2022 Landscape Architecture Awards winners announced

The winners of the 2022 Landscape Architecture Awards in Victoria were announced on 22 June by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA).

The awards are an annual program designed to celebrate excellence in landscape architecture.

A total of 60 projects were entered in Victoria, with 34 awards allocated in areas that successfully demonstrate the positive impact that well designed outdoor spaces have on public life, such as Health and Education, Play Spaces and Gardens.

Play Spaces joint winner – Arcadia Dragon Park, Outlines Landscape Architecture. Photo: Drew Echberg

An innovative space for the creative community, a four-decade long volunteering effort, the healing garden at the Heide Museum (featured in AR170), and a new green open space in Melbourne’s CBD are among the entries that were recognised.

Gardens (Award of Excellence) winner – The Healing Garden at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Openwork Pty Ltd. Photo: Peter Bennetts

AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Awards Jury Chair, Lisa Howard, says, “The awards provide a vehicle to publicly promote and demonstrate to industry, business, government and the wider community the positive impact the profession has on Australian lives through the planning and design of the built and natural environments.

Infrastructure winner – Toorak Road Level Crossing Removal, ASPECT Studios. Photo: Dianna Snape

“Across the projects, we did see a couple of key themes start to emerge. We saw a vast number of entries in the Cultural Heritage category, which is a reflection on the sorts of values that we are starting to see embedded in landscape architecture.”

Play Spaces joint winner – Jells Park, Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape Architects. Photo: Andrew Lloyd

“We are seeing cultural values alongside social values, environmental values, and sustainability values. For the Jury, it was not just about acknowledging the knowledge that has been transferred to landscape architects, and passed through to us from Traditional Owners, but also about how that knowledge is then brought forth into a project, and how that knowledge is embedded into an outcome, so that the end user is also getting to experience this incredible understanding of country.”

Research, Policy and Communications winner – Green Our City Action Plan: Strategic justification for regulatory requirements for sustainability, Arup, Oculus, HillDPS and Junglefy for City of Melbourne. Photo: Alison Hoelzer

AILA Victoria has highlighted the Avalon Corridor Strategy Values Assessment as a project that is ambitious and forward thinking. It considers a vast tract of culturally significant lands and waterways under pressure from urban development to help shape decision making for the Avalon corridor.

Civic Landscape winner – Pentridge Piazza, ASPECT Studios. Photo: Dianna Snape

“The project is commendable for going beyond consultation, to engage to the Wadawurrung as a key collaborator and co-author of the project, which has both built capability and ensured voices are heard. It is innovative in framing Wadawurrung values and living cultural heritage into in a format aligned with government legislation. It acts as a strong precedent for the empowerment of Traditional Owner groups to participate in and inform planning processes.”

Full list of winners:

Category	Winners
Civic Landscape	Pentridge Piazza, ASPECT Studios
Civic Landscape	Hampshire Road Civic Green, Brimbank City Council
Community Contribution (Award of Excellence)	Yaluk Langa Design Framework – Heide Museum of Modern Art, Urban Initiatives
Community Contribution	Collingwood Yards, SBLA Studio
Community Contribution	Hovells Creek Linear Park/Kevin Hoffman Walk, David Martin
Cultural Heritage (Award of Excellence)	Avalon Corridor Strategy Cultural Values Assessment, Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, City of Greater Geelong, Wyndham City Council & Unearthed Heritage Australia Pty Ltd
Cultural Heritage	Wesley Place, OCULUS
Gardens (Award of Excellence)	The Healing Garden at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Openwork Pty Ltd
Gardens	Cliff House, BWLA
Gardens	Fitzroy Bridge House, Robyn Barlow Design
Health and Education Landscape (Award of Excellence)	Bendigo Kangan Tafe Redevelopment, SBLA Studio
Health and Education Landscape	Woowookarung Dementia Friendly Forest and Sensory Trail, Thomson Hay Landscape Architects
Health and Education Landscape	Monash University – Southern Precinct Landscape, ASPECT Studios
Infrastructure (Award of Excellence)	Bell to Moreland, Tract
Infrastructure	Toorak Road Level Crossing Removal, ASPECT Studios
Land Management (Award of Excellence)	Lake Tyers (Bung Yarnda) Camping and Access Strategy, Parks Victoria
Landscape Planning (Award of Excellence)	Yallock-Bulluk Marine and Coastal Park Access and Infrastructure Plan, Hassell Studio
Play Spaces	Arcadia Dragon Park, Outlines Landscape Architecture
Play Spaces	Jells Park, Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape Architecture
Parks and Open Space	New Quay Central Park, ASPECT Studios with SAALA (Formally Stutterheim Anderson Landscape Architects)
Research, Policy and Communications	The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture, Jillian Walliss and Heike Rahmann
Research, Policy and Communications	City of Melbourne’s Green Factor tool, City of Melbourne
Research, Policy and Communications	Green Our City Action Plan: Strategic justification for regulatory requirements for sustainability, Arup, Oculus, HillDPA and Junglefy for City of Melbourne
Small Projects	Monash College Forest Biomes, GLAS Landscape Architects

Tourism (Award of Excellence)	Grampians Peaks Trail (Gariwerd), McGregor Coxall with Noxon Giffen
Tourism	Lake Tyrrell Tourism Infrastructure Design, Thomson Hay Landscape Architects
Tourism	Maits Rest, Outlines Landscape Architecture
Urban Design	Morris Moor, Tract
Urban Design	South Melbourne Life Saving Club, Site Office
Regional Awards	Grampians Peaks Trail (Gariwerd)
Regional Awards	Lake Tyers (Bung Yarnda) Camping and Access Strategy
Future Leaders (Graduate)	Molly Rose-Coulter
Future Leaders (Student)	Georgina de Beaujeu