AILA NSW Awards

Sacha Coles talks on radio national (24 November)

More on the AILA Vic Awards

<< News Clippings (1.5MB pdf) click on image

>> link to the list of winners (AILA vic web site)

"Transforming with water"

45th IFLA World Congress      The Netherlands
June 30 - July 3, 2008

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including
IFLA International Student Design Competition,
Call for Papers, deadline December 1, 2007

Call for Papers

The NZILA is currently seeking papers which address the 2008 conference theme.

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 1 December 2007.

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there is no major 3 day AILA National Conference in 2008,

meet up at the NZILA National Conference, shift,
Thursday 3 - Saturday 5 April 2008
Hyatt Hotel, Auckland New Zealand

PRACTICE OPPORTUNITY: small Melbourne practice in transition

Are you a qualified landscape architect?
Keen to establish your own private practice? OR
A Victorian practice looking for growth?
Perhaps looking for a new home?

This opportunity offers:
* A complete office setup
* An established client base

Ideal for Sole Practitioner or Small Partnership
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landscape architects in the news

Canberra Major  Art competition short listing include AILA members: fitzgerald frisby landscape architecture, Aspect, Hassell, FFLA

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>> and here for an update

National Forum November

15 - 17 Nov, Canberra

Summer reading

Books on landscape architecture & urban design

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Summer reading

The Dangers of Happiness  Elizabeth Farrelly

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Book Review: How to Build a Village

Boomtown 2050 - a work in progress

Professor Richard Weller

<<   NSW Talk Monday 22 October (click on image)

>> essay online << click here for essay

The postgraduate Environment and Planning Program at RMIT University is holding an information session on Tuesday 30 October at 6pm in the State Library of Victoria - Conference Centre.

<<< More information on the Environment and Planning program

Landscape Architects in the news

new riverfront home development in Norman Park, Brisbane

Public Sculpture and Monuments

Comment from ASLA's editor >> link to ASLA site

Slide show >> link to Slate Magazine

Reminder >> Canberra Peacekeepers Memorial Competition

International Garden Festival Competition Ponte de Lima

Ponte de Lima invites proposals for the 2008 International Garden Festival due to opes to the public 30 May 2008.

The Festival theme for 2008: "Energy in the Garden"

The deadline for submissions is 30th October 2007.

<< see details of 2007 plus 2008

>> more on their pdf

Call for Papers

The NZILA is currently seeking papers which address the 2008 conference theme.

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 1 December 2007.

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PS: there is no major 3 day AILA National Conference in 2008, so why not meet up at the NZILA National Conference, shift,
Thursday 3 - Saturday 5 April 2008
Hyatt Hotel, Auckland New Zealand

Australian Urban Design Award to be announced

Breakfast

Friday 19 October 2007
7.30am – 9.30am
Venue Chris Jarmer @ Air 210 North Terrace Adelaide
Award MC Alan Saunders
Host of the ABC Radio National program ‘By Design’

call for entries for 2007 northern rivers urban design awards

entries close 12 november 2007

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Public Artwork/Seating Element (Canberra)
Commission Opportunity For Artists/Designer-Makers
Gunghalin Town Centre Linear Park

Expressions of Interest are invited from artists/designer-makers to
design, fabricate and install a public artwork/seating element in the
Gungahlin Town Centre Linear Park, Canberra.  The Linear Park will form  a central outdoor community space in the rapidly expanding Gungahlin Town Centre.

Designing The Future

BEDP Action Agenda Discussion Paper

14 to 16 February 2008

EcoEDGE 2 conference, Melbourne

The Australian Peacekeeping Memorial design competition.

Online registration by Thursday 18 October 2007

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AILA endorsed competition

AILA National Council announced for 2007 - 2009

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LIQUID CITIES: BERLIN AND SYDNEY IN CONVERSATION

What makes a great city?

4 - 5 October 2007

Customs House, Sydney

AILA CPD POINTS: one point per hour of attendance

Changes to Sydney's eastern suburbs

A comment from Elizabeth Farrelly

Tree removal in the news

article from herald-sun

IFLA 2008 World Congress

Netherlands June 30 - July 3 2008

Call For Papers

International Student Competition

Adelaide: short courses

ICE WaRM in conjunction with its partners offers short courses in Water Resources Management.

