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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS SOUTH AUSTRALIA 2021

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

SOUTH AUSTRALIA 2021 4 Message from the South Australia President 5 Partners 5 South Australia Partners 6 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) 6 About AILA 6 About the Landscape Architecture Awards 7 Awards Levels

10 The 2021 South Australia Awards 10 Civic Landscape 18 Cultural Heritage 24 Gardens 34 Health and Education Landscape 46 Infrastructure 53 Landscape Planning 60 Parks and Open Space 62 Play Spaces 68 Small Projects 74 Tourism 76 Urban Design

82 Regional Achievement Award 90

Healthy Parks, Healthy People Award 100 President's Award 102 Student Future Leader Award 104 People's Choice Award 106

Font Cover Image: Oxigen Pty Ltd/ The Kaurna Learning Circle. Image by Russell Millard

Inside Cover Image: City of Unley with Outerspace Landscape Architects and BMD Group/ Design King William. Image by City of Unley

Acknowledgements 8 The Jury 8 Message from Jury Chair 9 South Australia Jury

MESSAGE FROM THE SOUTH AUSTRALIA PRESIDENT

Daniel Bennett AILA South Australia President

If I think back two years ago there are so many things that simply didn’t exist: the Australian bushfire disaster of unimaginable destruction, a virus halting civil society, social distancing, closing international & state borders, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in 2021, cancelled AFL games and online awards galas!

So in our second year of getting used to cameras, sound checks, lapel microphones and the autocue, we celebrate excellence in landscape architecture online.

In 2021, our profession continues to shine. The breadth and expansive projects in this year’s awards provide a penetrating glimpse into the ability for us to reflect local places, cultures, environments and people. Projects continue to focus on facilitating exemplary outcomes –from policy and strategy through to small-scale gardens.

As we all continue to recalibrate, adapt and focus how we work with greater expectation, appreciation, and recognition for our public open spaces, it is clear we are delivering in contributing to the health, wellbeing and resilience of our communities.

The 2021 AILA SA Awards demonstrate our commitment to

a flexible and impressive way to showcase our best work, and to enable us to share our collective successes. It really is a great time to be a Landscape Architect in South Australia. All award entrants are to be congratulated for putting their best work forward. It is an impressive line-up.

My special congratulations to all winning projects, their designers and especially their clients. The collective spirit of place that is integrated in each project demonstrates the commitments to AILA’s values and provides us with an amazing platform to continue to advocate on your behalf at all levels of government and the community,

Once again, we are unable to do what we do without the support of you – our members – and our partners – my thanks to all of you for your continued support through 2020/2021. AILA SA continues to advocate for greener communities, and during 2021 we continue to work with our members and partners over to explore innovative, flexible, creative ways to shape the future of South Australia.

So, here’s cheers for another stonkingly good vintage!

Cheers, DJB

‘Come back 2019! All is forgiven!’

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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 Tourism Urban Design Landscape Planning Small Projects Gardens

Additional Awards Categories

Regional Achievement Award

Healthy Parks Healthy People President's Award

Student 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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SOUTH AUSTRALIA JURY

Landscape architects are instilled with the notion of ‘a sense of place’ developed through a deep connection, exploration and understanding of space.

Janelle Arbon AILA Jury Chair

The importance of ‘a sense of place’ is relevant to all landscapes from the smallest of gardens to large scale freeways, and from the deceptively simple revegetation project to the layered learning environment. Of equal importance is the understanding that places are a part of a personal journey, in continual flux, altering and changing as they are experienced.

The 2021 AILA South Australia Awards captured a moment of the journey for 23 entries nominated across 11 categories, while demonstrating the spatial, social and cultural importance of place.

This year’s winner, from the ‘of the place’ Salt Wind Garden, to the ‘people centred’ Design King William and the ‘environmental and social benefiting’ Suburb Improvement Program, demonstrated layered landscape driven approaches which celebrated the importance of place.

While the ‘student learning focused’ Woodcroft College ELC Outdoor Learning Area and the ‘cultural storytelling’ of The Kaurna Learning

MESSAGE FROM THE JURY CHAIR

Circle & Karrawirra Parinangku, strove towards a brighter, more inclusive future.

The jury applauded the nods to the past, the integration and amplification of character, the woven storytelling, and the leadership to overcome technical and compliance challenges. The nominated projects once again prove landscape architects are respectful, inclusive and innovative.

It was an honour to chair this years’ awards with a talented jury. My sincerest thanks for their time, professionalism, broad perspectives, debate, discussion, and resolution.

Our sincere thanks and acknowledgement to every practice and council that entered our 2021 awards program and presented at the Presentation to Jury Day. It was a pleasure for the Jury to contemplate, question and debate your entries.

Your attention to detail, passion and commitment to landscape architecture is to be commended.

Please join us in congratulating all entrants and winners of the 2021 South Australian Landscape Architecture Awards.

We look forward to continuing on a journey which celebrates the spatial, social and cultural importance of place.

THE JURY

SOUTH AUSTRALIA JURY (CONTINUED)

Greg Grabasch Andrew Wallace Chloe Organ Nick Pearson Tara Graham Cochrane John Byleveld

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.

Image: Oxigen Pty Ltd / The Kaurna Learning Circle & Karrawirra Parinangku – University of Adelaide . Image by : Chris Oaten

South Australia Award of Excellence Winner

The Kaurna Learning Circle & Karrawirra Parinangku – University of Adelaide Northern Campus Redevelopment Oxigen Pty Ltd The University of Adelaide Kaurna Country

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Project Details

project The Kaurna Learning Circle & Karrawirra Parinangku – University of Adelaide Northern Campus Redevelopment entrant practice Oxigen Pty Ltd aboriginal nation Kaurna client The University of Adelaide state award 2021 South Australia Award of Excellence for Civic Landscape

Karrawirra Parinangku and the Kaurna Learning Circle represents a powerful act of reconciliation that recognises and celebrates Kaurna connection to the land, to time and place. The University of Adelaide project realises five new interconnected spaces in the northern campus that are born from respectful collaboration between Kaurna Elders and Artists and the broader University community.

