WELLBEING GARDENS OPEN
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria has launched three meditative
wellbeing gardens. Designed by landscape architect Andrew
Laidlaw, the garden designs – the Bird’s Nest, the Grotto and the
Moss Garden – translate the personal stories of the project’s three
donors into the landscape. The new spaces form part of the
ongoing restoration of the Fern Gully precinct of the Royal
Botanic Gardens, which began in 2016.
Image: courtesy Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
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MELBOURNE ARTS PRECINCT GARDENS
University of Sheffield landscape architecture professors
Nigel Dunnett and James Hitchmough will work in
collaboration with Hassell and New York-based architecture
practice SO-IL to create seasonal, minimal water-use
plantings for the planned upgrade to the Melbourne Arts
Precinct in Southbank. Dunnett and Hitchmough previously
lead a two-year trial and research for the United Kingdom’s
largest man-made wildflower meadow ahead of the 2012
Olympic Games in London.
Image: Hassell
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DARWIN PUBLIC SQUARE MASTERPLAN
A consortium led by TCL will develop a masterplan for
Darwin’s major civic spaces, as part of a project agreed to under
the Darwin City Deal. The $200 million deal, announced in
November 2018, includes plans to refresh and redesign
Darwin’s public spaces in an effort to cool the city. This
includes the $37 million redevelopment of State Square, which
will replace bitumen car parks with a landscaped park. A new
multi-level car parking structure buried beneath the square
will replace the lost parking space.
Image: TCL
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tcl.net.au | infrastructure.gov.au