AILA Victoria Awards 2008
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  2003 AILA Victoria & Tasmania
 Awards in Landscape Architecture

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design awards
Merit Award - Public Open Space and Recreational Facilities


HEWISON RESERVE, EAST ST KILDA
CITY OF PORT PHILLIP, VICTORIA

Landscape Architect:
 Rush/Wright Associates - City of Port Phillip
 

Client:
City of Port Phillip

  
Jury Comments

 Hewison Reserve combines pragmatic and poetic approaches in a contemporary renovation of a suburban park, cheap and cheerful.

By using the materials at hand in considered new relationships, and carefully inserting complementary elements, it expresses the environmental, social, economic and cultural sustainability agenda of the City of Port Phillip, as a vital partnership with the community. It offers surprise and delight, variety, contrast, change, and habitat value.

The judges were impressed with the composition of the park program elements, the subtle grading and the retention of significant trees with the attempt to use the indigenous planting palette in a thoughtfully designed way.

‘Special’, without claiming to be precious, it could well become the benchmark for future municipal parks in its response to sustainability, local place and community, and collaborative client/consultant methodology.

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Looking from the gravel plaza on Inkerman Street to the main pedestrian thoroughfare. A strong contrast exists between irrigated grass and gravel/dryland planting.     A local park for everyday activity. A man walks his dog on the main pedestrian spine, which forms an axis between the open and gently sloped lawn, and the fenced playground and gardens     Curved fences, edges and elliptical nodes contrast with the sharp lawn edge     The bright green lawn has been re-shaped and slopes gently across the site. Upright oaks mark the Orange Grove boundary     Uplighting to the pumping station mural.

Galvanised steel poles and fencing coupled with timber decking and a sweeping central path make this urban park appealing, even at night.     ‘Eclatec – Elipt 45’ path lighting marches through the park, providing improved security.     At night, blue uplights highlight the Eucalytus citriodora trees and mark the entrance from Inkerman St.
              

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