Parks & places

Fish Lane Town Square, winner of 2021 AILA QLD Award of Excellence for Civic Landscape. Photo: Scott Burrows

Room to grow: Green urban spaces in a subtropical city

by Rosemary Kennedy—September 13, 2021

The Sales Ring Playground finds new life at the heart of the Newmarket precinct.

Play for all: Readapting a civic space in the heart of Randwick

by Fatemeh Aminpour—August 31, 2021

The bridge and stepping stones provide the community with various ways to access and engage with Blind Creek

Slowing down on Country: Naturalising Melbourne’s waterways

by Andrew Kelly—August 23, 2021

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

Picturing paradise: Marion Mahony Griffin and Castlecrag

by Dr Anne Watson—February 8, 2021

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

Monkey business

by Jo Russell-Clarke—November 30, 2020

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

In pictures: 2020 AILA National Awards

by Foreground Editors—October 13, 2020

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

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

by Mitra Anderson-Oliver—October 6, 2020

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

Neighbourhood squared

by Andy Fergus—September 23, 2020

Darwin Civic and State Square Masterplan. Image: TCL

Diverse by design

by Jo Russell-Clarke—September 1, 2020

Landscapology and Bligh Tanner has transformed a drain into a living waterway at Small Creek, Ipswich. Image: Alan Hoban

Foreground’s most-read: Top stories for July 2020

by Foreground—August 11, 2020

A new landmark community-focused Centre in Rubibi (Broome) brings together culture, Country, public art and community. Image: Nyamba-Buru-Yawuru

Common knowledge: culture embedded in the design process

by Rosie Halsmith—August 7, 2020

Small Creek, Ipswich

On the outskirts of Brisbane, an urban drain takes on a life of its own

by Maitiú Ward—July 24, 2020