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Infrastructure

Craigieburn Bypass, VIC. Motorists arriving

along the Hume Highway from Sydney first

encounter the ‘Curtain Wall’ which flows

alongside the driver until ultimately twisting

to become a pedestrian bridge over the

roadway. At this point, the view of Melbourne

is revealed.

Introduction

Landscape Architecture and Urban Design offer an opportunity to create external environments that are not only beautiful and artfully designed, but also places where a myriad of functions and engaging revitalisation can occur.

Why TCL?

As Australia’s most awarded Landscape Architects with a strong and growing international reputation, TCL have successfully undertaken significant and complex infrastructure, civic, masterplanning and urban projects.

InfrastructureTCL have lead the design and implementation of a number of freeway statement projects, where functional infrastructure such as sound walls and bridges, as well as stand-alone large scale artworks become compelling sculptural elements in the landscape. A number of TCL staff are trained in architecture and this has allowed us to design site and project specific infrastructure elements such as shelters, tram stops and freeway noise attenuation walls.

Urban DesignTCL understand that urban design is a field that involves the integration of many allied disciplines in a collaborative manner. To this end we have led project teams in the design and revitalisation of many urban settings, waterfronts, streetscapes, public spaces and retail environments with an emphasis in projects of cultural significance. This work has included masterplanning through to the resolution of built work.

TCL’s wide ranging experience has provided us with the opportunities to explore the many facets of contemporary cultural and spatial experiences in both urban and regional contexts. We bring to each project the following:

Robust and Meaningful VisionsTCL are renowned for masterplans and conceptual designs that respond to their context and provide compelling visions for the future. Designs that are embraced and owned by all stakeholders.

...a sequential gateway experience, where boundaries were blurred between the expression of functional wall, sculptural expression and gateway

A Distinctive Identity

TCL appreciate the importance of providing a positive and strong identity, one that is site responsive and celebrates the site.

An Ecological BaseTCL have worked creatively with environmentally sustainable principles since the company’s inception. The practice has always viewed landscape and urban design as having a strong ecological base, and as such has developed and embraced sustainable practices in its projects to minimise the ecological footprint and maximise integrated environmental systems such as water sensitive urban design (WSUD)

Sustainable Communities and EconomiesTCL have always maintained a strong community development focus with stakeholder consultation being an important part of the practice’s approach to projects. Similarly, the practice has been involved in many significant projects where economic drivers have played a large part in the brief development and subsequent project objectives. We therefore have a keen awareness of the importance of a sustainable economic outcome for our projects.

A Collaborative ApproachTCL are recognised for our love of collaborating with clients, stakeholders, communities, academics, artists, and other consultants.An approach which has a respect for difference and diversity, and creates an outcome that is greater than the sum of its parts. Over the years we have collaborated with some of Australia’s leading allied professionals.

Research

Our recent projects and the Directors Perry Lethlean and Kate Cullity’s recently completed PhD studies have investigated a number of areas, including the meaning of ‘The New Civic’, a design attitude of public space which encourages a multi-layered experience; one of exchange, interaction and acceptance of diversity and difference. These are places defined by the everyday experience they facilitate, as much as their spatial form.

Another area of research has been how the beauty and aesthetics of an environment can facilitate the creation of, and care for a more sustainable outcome and future.

As Australia’s most awarded Landscape Architects with a strong and growing international reputation, TCL have successfully undertaken numerous Infrastructure, complex civic and urban projects.

Masterplans/ Framework Plans

TCL have delivered public realm masterplans and framework plans for many complex urban projects. Each are characterised by a deep understanding of the individual culture and character of the site and a compelling and poetic design led vision for their future.

This is followed by “key moves”, the key enabling acts that will achieve the vision. These are the fundamental design gestures that must be delivered to achieve the shared ambition.

