(Joint
winners)
ACCESS SOLUTIONS INNOVATIVE
LANDSCAPE DETAILS AWARD
Project: Caldew
Park, the Train Park
Entrant: Hobart City Council,
Tecton Projects
Client: Hobart City Council-
Parks & Recreation Unit
Although
not originally entered into this section, the jury decided that
this submission suited the criteria and had an improved chance
to be selected for an award. Substantial planning and community
consultation processes ensured that the original sense of loss
experienced by the community was transposed into a sense of gain
by sensitive reinterpretation of the West Hobart Train Park.
The
integration of passive and active play areas, with subtle adult
supervision/carer opportunities allowing universal access was
well resolved. The repetitive ‘Bailey Bridge’ details
in the play structures and bridge structures evoked a strong
imaginative theme adding to the success of the project. The original
landscaping enveloping the park has been managed to provide enough
cover to belie the housing density that surrounds the park’s
location in West Hobart. Attention to detail was exquisitely
executed.
(Joint
winners)
ACCESS SOLUTIONS INNOVATIVE
LANDSCAPE DETAILS AWARD
Project: Cape
Barren Island Multi–purpose Building Complex
Entrant: Inspiring Place in
association with Maggie Fooke
Client: Cape Barren Island Aboriginal
Association Inc.
In
addition to receiving a Design Award, the jury felt that the special
detailing and unique use of materials in this project made it worthy
of a Partnership Award. The
high level of innovative and creative detailing, the use of local
materials, the involvement of community members in construction
process and the expression of local images and qualities through
the landscape design combine to make this a worthy joint winner
of this Award.
CASA MONDE LANDSCAPE LIGHTING AWARD
Project: George
Street ‘Comes Alight’
Entrant: Launceston City Council,
parks & Recreation Department
Client: Launceston city Council
This
projects reflects the importance and potential for innovative
lighting to play a significant role and add another dimension
to urban revitalisation projects. Lighting was not treated as
a single or minor component of the design, but became the design
driver for the project, attempting to join the vertical streetscape
elements with the ground plane. This was achieved through the
use of low energy LED lights set within the pavement in curvilinear
alignments.
The
lighting design performs a number of roles including the curtain
lighting to the edge of the tree canopies and building facades,
the delineation of the on street dining area and the creation
of a strong geometric illumination pattern to the pavement surface.
WESTLAND NURSERIES PLANTSCAPE AWARD
Project: Mt.
Field National Park Eco Playground
Entrant: Susan Small Landscape Architects
Client: Parks & Wildlife Service
Tasmania
Whilst
this project was not entered under this category, it was considered
by the Jury to be eligible in accordance with the judging criteria.
The
plantings chosen by the consultant were considered to be eminently
compatible with the site from an environmental aspect, and also
from a social aspect. The judges felt that over time, the planting
would visually integrate the site whilst ensuring complete visibility
of the childrens’ playground area.
The
overall design of the Eco Playground appears to be aesthetics-based,
with its large wood-carved animals, but it is the use of native
grasses and the re-vegetation of cleared land for active use
that make this project stand out in this plantscape category.
Jurors:
Kristine
Ancher
Bobbie O’Brien
Tim Hart