The historic Mitchell entry gates and spear-top fence that once bounded the site have been removed in a liberating gesture that unfolds onto the new entry with Wangu Poles that tell of ancient Kaurna stories through the artwork of Paul Herzich.

The Kaurna Learning Circle offers a wonderfully rich place of ceremony, articulated through natural, raw materials that carry forth inscribed messages of hope for a more inclusive tomorrow.

The floating arbour structure and stone seats animate ancient rituals recast in a contemporary urban landscape.

The Reconciliation Garden and lawns are edged in song lines of indigenous plantings and sands that forge new pathways to learn and reconcile our sense of place. The jury congratulates Oxigen for achieving excellence through a truly exemplary design and engagement process.

Image: Russell Millard

The Kaurna Learning Circle offers a wonderfully rich place of ceremony, articulated through natural, raw materials that carry forth inscribed messages of hope for a more inclusive tomorrow. The floating arbour structure and stone seats animate ancient rituals recast in a contemporary urban landscape.

Image: Mark Watts

Image: Mark Watts Image: Chris Oaten

South Australia Landscape Architecture Award Winner

Walker Place WAX Design Town of Gawler Kaurna Country

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The Walker Place civic landscape by Wax Design is a sophisticated and innovative transformation of a neglected car park space into a civic and cultural heart of Gawler. The design deconstructs the traditional notion of the car park and reconfigures the space to be people centred, shifting the order of amenity back to the community and the local traders.

The Walker Place civic landscape by Wax Design is a sophisticated and innovative transformation of a neglected car park space into a civic and cultural heart of the town of Gawler. The design deconstructs the traditional notion of the car park and reconfigures the space to be people centred, shifting the order of amenity back to the community and the local traders.

An imaginative interpretation of the vehicle bay line marking sees them not only delineate car parks but also as landscaped people parks, amenity rich social spaces complete with gardens and seating. The line marking

continues all the way to the shop fronts as a clever gesture of reclamation of the car park as an important, and often underutilised piece of public realm.

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

The jury congratulates WAX Design on an exemplary design and demonstration of the highest quality public realm.

Image: Sweet Lime Photo Image: Sweet Lime Photo Project Details project Walker Place entrant practice WAX Design aboriginal nation Kaurna client Town of Gawler state award 2021 South Australia Landscape Architecture Award for Civic Landscape

HERITAGE

CULTURAL

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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.

Image: Image: WAX Design / Victor Harbor Amphitheatre - WAX Design

South Australia Landscape Architecture Award

Victor Harbor Amphitheatre WAX Design City of Victor Harbor Ngarrindjeri Country

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Project Details

project Victor Harbor Amphitheatre entrant practice WAX Design aboriginal nation Ngarrindjeri Country client City of Victor Harbor state award 2021 South Australia Landscape Architecture Award for Cultural Heritage.

The project outcome celebrated the inclusion and acknowledgement of Ngarrindjeri cultural heritage through the juxtaposition of crosscultural place names and the broader visual connection to this ancient spiritual landscape.

The Victor Harbor Amphitheatre receives a Landscape Architecture Award for demonstrating leadership in providing a destination space within a popular town foreshore that includes the meaningful facilitation and inclusion of First Nations, Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal cultural heritage. The key project objectives achieved a new public destination that activates Victor Harbor’s eastern foreshore edge, providing clear links back into the main street and a versatile event space that retains the parks significant heritage character and coastal views.

Most significantly the project outcome celebrated the inclusion and acknowledgement of Ngarrindjeri cultural heritage through the juxtaposition of crosscultural place names and the broader visual connection to this ancient spiritual landscape. The Jury applauded the WAX Design leadership in facilitating the inclusion of Aboriginal cultural heritage in collaboration with the City of Victor Harbor, community and stakeholders and especially acknowledges the cultural knowledge shared by Ngarrindjeri and Ramindjeri Custodian, Aunty Phyllis Williams.

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CULTURAL HERITAGE NOMINEES

Barossa Adventure Station

The Barossa Adventure Station offers a multi-level terrain designed to dissolve the separation of play elements from the natural and curated landscape, presenting ideas around the intersection of the natural and industrial. It conceives of the existing as significant and as the base canvas for an artistic lens to these ideas. It embeds actual artworks within the space in unexpected ways that allow people to engage with the environment. The core narrative explores the railway as a provider for settlement and local industries. The project has resulted in a positive addition to the Barossa Valley providing a destination for all.

Project Details

entrant practice Birdseye Studios aboriginal nation Ngadjuri Country client The Barossa Council

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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: Image: Oxigen/ Salt Wind Garden - Oxigen

South Australia Award of Excellence Winner

Salt Wind Garden Oxigen Pty Ltd Penelope Dargaville Kaurna Country

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Project Details

project Salt Wind Garden entrant practice Oxigen Pty Ltd aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client Penelope Dargaville state award 2021 South Australia Award of Excellence for Gardens.

This small garden is located on the exposed frontline of the Carrickalinga Beach foreshore. Organised around small outdoor rooms and connected by floating boardwalks and decks, the garden uses local materials to embed and enhance the local shoreline narrative.

In recognition of Australian garden influences, the Salt Wind Garden receives an Award of Excellence for boldly ‘bucking the trend’ and pronouncing a new direction ‘of the place’. The outcome is a garden that rigorously responds to the local aesthetic, condition, physical and cultural context. This small garden is located on the exposed frontline of the Carrickalinga Beach foreshore. Organised around small outdoor rooms and connected by floating boardwalks and decks, the garden uses local materials to embed and enhance the local shoreline narrative.