Adelaide Botanical Gardens Masterplan, SA

Adelaide Parklands Masterplan, SA

Auckland Waterfront Framework Plan, NZ

Australian Garden Cranbourne, VIC

Blacktown Village Masterplan, NSW

Campbelltown Civic Centre Masterplan, SA

Flinders Rangers National Park Facilities Plan, SA

Gosford Waterfront Masterplan, NSW

Greater Dandenong Masterplan, VIC

La Trobe University Bundoora Masterplan, VIC

La Trobe University Bendigo Masterplan, VIC

Lochend House Masterplan, SA

Maribyrnong Defence Masterplan, VIC

Monash University Caulfield Campus Green, VIC

Monash University Clayton Campus Eastern

Precinct Landscape, VIC

Murray Bridge Town Centre Masterplan, SA

National Arboretum Canberra, ACT

New Norcia Masterplan, WA

North Terrace Precincts Redevelopment, SA

Framework Plan and Masterplan, SA

Oaklands Park Masterplan and Wetlands, SA

Ocean Flower Island Masterplan, China

Point Nepean National Park Masterplan, Vic

Riverbank Masterplan, SA

RMIT Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Campus, Vietnam

South Australian Integrated Cultural

Campus Masterplan, SA

Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens

Masterplan, NSW

Springthorpe Masterplan, VIC

Technology Park Masterplan, SA

The Rocks Refresh Project, NSW

University of Melbourne Landscape

Framework Plan, VIC

University of Melbourne Northern Precinct

Framework Plan, VIC

University of Melbourne Urban

Framework Plan, VIC

University of SA East Campus, SA

University of Western Sydney, NSW

University SA Mawson Lakes, SA

University Sunshine Coast, QLD

Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga

Masterplan, SA

Wilpena & Balcanoona Homestead, SA

Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga isAdelaide’s premier open space situatedin the centre of the city. The proposedmasterplan for this highly symbolic sitebrings together the many disparate forceswhich have traditionally competed forthe space. Through a thorough designexploration and extensive consultationthe TCL team developed a plan whichis widely accepted by the community,stakeholders and decision makers.

This bold, flexible and elegant scheme creates a new heart of the city, housing

a multitude of events while also telling stories of the cultural significance of theplace and providing a quiet refuge within the city.

Awards2012 AILA (SA) National Landscape Architecture

Award for Urban Design; Victoria Square /

Tarndanyangga Urban Regeneration Project

Adelaide, 2011 AILA (SA) Landscape

Architecture Excellence Award for Urban

Design; Victoria Square / Tarndanyangga Urban

Regeneration Project Adelaide

The Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga Urban Regeneration Project proposes a new urban form for Adelaide’s six hectare central square that reinscribes the space as the symbolic, civic heart of the city in a truly meaningful way.

Jury Citation - 2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award for Urban Design

Masterplans / Framework Plans:

Victoria Square / TarntanyanggaMasterplan

The North Terrace PrecinctsRedevelopment Masterplan provides avision for the entire length of North Terraceincluding forecourts to the adjacent cultural institutions and University.

The $60 million plan (2001) establishes guiding principles and design outcomes which form the basis of all current and future stages of the project. The foundational principle is to establish a generous pedestrian zone along the north side of the street which has both sufficient integrity and strength to read as a single place, yet be responsive to the many urban conditions that abut the Terrace.


The North Terrace Precincts Redevelopment Masterplan

Attention to detail and the use of quality durable materials have created an environment befitting the cultural significance of this iconic space within the City of Adelaide.

Awards2013 AILA (SA) Medal for Landscape

Architecture, 2013 AILA (SA) Medal for

Landscape Architecture, 2006 Australia Award

for Urban Design, 2006 ACC The Adelaide

Prize Award of Excellence, 2006 AILA (National)

Award of Merit, 2005 AILA (SA) Overall Award of

Excellence, 2005 AILA (SA) Award of Excellence

for Design, 2004 AILA (National) Excellence

Award for Planning, 2003 AILA (SA) Award of

Excellence for Planning, 2000 AILA (SA) Award

of Merit Planning and Masterplanning

1. Reinforce the Treshold 2. Convert the Terrace Walk

3. Define the City Edge 4. Foster the City - River Connection

5. Animate the Cultural Heart

Guiding Principles - Key Moves

6. Promote Terrace Vitality

The jury commends this thoughtful and elegant revision to Adelaide’s civic and cultural boulevard. TCL... has conveyed an important and positive message about the capacity of landscape architects to lead urban landscape design projects.

Jury Citation - 2013 AILA (SA) Medal for Landscape Architecture

The Landscape Framework Plan for Vietnam’s RMIT, Ho Chi Minh City Campus, provides an overall landscape vision for the Campus that enables its implementation over subsequent years.

