2012 national landscape architecture awards winners

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has announced this year's winners for its annual awards program including the UDLA project in Yawuru country which took out the AILA Australian Medal.

The UDLA was commissioned by the Yawuru people of the Broome area to assist in the creation of a long-term management plan of Yawuru country, which has resulted in the creation of a document called the Yawuru Culture and Heritage Sub-committee.

The document outlines conservation plans, land management decisions and design activities in marine and terrestrial areas Australia-wide.

UDLA Director Greg Grabasch said that Yawuru's decision to undertake such an initiative can be seen as a strong empowering precedent for all communities that have an inseparable custodian relationship towards their landscape, it is a unique 'place-based' plan.

The landscape architect said:"This project goes beyond a one way consultation approach towards a process of facilitating, engaging and empowering culturally known understandings into a form that could be understood in a cross-cultural and inter-generational way, a key to the project’s understanding and success. This Yawuru Cultural Management Plan precedent and process has the opportunity to respectfully drive planning, conservation and land management decisions, including design activities in marine and terrestrial areas, certainly within Broome and possibly Australia-Wide."

AILA National Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence

DESIGN

Recipient: Plan (E)Project: Rio Tinto Naturescape, Kings Park & Botanic GardensClient: Botanic Gardens & Park Authority (WA)The winner of the Award of Excellence in Design is Rio Tinto Naturescape, Kings Park and Botanic Gardens which created a natural creek system as a play space for children using contemporary design elements such as sculptures and pathways in a bushland setting.

AILA National Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence

PLANNING

Recipient: John Mongard Landscape ArchitectsProject: Bingara and the Living ClassroomClient: Gwydir Shire CouncilJohn Mongard Landscape Architects have won the award for Excellence in the Planning section for its project: Bingara and The Living Classroom. The project engaged a local community to develop strategies to 'future-proof' its town. AILA National Landscape Architecture Award

DESIGN

Recipient: Jeavons Landscape ArchitectsProject: Clifton Hill Railway Project LandscapeClient: Department of Transport (Victoria)Jeavons Landscape Architects has reclaimed a degraded portion of the public realm along the Merri Creek and given it new life as a space for users and stakeholders alike.As a design, the Clifton Hill Railway Project Landscape overcomes the challenges of unifying a long and linear site with multiple level changes to achieve an accessible path through revegetated creek-land. The planting is meant to reflect the character of the site and the materials are recycled and salvaged.

The AILA Edna Walling National Award for Residential Designed LandscapesRecipient: Fresh Landscape DesignProject: Roogulli (Bywong NSW)Sustainable residential design is behind Fresh Landscape's project Roogulli which had a small budget but improvised using low impact recycled materials and local grassland plants. The design aims to be water sensitive and is a study in regenerating farming and managing native grasslands.AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardDESIGN Recipient: ASPECT StudiosProject: Pirrama Park

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardDESIGN Recipient: ASPECT studiosProject: Jack Evans Boat Harbour - Tweed Heads

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardDESIGN Recipient: Andrew Green (formerly Gamble McKinnon Green)Project: SW1

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardDESIGN Recipient: Ecoscape (Australia) Pty LtdProject: Mueller Park Universal Playspace

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardDESIGN Recipient: Vee DesignProject: Robelle Domain

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardDESIGN Recipient: McGregor CoxallProject: The Australian Garden and New Entry at the National Gallery of Australia

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardDESIGN Recipient: Taylor Cullity LethleanProject: Wild Sea Exhibit, Melbourne Zoo

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardDESIGN Recipient; Spackman Mossop MichaelsProject: Humanities and Science Campus (Parliamentary Triangle, Canberra)

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardLAND MANAGEMENT Recipient: Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape ArchitectureProject: Lollipop Creek

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardPLANNING Recipient: UDLAProject: Kimberley LNG Precinct Strategic Assessment: Ethnobiological Report, James Prices Point

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardPLANNING Recipient: City of BendigoProject: Bendigo Botanic Gardens Master Plan

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardPLANNING Recipient: Harris HobbsProject: Bonner P-6 School & Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islander Learning & Cultural Centre

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardPLANNING Client: McGregor CoxallProject: Itaoui Woodland Park

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardPLANNING Recipient: Clouston AssociatesProject: Clarence River Way Masterplan

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardURBAN DESIGN Recipient: Spackman Mossop MichaelsProject: Chinatown Public Domain Plan

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardURBAN DESIGN Recipient: Taylor Cullity LethleanProject: Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga Urban Regeneration Project

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardRESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION Recipient: Zoë MetherellProject: A comparative study of Melbourne’s freeway planting designs — implications for biodiversity conservation

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardRESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION Recipient: Oxigen Landscape Architects, Urban DesignProject: Green Infrastructure

AILA National Landscape Architecture AwardRESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION Recipient: HASSELLTitle: LESS (Local-area Envisioning and Sustainability scoring System)

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