The Garden builds on the shoulders of Edna Walling’s ‘endemic inspired’ Mornington Peninsula Garden, however, gently removes the final grip on the Settler exotic aesthetic and replaces this with a sustainable, richly layered, visually appealing local alternative. The Jury commented on how the Garden showcases a carefully researched, tested and curated planting achievement, including sourcing local provenance seed to provide variations in colour, foliage, form and habitat exampling a garden of trial, curation, cultivation and location.

Image: Oxigen

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The Garden showcases a carefully researched, tested and curated planting achievement, including sourcing local provenance seed to provide variations in colour, foliage, form and habitat exampling a garden of trial, curation, cultivation and location.

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GARDENS NOMINEES

Tonsley Forests

The Manufacturing Assembly Building at the Tonsley Innovation Precinct comprises an 11ha roof, remaining from the form Chrysler and then Mitsubishi car manufacturing plants. Within the MAB internal forests are conceived as an integral part of redeveloping the MAB for high tech manufacturing industries and education. Four forest are the lungs balancing the ecology, providing for recreation, outlook and social interaction with physical and mental benefits. The forests are inserted into the structure where the roof has been removed, allowing the gardens to emerge from the framework as well as opening to air and rain.

Project Details

entrant practice Oxigen Pty Ltd aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client Renewal SA

Image: Grant Hancock

Dulwich Garden

The Dulwich Garden - a garden of elegant restraint, is the result of working with insightful clients who embraced a collaborative design process along with an understanding that creating and cultivating a garden is an ongoing process.

The garden which is a series of interrelated spaces is created from mostly local materials, low water-use native plantsparticularly those that attract bird life, a productive garden, as well as hardy exotic plants extensively from a Mediterranean palette that are strategically placed to display seasonal change and allow warming winter sun into the house.

Project Details

entrant practice Form Landscape Architects aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client Jennie McArthur and Carolyn Edwards

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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.

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South Australia Award of Excellence Winner

Woodcroft College ELC Outdoor Learning Area Swanbury Penglase Woodcroft College Kaurna Country

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The design of this outdoor learning space demonstrates how informed thinking and leadership can transform a technical site challenge into an engaging and educational outcome for the children at the ELC and the community as whole.

Project Details

the children’s play and learning environments to the natural water cycle of the Onkaparinga river.

The outcome is a dry creek that fills in rain events and physically anchors the facility, while providing an everchanging childled learning experience over the seasons and is aligned with schools Reggio Emilio philosophy and pedagogy.

The jury particularly commended the project team’s leadership in successfully navigating a complex series of technical and compliance challenges to deliver an engaging and meaningful education space of clear benefit to the children and broader community. It looks like a lot of fun.

Image: Peter Barnes project Woodcroft College ELC Outdoor Learning Area entrant practice Swanbury Penglase aboriginal nation Kaurna client Woodcroft College state award 2021 South Australia Award of Excellence for Health and Education Landscape

The project, conceived as part of a larger masterplan for Woodcroft College, makes visible to the community an important piece of often hidden stormwater infrastructure by creating an above ground swale and dry creek bed. This facilitates an outdoor education space that connects the children’s play and learning environments to the natural water cycle of the Onkaparinga river. The outcome is a dry creek that fills in rain events and physically anchors the facility, while providing an everchanging child-led learning experience over the seasons and is aligned with schools Reggio Emilio philosophy and pedagogy.

Image: Peter Barnes

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South Australia Landscape Architecture Award Winner

McAuley Community School Swanbury Penglase Catholic Education South Australia Kaurna Country

McAuley Community School is an innovative project which supports student lead learning experiences that are embedded in and draws from its location in Hove. The developments overarching strategy of placing a strong emphasis on open spaces for collaborative learning is manifested both internally and externally at the school.

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Project Details

project McAuley Community School entrant practice Swanbury Penglase aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client Catholic Education South Australia state award 2021 South Australian Landscape Architecture Award for Health and Education Landscape

The outdoor spaces are divided into a series of landscape typologies/neighbourhoods catering to different modes of learning. These spaces are linked by a ‘jetty’ that begins in the early learning centre and transitions through the school connecting the various landscape typologies across both school campus and across age groups.

McAuley Community School is an innovative project which supports student lead learning experiences that are embedded in and draws from its location in Hove. The development's overarching strategy of placing a strong emphasis on open spaces for collaborative learning is manifested both internally and externally at the school.

through the school connecting the various landscape typologies across both school campus and across age groups.

The jury commended the innovative means of connectivity between discreetly segregated cohorts through planting, water bodies and permeable fencing. This fosters a smooth transition from the early learning centre to the primary school. The continuity of the features in the landscape and cleverly constructed visual and physical linkages also support the older students building connection to the younger students and their former learning environment.

Image: Swanbury Penglase

Pembroke Middle School Redevelopment

Pembroke Middle School Redevelopment WAX Design Pembroke School Kaurna Country

The landscape unfolds as a series of interconnecting courtyards with a strong connection between exterior and interior spaces. This facilitated a calming visual continuity between the private, semi public, and existing public spaces abounding the site.

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Project Details

project Pembroke Middle School Redevelopment

entrant practice WAX Design

aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client Pembrooke School state award 2021 South Australian Landscape

Architecture Award for Health and Education Landscape

The connection to country is tangible through the retention of existing mature trees on the site and selection of edible bush foods for cultural and culinary investigations.

The Pembroke Middle school landscape supports the school’s vison of providing meaningful outdoor spaces for socialisation, peer interaction for the sharing of ideas, and student’s individual learning needs. The landscape was critical in positively connecting a large and contemporary built form into a historic suburb across two council zones.

The landscape interventions successfully create a sense of arrival on both sides of a bridge spanning Shipsters Road. The landscape unfolds as a series of interconnecting courtyards with a strong connection between

exterior and interior spaces.

This facilitated a calming visual continuity between the private, semi public, and existing public spaces abounding the site. The connection to country is tangible through the retention of existing mature trees on the site and selection of edible bush foods for cultural and culinary investigations.

The project has clearly delivered an external learning and socialising environment that contributes to the wellbeing of the entire local and school community.