The Campus is comprised of a sports precinct, residential precinct and

academic buildings. The Framework Plan aims to create a landscape that provides a green haven within a developing urban context; one which enables a stimulating vibrant and supportive environment for students, staff and community.


RMIT International University Vietnam


Auckland Waterfront New Zealand

The Wynyard Point Public Realm Strategy establishes a comprehensive public realm framework for the area to guide all future development over the next fifty years. In addition the framework informed Auckland City in preparation for the statutory plan change process. The process involved consultation with key stakeholders and the broader community.

The document provides public domain principles that describe the design intent with illustrated sections and photomontages included as indicative visions and ideas underpinning the framework. The robust public realm framework establishes a benchmark for future development, and ensures that key sites are protected and enhanced.

Masterplan:

Southern Highlands Botanical Gardens Masterplan

The Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens Masterplan is a new 14.2 ha botanic garden in Bowral NSW - a region renowned for its spectacular gardens and its natural beauty.

With the underlying theme of ‘Four Seasons in a Cold Climate’, the masterplan expresses a journey through the landscapes of the Southern Highlands Regions from the more mannered town gardens to the spacious arcadian country gardens and the natural indigenous landscapes beyond the cultivated areas.

As well as being an immersive, rich and seasonal experience enhanced by public art and managed according to environmentally sustainable principles, the garden aims to provide education and research facilities and opportunities.

Masterplan:

Springthorpe Masterplan

Springthorpe is a prestigious housing development, located within an established framework of heritage buildings. It is complimented by a public realm experience that responds to the site’s existing character.

The project commenced with an overall site masterplan, followed by the detailed design of all public landscape facilities, as well as developing templates for residential garden development.The project is distinguished by its landscape driven approach which incorporates the provision of detailed

planting, wetlands and a playground. This builds on the distinctive character precinct identified through the masterplanning process.

Awards:2003 UDIA (VIC) Award of Excellence in

Urban Renewal Projects

2004 UDIA (VIC) Award of Excellence in

Residential Developments of 400 lots or more


Masterplanned Development


Environmental Excellence

TCL together with MGS Architects were engaged to undertake the masterplan for the La Trobe University’s Melbourne Campus - Bundoora.

The La Trobe University Melbourne Campus has an abundance of green space - surrounded by parkland, wildlife reserves, sporting fields with an extensive water system running through the campus core. The masterplan’s intent was to transform the current campus into a University Town – activating the existing spaces, buildings and reappropriate space to create a densification of program on campus.

We worked closely with La Trobe in support of the key moves for the

Masterplans: Tertiary

La Trobe UniversityMasterplan

masterplan - finding ways for La Trobe to decrease the reliance on the motor vehicle, and promote pedestrian and bicycle access throughout the campus; enhancing the connection with the surrounding community; and using the Wildlife Sanctuary as a platform for research and learning.

A number of masterplans had been undertaken by various consultants over the previous 20 years, none of which had been implemented. A distinguishing factor for this masterplan was to create a masterplan that was supported by significant stakeholder consultation and embedded into the current thinking of the University at all levels of planning.

The Landscape Framework Plan for Melbourne University’s Parkville Campus provides the strategic direction for its public spaces, as well as implementation guidelines for the ongoing development of the Campus.

Masterplans: Tertiary

University of Melbourne Landscape Framework Plan

The Framework Plan develops a high quality public realm setting on the Parkville campus, enhancing Melbourne University’s reputation as one of Australia’s leading tertiary education and research institutions.

Framework Attributes

Activated Spaces Within the Spine Greening Via Corridors and Avenues A Fine Grain Network

Reinforcing the University’s Botanical Garden New Rooms Edge Identity

Selection of Built Projects:Masterplans/ Framework Plans

Right: Point Nepean National Park,

VIC. The masterplan evaluated

the landscape and its heritage to

determine the optimum use for the

quarantine station and its many

heritage buildings. Interpretation,

wayfinding and circulation were also

defined to form an integrated plan to

guide the park’s future.

Below: Auckland Waterfront, New

Zealand. A rich ensemble of maritime

streets, parks, industry promenades

and harbour provide visitors with a

diversity of experience.

