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Vale Bruce Mackenzie 1932 – 2024
Bruce Mackenzie was a doyen of the profession of landscape architecture in Australia. His practices, Bruce Mackenzie and Associates (BMA) and Bruce Mackenzie Design, jointly spanned more than fifty years. He was a reflective practitioner who valued e
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2023 Landscape Student Prize
The projects in this year’s Landscape Student Prize include a scheme for a system of novel habitats that balances the needs of both human and non-human inhabitants, a project that addresses women’s safety in urban environments, and a design for a coa
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The Landscape Studio
The Landscape Studio is a Nairobibased landscape architecture practice with a diverse portfolio of work across East Africa. Founders Chloe Humphreys and Michael Humphreys presented at Melbourne School of Design in late 2023 as part of the Dean’s Lect
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Spectacular And Resilient Plantings
Ozbreed’s new range of exotic flower species has been bred specifically for the Australian climate, producing spectacular flowers that beat the heat. “Border Blue™ Dianthus ‘DIAN 202’ PBR Intended” is a game-changer with vivid blue foliage and showy,
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A greener outlook: IGLU Summer Hill
Summer Hill in Sydney’s inner-west looks like a toy town, the kind a railway miniature enthusiast might make. A lively high street leads to a train station dating from the late nineteenth century. Parks a walkable distance from public transport are s
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Play And Recreation
Designed and produced in Australia by leading playground manufacturer A_Space, the Spire Towers range takes play to new heights. Structures are available in different configurations to meet a variety of needs and can be themed to suit the unique char
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Planting A Language Of Care
Is the language we use and how gardens and landscapes are cared for constraining our approach to planting design? Coming from the perspective of a gardener, the word “maintenance,” for instance, doesn’t seem compatible with the activity of caring for
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Mac Point: A Case Study
Mac Point is a 9.3-hectare government-owned waterfront site on the Port of Hobart along the eastern edge of the inner city. The site is surrounded by water to the north, east and south and, like Hobart itself, is defined beautifully by the water and
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Expressing Transformation
With learning options diversifying to include an array of online platforms, many Australian universities have been facing the challenge of justifying a sprawling suburban existence. Tactical placemaking efforts have been looking to counter this trend
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Should Landscape Architects Be More Engaged In Agriculture?
Traditional landscape practice is highly constrained by the willingness of clients to commission project work. Landscape research, on the other hand, is less limited by commercial pressures with the result that it can more freely engage in areas or t
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Deeper Waters: Designing For The Sea In A Changing Climate
More than a decade before the publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring in 1962, Carson wrote The Sea Around Us, the second book in a trilogy about the sea and its connections to life on earth. From its biodiverse ecosystems governed by the l
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Ensuring A Strong And Sustainable Profession
As landscape practitioners, we often wonder whether we are still in an emerging profession. What would it be like to be able to tell every planning minister and every climate-adaptation leader that within the built environment professions, landscape
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Restoration And Connection
Brisbane City Council (BCC) estimates that there are 14.5 kilometres of fully lined concrete channels within its overall drainage network, including 1.6 kilometres within the Norman Creek catchment of central Brisbane. Heavy rains and flooding are re
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Making Greater Impacts
Many of the articles in this May issue of Landscape Architecture Australia consider how we can foster richer and closer relationships between the human and nonhuman inhabitants of our environments. Among the projects reviewed in this edition are an i
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Ocean Theatre
Connecting with wild and awe-inspiring species is a special privilege, one that takes us beyond ourselves. And, of all experiences, few spark such wonder and delight as the sighting of whales. Australia is a great place to witness marine mammal migra
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Contested Territory: Streetscape As Landscape
Streetscapes are a 24-hour publicly accessible landscape that most people engage with on a daily basis – yet many would not consider them landscapes at all. A Polish study that explored the shift in university students’ perceptions of different types
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Designing The Microbiome
Jake Robinson is a microbial ecologist and researcher in restoration genomics at Flinders University. He has a particular interest in the relationship between biodiversity and human health and on developing new strategies for restoring ecosystems. Hi
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Deep Time, Observation And Geological Processes
The project Opal Imaginary is an ongoing exploration of the extractive landscapes of the opal-mining industry and its embedded identities and emotional-cultural histories across time. It takes place in South West Queensland and developed out of my pa
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Contributors
Jac Semmler is a horticulturalist, educator and director of plant practice Super Bloom. She has particular expertise in dry summer planting design. Marina Couchman is a landscape architecture graduate working in Meanjin. Her work is informed by place
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Tech Tools Of The Trade
A practice’s digital toolkit is typically populated with the offerings of software giants, such as Autodesk, Adobe and Nemetschek. While some practices might engage specialists to build new tools to fill in the gaps, these efforts typically remain pr
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Women In Innovation Leadership
Leadership at the organizational level is an infinitely intriguing dimension of innovation. It’s about the people who make change happen through decisions, actions, and role-modelling behaviour; they set the tone of the invisible layers of culture. B
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Measuring Performance For Nature Recovery
Climate change, biodiversity loss and resource scarcity have been calling for an urgent rethink about the way we design and develop the built environment. Science-based targets are being set for nature with the aim of reversing these man-made impacts
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Green Solutions – Gardens And Plants
Plant Tiles featuring Zoysia tenuifolia offer a host of benefits for a low-maintenance, finely textured and visually appealing lawn. The tiles can be cut to shape to simplify landscaping or lawn installation, providing a more resilient, eco-friendly,
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Progressing Processes Of Change
This first issue of Landscape Architecture Australia for 2024 focuses on innovation in the landscape architecture industry. Our guest editors, Jela Ivankovic-Waters and Darren Hickmott, have collated a series of articles that explore what innovation
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Generating Narratives
With some exceptions, landscape architecture and architecture have had a limited engagement with the medium of video games as a form of culture and design expression. While practitioners from the built environment work within video game development,
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Innovating In Education
In late 2023, Landscape Architecture Australia brought together representatives from Australia’s eight landscape architectuåre programs, along with AILA’s Education Committee Chair, to discuss trends in education. Whether you think universities exist
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