Issue 159 August 2018

Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape architecture and urban design.

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Contributors
Mauro Baracco is a practicing architect and a director of Baracco and Wright Architects. He has a PhD in architecture from RMIT University, where he is an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Design. Annette Condello is a senior lect
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Perspective
We open our August issue with a review by Jillian Walliss of Perth’s recently completed Yagan Square, a much-anticipated part of the reunification of Perth’s CBD and its night-life/entertainment district, historically separated from each other by rai
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Noticeboard
The Brisbane City Council has released a draft masterplan for the redevelopment of the polluted Oxley Creek. The creek and its surrounds have a long history of agriculture, extractive mining, industrial uses, illegal dumping and wastewater treatment
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2018 National Awards For Planning Excellence
The Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) held its 2018 National Awards for Planning Excellence ceremony in Perth on 9 May, awarding people and projects from around Australia for outstanding achievements in planning. New South Wales and Western Austr
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An Everyday Civic
Yagan Square Perth, Western Australia Aspect Studios with Lyons Architecture and Iredale Pedersen Hook Since the early 1990s, the ambitions of Reconciliation have evolved from addressing the misunderstandings of Australian history and race relations
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Jocelyn Chiew: Shaping The Future Campus
Education is big business in Australia. The surging $28 billion sector1 is now the third largest national export after iron ore and coal, with the onshore international education sector forecast to grow from 650,000 enrolments to 940,000 by 2025. The
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Rethinking The Contemporary
The Adelaide Contemporary Design Competition sought proposals for a much-needed annex to the Art Gallery of South Australia. The new gallery, to be located on the vacated Royal Adelaide Hospital site adjacent to the Adelaide Botanic Garden, may be th
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New Heritage
Railway Square Midland, Western Australia Place Laboratory Located a thirty-minute drive (around nineteen kilometres) north-east of Perth’s CBD is the heritage suburb of Midland. It was originally established as a site of industry and its history pro
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Brief Garden
“The harmony of the garden at Brief is unexpected … one of the most famous in the Orient … a proclamation that nature can triumph over the hideous inventions of mankind. In the leafy trees and shrubs the wild birds call and sing. For this is a Paradi
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Juan Grimm
Juan Grimm is arguably the most significant landscape designer working in South America today. Quite a number of us came to know of his career through his lectures in Melbourne and subsequent garden tours to Chile. This new volume on Grimm’s work, ed
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Designing For Repair
Landscape architecture and architecture both manipulate land. Landscape architects usually do it in a way that is reparative to the natural environment – it goes with the materials at hand. However, the issues are shared ones: in Australia, we will i
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The Australian Pavilion Venice Architecture Biennale
Repair, Australia’s interpretation of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale’s overall theme of “Freespace,” opened on a delightfully sunny morning at the Giardini. A happy crowd of a hundred and fifty or more waited patiently in the dappled shade at
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2018 Landscape Australia Conference: Sharing Local Knowledge for a Global Future
The Landscape Australia Conference began with a lively and impassioned presentation by landscape designer Chang Huai-yan, the director of the Singapore-based practice Salad Dressing. Offering up many dedications to his mentor – the enigmatic, Austral

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