2011 AILA Victoria Awards
These awards
aim to foster recognition of the profession of landscape
architecture, encourage excellence and provide public
acknowledgement of the valuable contributions made by the
profession to the improvement of our natural and built
environments.
The 2011 AILA Victoria Awards were announced in Melbourne on 11 November 2011.
THE VICTORIA MEDAL FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
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 NATIONAL ARBORETUM, CANBERRA
Practice: Taylor Cullity Lethlean
Client: ACT Government - Economic Development Directorate
Partner: Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
This planning project was an inspired response to the complexities of accommodating and positioning a rich tapestry of flora in a recently fire ravaged site on the western flank of Canberra.
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NATIONAL AILA AWARD - THE ' AILA'
The “AILA” is awarded to agencies for work across sustainable settlement, urban design, the landscape principles and green infrastructure. As a national award, it allows the AILA National Council to recognise nationally significant innovations that advance landscape architecture and provide leadership in the creation of meaningful, equitable and sustainable environments.
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Awarded to Vic Roads for Leadership in Public Infrastructure Design and Delivery
VicRoads has provided continued leadership in landscape architecture and the design of public infrastructure in Victoria. VicRoads is now considered a world leader in facilitating and promoting innovative and context sensitive design for public roads and their associated infrastructure. The organisation has provided, throughout its history, support for the development of landscape architecture and landscape architects. More about this award... |
DESIGN AWARDS
Awards for Design in Landscape Architecture
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717 BOURKE STREET
Practice: ASPECT Studios Pty Ltd
Client: Probuild Constructions (AUST) Pty Ltd
The landscape at 717 Bourke Street describes an urban landscape proposition that draws its contextual reference, material palette and design character from the City of Melbourne paradigms, overlaid with moments of difference.This project is a successful detailed addition to the pedestrian grain of the docklands precinct.
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Urban Design
CLIFTON HILL RAILWAY PROJECT LANDSCAPE
Practice: Jeavons Landscape Architects
Client: Department of Transport
The Clifton Hill Rail Project began as a key transport initiative to duplicate the railway track between Clifton Hill and Westgarth Stations. The result is a beautifully executed landscape which demonstrates the integral role that a landscape architect has in delivering a multi-dimensional project varying in scale, programs, stakeholders, and contexts.
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MONASH UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART, IAN POTTER SCULPTURE COURT
Practice: Simon Ellis Landscape Architect
Client: Monash University Museum of Art
Partners: Kerstin Thompson Architects and Fiona Harrisson
The elegant execution of the design with its clean lines and restraint and the integration of architecture and art produced a highly commendable outcome. Beautiful spaces invite for interaction and social benefits.
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DANDENONG EDUCATION PRECINCT
Practice: Outlines Landscape Architecture Pty Ltd
Client: Hayball and the DEECD
This project highlights the ability for landscape architects to deliver high quality educational landscapes as essential parts of new building programs within schools. The Dandenong Education Precinct provides a series of flexible spaces around seven individual learning hubs each connecting to a central open space.
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Residential Design
MEDHURST
Practice: Tract Consultants Pty Ltd
Client: Robyn and Ross Wilson
Medhurst is a successful meld of contemporary architecture and landscape, juxtaposing the sculptural and the natural in a striking composition.
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PLANNING AWARDS
Awards for Planning in Landscape Architecture
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LIVING LINKS MASTER PLAN - CORRIDOR IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS
Practice: Urbis
Client: Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority
This project demonstrates the unique ability of the landscape architecture profession to analyse and synthesise a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research supported by extensive stakeholder consultation to produce a practical and adaptable Master Plan which will provide a solid basis for future planning and management for Dandenong Creek and its tributaries.
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ENSESSAKOTTEH: WILDLIFE RESCUE, CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTRE
Practice: Taylor Cullity Lethlean
Client: The Born Free Foundation
Partners:
David Hancocks and Peter Stroud
The project demonstrates the integral role the landscape architect can play in strategic planning. The master plan responds to issues of access to green open space, education and relief from the urban environment in addition to the key focus of animal welfare.
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BELLS BEACH COASTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN AND MASTER PLAN
Practice: Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape Architecture
Client: Surf Coast Shire
The level and quality of documentation, site analysis appreciation and the use of scenarios to map and test potential impacts and user needs was excellent, resulting in a ecologically sensitive a master plan.
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RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION AWARDS
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MELBOURNE'S FREEWAY PLANTING DESIGNS - IMPLICATIONS FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
Entrant: Zoe Metherell
Partners: Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology
Building a convincing evidence-based argument for future works, the research of Zoe Metherells’ comparative study of Melbourne’s freeway planting designs with quantitative techniques for analysing the planting palettes has actually shone a light on the fact that applied research can be both realistic and practical.
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FUTURE LEADERS GRADUATE AWARD
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Research and Communication
VICSCAPE, VICTORIAN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL ATLAS
Entrant: Mathew Leigh Fithall
Mathew took on this project with its daring and challenging initiatives as a graduate Landscape Architect. The research purposely provides a tool assisting AILA in compiling the extensive findings of information gleaned from 31 firms and 3,000 projects into a database that charts the lineal evolution/timelines of the key players from the 1950s through to 2010 that can be used as case study and marker of history for Victorian practices.
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