct.

The project team successfully and effectively managed a broad range of stakeholders and worked extensively with businesses to ensure continuation of services for the duration of the construction period.

The cultural richness and complexities of Moonta Street will evolve over time as businesses and the community engage with the space, adding their own flares and flourishes. The strength of the project is in the design restraint providing greater opportunities for the users to interact and tailor the space.

Image: Daryl Tian Image: Daryl Tian award Landscape Architecture Award

Chapel Plaza and Hindmarsh Lane, Jetty Road, Glenelg

The project is the first stage of the implementation of a new Vision for Jetty Road Glenelg, SA’s premier urban beach precinct. The spaces, located midway down this buzzing, eclectic strip encourage visitation and experiences beyond the retail and café offerings. The collaborative Design Team challenged assumptions and strove for the best outcomes for the site and users. Chapel Street is now vehicle free, a place for discovery, community gatherings, eclectic art and respite. Hindmarsh Lane provides valuable amenity for users of various abilities. The focus on accessibility and on celebrating the context makes the Precinct memorable, comfortable and relevant.

Project Details

project Chapel Plaza and Hindmarsh Lane, Jetty Road, Glenelg entrant practice Jensen PLUS aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client City of Holdfast Bay

NOMINEE

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URBAN DESIGN - NORTHERN TERRITORY

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Northern Territory Landscape Architecture Award Winner

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Cooling Darwin CLOUSTON Associates NT Government, City of Darwin, Darwin City Deal Larrakia Country (Gulumoerrgin Language Group)

Clouston Associates have addressed the need for coolth, dramatically reducing surface temperatures utilizing large spreading canopies and other simple means to show a sustainable way forward for human settlement in the changing climate of northern and wider Australia.

Project Details

Darwin is facing an existential crisis of heat island effects, record-breaking extreme heat, reduced urban activity, soaring energy needs for cooling, and increasing thermal discomfort. The Cooling Darwin project has aligned the work of pioneering CBD Heat Mitigation study of Professor Matt Santamouris (UNSW) together with Professor Lawrence Nield, the former NT Government Architect.

The UNSW study demonstrated the significant ‘coolth’ generated by the parks surrounding the city in the Wet and the Dry and the extreme urban heat generated by the ‘black top’ roads. Cavenagh

Street was a ‘river of fire’, the hottest area of the city and was recommended as a ‘test bed’ with the 60m shade structure and extensive tree planting and light coloured pavements.

Image: CLOUSTON Associates Image: CLOUSTON Associates project Cooling Darwin entrant practice CLOUSTON Associates aboriginal nation Larrakia Country (Gulumoerrgin Language Group) client NT Government, City of Darwin, Darwin City Deal state award Landscape Architecture Award

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REGIONAL

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South Australia Regional Achievement Award Winner

Railway Plaza Oxigen City of Victor Harbor Council Ngarrindjeri Country

Image: Dan Schultz

Project Details

The design is elevated by thoughtful detailing, material selection and planting design, and reflects the site’s historic context through subtly integrated interpretive elements.

Railway Plaza represents the considered transformation of a previously uninviting car park into vibrant new public open space, making a positive contribution to Victor Harbor.

By reorienting the streetscape, the project delivers car parking solutions while prioritising the creation of high quality public open space. The project utilises multiple Water Sensitive Urban

The Jury congratulates Oxigen for delivering an exemplary landscape outcome through an integrated design approach.

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Wangayarta Co-designed

Kaurna Country

Image: Brad Griffin

by Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation (KYAC), the Kaurna Community and Oxigen South Australian Museum

Project Details

project Wangayarta

entrant practice Co-designed by Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation (KYAC), the Kaurna Community and Oxigen

aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client South Australian Museum

Co-designed by the Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation, the Kaurna Community and Oxigen, Wangayarta is a memorial park dedicated to the reburial of 134 ancestors disturbed from their original burial locations by the

development of Adelaide and sent to the South Australian Museum.

