Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape Architecture Australia is an authoritative and contemporary record of landscape architecture, urban design and land-use planning in Australia, providing independent reviews of public, commercial and residential projects, plus independent, commissioned comment on the issues facing landscape architecture and its practitioners today. It Is the national magazine of the Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA).

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ENGAGING REGIONAL IDENTITIES

Shaping future growth: Formative pruning for young trees • The process of regularly and properly pruning young trees in their early stages of growth can help to nurture structurally sound, visually balanced trees with lower future maintenance needs.

SHAPING A DYNAMIC AND GROWING PROFESSION • A message from AILA CEO Ben Stockwin

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STREET + GARDEN

The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture

Kia Whakanuia te Whenua: People, Place, Landscape

Nature-themed play: Diamond Creek Reserve • In Melbourne’s north-east, a site’s bushland beauty, and the area’s gold-rush history, is reflected in a nature-themed playground that offers physical challenges while maximizing safety and sustainability. Photo: Andrew Gash Photography

Kerb #28: Designing for coexistence in a time of crisis

Tree Story

A welcome encounter • A new community hub in Melbourne’s south-east celebrates the diversity of its multicultural community through an exuberant approach to colour and texture, and careful attention to detail.

Gondwana in the city • With Fish Lane Town Square, RPS Group has worked with Richards and Spence to transform a forgotten, underutilized space under a Brisbane railway bridge into an intimate urban park replete with tangled ferns and climbers.

Engaging regional identities

Choreographing coastal complexities: Phillip Island • Phillip Island has long captivated visitors to Victoria with its dramatic landscapes and coastal ecologies. Mark Frisby reflects on the work that has gone into maintaining the island’s unique biota and framing experiences of the island for all.

Raise your project’s profile with a registered horticulturist • The Australian Institute of Horticulture (AIH) represents a wide variety of occupations devoted to promoting excellence and environmental responsibility in the plant sciences. The use of a registered horticulturist on your project will ensure an ethical, professional and exciting outcome.

Collaborating on Yawuru Country • Developed in 2010, the Yawuru Cultural Management Plan aims to guide the management of Yawuru land and waters in Western Australia’s Kimberley region as one interconnected cultural system. A decade on from the plan’s implementation, its impacts are being felt in the community, with projects including the recently completed Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa (Cultural Wellbeing Centre) just one of many initiatives gaining life from the project.

Making space in Sydney’s west • Expressive and epic works of landscape architecture are giving Western Sydney a confident new ecological identity and much-needed breathing space.

Entangling time and place at Budj Bim • Aunty Eileen Alberts takes RMIT University academic Jock Gilbert on a journey through time and place on Country in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed cultural landscapes of Budj Bim in western Victoria.

Going bush: Designing between recreation and conservation in Western Australia • Since its beginnings in the 1980s, the Recreation, Planning and Design Unit of the WA Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions has played a pivotal role in the development of progressive approaches to the management of the state’s breathtakingly diverse regional landscapes.

Framing the genius loci: Mount Wellington •...