Project: Kenilworth Designer Dunny

February 28, 2016 Amalie Wright

In late 2015 Sunshine Coast Council announced a design competition seeking ideas for its planned new public toilets in Isaac Moore Park, just outside Kenilworth.

The competition was intended to flush out an 'iconic facility' that would become a landmark and bring visitors to Kenilworth.

Whilst our scheme was not one of the 12 shortlisted finalists, we really enjoyed the process of interrogating the design brief and proposing a solution we felt would work well for people using the park facilities, whilst also protecting the council's assets.

Click to see our entry on our Projects page.

Event: Hidden Design Festival →

February 28, 2016 Amalie Wright

This popular event is coming to Brisbane for the first time, allowing visitors to peek inside six gardens not normally open to the public.

Click for more information and tickets.

Project: We Built This City on Rocks & Holes

February 28, 2016 Amalie Wright

Many years ago I stumbled across this fantastic picture of houses on the edge of a quarry in Spring Hill.

I loved the apparent precariousness of their situation, and the casual attitude of the people in the photo, especially the person up in the top right, leaning on the verandah rail.

At the time my research took me in another direction, but I always wondered about the quarry.

Where had it been? Was it still there? How long did it operate?

Luckily, my friends at the Asia Pacific Design Library gifted me the opportunity to find out.

I was invited to be part of Design Finds, an event associated with the Asia Pacific Design Forum, running 1-10 March at the State Library of Queensland.

Click to read what I unearthed.

Book: Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane →

February 24, 2016 Amalie Wright

I'm really looking forward to reading this book, a first for Australia.

It introduces readers to "the location and features of the numerous Aboriginal camps that flourished in and around Brisbane from convict times to in some cases as late as the 1950s."

Author Dr Ray Kerkhove will speak at the Brisbane launch, to be held at Avid Reader on 21 March.

Click for more information and tickets.

Competition: Arch-I-Spy →

February 24, 2016 Amalie Wright

Our friends at the Asia Pacific Design Library have launched the 2016 edition of Arch-I-Spy.

Run each year in conjunction with the UQ Architecture Lecture Series, you enter by snapping a pic of your favourite building or detail, posting to Instagram, and tagging with #ArchISpy2016.

Design mags are on offer for each week's winner.

Click to read more about the rules and prizes.

This picture of the James Birrell carpark on Wickham Terrace is our first entry. Follow Landscapology on Instagram to see what else we capture, and good luck!

Public Art: mirror on nature →

February 24, 2016 Amalie Wright

Lee Borthwick's beautiful installations use mirrored logs to encourage viewers to pause and consider trees from a different perspective. The unexpected mirrors interrupt a garden stroll with a view we so often miss, just because we forget to look up.

Click to be delighted by more of Lee's work.