The Australian Institute of Architects (AILA) has announced the winners of its 2018 National Landscape Architecture Awards. 

The annual awards program acknowledges how landscape architects are helping to shape cities and towns to tackle the major issues facing people from all walks of life, including an ageing population, climbing obesity and diabetes rates, transport challenges and the increasing importance of positive mental health.  

“The awarded projects are sensitive, thoughtful and ambitious responses to repairing and improving our Australian landscapes. This is of critical importance at a time of increasing urbanisation and climate change,” says AILA National Awards jury chair Sara Kjaersgaard. 

Projects celebrated included the Sunshine Coast’s Palmwoods Town Square, through to smaller projects like the Ian Potter Children’s WILDPLAY Garden and the Darebin Yarra Trail Link. 

The winners include: 

CATEGORY

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARD

Civic Landscape

Newman Town Centre (WA)

  • UDLA

Palmwoods New Town Square (QLD)

  • Sunshine Coast Council

Railway Square (WA)

  • Place Laboratory

Earth Sciences Garden (VIC)

  • Rush Wright Associates

Parks and Open Space

Bungarribee at Doonside (NSW)

  • JMD Design

Rockhampton Riverside (QLD)

  • Urbis

Oaklands Park and Wetland (SA)

  • TCL

Alpine Better Places Porepunkah (VIC)

  • MDG LAs

Play Spaces

Optus Stadium Park (WA)

  • HASSELL

Mukanthi Nature Playspace (SA)

  • PSLA Playspaces

BallamBumps (VIC)

  • Playce

Ian Potter Children’s WILDPLAY Garden (NSW)

  • Aspect

Infrastructure

Darebin Yarra Trail Link (VIC)

  • Vic Roads

Skeleton Creek Bridges (VIC)

  • Site Office

Cultural Heritage

Plantbank (NSW)

  • 360 degrees LA

Point Nepean National Park MP (VIC)

  • TCL

Railway Square (WA)

  • Place Laboratory

Land Management

The Living Knowledge Stream for Curtin University (WA)

  • Syrinx Environmental

N/A

Tourism

N/A

HOTA Outdoor Stage (QLD)

  • CUSP

Maravista (QLD)

  • CUSP

Urban Design

Optus Stadium Park (WA)

  • HASSELL

Fish Lane (QLD)

  • RPS

Victoria Square Kerang (VIC)

  • Hansen Partnership

Landscape Planning

Chain of Ponds (VIC)

  • Site Office

Southern Parklands Vision 2036 (NSW)

  • Turf Design and TDEP

Research, Policy and Communications

Green Infrastructure Planning a National Green Network (WA)

  • Simon Kilbane

Greener Places (NSW)

  • GANSW

Monash University Civil Engineering Hydraulics Living Lab (VIC)

  • ASPECT Studios

Interpretive Wonderings (NSW)

  • Interpretive Wonderings Landscape Architecture

Community Contribution

Place of Healing (WA)

  • UDLA

Palmwoods New Town Square (QLD)

  • Sunshine Coast Council

Small Projects

N/A

Immigration Museum Activation Project (VIC)

  • Rush Wright Associates

Valley Lake (VIC)

  • McGregor Coxall

Gardens

N/A

Eve Apartments (NSW)

  • 360 degrees LA

Vic Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VIC)

  • Rush Wright Associates

International

Temaiku Land and Urban Planning, Kiribati

  • Jacobs

Lingang Bird Airport

  • McGregor Coxall

DaNang Railway Connectivity Improvement and Urban Redevelopment Study

  • Hansen Partnership