Left: North Terrace Precincts

Redevelopment Framework Plan and

Masterplan, SA. Generous forecourts

utilising existing trees complement the

cultural institutions.

Below: National Arboretum

Canberra, ACT. The sculptural

landforms of the ‘Central Clearing’

form part of the visitor arrival

sequence.

Following Page: Australian Garden

Cranbourne, VIC. A 26 hectare

Botanic Garden to showcase the

wonder and magnificence of Australian

flora and our relationship to the

Australian environment.

Infrastructure

Built Work /Work in Progress

Adelaide Airport Plaza, SA

Adelaide Tram Shelter, SA

Brisbane Airport Link, QLD

Craigieburn Bypass, VIC

Northern Expressway, SA

Obahn Extension Adelaide, SA

Port River Expressway Project, SA

Riverbank Precinct Pedestrian Bridge, SA

South Road Planning Study, SA

Built Projects: Infrastructure Case Study

Northern Expressway

Right: Northern Expressway.

Significant sculptural elements

were designed for each end of the

expressway. Each bridge incorpirates

horizontal low-energy LED lighting as

feature banding that is programed to

change colour throuout the year.

Location: Gawler Bypass to Port Wakefield Road, SADate of Completion: 2011Client: Department for Transport, Energy and InfrastructureCollaboration: Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, Robert Owen, Bluebottle, Robin Eley, SMEC UrbanSize: 23km

“Outstanding due to its strong conceptual base and well illustrated design process”

Jury Citation 2011 AILA (SA) Award

TCL led a collaborative team of architects, engineers, designers and artists for the urban design and public art interventions along the entire 23km length of expressway demonstrating a high level of detail not typical for an infrastructure project and setting a new benchmark for such infrastructure.

The conceptual underpinning was to create a landscape experience that was sensitive to the expansive plains site. Expressway interchanges were left open to accentuate the flatness and long views. Horizontality was expressed strongly

in the bridge design with a series of calculated interventions designed to ‘stretch’ the bridge forms. Plantings and bold artistic interventions related to the cultural and environmental history of the site.

Awards:2011 AILA SA Landscape Architecture

Award for Design

2009 AILA SA Award for Planning

Right: Northern Expressway.

‘Wayne’s Monaro’ by artist Robyn

Ely. Bridge piers are wrapped by

super-graphic images of the locally

manufactured iconic Holden Monaro,

creating a gateway experience from

Adelaide onto NEXY.

Below: Northern Expressway. The

Gawler Bypass artworks are integrated

into the planted embankments,

drainage system and road network

responding to the broad scale of

the interchange and the driver’s

experience at speed. Specialist LED

lighting highlights the ‘Snake Wall’ and

underpass artwork at Gawler Bypass.

Following Page: Northern

Expressway. The ‘Snake Wall’

contrasts with the flat Adelaide plains

landscape as it slithers across the

Gawler Bypass interchange. Spot

lighting creates a red glow at night

along the slithering wall which alludes

to the underside of the Red Bellied

Black Snake, as an animal of local

Aboriginal significance.

Left: Brisbane Airport Link. A striking

urban design feature of the Eastern

Connection is the living green wall - a

vertical garden - covering the portal

walls connecting the East - West

Arterial to the Airportlink M7 tunnels.

Right Above: Brisbane Airport Link.

The sheer size of Airportlink meant

the project was broken into six major

design areas. The projects together

form an extensive $5.6 billion transport

infrastructure scheme, providing a vital

solution to the demands of Brisbane’s

burgeoning population.

Right Below: Brisbane Airport Link.

The two toned Jacaranda coloured

louvres modelled from the driver

perspective help to orientate the

driver as they pass by on the freeway.

A ventilation stack appears as a

sculptural architecture element.


Brisbane Airport Link

As part of Brisbane’s new road link connecting Brisbane to the airport, TCL provided specialist urban design for all major gateway experiences.

The consultation included recommendations on tunnel portals, ventilation stacks, noise walls and the aesthetic design of engineering structures such as bridges, sections of elevated road, retaining walls and tunnel lighting.

