R is for Ruin

August 30, 2015 Amalie Wright

In the past week two major public realm projects opened in Sydney: Barangaroo Reserve and The Goods Line.

Both are on my list to visit next time I'm in Sydney, and both were created on former industrial sites...

Q is for bBQ

August 16, 2015 Amalie Wright

So…’Q’…

Tricky, huh.

bbQ is, admittedly, drawing a long bow, and I have to confess we’ve arrived at this juncture after consideration and rapid rejection of‘Q is for Queen Bee’, ‘Q is for Quandry’ (no kidding) and ‘Q is for Quirky’ (shudder).

P is for Play

August 2, 2015 Amalie Wright

When I was a kid we played outside all the time.

I loved riding my bike round and around the canefields behind our house. My brother spent years climbing on to our shed roof and then hurtling himself off on a flying fox.

A friend’s place had the perfect combination of chook shed, tree, open lawn, and dark under-house area.

O is for Occasion (Landscapology is 3!)

July 19, 2015 Amalie Wright

Good things come in threes.

Take primary colours, the three little pigs (and their good lessons for architects), Harry, Ron and Hermione (yes!), 3D, and how about 'three sheets to the wind'.

Speaking of which, today we are popping the champagne corks to celebrate 3 years of Landscapology.

N is for Nightshade

July 5, 2015 Amalie Wright

I remember experiencing an almost unseemly level of excitement when I learned that potatoes and tomatoes were part of the nightshade family.

Nightshade…the very word draws you (me) in.

Maybe it was reading Mists of Avalon as an impressionable teenager: all those strong, misunderstood women who knew how to heal a handsome knight or take down a rogue one with a tea made from this or that garden clipping...