The most important landscape projects in Queensland reveals at the leading award ceremony

The architects of Queensland celebrated the best new landscapes across the state in a award ceremony on Thursday evening, in which 6 projects were awarded for their work in the entire field.

The Queensland Awards of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (Aila) were nominated for more than fifty projects for awards at an event that included services in areas such as parks, infrastructure and climate level in areas such as parks, infrastructures and climatic level.

One of the most successful companies in the night was the design company Urbis, which received three awards from excellence and two landscape architecture prices.

Her work on the Northshore Brisbane Street Renewal program received an award for excellence for the Infrastructure category, and the company shared an award with South Bank Corporation for the future South Bank Master Plan.

Glen Power, director of Urbis, said the team was proud of their work last year and estimated recognition within the field.

“It is obviously an honor to be nominated among all the other incredible submissions,” he said. “It is more of a celebration than a competition.”

Urbis also achieved an award for excellence for the Parks and Open Space category, with her work in the Archerfield Wetlands District Park.

Mr. Power said his team was particularly proud to create rooms within the park for both parishioners and for the renovation of the Oxley Creek corridor.

“We are proud to create an environment for flora and fauna that … always always give something back to the community,” he said.

In the meantime, the master plan received an award for excellence for landscape planning as well as an award for climate -positive design, a regional Achievement Award and a Shadesmart Prize.

The judges said that the plans of the project to change the catchment area over the next three decades represented a strong vision for the area, and their work in the mapping of the technical rainwater technology was credited.

The other awarded projects were the Archerfield Wetlands Land Management project of the Brisbane Sustainability Agency. The project received an award for outstanding services for land management, while the ampithestre from the University of Queensland from Hassell took home a health and educational landscape category.

The jury described Hassell's work on the project as a thoughtful reaction to post -pandemic attitudes: “The students outdoors and the revival of campus life through a landscape that is culturally consciously, ecologically discontinued and beautifully solved.”

A total of 18 Landscape Architecture Awards as well as several regional Achievement Awards, Shadesmart Awards and an award for climatic design were also awarded at night.

Finally, Caloundra Community and Creative Hub from Jacobs and Sunshine Coast Council won the People's Choice Award that evening.

The chairman of the jury of Aila Queensland, David Hatherly, said the judges had seen a “strong commitment” across the board to design with the climate and community when public spaces were created throughout Queensland.

“The landscape architecture plays a crucial role in the combination of politics, infrastructure and biological diversity with the way people are connected and experienced with their daily environment,” he said. “The management of the profession helps to lead our cities, cities and regions to more integrative, sustainable future.”

Many of the winners of the night will now go to the National Landscape Architecture Awards to organize in Hobart in October.