These courses are delivered by presenters recognised for their subject matter expertise.

AILA CPD points to be earnt

LAonline Spring 2007

Spring issue uploaded

CPD opportunity

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission has recently published some useful access information, checklists, and guidelines, including “The good the  bad and the ugly” on their web site. They also have excellent links to other web related access resources. (thanks to Martin O'Dea for these)

Access to buildings and services

Access to Premises

Design and construction for access

Access Conference, Melbourne

design solutions to access compliance problems

25 August 2007

Darwin Landscape Architect on Gardening Australia

Water!

Irrigators urge caution

article from Outdoor Design Source news

Sydney's skyline turning green

Sydney Morning Herald article

Tender - Lake Macquarie

The Fernleigh Track is a former coal and passenger rail corridor connecting Newcastle and Lake Macquarie.

<< click on image for the scope of work covered by this tender.

Thinking Climate

Thinking Gadgets

article form the UK Guardian

Tour details: David Howard, Head Gardener to HRH Prince of Wales, and Highgrove

Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) project - managed World Heritage Centre on behalf of UNESCO

Letter about tools for assessment of impacts on Historic Urban Landscapes

August 2007

AILA Victoria welcomes their new members

WalkScore and the Great Neighborhood Book

Bio Scam

A point of view on Bio-Fuels

July 2007

AILA Victoria Awards Launch

Happy Median Strips

report in washington post

UWS Acquisitive Sculpture Award and Exhibition

call for competition entries - closing 31 August

Terrain Consultants strike regional chord

2007 AILA SA Award Dinner notice

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Sat 15th Sept
follows on from the one-day conference 14th sept

28 August

WSUD Events

Water Sensitive Urban Design Technical Design Training

Industry to help plan Perth's Mounts Bay foreshore

report from WA newspaper

CPD event

Healthy & Sustainable Communities

Sydney University - 26th July

Toronto asks: Why parks are important?

"They seek to engage us, intellectually and physically"

HASSELL and CCAA 2007 Awards

release information on their CCAS 2007 Public Domain Award achievements

CCAA 2007 Public Domain Awards

with landscape architects in the line up!

Gardens in a Changing Climate - Benalla Botanica 2007

26th, 27th & 28th October at the Benalla Performing Arts Centre (BPACC) Samaria Road Benalla Victoria.

AILA Tasmania launch their 2007 awards program,

with some help from the Hobart Mayor and the AILA National President.

Award Winning Melbourne LAs

5th July

Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape Architecture have taken out the fourth prize in the light cycle sustainable lighting competition as part of the  Melbourne Design Festival. 

<< hit the light for more

AILA's LAonline    Winter 2007

the inaugural issue of LAonline, AILA's online magazine

Brisbane LA student selected for project

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The Singing Ringing Tree - National UK Award

National Award for architectural excellence at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) National and International Awards announced in London on Friday 29th June 2007

'Singing Ringing Tree', launched in December 2006, was designed Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu. In its stunning, windswept location, the Tree sings its low mysterious song.

>>  QuickTime presentation

>> Award listing

<< click on image for news report

IFLA Newsletter - June 2007

click on image for link to pdf

Winners announced

Canberra Central Parklands Competition

Recent Al Gore interview

an update on the realities of actions - and people power!

National Capital Authority

Call for comment

York Park North Oak Plantation

Draft Heritage Management Plan

The Green Wall Of China

Desert storms from Central Asia are leaving a trail of global destruction. Now Beijing is drawing a line in the sand.

>> recent 2007 article

>> 2003 article

  AILA National One-Day Conference

  Speakers announced

  Adelaide 14th September 2007

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Harbour Esplanade Project

Why wait for government action?

Climate Change actions from the UK commercial sector

Unioncamere Piemonte and Regione Piemonte

international competition of ideas open to designers, architects, landscapers and artists who are under forty years of age, for the ideation of designs for street furniture, installations and interventions destined for outdoor spaces in Piedmont’s hill and mountain areas, suitable for production using materials and artisanal methods.

Professions Australia - Young Professionals Awards

In an excellent field of nominees the judges have recommended Lucinda Hartley, a Landscape Architect, to be highly commended.