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HEALTH AND EDUCATION LANDSCAPE

NOMINEES

The Grove Education Centre Inclusive Playspace

Designwell worked closely with the students, educators and therapists at The Grove Education Centre to develop an inclusive sensory nature playspace to compliment the inclusive learning programs for the school’s young people with an intellectual disability. Designed by students, school staff, sensory therapists and Designwell, the project sets new benchmarks in how landscape architecture can support students with special needs and facilitate students’ independent exploration, social and physical development, and learning.

The project incorporates a range of play options and multi-sensory experiences which include active and passive play zones, performance and retreat spaces, and tactile and sensory journeys.

Project Details

entrant practice Designwell Landscape Architects aboriginal nation Kaurna Country

client The Grove Education Centre Inclusive Playspace

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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

Woodcroft College ELC Outdoor Learning Area Swanbury Penglase Woodcroft College Kaurna Country

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Project Details

project Woodcroft College ELC Outdoor Learning Area entrant practice Swanbury Penglase aboriginal nation Kaurna client Woodcroft College state award 2021 South Australia Award of Excellence for Infrastructure

This project is a great example of how perceived risks can turn into a well managed landscape that engages and encourages children to connect with nature while learning sustainable water practices.

The Woodcroft College ELC Outdoor Learning Area melds the natural landscape with civil engineering solutions into a flexible teaching and play platform. Swanbury Penglase Architects are to be commended for delivering an innovative design approach which embraced the challenge of incorporating high volumes of water through an early learning centre as a natural looking drainage swale and dry creek bed woven with unique teaching opportunities.

This project is a great example of how perceived risks can turn

into a well managed landscape that engages and encourages children to connect with nature while learning sustainable water practices. The project also demonstrates how important hidden infrastructure such as stormwater can be made visible, functional, and playful.

The jury congratulated the project team for achieving excellent results through a collaborative design and engagement process working closely with the educators to benefit the children and the broader community.

Image: Swanbury Penglase

South Australia Landscape Architecture Award Winner

Northern Connector Project Tract Consultants Department of Infrastructure Transport Kaurma Country

The Northern Connector delivers high quality transport infrastructure with integrated urban design outcomes including a bridge, active transport networks and extensive landscape.

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The project drew contextual inspiration from Barker’s Inlet, surrounding market gardens, salt pans and crystalline forms to contribute to the sustainability of the Barker Inlet Wetlands

Project Details

project Northern Connector Project entrant practice Tract Consultants aboriginal nation Kaurma Country client Department Infrastructure Transport state award 2021 South Australia Landscape Architecture Award for Infrastructure

The Northern Connector delivers high quality transport infrastructure with integrated urban design outcomes including a bridge, active transport networks and extensive landscape. The project drew contextual inspiration from Barker’s Inlet, surrounding market gardens, salt pans and crystalline forms to contribute to the sustainability of the Barker Inlet Wetlands as well as protecting important habitat for the migratory bird species and butterflies. Key to the project was the planting strategies and the leadership Tract took to ensure that the

Northern Connector Project created enhanced environmental outcomes and ecological diversity for the site.

The Jury commended Tract on the integration of urban form, landscapes, and the interconnecting transport networks to deliver the environmentally sensitive approach for the diverse contextual issues within this large scale project site.

The project team are also to be congratulated for their leadership early in the design process which has turned what could have been just another freeway into a landmark biodiversity and environmental project.

Image: Tract Consultants

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.

Image: City of Onkaparinga/ Suburb Improvement Program Review

South Australia Award of Excellence Winner

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

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Project Details

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

Through the implementation of SIP Council have planted approximately 10,000 new trees over the past decade and programmed to continue the delivery of 1000 new street trees and streetscape improvements per year.

The Suburb Improvement Program (SIP) Review – Greening Onkaparinga demonstrates Council’s ability to implement a detailed assessment of tree canopy cover, urban heat island mapping and social vulnerability in a highly graphic and digestible document which supports the more disadvantaged people within their community.

The jury commended the innovative direction of the SIP through its focus on targeted improvements first and foremost to their most disadvantaged communities. Council have

demonstrated the effectiveness of a visually engaging and graphic representation of data to inform their Council’s Elected Members responsible for endorsing the new program directions. Through the implementation of SIP Council have planted approximately 10,000 new trees over the past decade and programmed to continue the delivery of 1000 new street trees and streetscape improvements per year.

Onkaparinga Council’s ability to convey and implement SIP provides an exemplar process and outcome for both local and national Council’s alike.

Image: City of Onkaparinga

Greening Onkaparinga demonstrates Council’s ability to implement a detailed assessment of tree canopy cover, urban heat island mapping and social vulnerability in a highly graphic and digestible document which supports the more

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Onkaparinga Council’s ability to convey and implement SIP provides an exemplar process and outcome for both local and national Council’s alike.

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South Australia Landscape Architecture Award

The Aldinga Framework Plan City of Onkaparinga (Entrant & Client) Kaurna Country

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Project Details

project The Aldinga Framework Plan entrant practice & client City of Onkaparinga aboriginal nation Kaurna Country state award 2021 South Australia Landscape Architecture Award for Landscape Planning

The Aldinga Framework Plan is a persuasive planning tool that ensures advanced key stakeholder awareness of potential development outcomes along with providing Onkaparinga Council the ability to influence these to benefit their community.

The Plan achieves this by bringing together known information about the Aldinga region and identifies key issues and opportunities to ensure that large scaled greenfield developments provide high quality design outcomes including plentiful open spaces and functional streetscapes. The jury praised Council on

their ability to build strong political awareness of Aldinga’s development context and community advocacy.

The Plan is a pro-active input to State Government led planning and infrastructure projects ensuring Council’s ability to identify urban design principles that respond specifically to the unique attributes of the area. Council’s leadership and acknowledgement of the need for an evolving planning tool which supports a sustainable environment and social principles provides an excellent precedent for others.

Image: City of Onkaparinga

PARKS AND OPEN SPACE

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.

