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Future Street

Driverless shuttles, park benches that charge your phone and bins that send alerts when they’re full – the Future Street showed smart cities are within our grasp today. The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), Internet of Things Alliance Australia (IOTAA) and Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand (SCCANZ) built the street of the future at Circular Quay on Alfred Street, in front of Customs House in October 2017. Place Design Group, as the design partner, curated Green, Complete and Smart Street zones to imagine the best placemaking outcomes for street designs of the future. “We found that people were using the seats, tables and platforms for work and social gatherings. Build it and they will come, is a good lesson for providing more infrastructure like this in our streets,” …

26 oct 2017

Signia by Meriton

Signia by Meriton is a sleek new residential development in Mascot in Sydney’s south, with more than 200 high-end apartments and green spaces for a relaxed outdoor lifestyle. The estate includes landscaped parks, rooftop spaces, barbeque areas, pools, saunas and gyms. “Those things are part and parcel of our Signia development,” Victor Toscano, Meriton’s head of residential leasing, told the Property Observer. “They are important to people today, especially to those who want to relax, entertain or workout without having to get in a car and travel.” The outdoor areas are dotted with bespoke furniture designed by landscape architect Cameron Greatbatch, Associate Director with Urbis, and complemented with Classic Galleria Settings and Mall Settings with Mall Slim Benches. The street furniture features jarrah battens and slick frames powder coated in Night Sky, with the tables …

18 jun 2018

Home of the Arts

In 2018 the Gold Coast Arts Centre rebranded and relaunched as HOTA, Home of the Arts, an award-winning $37.5 million precinct rolling over 17 hectares including 3000 square metres of parkland. Inside are theatres, galleries, cinemas, function rooms, a chapel, cafe and two performance spaces. Outside are green spaces and a sculptural amphitheatre, the winner of two Queensland state Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards in 2018, shared by CUSP landscape architects and urban designers, ARM Architecture and German landscape architect Topotek 1. The design team won an international competition in 2013, which attracted more than 75 bids. HOTA is a short walk from Surfers Paradise and has the amphitheatre as its centrepiece, with capacity for 5000 people. The stage features a living green roof, with more than 20,000 specially-selected …