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Cones, Bert Flugelman.
Later in the month hundreds of landscape architects will head to Canberra for this year's Festival of Landscape Architecture.
That seems like an excuse - not that any is needed - to revisit one of my favourite works of Australian landscape architecture: the Sculpture Gardens at the National Gallery of Australia.
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We've had the opportunity to work on many terrific new projects this year.
Whilst we can't tell you about all of them yet, we've updated our Projects page with others we're delighted to share.
A couple of these will start construction soon, and we're looking forward to seeing our clients' visions come to reality.
See them on the Projects page here.
Read moreRecently we've been working on a concept for a new garden in Taringa.
Our lovely clients are building a new architect-designed home, and there is a fabulous fig tree at the front of the property.
As is often the case, the design brief developed as we progressed: some things they were very clear about, others things were definitely up for exploration.
This article shows how we take a client brief, develop an initial concept design, and then refine it in response to feedback.
We love the final concept, and think the design has gotten stronger with every iteration.
See what you think...
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Photography: David Kelly
Thanks to Brisbane News for two things:
My truly wonderful, generous client, Susan, and I had a great morning recently showing writer Lizzie Stafford through the garden as she prepared for the story.
So thanks are also due to both Susan and Lizzie!
You can check out this issue of the mag online here.
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Claude Monet's house and garden at Giverny. Image: Michal Osmenda, via Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licence.
This month we enjoyed reading about:
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Read moreRecently SBS television's Dateline programme ran a story on a Danish 'forest kindergarten', where kids are actively encouraged to run free, play with knives, climb high, explore fallen trees and more.
The show drew a huge audience response both here in Australia and overseas.
Click here to watch the episode.
In Seattle a man has been ordered to demolish part of a home in order to keep the crazy-ass playground he's built from recycled materials in the backyard.
Read the original article here.
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