2007 Australian Urban Design Award

Call for Submissions

Canberra Parklands Competition

Canberra Times article on the panel and the submissions

Architects for Peace

Neighbourhood house project in Timor Leste
7th June, 2007
Public lecture on the past and future of a neighbourhood house project in Timor Leste.

Thursday 7th June, 7pm onwards
at RMIT building 50, Orr St, Carlton.   << click on logo

It's all happening in Canberra!

two recent Sydney Morning Herald articles

one about green grass, Parliament and the drought!

and the other about the National Gallery redevelopments

Trees: Design to Death

Technical Workshop -Newcastle Wednesday 23 May

The AILA salutes a wonderful person

George Seddon AM     1927 - 2007

It is with deep regret that the members of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects hear of the passing of Professor George Seddon.

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TRACT (WA) joins UrbisJHD to create Urbis, Australia’s leading advisor in urban development

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Christopher Vernon describes the National Library’s acquisition last year of the papers and associated ephemera of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin

Reseach Seminar - UNSW - 6pm 23rd May

Expressing and Recycling Rainwater

PLAN NYC

10 Goals for the future sustainability of New York

includes: There Oughta be a Park...Within a 10-Minute Walk of Every New Yorker

Climate Change - UK Government Site

(WE WISH!!)

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face today. The first step towards tackling the problem is to make sure everyone understands exactly what the challenge is and the difference they could make.

Climate Change in Britain's Backyard

What does climate change mean for Britain?

10 of the UK’s top photographerswere challenged to answer this question by capturing climate change through the lens.

2007 Margaret Hendry Lecture

NGA Canberra - Wed 30th September

Keynote Speaker: Professor Christophe Girot

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Advance notice of AILA one day conference

Adelaide 14th - 15th  << click on image for more..

For all of us, going green means getting down, brown and dirty

Elizabeth Farrelly - Sydney morning Herald

Landscape Architect takes up key SA government position

Congratulations to Graeme Hopkins AILA
On his appointment as SA Principal Urban Designer (Metro)

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And you thought your city had problems!

Prospect Magazine article:

London is diverse, dynamic and rich. It is also unequal, expensive and congested—and getting fuller every year. Can London's socialist mayor preside over a hyper-capitalist city-state while keeping it a decent place to live for most citizens?

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Arno King AILA, an AILA member, receives a Fellowship from
the Australian Institute of Horticulture

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Brisbane LA & a Zootopian vision

Courier Mail article about John Wright, his friend and John's work on zoological gardens

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LA wins Honorary Mention

A design project led by ANDREW PROWSE, a Director of the Cairns firm of Landscape Architects, JNP Pawsey & Prowse has won an honorary mention in a prestige international environmental design award by the Torsanlorenzo Institute based in Rome for work on a new playground for Innisfail High School.

<< click on image for PDF - press release

>> LandCare News

>> Images from the school web site

On San Francisco Skyline,
Architecture Worthy of the Art Inside

Washington Post article mentions the work of the LA at the De Young Museum in San Francisco

<< click on image for article

>> details of design, building and landscape

>> de Young Museum Architects receives Award for Accessible Design (including the landscape by Hood)

AILA Registered Landscape Architects

The AILA approves changes to the constitution and prepares to introduce changes to the nomenclature to identify full members to apply from July 2007.

ASLA 2007 Awards Announced

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the recipients of its 2007 Professional Awards.

The jury considered over 500 entries and selected 38 projects to receive awards.

Expressions of Interest

For City of Canada Bay Council:
A Landscape Plan for the upgrade of the Regional Play Facility at Timbrell Park.

ISS Institute Fellowships

Call for trades people and artisans to apply for grants towards Environment and Sustainability work:

>> George Alexander Foundation (Up to 35 years of age)
>> Pratt Foundation (all ages)

AILA Issue - Consultation Document

government - planning applications - policy - landscape architects

In march 2007, the AILA National Office sent out a communique to members asking for feedback and information on their knowledge and experience of their local government or state governmnet policy and requirements in relation to landscape architects being involved in planning approvals for landscape works. 