Located on the banks of the River Murray, the Taylor Riverfront Precinct is the jewel in the crown of Renmark town centre. This setting has been greatly enhanced for community and visitor use through the recent redevelopment of the space.

Designed by a Team led by Jensen PLUS it transformed existing features such as the captivating Harry Clark “Wine Glass” Fountain into futureproofed park features. The space includes a new river-deck, water-play space and “miniature Murray” art, sheltered BBQ facilities, plentiful seating and landscaping and safe access.

The Precinct encourages appreciation of South Australia’s foremost landscape feature, the River Murray.

Project Details

project Taylor Riverfront Precinct entrant practice Jensen PLUS with Renmark Paringa Council

aboriginal nation Erawirung Country client Renmark Paringa Council

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by Grant Schwartzkopff Image: Grant Schwartzkopff Taylor Riverfront Precinct

NOMINEE

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

Wilfred Taylor Reserve Nature Playspace City of Onkaparinga (Client& Entrant) and Peter Semple Landscape Architects Kaurna Country

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Project Details

project Wilfred Taylor Reserve Nature Playspace entrant practice City of Onkaparinga and Peter Semple Landscape Architects aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client City of Onkaparinga state award 2021 South Australia Landscape Architecture Award for Play Spaces.

The design team have skilfully layered cultural storytelling, site history and education into an inclusive playspace destination, which fosters valuable connections to nature

The Wilfred Taylor Reserve Nature Playspace creates a new community destination in the City of Onkaparinga, which has transformed the existing reserve. The design approach integrates the new playspace into the site, preserving the existing mature trees and showcasing the reserves stunning natural environment, whilst balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders and a passionate community. The Jury commends the collaborative design approach between Council, Peter Semple Landscape Architects and the Community to deliver a playspace which built on the reserves potential to create a reserve for everyone. The success of the project is a reflection of the process undertaken by the project team which involved

extensive community and stakeholder consultation. Collaboration with Kaurna Elders and Aboriginal artist, Allan Sumner, has delivered genuine inclusion of cultural narratives, through the sculptural play elements and the introduction of Kaurna language, providing another layer to the project and an opportunity for all users to gain a greater understanding of and respect for aboriginal heritage and culture.

The design team have skilfully layered cultural storytelling, site history and education into an inclusive playspace destination, which fosters valuable connections to nature and allows children and adults alike to ‘Go Wild @ Wilfred’.

Image: Hillbrook Anglican Schoo / Hillbrook Anglican School Campus Redevelopment - Vee Design Image: JamesKnowlerJKTP

Wigley Reserve Playspace and Fitness Hub

Wigley Reserve Playspace and Fitness Hub draws inspiration from the gentle sweeping dunes which once inhabited the Patawalonga estuary. Combined with subtle features which speak to marine and aquatic themes, the playspace fosters an understanding of place whilst allowing imaginations to run wild and create new stories.

The need to provide an exciting, engaging and inclusive environment was paramount to the design. With a particular focus on inclusivity and sensory elements, the playspace offers a wide spectrum of play and fitness opportunities from large scale climbing structures to immersive spaces, swings, slides, nature play elements and exercise equipment.

Project Details

project Wigley Reserve Playspace and Fitness Hub entrant practice JPE Design Studio aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client City of Holdfast Bay

PLAY

SPACES NOMINEE

Image: David Sievers

Protecting Wildlife Through Illumination

Working with Philip Island Nature Parks was a one-ofa-kind project for the team at Buckford Illumination Group. This opportunity required collaboration from specialist teams to produce a lighting solution that was functional, aesthetically impressive and minimised harm to both animals and human visitors.

Phillip Island Nature Parks is a unique conservation organisation that operates ecotourism experiences on Phillip Island. The world-famous Penguin Parade is their main attraction where tourists have the chance to see Australia’s largest colony of little penguins who wander to shore after a day of fishing.

Buckford, WE-EF, and Stantec joined forces to deliver sensitive light for the bus and car park ensuring safe movement for visitors without destructively affecting the areas inhabited by wildlife

Environmental considerations were essential, as vision is a critical cue for animals to orient themselves in their habitat. Not only was Buckford responsible for the effect on the little penguins, but also the surrounding wildlife including wallabies, albatross, and the shearwater birds.

There were several challenges when it came to selecting suitable light fittings and numerous options were explored. The major factors to be tackled were to ensure there was no upward light spill and to eliminate blue light due to its disorientating effect on animals.

The solution no doubt was always going to be WE-EF, being the first company to have its products certified by the ADSA (Australasian Dark Sky Alliance) Approved program, which consists of dark sky sensitive solutions specific to wildlife and ecosystems. In the case of the Penguin Parade, WE-EF's VFL540 luminaires were fitted with amber LED chips to eliminate blue light.

Since the completion of the project in 2018, there has been a positive effect on wildlife. Penguins are walking safely through the bush and migration levels of the shearwater birds have increased over the years.

Buckford’s commitment to the project generated a spectacular visual result and a ground-breaking effect on the flora and fauna. From it’s inception, through to research with dark sky and wildlife conservators, to the final outcome, this project was both successful and highly rewarding.

Buckford Illumination Group look forward to further reducing the environmental impact on natural habitat and supporting night sky preservation in the future.

Project: The Penguin Parade Client: Philip Island Nature Parks Design Team: Stantec Products: WE-EF Image: Angie Li

SMALL PROJECTS

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

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South Australia Landscape Architecture Award Winner

Living Street Program

(Client & Entrant) City of Unley Kaurna Country

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Project Details

project Living Street Program entrant practice City of Unley aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client City of Unley state award 2021 South Australia Landscape Architecture Award for Small Projects

The strategic and five staged approach of the program not only overcame the challenges, it supported the council’s objectives of increasing green open space and brought the community along for the journey and empowering the local communities to shape their street outcomes and be part of the construction

The Living Street Program demonstrates how a collaborative approach with the community can result in local streets becoming places for people with a modest budget.