Location: Brisbane, QueenslandDate of Completion: 2012Client: BrisConnectionsCollaboration: Theiss John Holland, RPS, PBAJVSize: 6.7km

A major feature of the driving experience is two large gateway elements at each end of the main tunnel. One is a large curtain wall at the city interface, an urban gesture that responds to the urban scale of the freeway interchange. The other, a lush sub-tropical green vertical garden, the largest of its kind in Australia, descends adjacent to the portal at the airport side of the tunnel.

Brisbane Airport Link. The key to

the success of the Southern

Connection was driven by an

arresting geometric layout.

Below: Australian Garden, Lily Pad

Bridge, VIC. A bridge themed on lily

pads hovers above the lake connecting

visitors to the Gondwana Garden.

Right: Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve,

ACT. A sinuous bridge and primary

trail enable equal access for all visitors

up to the lookouts and down to the

wetlands.

Selection of Built Projects:Bridges

Opposite: Riverbank Precinct

Pedestrian Bridge, SA. The bridge

arc has been designed to mirror the

River Torrens and pivot to connect two

key destination points on the north and

south banks. Lighting changes in style

and colour depending on the events at

the adjacent oval and cultural venues.

Opposite Below: Sydney University,

NSW. An entrance to herald the

Redfern end of the Campus. The

movement of students through

the campus generates the rhythm

of vertical louvres adjacent to the

entrance boardwalk.

Location: Craigieburn, VictoriaDate of Completion: 2005Client: Vic RoadsCollaboration: Tonkin Zulaikha Greer and Robert OwenBudget: $16mSize: 4.8km

“The Craigieburn Bypass is a sophisticated transitproject, which integrates art, landscape andinfrastructure. The project is not a problem-solving basedsolution, but rather a creative response toconcepts of movement, arrival and reference.”

Jury Citation 2006 AILA National Award

The Federal Government as part of itscommitment to delivering a new freewayconnection to northern Melbourne,undertook a competition for the design ofa gateway element and noise attenuationfeatures.

TCL, TZG and Robert Owen won thiscompetition in 2003. The winning designcomprising walls, bridges and landscapes, was informed by a poetic reading of the site and a freeway environment largely experienced at speed. In particular thedesign explores how otherwise staticobjects begin to exhibit dynamism or areactivated by the travelling motorist.

Two wall types were developed eachdistinctive and responding to theiradjacent condition. The ‘Curtain Wall’a long sinuous steel ribbon is fluid inits form, dynamic and experiential.The ‘Scrim Wall’ by contrast is locatedalongside a residential interface and is composed of patterned acrylic panelsand repeated electric blue louvres.

Awards:2006 AILA National Excellence Award

in Landscape Architecture, 2006 Australian Steel

Institute Awards, Creative Steel Design Award,

2006 Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA),

Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design, 2005 AILA

Victoria, Award for Excellence in Design


Craigieburn Bypass

Right: Craigieburn Bypass. Noise

attenuation walls merge into the

bridge that forms a major gateway

element along the freeway. The

pedestrian bridge connects residential

communities to a linear park along the

Merri Creek.

Below: Craigieburn Bypass. As

drivers arrive in Melbourne acrylic

panel elements become dominant.

This ‘screen’ contains thousands of

LED’s, each programmed to respond

to the density of traffic, changing in

colour and intensity at any particular

moment.


Riverbank Pedestrian Bridge

TCL, Aurecon and TZG were engaged in 2012 to design the new Riverbank Precinct Pedestrian Bridge, following a design competition run by the South Australian Government Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI).

The Riverbank Pedestrian Bridge providesa vital connection between the city’shighly visited Adelaide Festival Centre,Adelaide Railway Station and the recentlyredeveloped Adelaide Oval. The 255mglass clad bridge arcs over the Torrens, connecting two key destination points on the north and south banks.

Client: South Australian Government Department of Planning,Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI).Collaboration: Aurecon and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, Karl TelferLocation: Adelaide City Centre, SACompletion Date: June 2014Construction budget: $40mSize: 255m long bridge

The upgraded connection points provideactivated destinations at each end of thebridge, with engaging elements includinglighting and water features.

The design team worked with Culturalartist and designer, Karl Telfer from Cultural Research Education and Design (CRED) to facilitate local indigenous links and storytelling within the project. The south landing hosts a stainless steel artwork where subtle traces of animals etched into the surface of the steel can be seen by day, and representations of the southern constellations can be viewed by night.

