Innehållsförteckning för Issue 158 May 2018 från Landscape Architecture Australia

Optus Stadium Burswood, Western Australia Hassell, Cox Architecture, HKS When the Graham Farmer freeway opened in 2000, it revealed to the citizens of Perth an elevated view of the Swan River and the river’s edge. The freeway and its tunnel (colloquially known as the Polly Pipe, after footy legend Graham “Polly” Farmer) expedited the masses from the northern suburbs to the south by tunnelling under the city’s north, crossing over the Swan and landing on a spongy, open expanse of an oxbow peninsula. The view from the road revealed to the east the glorious architectural carcass of the massive East Perth Power Station and to the south, across the peninsula, an underdeveloped neighbourhood of leisure – horses, golfers, paddlers, its primary residents. Despite its proximity to the CBD, the Burswood…

The Ian Potter Children’s Wild Play Garden Centennial Parklands, New South Wales Aspect Studios “That very night in Max’s room a forest grew and grew and grew until his ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around…” The text and illustrations of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are conjure up pure joy and scariness, rolled into one messy, muddy ball of delight. Many of us would like our kids to have more opportunities to safely enjoy dirt and trees; however, the pressures of city-living are making it increasingly difficult for children to engage with nature. “Nature deficit disorder” has become a genuine issue for our inner-city and suburban kids. In its 2016 report card, Active Healthy Kids Australia identified that only 19 percent of Australian…

Early on the morning of 7 July 2006, at the height of the northern Australian dry season, helicopter pilot Chris Morgan and former cultural and environment manager of the Jawoyn Association Ray Whear were on a routine aerial survey of the western Arnhem Land plateau for the Jawoyn people in the Northern Territory’s Top End when they flew across a dark shadow along a long quartzite outcrop just east of the border with Kakadu National Park. They turned the helicopter around and landed nearby to investigate, walking into an incredible art gallery under a horizontal rock roof perched two metres above the surrounding plains. Unlike the more familiar rock-shelters that litter Arnhem Land’s “stone country,” this cathedral-like edifice had its roof held aloft by dozens of vertical rock pillars. How…

Kelly Shannon is an academic currently based at the University of Leuven in Belgium, where she is part of the OSA (Research Urbanism and Architecture) research group. In her work, Shannon tackles contemporary design challenges at both urban and territorial scales. Her projects include the masterplan revision for Cantho and (most recently) a comprehensive plan outlining a future vision for the Mekong Delta Region – both plans have been formally approved by the Vietnamese prime minister. Shannon was the editor of the Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA) from 2010 to 2015. Janina Gosseye — You were trained as an architect and have practised in some of the most renowned architectural offices worldwide, including Mitchell Giurgola Architects in New York and Renzo Piano in Genoa. Over the years, however, your focus…

Home of the Arts Outdoor Stage Surfers Paradise, Queensland ARM Architecture with Topotek 1 and CUSP In February 2018, the Arts Centre Gold Coast became Home of the Arts (HOTA), launching an ambitious program for its recently completed amphitheatre project, the Versatile Outdoor Space (VOS). As the first phase of the Gold Coast Cultural Precinct masterplan led by ARM Architecture and Berlin-based Topotek 1, this outdoor stage underscores the landscape-led ambitions for the redevelopment of the larger Evandale site. Working with Brisbane-based landscape practice CUSP, ARM and Topotek 1 have designed a highly adaptable and multi-layered set of spaces that seeks to draw visitors to the precinct for both scheduled events and informal gatherings. Evandale Park is a 17-hectare pocket of parkland that tucks into the Nerang River on the…

Jock Marshall ReserveNature Walk Clayton, Victoria Urban Initiatives If you are a close follower of landscape architectural and architectural media in this country, you may have noticed that Monash University has been popping up as client quite a bit in recent years. On the back of an award-winning masterplan prepared by MGS Architects in 2011, the university has wasted no time in implementing key projects in its ambition to transform itself and climb the global university rankings. Led by registered architect, landscape architect and urban designer Jocelyn Chiew, Monash’s manager of Campus Design, Quality and Planning, the university has been commissioning significant public realm projects across its two Melbourne campuses, Clayton and Caulfield, at a phenomenal rate. Monash University is Australia’s largest university in terms of student enrolments. Its main…

