AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Awards 2019 winners

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) NSW Landscape Architecture Awards 2019 have been announced. Over 45 projects were entered in the NSW awards, with winners crowned across categories including civic landscape, community contribution, cultural heritage, gardens, parks and open spaces as well as urban design and infrastructure.

“The calibre of the built landscape architecture projects this year was very high – we saw some exceptional public space design, not to mention some remarkably resourceful playgrounds and other small projects that delivered incredible value with limited means,” says Maitiú Ward, AILA NSW Vice Jury Chair.

“What was especially notable this year, though, was the quantum of work that brought design leadership to bear at a strategic level, at a wide range of scales,” Ward continues. “This might surprise those who associate the profession exclusively with the creation of parks and gardens, as crucially important to our communities as those places are.”

“From the design of freeway systems to 15-year plans for inner urban parklands systems, vast heritage landscape studies to planning guides for playgrounds, it was impressive to see just how widely landscape architects are now applying their expertise and disciplinary knowledge. These strategic projects might be less immediately tangible, but in focusing their impact at a planning, policy or advocacy level, their impacts are arguably likely to be much more widely felt than those of most localised built works.”

“The systems thinking that landscape architecture brings to the shaping and management of our environment is more urgently needed now than it’s ever been, and it’s heartening to see this is becoming more widely appreciated.”

AILA NSW Jury Chair, SueAnne Ware, reaffirmed that the standard of landscape architectural knowledge be it through practice, research, or governance sets a very high bar nationally and internationally revealing innovation, leadership and inspiration.

“The 2019 Awards should be remembered as significant for the landscape architecture profession. As of this year, all award entries were required to acknowledge the Aboriginal Nation relevant to the project,” said Ms Ware.

“The Jury commends AILA’s leadership group and all members for adopting this approach towards recognition of Australia’s landscapes and First People.”

The NSW Landscape Architecture Awards were held at Doltone House Darling Island on Wednesday 3 July 2019.

The projects that received an Award of Excellence and a Landscape Architecture Award at the state level proceed to the National Awards, which will take place at the AILA Festival in Melbourne in October this year.

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NSW LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2019: AWARD WINNERS

Civic Landscape Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project Green Square Library and Plaza
Entrant Practice HASSELL with Studio Hollenstein and Stewart Architecture

Civic Landscape Category:
Award type Award of Excellence
Project Barangaroo South Public Domain
Entrant Practice ASPECT and OCULUS

Parks & Open Space Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project Harold Park
Entrant Practice JMD Design

Parks & Open Space Category:
Award type Award of Excellence
Project Southern Parklands Framework
Entrant Practice TYRRELLSTUDIO in collaboration with Western Sydney Parklands Trust

Play Spaces Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project Bangalow Parklands Nature Play
Entrant Practice Plummer & Smith

Infrastructure Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project Woolgoolga to Ballina Pacific Highway Upgrade
Entrant Practice Corkery Consulting

Infrastructure Category:
Award type Award of Excellence
Project Sydney Water Waterway Health Improvement Program
Entrant Practice McGregor Coxall

Cultural Heritage Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project Sub Base Platypus – Northern Park and Playground
Entrant Practice ASPECT Studios

Cultural Heritage Category:
Award type Award of Excellence
Project AILA (NSW) Landscape Heritage Conservation Listing Project
Entrant Practice Christine Hay, Colleen Morris, James Quoyle

Tourism Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project Campbell’s Cove Promenade
Entrant Practice CONTEXT

Urban Design Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project Flour Mill of Summer Hill
Entrant Practice HASSELL

Urban Design Category:
Award type Award of Excellence
Project Cooks to Cove Greenway
Entrant Practice McGregor Coxall

Research, Policy and Communication Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project Power Plants
Entrant Practice The University of Newcastle

Research, Policy and Communication Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food
Entrant Practice Joshua Zeunert & Tim Waterman

Community Contribution Category:
Award type Award of Excellence
Project Everyone Can Play: A Guideline to Create Inclusive Playspaces
Entrant Practice Office of Open Space & Parklands, Department of Planning & Environment

Small Projects Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project Sydney Street Shops
Entrant Practice Sprout Landscape Architecture

Small Projects Category:
Award type Award of Excellence
Project Honeysuckle Placemaking
Entrant Practice The University of Newcastle

Gardens Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project SBS Headquarters Courtyard
Entrant Practice HASSELL

Gardens Category:
Award type Award of Excellence
Project No. 1 Lacey, Surry Hills
Entrant Practice Black Beetle

Land Management Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project 20-year Delivery of the Waverton Peninsula Masterplan
Entrant Practice CLOUSTON Associates

Land Management Category:
Award type Award of Excellence
Project Western Sydney Parklands Design Manual
Entrant Practice NewScape Design in collaboration with Western Sydney Parklands Trust

Landscape Planning Category:
Award type Landscape Architecture Award
Project Birubi Point Interchange
Entrant Practice McGregor Coxall

Landscape Planning Category:
Award type Award of Excellence
Project Western Sydney Parklands Plan of Management 2030
Entrant Practice Western Sydney Parklands Trust