The program recognised the challenges of increasing green open space and implementing high level aspirations for pedestrians to safely share the roadway without the involvement of the community.

The strategic and five staged approach of the program not only overcame the challenges, it supported the council’s objectives of increasing green open space and brought the community along

for the journey and empowering the local communities to shape their street outcomes and be part of the construction process. The jury commended the City of Unley for achieving an engaging ‘co-design’ process and balancing the City of Unley’s strategic aspirations and technical requirements with the expectations of local community to enable small scale changes with wider community benefits.

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SMALL PROJECTS NOMINEES

Victor Harbor Amphitheatre

Image: WAX Design

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

Indigenous names are seeded into concrete surfaces. Each word is read from the land looking to the sea, recognising the First Nation People's perspective. English names are sandblasted into the concrete steps. The words' orientation from the shoreline, looking towards the land, representing a sense of arrival, occupation or settlement.

The project creates a new destination along the foreshore, providing new information and learnings about the local area.

Project Details

entrant practice WAX Design aboriginal nation Ngarrindjeri client City of Victor Harbor

Tuna Poler Plaza

There’s no such thing as an undersized tuna!

The Tuna Poler Plaza is the culmination of strategies developed within the Port Lincoln Precincts Master Plan. A quick win, demonstrating Port Lincoln’s determination to implement projects from a “Paper Plan” that are tangible and real, that have community benefit and resonance.

The public space showcases a bronze statue by Artist Ken Martin and is step one in the Urban Acupuncture approach to public realm improvement developed by a Team lead by Jensen PLUS. The area around the statue is one to reflect on place and space beyond and kickstart further development!

Project Details

entrant practice Jensen PLUS with the City of Port Lincoln aboriginal nation Barngarla Country client City of Port Lincoln

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TOURISM

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.

NOMINEES

Barossa Adventure Station

Project Details

entrant practice Birdseye Studios aboriginal nation Ngadjuri Country client The Barossa Council

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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.

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South Australia Excellence Award Winner

Design King William City of Unley with Outerspace Landscape Architects and BMD Design Group City of Unley Kaurna Country

Design King William by the City of Unley with Outerspace Landscape Architects and BMD Design Group, sets a new benchmark in strategic ‘co-design’ and community engagement, transforming a flagging retail strip into a stunning, people-centred high street.

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Project Details

project Design King William entrant practice City of Unley with Outerspace Landscape Architects and BMD Design Group aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client City of Unley state award 2021 South Australia Award for Excellence in Urban Design

The approach was simple; ask the local community, traders and stakeholders how they wanted to make King William Road a more beautiful, accessible and active street and then include them in every iteration of the design and build. Simple?

Obviously not shy of a challenge the Project Team leased an insitu shop front to serve as the consultation centre for feedback, live updates and design review.

The inclusive strategy paid off and the locals worked willingly with the design team to minimise disruption and expedite delivery. The result is a state-of-the-art street for 21st century living that offers a beautiful tree-lined boulevard with seamlessly integrated shared zones supported by smart technology connecting everything from available parking to solar charging street furniture.

The jury congratulated the project team for achieving excellence through a truly exemplary design and engagement process that will serve as a best practice precedent for years to come.

Images: City of Unley

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The result is a state-of-the-art street for 21st century living that offers a beautiful tree-lined boulevard with seamlessly integrated shared zones supported by smart technology connecting everything from available parking to solar charging street furniture.

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REGIONAL

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South Australia Award Regional Achievement in Landscape Architecture Award

Image: Grant Schwartzkopff Taylor Riverfront Precinct Jensen PLUS with Renmark Paringa Council Erawirung Country

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Project Details

project Taylor Riverfront Precinct entrant practice Jensen PLUS with Renmark Paringa Council

aboriginal nation Erawirung Country client Renmark Paringa Council state award 2021 South Australia Award of Regional Achievement in Landscape Architecture Award

The Taylor Riverfront Precinct delivers on the first portion of the Urban Design Framework that Jensen Plus authored, with the revitalised precinct delivering confidence in Renmark as a place to live, work and visit, which encourages civic pride and opportunities to engage with the mighty River Murray.

The Taylor Riverfront Precinct has transitioned an underutilised riverfront into a much-loved community asset.

The outcome of the project clearly communicated the relationship between the landscape architect, the stakeholders and community which has ensured this project was successful in creating a hub for people to stay, play and relax in Renmark. It demonstrated how open space can foster public life, with the precinct delivering a valuable contribution to the Riverland community.

The jury was impressed by how the revitalised precinct addressed and interacted with the River and provided the community and visitors the opportunity to walk out over the river revealing views up and down stream.

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South Australia Award Regional Achievement in Landscape Architecture Award

Barossa Adventure Station

Birdseye Studios

The Barossa Council

Ngadjuri Country

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Project Details

project Barossa Adventure Station entrant practice Birdseye Studios aboriginal nation Ngadjuri Country client The Barossa Council state award 2021 South Australia Award of Regional Achievement in Landscape Architecture Award

The playspace draws inspiration from the heritage of the site and works sympathetically with the natural topography, crafting play opportunities which echo activities and movements from the site’s former railway and local agricultural heritage.

This project succeeds in creating a transformational parkland for the Barossa Valley which integrated play into the natural landscape, providing health and wellbeing outcomes for the Barossa Valley Community.

The Barossa Adventure Station delivered on Council’s vision in the redevelopment of the Station Precinct, supporting the conservation of the station building and platform, creating a regional destination for the Barossa Valley community.

The playspace draws inspiration from the heritage of the site and works sympathetically with the natural topography, crafting play opportunities which echo activities and movements from the site’s

former railway and local agricultural heritage.

The design embraced the need for a regional recreational resource, incorporating a playspace, skate park, mountain bike trail, exercise equipment, picnic and market space provisions in a well-crafted, curated and presented open space.