Like any true gardener, Steven Clegg’s knowledge and love of plants is deeply rooted in the soils and landscapes of his childhood. He recalls with fondness tinkering in his grandmother’s garden in the countryside of south-east Queensland as a young boy, digging around the flowers and fruits, the roses and hydrangeas, and purchasing seedlings wrapped in damp newspaper. A vegetable patch was par for the course for him as a teenager, and at home he took over the family garden and became an industrious potter of plants, seeking his goods at far-flung nurseries and garden shows. “You can’t be a landscape designer unless you get your hands dirty,” he says, as he is about to celebrate the twenty-sixth anniversary of his successful design practice. He has had a predilection for…

The Gold Coast’s largest ever urban renewal project and a Melbourne-inspired laneway adapted for a subtropical setting have received gongs at the 2018 Minister’s Awards for Urban Design in Queensland. Nineteen nominations were received for what is just the second iteration of the program, with two projects achieving awards and three receiving commendations. Parklands by AAA (Arkhefield, ARM and Archipelago) and Lat27 with Grocon received one of the two awards. The project will accommodate 6,500 athletes as part of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games before being transitioned into an integrated, transit-oriented community within the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct. “More than a commonwealth games village, Parklands is a microcosm of sustainable urban living,” the jury stated. “Critically, the project creates a walkable pedestrian friendly environment that supports future…

AILA JOINS FIGHT FOR GENDER EQUITY IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has launched a gender equity project that will investigate the participation of women in landscape architecture. The project has been in development since June 2017 and is being led by AILA’s board and CEO in collaboration with Parlour and Monash XYX Lab. The 2017 AILA salary survey found that while there was equal participation in the profession, men were overrepresented in high-income roles and there was a full-time gender pay gap of about $253 per week. The first stage of the project, to be completed by September 2018, will provide a research base to inform longer-term action and decision-making. aila.org.au CASCADES FEMALE FACTORY COMPETITON WINNERS ANNOUNCED Rush Wright Associates, Liminal Studio and Snøhetta have…

Concrete has many attributes that make it ideal for use in urban landscapes – and for projects outside the city limits. It is strong, durable, economical and sustainable. But concrete is more than just functional. It’s a material that can be shaped and sculpted to express ideas, to create and define beautiful public spaces, and to add layers of texture to urban environments. Australian Age of Dinosaurs Australian Age of Dinosaurs is a small museum designed by Cox Architecture that sits atop a large mesa outside of Winton in north-west Queensland. It houses dinosaur skeletons excavated from the surrounding plains. The ochre-toned building is constructed entirely of tilt-up concrete panels and rusted iron screens. The concrete walls are imprinted with the texture and colour of the mesa, known as The…

The work of Teresa Gali-Izard embraces the messiness of landscapes, allowing them to evolve over time according to environmental and managerial dynamics. Here, the verb “gardening” and its suggestion of a gradual tending to a place takes precedence over “landscape design.” The work of the designer is left simply to the establishment of a structure of choreographed interventions from which something resembling a landscape eventually emerges. Liam Mouritz spoke with Gali-Izard about design as maintenance and landscape across contexts. Liam Mouritz — Your projects could be described as being generated out of conditions of scarcity, both in an environmental and economic sense. This idea seems very relevant to Australia, where we are often faced with a dry climate and less-fertile soils. However, I think we carry with us the baggage…

The opening weekend for Colony: Australia 1770–1861 and Colony: Frontier Wars begins with a Welcome to Country in the foyer of the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia in Federation Square. Arweet Carolyn Briggs of the Boon Wurrung Foundation stands at the lectern, eucalyptus bough in hand, and tells the audience that “Wominjeka” means notonly welcome, but to come: “Ask to come and what is your purpose in coming?” This is a salient question to carry as a reminder for those attendees encountering the exhibition ahead. Colony is an exhibition in two parts, offering past and contemporary perspectives on our shared and complex history. The first part, Colony: Australia 1770–1861, charts European settlement and the emergence of Australia’s colonies through an impressive survey of paintings, prints and decorative objects, displayed in…