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Comment: Here’s how to create Brisbane’s ‘legacy’ games

Comment: Here’s how to create Brisbane’s ‘legacy’ games

In this comment piece, Brisbane-based urban designer and landscape architect Ben Newell, principal at Arcadia Landscape Architecture, suggests four ways to create a ’legacy’ games in Brisbane.

Bee-inspired: University of Queensland’s Arcadian garden of reconciliation

Bee-inspired: University of Queensland’s Arcadian garden of reconciliation

A new Reconciliation Garden at the University of Queensland’s (UQ) Herston campus showcases the power of collaborative design. The project saw a partnership between Arcadia, Multhana Property Services and representatives of Traditional Owners of the land.

Walking Country together at Heide

Walking Country together at Heide

Heide Museum of Modern Art and Urban Initiatives have worked closely with the Wurundjeri community to rebuild Heide’s connection to Country. Gillian Serisier relates a story of reconnections – both new and old.

Winning for Country: Hassell Travel Scholarship

Winning for Country: Hassell Travel Scholarship

Hassell is rewarding excellence and supporting outstanding landscape architecture students through its Hassell Travelling Scholarship – Robin Edmond Award. And the 2022 winner is announced.

Natural selection: 5 stunning landscape architecture scenarios

Natural selection: 5 stunning landscape architecture scenarios

Landscape is integral to how we experience space, architecture and the environment. Gillian Serisier rounds up 5 examples of landscape architecture at its best with the built environment.

Powerhouse team: The cultural leaders shaping the museum’s public domain

Powerhouse team: The cultural leaders shaping the museum’s public domain

The Powerhouse Parramatta’s Landscape Curatorium comprises a group of esteemed individuals advising on First Nations landscape design, farming, caring for Country, and more. Their goal? To assist in the development of the landscape design for the museum’s public domain.

The power of landscape: Elemental Living by VOLA

The power of landscape: Elemental Living by VOLA

Icelandic architect Palmar Kristmundsson partnered with renowned Danish brand VOLA to create an architectural masterpiece that is an extension of nature itself.

A saccharine pink pond opens in NGV’s garden

A saccharine pink pond opens in NGV’s garden

Embedded into the NGV’s Grollo Equiset Garden with an eye-catching a inviting pink hue, pond(er) – the NGV’s 2021 Architecture Commission – is officially open.

NGV 2021 Architecture Commission will be a place to ponder

NGV 2021 Architecture Commission will be a place to ponder

A beautiful architectural installation, replete with a pink pond evocative of Australia’s inland salt lakes, has been revealed as the winner of the NGV 2021 Architecture Commission.

Enriching the landscape for Country, First Peoples and industry

Enriching the landscape for Country, First Peoples and industry

The 2021 Arcadia Indigenous Landscape Architecture Scholarship has earmarked QUT student Laree Barney as an emerging leader, of proud Indigenous heritage, in the landscape design space.

10 landscape designs that promote mental health and wellbeing

10 landscape designs that promote mental health and wellbeing

The 2021 NSW Landscape Awards winners selection is a treasure trove of outstanding landscape design projects. Here are 10 in particular that do wonders for wellbeing.

Meet Natalie Busch – HASSELL’s new principal

Meet Natalie Busch – HASSELL’s new principal

The newly appointed principal at HASSELL believes that designers have a social responsibility to create sustainable, healthy places for the next generation.