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Award for Design in Landscape Architecture
Interweave: Barkly-Hopkins Street Planters
Landscape Architect: Site Office Landscape Architecture
Client: Maribyrnong City Council
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Interweave Site Office has created a streetscape installation for the
City of Maribyrnong that references existing history and character of the
precinct while creating a unique and iconic presence within Footscray. The
moveable planting units are woven from two types of rope calling up
references to the Kinnears Rope Works, a major employer in the area for
100 years, as well as the vibrant colours and shapes of the street’s
physical context. The baskets interact with street users on a human scale,
encouraging people to lean on them and touch them, all the while providing
the necessary growing conditions for the tree in a strong and resilient
package.
Interweave
is a striking example of a unique fit for purpose design application that
creates and activates a place. The planting baskets allow an infusion of
green into an otherwise hard streetscape while still allowing for
flexibility within the urban realm, emphasis seasonal change and support
the activation of central Footscray.
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Photographs: Site Office Landscape
Architecture
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