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Landscapology is a big fan and long time resident of Spring Hill.
On 25 February, UDAL, the Urban Design Alliance, presents its first event of the year, a forum discussing the opportunities and challenges of development in the historic suburb, particularly in light of Brisbane City Council's planning updates.
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Read moreWe've been working with wonderful clients to create space for a productive garden and improve pool fencing on their steeply sloping site.
Planting has just been completed - aren't these Blechnum 'Silver Lady' ferns beautiful!
We'll keep you updated as it matures.
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Cycling through the City Botanic Gardens, 1896.
Last week I was delighted to take a group of conference visitors on a tour through Brisbane's City Botanic Gardens.
I'd read a book about the first curator, Walter Hill, and picked up a few interesting facts about the gardens over the years, but this was a great opportunity to delve in more detail into what the Queensland Heritage Register describes as "the most significant, non-Aboriginal cultural landscape in Queensland, having a continuous horticultural history since 1828, without any significant loss of land area or change in use over that time."
Click to read more about the history of the gardens.
Read moreVery excited that the Toogoolawah Condensery Packing Shed has now opened as an art gallery, with architecture by PHAB Architects.
We are proud to have played a small role in this great adaptive reuse community project.
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Read moreThe State Library of Queensland is hosting the Asia Pacific Architecture Forum this March. Lucky for me, I am one of two local designers who've been invited to rummage through the library's collection of Queensland ephemera, select a couple of pieces and respond in some way.
I've always loved this photo of a diving competition held at the disused Morningside quarry, and it's got me thinking.
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