>> click here for more

Cities on the Edge

8th International Cities Town Centres and Community Society Conference, Auckland June 26 - 29th

Small Places 2007

Come for a stroll through Newcastle’s historic city centre in search or the 2007 small places exhibition, bringing temporary public art into forgotten city places.

Artist Dani Marti will be weaving Market Place into a see of thousands of brightly coloured pool noodles.

Small places is free! The official community opening is at 5.30pm on the 16th of March.

The project is funded by Landcom, Newcastle City Council and Newcastle Region Art Gallery .  Newcastle Region Art Gallery is hosting a series of events to coincide with the project including children’s holiday workshops and an artist talk.

<< click on image for more!!

AILA Queensland calls for comment on
Brisbane's proposed North Bank Project

Darren Mew, AILA Qld President, has invited AILA members and other colleagues to participate in the Qld State Government Call for responses to the Brisbane North Bank Proposal. AILA Qld considers the project of such scale and implication to be worthy of responses, both in areas of support and concern.

The closing date set is Wed 14th March - so all members are urged to go online urgently and send in comments directly.

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Nick Safstrom exhibition Sat 24th March. 

Desert Wanderings New Directions

RSVPs appreciated.

"The openings are great fun. We have entertainment, food and a huge gathering. "

<< click on image for pdf invitation

Banksia Environment Awards 2007

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Request for articles for international magazine

"Trends Publishing International put out a range of home design magazines in New Zealand, Australia, South East
Asia and the USA. We’ve just launched a new publication called Home Trends, which is published in China.

The magazine covers landed homes, apartments, interior design, kitchen and bathroom design and outdoor living. The outdoor living section would  be particularly relevant to your members – it can include any kind of  outdoor space – from courtyards to gardens, swimming pools to outdoor rooms.

The magazine is produced by our team here in New Zealand. We interview and write the content in English, and our partner company in Shanghai  translates it into Chinese."


If interested please contact:


Catherine Healy , Deputy Editor
Trends Publishing (International)

Author seeking LA projects

American author , writing a book about outdoor, residential stonework and is looking for some international projects to profile. 

"we are looking for inspiring and creative uses of stone,
especially stone with water or in a garden setting, and would need the landscape architect to supply high-res images and background information on the  project to be profiled.  Their work would be credited in the book.  The publisher is Rockport Publishing (www.rockpub.com) "

click on image for author's web site

September 2007

private plots & public spots

International symposium on garden architecture
public spots on private plots

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Monitoring Green Developments:

Edinburgh's green building code unveiled

Canberra Central Parklands Competition

launched 12 February

Registration closes 23 April 2007

Deadline for receipt of entries 23 May 2007

KANGUROOTS IN IRELAND
Canberra Landscape Architects Selected
For International Garden Festival

An entry by Canberra landscape architects, Harris Hobbs Landscape Architects, is one of only 15 designs selected for the inaugural International Garden Festival to be held in Ireland from June this year.

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Urban sprawl - Europe’s ignored environmental challenge

Continuous and rapid urban sprawl threatens Europe’s environmental, social and economic balance, says a new report released in Copenhagen today by the European Environment Agency (EEA).

 Behind the Design in Breaking and Entering

 << LAs in the movies!!

After the Climate Breakthrough: What Do We Do Now?

and there's a message for the current demand on landscape architects

Here's the summary: In the next few years, people who have been working on sustainability, especially where it touches the climate-and-energy nexus, are going to be seriously tested -- not by resistance to their ideas, but by the ever-increasing demand for them.

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Cement Concrete & Aggregates Australia (CCAA)
Public Domain Awards 2007

Entries are now being accepted for Public Domain Awards 2007.

Close: 5pm Thursday, 29 March, 2007

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Built Environment Design Professions

Action Agenda Inaugural meeting

The inaugural meeting of the Strategic Industry Leaders Group for the Built Environment Design Professions Action Agenda was held in Canberra this week.

