Parks & places

The healing garden at Heide will be a sanctuary of sensory wonder.

A new garden at Melbourne’s Heide Museum turns ‘social distance’ to healing ends

by Foreground—May 14, 2020

Anti-skateboarding design reveals greater truths about power structures within our cities. Image: OFFICE

“No skateboarding”: The politics of public space at Lincoln Square

by Mark Jacques—April 3, 2020

The benefits of parks and public open space for our mental health and physical health are even more evident during a pandemic. Image: Josephine Baran.

The Foreground five: March’s most-read stories

by Foreground—April 1, 2020

Signage in public parks in Florida encourages distance between people. Image: Jordan Hopkins

Parks in a time of pandemic

by Jo Russell-Clarke—March 25, 2020

Prahran Square seen from above. Photo: John Gollings

The Foreground five: February’s most-read stories

by Foreground—March 5, 2020

A 150 year old White Oak collapses on the lawn of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, a victim of climate change stresses. Photo courtesy RBG

How the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is saving flora from climate disasters

by Jo Russell-Clarke—February 19, 2020

Lily Jencks, designer and vice president of Maggie's.

“Gardens aren’t just a retreat, but an active advance”

by Tracey Clement—February 18, 2020

Prahran Square is a new kind of purposeful space for a suburb that previously had little public, open space.

Paved for the people: In Melbourne, a parking lot has become a public square

by Jo Russell-Clarke—February 6, 2020

A tapestry of richly varied planting is distributed around and between Bendigo Hospital seating.

Designing the healthy city

by Foreground—January 24, 2020

Swiss National Museum, Zurich. With a few, striking elements such as a mirror water basin, visual relations between the Gartenhof and Park are established. Photo: Giuseppe Micciche

The Foreground five: Our most-read stories in October

November 11, 2019

Winner of The Future Park design competition – The Gap by Marti Fooks, Claire Winsor, Suhas Vasudeva and Jacqueline Heggli.

The Power of Parks

by Foreground—October 17, 2019

Artist Lance Chadd / Tjyllungoo's Wirin is a 9 metre high figure that surveys Yagan Square.

National landscape architecture award winners build resilience through green infrastructure

October 11, 2019