Jarrod Reedie
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has announced this year’s honours list for the 2021 Victoria Landscape Architecture Awards, with the winners of their respective categories praised for their collaborative and placemaking efforts, as well as a commitment to community.
AILA recognised seven Awards of Excellence and 11 Landscape Architecture awards spanning 13 categories, as those that went above and beyond the sole purpose of their project rewarded for their efforts.
The virtual event commended the outstanding individual contributions of architects to the profession, for their commitment to supporting public life as critical to both the revitalisation and recovery plan of Victoria’s cities and economy.
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Strathdale Park Play Space recognised through Award
The design of the City of Greater Bendigo’s popular Strathdale Park Play Space in Crook Street has been recognised through a Regional Achievement award from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) Victoria/Tasmania chapter. The play space will now compete in the AILA national awards to be held later this year.
City of Greater Bendigo Presentation and Assets Director Brian Westley said the award was fantastic recognition for the City’s efforts to produce cost effective facilities for the community and visitors to enjoy.
“While the City builds these assets for the community to enjoy it’s great that the work we are doing to make Greater Bendigo such a terrific place to live is recognised on a wider scale,” Mr Westley said.
Event description
A provocative nationwide roundtable discussing the role of landscape architectural education in shaping future practices and the discipline. About this Event
The discipline of landscape architecture often aims (and claims) to address the coalescing and intensifying conditions faced by global communities and ecosystems. As we advance into a future of radically accelerated change, we ask leading voices in landscape architectural education:
what is landscape architectural education doing to prepare the practitioners of the future, and what more can it do?
This provocation and round-table format intends to draw out varied - and even opposing - perspectives on the future of landscape architectural education, and, by extension, future practices in the discipline.
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One more tree planted as city’s ‘green canopy’ increases
Mayor Tom Tate has today planted a weeping lily pilly at Evandale, as data shows the city’s green canopy continues to increase.
In three years, the tree will be four metres in height, adding to our city’s overall green canopy.
A 2020 report – Urban Tree Canopy Study – detailed extensive research into the Gold Coast Urban Footprint. The report found that, across the total area of public open space lands and critical environmental corridors within the Urban Footprint, the extent and maturity of tree cover has increased over the past 10 years.