The Barossa Adventure Station provides a destination for people of all ages, through the creation of an engaging, interactive experience, which creates a place with a strong sense of community where people can meet, linger and have fun.

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Healthy Parks Healthy People SA

Healthy Parks Healthy People SA is a collaborative approach between health and environment agencies to support South Australians to spend more time engaging with our natural environment.

The approach aims to highlight the power of nature and parks for their health and wellbeing benefits. Facilitated by Green Adelaide, Wellbeing SA and the Department for Environment and Water, Healthy Parks Healthy People SA is committed to creating a greener, healthier and more liveable South Australia.

The second generation of the Healthy Parks Healthy People SA framework (2021 – 2026) describes the evidence supporting contact with nature for improved community health and wellbeing and provides a platform for collaboration across sectors to deliver action on seven key focus areas.

Healthy Parks Healthy People SA focus areas:

• Promoting physical activity in nature

• Mental health benefits of contact with nature

• Promoting the cultural value of Connection to Country for Aboriginal health and wellbeing

• Community health and wellbeing in a changing climate

• Nature education and childhood development

• Green infrastructure in urban settings

• Biodiversity, conservation and human health.

The vision for Healthy Parks Healthy People SA supports all South Australians to experience the health and wellbeing benefits of being connected to nature.

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Healthy Parks Healthy People SA are proud to be a Major Partner of the AILA SA Awards and sponsor of the Healthy Parks Healthy People SA Award in 2021.

Together with the Australian

Landscape Architects SA, the Healthy Parks Healthy People SA partnership identified six key principles for Quality Green Public Space. To find out more, visit Better Greener

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FIS: 20102.1 Landscape professionals, urban planners, local councils and regional authorities can use the principles when planning, designing, and implementing green public spaces to better support liveability outcomes in our neighbourhoods. 1. Promote community health and wellbeing 2. Connect with nature 3. Build stronger communities 4. Deliver connectivity and access for all 5. Contribute to neighbourhood character 6. Support resilient neighbourhoods

Healthy Parks Healthy People SA are proud to be a Major Partner of the AILA SA Awards and sponsor of the Healthy Parks Healthy People SA Award in 2021.

HEALTHY PARKS HEALTHY PEOPLE

Image: Tonsley Forests by Oxigen/Image by Oxigen

Sponsored by:

2021 Healthy Parks Healthy People SA

Tonsley Forests Oxigen Pty Ltd Renewal SA Kaurna Country

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The new urban and green heart of the former car manufacturing site within an emergent innovation precinct, embraces its industrial past whilst acknowledging a newer, greener future.

Project Details

Tonsley

Ltd aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client Renewal SA state award 2021 South Australia Award of Regional Achievement in Landscape Architecture Award

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Tonsley Forests demonstrates a leading commitment by the State Government to create a new type of green public space in Adelaide, a city with a strong tradition of formal parks and squares and natural open spaces.

The new urban and green heart of the former car manufacturing site within an emergent innovation precinct, embraces its industrial past whilst acknowledging a newer, greener future.

The adaptive re-use of the

former production line building used for making cars becomes a quiet place for immersion and contemplation, meeting and talking, and a place for people to discover a new type of making. Open to all, the innovative garden showcases how we can improve our relationships with buildings and courtyards, creating more resilient workplaces and communities.

The Jury commended Renewal SA for its leadership and Oxigen for the exemplary outcomes achieved.

Image: Oxigen project Forests entrant practice Oxigen

2021 Healthy Parks Healthy People SA Commendation

The Kaurna Learning Circle & Karrawirra Parinangku – University of Adelaide Northern Campus Redevelopment Oxigen Pty Ltd The University of Adelaide Kaurna Country

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Project Details

It is a new place to learn more about the Kaurna people and their special connection to country, and the fundamental design elements reinforce this aspect.

Acknowledging the importance of reconciliation and our collective connection to country, the Kaurna Learning Circle is a place of reflection and inclusivity on the banks of Karrawirra Pari/River Torrens and open to all. It is a new place to learn more about the Kaurna people and their special connection to country, and the fundamental design elements reinforce this aspect.

Connecting with nature and building stronger communities,

the project realises a special place from a former car park to a place for people to enjoy, reflect, and meet.

The Jury commended the University’s master plan and the design by Oxigen of the new place, opening up the campus with greener spaces for students, staff and visitors.

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2021 Healthy Parks Healthy People SA Commendation

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Wilfred Taylor Reserve Nature Playspace City of Onkaparinga (Client& Entrant) and Peter Semple Landscape Architects Kaurna Country

Project Details

project Wilfred Taylor Reserve Nature Playspace

entrant practice City of Onkaparinga and Peter Semple Landscape Architects

aboriginal nation Kaurna Country client City of Onkaparinga

state award 2021 South Australia Landscape Architecture Award for Play Spaces & 2021 Healthy Parks Healthy People SA award.

The co-creation of much needed parks and green open spaces is a process that must engender positive community health and wellbeing, and in the case of the Wilfred Taylor Reserve, a stronger sense of place and belonging. Commendable for its inclusive process and pragmatic outcomes, the project integrates a range of often-competing sports and recreational activities adjacent to a water course and other community facilities creating

a positive contribution to the Morphett Vale and wider community. The Jury commended the process and the outcomes at the Wilfred Taylor Reserve.

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Wellbeing SA

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

The agency works across the disease continuum in primary, secondary and tertiary prevention to lead the system change required to support health and wellbeing, and embed prevention across the lifespan.

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 www.wellbeingsa.sa.gov.au

LET’S CHANGE THE CULTURE OF OUR CITY LIFE. HOW ?

Green Adelaide has been established to create a cooler, greener, wilder and climate resilient Adelaide that celebrates our unique culture.

A top priority of Green Adelaide is to partner with organisations, governments and the community to create a more liveable metropolitan SA across the seven priority areas of:

1. coastal management

2. water resources and wetlands

1. coastal management

3. green streets and flourishing parklands

2. water resources and wetlands

4. biodiversity and water sensitive urban design

3. green streets and flourishing parklands

5. fauna, flora and ecosystem health in the urban environment

4. biodiversity and water sensitive urban design

6. controlling pest animals and plants, and

5. fauna, flora and ecosystem health in the urban environment

7. nature education.

