Parks & places

Picturing paradise: Marion Mahony Griffin and Castlecrag

by —February 8, 2021

Detail of Marion Mahony Griffin's 'Eucalyptus urnigera Tasmanian Scarlet Bark, sunset (Forest Portrait',) c1918. (c) Mary + Leigh Block Museum of Art.

In 2021, Castlecrag, one of Australia’s most enduring ‘model suburbs’, celebrates its centenary. Dr Anne Watson reflects on the remarkable vision and talent of one half of the design team behind the project—Marion Mahony Griffin.

Regenerative farmer Ray Thompson standing on a salt scald on a farm in New South Wales.
Agriculture & environment

Re-designing farming

by —February 4, 2021

An empty Eagle Street in inner city Brisbane, March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Kgbo (cropped from original)
Planning & policy

The lurking trap of the ‘snap back’ city

by —February 5, 2021

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February 4, 2021

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Melbourne, it’s time to go big on a car-free recovery

by —December 2, 2020

Landscape architecture sometimes produces unexpected projects. Adelaide-based Wax have recently upgraded a monkey habitat at Adelaide Zoo. Image: Dan Schultz Sweetlime Photo
Parks & places

Monkey business

by —November 30, 2020

Paradise on Earth exhibition. Image: Ella Mudie
Culture

Paradise lost: The forgotten landscape legacy of Marion Mahony Griffin

by —November 27, 2020

Richard Tipping's ‘Watermark’ sculpture at the Brisbane Powerhouse, commemorating the 1974 floods, inundated by flood waters at New Farm, 2011. Image: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Planning & policy

The flood: Designing cities for deluge

by —November 20, 2020

Australia's higher education section is in crisis and government re-prioritisation policies create losers and winners. What do changes to the university courses mean for landscape architecture? Image: Per Gosche
Planning & policy

Cuts to higher education prompt concerns for healthy cities

by —October 19, 2020

Murama Healing Space & Dance Ground Murama—Cultural Council in partnership with the Sydney Olympic Park Authority
Parks & places

In pictures: 2020 AILA National Awards

by —October 13, 2020

In Australia, the single largest danger to children is a world made for and of cars. Image: SLV Collection
Planning & policy

Petrol-powered planning: Car parks, COVID-19 and the future of urban retail (part 2)

by —October 13, 2020

Berlin is a city of nooks and cannies, in which people have made small reclamations of public space. Image: Jon Mountjoy
Parks & places

Squats, squares and city plans: Berlin by accident and design

by —October 6, 2020

Shoppers in Melbourne's Bourke Street battle with cars for street space, c.1948. Image: State Library of Victoria archives
Planning & policy

Street fight: Car parks, COVID-19 and the future of urban retail (part 1)

by —September 30, 2020

New development encroaches on farmland in Melbourne's outer west. Image: Google Earth
Planning & policy

Marvellous no more: Melbourne’s planning failure

by —September 24, 2020

Sunvale Community Park, Sunshine, for Brimbank City Council, local government in Sunshine. Image: Emma Cross
Parks & places

Neighbourhood squared

by —September 23, 2020