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2022 Healthy Parks Healthy People SA Commendation

Mitcham Library and Hawthorn Reserve Upgrade ASPECT Studios

City of Mitcham Kaurna Country

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Project Details

The design includes the ‘rewilding’ of the previously concrete and stone lined creek to enhance ecological values and to encourage its use as an informal nature-based play space.

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2022 Healthy Parks Healthy People SA Commendation

Lightsview Linear Park ASPECT Studios PEET Limited Kaurna Country

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Project Details

Over 75,000 trees, shrubs and aquatic plants contribute to a rich biodiverse landscape which is delightfully wild.

Lightsview Linear Park is a successful integration of recreation, environmental and engineering outcomes, achieved through a ‘ground up’ design process led by landscape architects.

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client

project Lightsview Linear Park entrant practice ASPECT Studios

aboriginal nation Kaurna

PEET Limited

Wellbeing SA

Wellbeing SA is an independent government agency leading a significant and renewed focus on prevention in South Australia.

Wellbeing SA has a long-term vision to create a balanced health and wellbeing system that supports improved physical, mental and social wellbeing for all South Australians.

As part of our work, Wellbeing SA is committed to forming strong collaborative partnerships to support better health and wellbeing outcomes. These Public Health Partnerships provide the opportunity to bring together complementary knowledge and skills, and shared resources to work towards shared objectives and mutually beneficial outcomes.

Healthy Parks Healthy People SA is the result of a dedicated public health partnership between Wellbeing SA and the Department for Environment and Water (including Green Adelaide). The collaboration is supported by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects SA and other partners to retain, build and promote quality green spaces that are critical for health and wellbeing, social connectedness and sustainable neighbourhoods.

To find out more, visit wellbeingsa.sa.gov.au

Image: Winner from 2020 HPHP Award - Paringa Park Primary School by Peter Semple Landscape Architects. Photographer: Peter Semple

WE VE MADE HISTORY

Adelaide is now the second National Park City in the world, and the first in Australia.

Government, industry, and community have supported Green Adelaide leading the campaign that showcased Adelaide’s credentials and saw our city become Australia’s first National Park City on 10 December 2021. Adelaide National Park City is a movement to improve liveability in Greater Adelaide by connecting people with nature through everyday actions.

Our city is part of a global movement that connects people with each other and nature – for everyone, everywhere, everyday.

Landscape architects are designing the future of Adelaide and play an important role in creating a nature connection lifestyle for our city.

Thank you for your contribution to our green and living infrastructure.

Now that you’ve helped us make history, let’s keep working together on the future.

Get in touch with Green Adelaide to chat about your green stories and ideas: adelaidenationalparkcity.org/ contact

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SA GROWN PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD

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Sponsored by:

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SA Grown People's Choice Award Winner

Kurlana Tapa Cultural Connection Space

DesignWELL Landscape Architects

Youth Justice Services, Department of Human Services, Government of South Australia

Kaurna Country

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people to foster connection, community, social interaction and encourage meaningful change.

Adelaide Youth Training Centre Kurlana Tapa Cultural Connection

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PRESIDENT'S AWARD 90

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PRESIDENT'S AWARD

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Conservation Council of South Australia

The 2022 AILA SA President’s award is recognition of the work and advocacy of one of our most trusted partner organisations, celebrating the passionate and committed people with whom AILA SA has worked with for over a decade in shared advocacy across a range of environmental and social issues.

Australia’s legislation, and is a critical piece of research-based evidence to improve the protection and retention of our significant and regulated trees.

In a climate of change, a climate of biodiversity loss, a climate of risk and untold and irreversible damage, the Conservation Council has been a continuous and passionate warrior in South Australia in raising awareness, advocacy, solutions, policy and strategy initiatives to address the issues facing our planet.

A common issue in growing cities, and particularly across Adelaide’s middle ring suburbs and our periurban areas, are legacies of poor urban design outcomes, with car-centric suburbs and lower amenity streets and parks. Often these areas are hotter with lower levels of tree canopy, and lower levels of biodiversity and habitat protection, retention and enhancement. This has been made worse with the watering down of South Australia’s once nation-leading tree protection laws over the last 10 years.