6. controlling pest animals and plants, and

7. nature education.

Find out more about Green Adelaide at greenadelaide.sa.gov.au

A top priority of Green Adelaide is to partner with organisations, governments and the community to create a more liveable metropolitan SA across the seven priority areas of: 1. coastal management 2. water resources and wetlands 3. green streets and flourishing parklands 4. biodiversity and water sensitive urban design 5. fauna, flora and ecosystem health in the urban environment 6. controlling pest animals and plants, and 7. nature education.

Find out more about Green Adelaide at greenadelaide.sa.gov.au

A significant initiative being driven by Green Adelaide is the establishment of Adelaide as a National Park City.

A National Park City doesn’t mean a place that has a conservation framework, like our usual national parks in Australia. The concept is borrowed from the UK, with London being coined the first National Park City in 2019. A National Park City is a focused community effort to improve a city’s liveability, through a better connection between people and nature. Adelaide has been consistently rated as one of the world’s most liveable cities and now is the time for Greater Adelaide to become Australia’s first National Park City.

Landscape architects are a significant part of the solution in creating a more liveable city and making Adelaide a National Park City. You are designing our future and shaping the culture of our city.

Sign the National Parks City Charter at: adelaidenationalparkcity.org

PRESIDENT'S AWARD

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

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The 2021 AILA SA President’s Award is pleased to recognise, celebrate and encourage all local and state authorities to look to the significance of the City of Onkaparinga’s progressive endeavours as exemplars to the practice of landscape architecture in South Australia.

Project Details

project The Nest Early Education Centre of Excellence entrant practice Wearthy aboriginal nation Yugambeh client The Nest Early Education Centre of Excellence

state award 2021 South Australia President's Award

The 2021 AILA SA Presidents Award acknowledges, celebrates and recognises the level of commitment by the City of Onkaparinga to ‘get on’ with action on climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as placing social outcomes above other measures.

A common issue in growing cities, and particularly in peri-urban areas, are legacies of poor urban design outcomes, with car-centric suburbs and lower amenity streets and parks when compared to inner urban areas. Often these areas are hotter with lower levels of tree canopy, and lower levels of biodiversity and habitat protection, retention and enhancement.

While ultimately responsible for these streets, places and communities, the City of Onkaparinga has taken on this challenge by proactively initiating strategic landscape and urban design initiatives to deliver quality outcomes for communities through direct influence and advocacy on statutory processes and operational delivery.

The Aldinga Framework Plan identifies key urban design principles which respond to the unique attributes of the landscape, the prominent views to the Willunga Escarpment and the critical interface with the surrounding McLaren Vale Character Preservation District. The Aldinga Framework

Image: City of Onkaringa

Plan demonstrates the rich fabric of community, landscape and place that is intrinsic to Aldinga and critical context for the successful integration of any new development.

The Suburb Improvement Program integrates the Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage into the program criteria, alongside tree canopy cover and urban heat island effect. This fundamental shift to the

delivery of the street tree planting program ensures the prioritisation of areas of social disadvantage. This is a seismic shift in shaping our streetscapes for all people.

Now, more than ever, it is critical we look forward to greater influence being brought to bear upon the agencies delivering our new and infill suburbs through the collaboration with public and private sector landscape architects and urban design professionals. Bravo!

2021 AILA SA FUTURE LEADER AWARD STUDENT RECIPIENT.

WINNER

Claire’s final dissertation demonstrated well-organised, precise and systematic research with tangible outcomes for the benefit of users as well as the immediate landscape. For her study, Claire embarked on the difficult task of conducting independent research on the deceptively simple topic of public toilets.

Claire is also an active and enthusiastic participant in a number of professional groups, including SAILA Fresh, assisting with and organising AILA events and most recently has taken on the role as Chair of the AILA National Honours Committee. She continually seeks to expand her knowledge by attending AILA’s Festivals and actively travelling to observe South Australian places to experience, investigate and understand our landscape.

Claire is a strong advocate for Landscape Architecture in her personal and professional life and is a worthy recipient of the Future Leader Award.

winner Claire Morford-Waite state award 2021 AILA SA Future Leader Award Recipient. Presented by:

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NOMINEES

Azhrudin Coulthard Kaihang Zhou Samantha Godakumbura Stephanie Clutterbuck Stephanie Pope

2021 People's Choice Award

Woodcroft College ELC Outdoor Learning Area Swanbury Penglase Woodcroft College Kaurna Country

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This project’s innovative outcome is the display of the engineering design required to store 100m3 of water. An above ground swale and dry creek bed anchors the space and creates a varied educational platform, which mimics the natural water cycles of the Onkaparinga River.

Project Details

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

This space is an educational landscape that accommodates children from ages 3 to 5, with an infrastructure-led design solution that marries nature play and the Reggio Emilia philosophy of the facility.

Image: Swanbury Penglase project Woodcroft College ELC Outdoor Learning Area entrant practice Swanbury Penglase aboriginal nation Kaurna client Woodcroft College state award 2021 AILA SA and Heyne's Wholesale Nursery People's Choice Award

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

SOUTH AUSTRALIA 2021

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

AILA Awards Jury

Janelle Arbon (Jury Chair)

Nick Perason

Tara Graham-Cochrane

Greg Grabasch

Chloe Organ Andrew Wallace John Byleveld

Rewatch the 2021 Awards: https://youtu.be/xEKDsYHi1zA

View the 2021 Winners Gallery: https://aila.awardsplatform. com/gallery/LGAalZGl

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Project: Barossa Adventure Station by Birdseye Studios Image by: Sweet Lime Photography

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

SOUTH AUSTRALIA 2021

Project: Walker Place by WAX Design Image by: Sweet Lime Photography