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We are thrilled that Big Plans for Small received two awards last week.
On Wednesday night we received the Award for Excellence in Policy or Education at the Stormwater Queensland Awards. Thursday night it was the National Awards of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, where we received a National Landscape Architecture Award for Land Management.
It has been an incredible journey with our client, Ben Walker from Ipswich City Council, and our project partners Bligh Tanner.
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L-R: Alan Hoban (Bligh Tanner), Christina Gnezdiloff (Landscapology), Ben Walker (Ipswich City Council), Amalie Wright, Claudia Bergs (both Landscapology), Stephanie Brown (Bligh Tanner).
Image: ShadowLight Studio, courtesy AILA Queensland.
We were thrilled and honoured to receive the Award of Excellence in Land Management at the recent Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Queensland Awards, for our project Big Plans for Small Creek.
Read moreIpswich's Small Creek was once a meandering natural stream that flowed into Deebing Creek. Today, it’s a straight concrete channel that offers very little value to the community or environment.
That’s about to change: Small Creek will return to a natural waterway through a terrific Council project. As well as clean water and habitat for wildlife, the new Small Creek will allow for better path and bikeway connections and the opportunity to interact with nature in a parkland setting.
We're kicking off the project with Design Your Creek Week, working on site and learning from the local community. Click to read more and find out how you can be part of the fun.
Read moreI was recently in Townsville for Evoke, the regional architecture conference.
My duties - if you could call something so enjoyable a duty - included hosting a session featuring Australian artist Robyn Backen, and landscape architects Matthew Flynn and Ana Maria Pinto from Costa Rican practice, VIDA.
My grandparents used to live in Townsville so it was a place I visited often as a kid. It's been a long time since I've been back, though, so here are a few thoughts from a whirlwind trip.
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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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Image: Sophie Seck
This photo was taken at the recent meeting of the National Council (Board) of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
It has been my great pleasure and privilege to serve with this great group of people since our election last year. Sadly, this was our last face-to-face meeting. Our members have voted to endorse a new Constitution for AILA - this is a hugely important event for the organisation, and will usher in a new era of robust corporate governance. As a result, elections for new Directors have been triggered, and our new Board will be endorsed at the upcoming Festival of Landscape Architects in Canberra.
I'd like to thank all my fellow National Councillors - this has been an enriching and challenging opportunity to serve the profession I love so much.
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