Adelaide’s increasing loss of tree canopy cover is a worry to many of us, with pressures to grow in our middle ring of suburbs, let alone the peri-urban growth pressures.

The recent ‘Where have all the trees gone?’ campaign, led by CEO Craig Wilkins and fully supported by AILA SA with our inputs, was a watershed moment for the design and planning of Adelaide. The campaign, using evidence, data, stories and examples, documents the risks to our remnant large trees and landscapes and advocates for changes to our tree protection legislation, once amongst the best in Australia, and now sadly, amongst the worst.

The recent follow up study, led by Tom Morrison, documented a comparison of our tree protection laws with those across local government in the eastern states. It casts a large shadow on South

The shared advocacy has been aligned with AILA SA for many years now, and our partnering on key issues is one of the many reasons AILA SA’s advocacy has been successful.

It is a relationship we value highly. Now, more than ever, it is critical we look forward to successful advocacy, particularly with the new State Government’s focus on climate change and a review of the planning legislation.

This will ultimately create a more sustainable and equitable South Australia, and we thank the Conservation Council for their torch bearing role across a range of environmental issues.

The 2022 AILA SA President’s Award is pleased to recognise, celebrate and encourage everyone to do their bit, to look to the significance of the Conservation Council’s progressive endeavours, and to recognise that whilst the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago and the second best time is now – the trees we have are more important than ever and need to be protected, retained and allowed to thrive and benefit the people, plants and fauna of South Australia.

Project Details recipient Conservation Council of South Australia

2022 AILA SA FUTURE LEADER AWARD GRADUATE RECIPIENTS

GRADUATE WINNERS

Niveta’s design projects are varied in scope and scale and demonstrate a range of design styles based on contextual response. Her projects are grounded in research, cultural awareness, and an understanding of human-centric spaces. Her work demonstrates her exceptional graphic representation skills and her interest and understanding of planting design.

Niveta is an advocate for landscape architecture and an active graduate. Since completing her studies, she has contributed to multiple AILA events, and is now the co-leader of SAILA Fresh.

Niveta is a confident and passionate Landscape Architect and makes a meaningful contribution to the industry through her practice and her engagement with AILA.

Wenxuan Zhang

Wenxuan's project work demonstrates a balance of landscape architecture with an understanding of engineering, placemaking, interpretation and public amenity across a range of demographics. Her projects highlight Wenxuan’s attention to detail and passion for sustainable, meaningful spaces for people.

Throughout her studies she has been nominated for and awarded multiple accolades, and she continues to excel as a graduate. Since completing her studies, she has been actively involved in AILA events including the mentor program and studio crawls.

Her commitment to high quality outcomes and ongoing personal education ensure that she will continue to provide meaningful contribution to landscape architecture.

Wenxuan shows great potential as a landscape architect and is a deserving recipient of a Future Leader award.

Niveta Chawla

2022 AILA SA FUTURE LEADER AWARD STUDENT RECIPIENTS

STUDENT WINNER

Zhuocheng (Jackie) Gu

Zhuocheng (Jackie) Gu is representative of the values required by future skilled leaders including open, inquisitive minds, necessary for facing up to the challenges of the new and confronting paradigms.

He clearly demonstrates the humanity and intellect of producing innovative works into the future, across many professional disciplines. His grasp of art and science in providing the clues and solutions to global problems, imbued with humanity, is thoroughly exciting.

The work produced by Jackie is poetic and visionary and he is a worthy recipient of a Future Leader award.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

SOUTH AUSTRALIA & NORTHERN TERRITORY 2022 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

AILA would like to thank our partners, all the entrants and those who joined our awards evening.

South Australia

Sally Bolton, South Australia Chapter Manager Design

Felipe Coral, Design and Small Chapter Support Oficer

AILA SA + NT Awards Jury

Daniel Bennett (Jury Chair)

Carina Green (Jury Chair)

Hully Liveris Kathy Bawden Scott Hawken Katherine James Claire Arnold

View the 2022 Winners Gallery:  https://aila.awardsplatform. com/gallery/vXKoGwqY

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

SOUTH AUSTRALIA & NORTHERN TERRITORY 2022

Project: Jensen PLUS