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Kingscliff Foreshore

This $22-million foreshore revitalisation is designed to create a link between the beach, the new central park and the CBD for the highly engaged Kingscliff community. The project conducted community consultation at several points, to make a place that locals can call their own. “Everyone who has worked on this project has done an outstanding job and I know the community is excited to take ownership of their new park,” said Mayor of Tweed Shire, Councillor Katie Milne. Landscape Architect Ian Bentley led the design for Council, he says, “Before Rowan Robinson Park there wasn’t a place in Kingscliff for large gatherings, to watch bands, to accommodate thirty kids at a birthday party or a place to hang out and watch others pass by. With its completion the community now …

8 jun 2018

Eaglehawk Play Space

Eaglehawk’s $1.3M play space is inspired by the Banjo Paterson poem ‘Mulga Bill’s Bicycle,’ featuring a series of adventure zones for children to test their skills. The eaglehawk-shaped playground, built beside Lake Neangar, is designed by City of Greater Bendigo’s landscape architect Gary Lantzsch. The space explores storytelling through landscape architecture, he tells StreetChat. Paterson’s poem begins, “Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze”; and Lantzsch’s playground dramatises the home-grown hero’s misadventures with custom play equipment, artwork and activities. It is also an opportunity to influence children into enjoying reading and associating it with play. The designer received permission to use the 1896 poem and iconic illustrations by Kilmeny and Deborah Niland from the 1973 edition throughout the playground. The park begins at the junior end through …

22 jan 2019

Woden Experiment

A six-month prototype installation aiming to bring life, joy and comfort to Canberra’s Woden Town Square, supported by the ACT Government. The concept, designed by Context, features places to work, dine, meet and play. The project follows the success of the multi award-winning #BackyardExperiment activation in Garema Place, Canberra, lead by Street Furniture Australia and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects in 2016. The ACT Government commissioned Street Furniture Australia’s R&D team to undertake a six-week exploration into the community’s experience of the square. The resulting Discovery Report informed the design, to put people at the heart of the activation. The concept is based around creating experiences for each of the six personas identified during the Discovery: Mum with pram, who attends Story Time at the library and grocery shops …