<< Press release

Melbourne Council pushes for billboard ban

landscape architect offers comments

UWA Media Statement

Western Australian students share top prize in Hobart Waterfront Competition

Canberra Central Parklands Competition

competition details to be launched 12 February

Hobart Waterfront International Design Competition
Winners announced

25 January 2007

Matthew Franzmann, an AILA member in the news

AILA member's project takes out the Queensland Association of Landscape Industries award for the best residential landscape costing more than $120,000,

LORD HOWE ISLAND calls for consultant

attached: Consultants Brief for a Precinct Plan for Lord Howe Island Post Office, Public Hall, Powerhouse Precinct, Pines Foreshore area and Neds Beach/Lagoon Road intersection.

click on image for PDF

Interest/Comments close Feb 28th

Wodonga council employs landscape architect

article in Border Mail about the appointment
of Matthew Fleet AILA to the council

Calling all students

the EDAW International Intern Program is coming to Australia

The EDAW International Intern Program is coming to the Gold Coast in July this year.

The Program draws together 23 leading university design  students from all around the world to take part in an intensive two week workshop to revise the Surfers Paradise Local Area Plan. After the workshop, participants will join one of EDAW's global offices for an eight week paid internship.  Applications for the intern program have opened. Places are limited.

<<< Please click on the image for more.....

or contact Rowena Pinto  on (07) 3225 0177
email rowena.pinto@edaw.com

The Age Newspaper Article

Melbourne's trees are its lifeblood.

As drought takes its toll, we must support measures to help them thrive

Thinking CPD for 2007

Check out the eClassroom site - particularly those programs on business.

Most of the others are for architects, but there are a couple relevant to designers and LAs.  

And if you have ideas on what could be provided, make contact with them, they are constantly updating the programs with new ones.

And let them know where you saw the link!

ANU - Stewardship Award reported

The ANU Reporter on the ANU winning an inaugural AILA Stewardship Award

Indigenous Community Volunteers

requesting the services of professionals with landscape and horticultural experience for projects in Queensland and Western Australia

Environmental Art Grant/Residency Program

450-acre I-Park artists' community in rural East Haddam, Connecticut calls for multi-disciplinary artists to submit proposals.

IFLA

TORSANLORENZO INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2007
open to architects and landscape architects worldwide

Some thoughts on professional magazines

2 links worth a read....

one from Slate Magazine - the other from ASLA

How do their comments relate to our own Landscape Architecture Australia?

Some thoughts on some Urban Design issues

from the Sydney Morning Herald

three from the architecture writer with Slate Magazine:

>>>>    one      two      three

2006: A Year in Review

A report from Mark Fuller, AILA National President

A Debate: The end of the great Australian dream can't come soon enough

first: Elizabeth Farrelly, Sydney Morning Herald

Then: Smart Growth Agenda is for Less Home Ownership

and then: American Dream - a response

International Forum Explores the Importance of Connecting Young Children with Nature

Linda Corkery AILA, University of NSW, joins with ASLA members discuss this wide-ranging forum and discuss what other members can do to get involved with this increasingly important issue.

<< click on image for link... and scroll down for the discussions

Wednesday 13 December 2006

National Gallery of Australia welcomes funding announcement

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Capitals Alliance Conference
Registrations open for inaugural Capitals Alliance Conference to be held at Parliament House in January 2007. Designer/Planner Larry Beasley to speak.

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Session Details Now Available Click Here

AILA Climate Change Education Survey

The AILA, along with the professional organisations representing Architects, Engineers and Planners, is currently taking part in an enquiry into how climate change adaptation is being incorporated into tertiary education and CPD (Continuing Professional Development). 

Click on image for the survey

Survey closes Friday 19th January

Connecting the World's Children with Nature

While thinking climate change and the legacy we leave our children, a thought from our colleagues in ASLA and a project they are partners to..

AILA Media Statement

The AILA requests urgent actions to save the roof top garden of the Readers Digest Building in Sydney

"Most people don't think of it, but a city is a landscape. You can add buildings to a landscape. I don't think you add landscapes to a building — that's sort of a decorator's idea."

"The question for Los Angeles is, 'What's native?' "

click on image for full article, or for more on the Los Angeles Grand Avenue project, click here

Meeting of the Minds

International Union of Architects and
International Federation of Landscape Architects
sign a cooperation Agreement

Canberra Central Parklands Competition

Forward Notice for 2007 Announcement

Green Roofs for Healthy Australian Cities Conference

Brisbane
21-23 February 2007

Access All Areas

Senior Landscape Architect Ian Oelrichs
talks about his travels