Right: Riverbank Pedestrian Bridge.

Pedestrians utilise the new vital

connection between the city’s highly

visited Adelaide Festival Centre,

Adelaide Railway Station and the

recently redeveloped Adelaide Oval.

Right: Riverbank Pedestrian Bridge.

Water falls from the Riverbank

Pedestrian Bridge into the river below

creating a spectacular visual and

sensory element.

Below: Riverbank Pedestrian Bridge.

The watery pattern from the River

Torrens below. Water is reflected

onto the bridges glass underside,

showcasing the bridges connection

to the river.

Urban Design

Masterplans

Auckland Waterfront - North Wharf

Promenade and Silo Park, NZ

Greater Dandenong Masterplan, VIC

North Terrace Precincts Redevelopment

Framework Plan and Masterplan, SA

South Australian Integrated Cultural

Campus Masterplan, SA

Victoria Harbour Docklands

Masterplan, VIC

Victoria Square/ Tarntanyangga

Masterplan, SA

Built Work /Work in Progress

Adelaide Airport Plaza, SA


Promenade and Silo Park, NZ

Bank Street Parklet Project, SA

Bowden Urban Village, SA

Docklands ANZ Realm, VIC

Docklands Green Square, VIC

Grattan Plaza Prahran, VIC

Henley Square, SA

Little Malop Street Geelong, VIC

Lonsdale Street Dandenong, VIC

Manly Corso Sydney, NSW

North Terrace Redevelopment

Stages 1 – 3, SA

Northland Entertainment Northland

Precinct Extension, VIC

Orion Springfield Centre, QLD

QV Laneways - QV2 Arcade, Red Cape Lane,

and Artemis Lane Melbourne, VIC

Unley Central Precinct Plan, SA

Victoria Harbour Water Plaza, VIC

Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga Stage 1, SA

“Using metaphorical landscape elements...the design has elevated the often pedestrian qualities of airport forecourts and infrastructure into a memorable visitor experience...”

Jury Citation - 2013 CCAA Public Domain SA State Award

TCL, with Adelaide Airport Limited (AAL) and Woodhead Architects have created a dynamic, world class gateway to South Australia and the City of Adelaide.

Like Adelaide’s extensive plains and open skies, the project is vast, consisting of a plaza, multi-storey carpark, porte cochere, pedestrian bridge, taxi zone, roads and associated plantings.

The plaza is deliberately open and egalitarian, allowing for large numbers to traverse unencumbered, as well as being adaptive for future uses.

Location: Adelaide AirportDate of Completion: 2013Client: Adelaide Airport LimitedCollaboration: Woodhead ArchitectsSize: 20,000sqm


Adelaide Airport Landside

The design takes its cues from the wider South Australian landscape, with the oval pattern and colours of the plaza reminiscent of dry landscapes experienced from the air. The eucalypts evoke a distinctively Australian experience.

The project is imbued with sustainable principles including WSUD, rainwater harvesting and the selection of indigenous and hardy Australian native plantings.

Awards:

2013 CCAA Public Domain SA State Award

Right: Adelaide Airport. Adelaide’s

open skies are captured in the

perforated screen reminiscent of

moving clouds. The screens function is

to ameliorate views to the car park and

taxi parking bays.

Below: Adelaide Airport. The design

takes its cues from the wider South

Australian landscape. Like Adelaide’s

extensive plains and open skies, the

project is vast, consisting of a plaza,

multi-storey carpark, porte cochere,

pedestrian bridge, taxi zone, roads,

waterfeature and associated plantings.

Left: Adelaide Airport. The oval paving

patterns and colours of the plaza

are reminiscent of dryer landscapes

experienced from the air.

Lonsdale Street, Dandenong is a key partof the $290 million Revitalising CentralDandenong Initiative, launched by theVictorian Government in 2006.

A key strategy developed by TCL incollaboration with BKK was to returnLonsdale Street as one of Melbourne’spremier boulevards. This 500 metre longboulevard establishes via the extension ofpatterned paving and the creation of garden rooms, a pedestrian and cyclistpriority environment, as well as a vibrant and successful shopping centrepiece for Dandenong.

A treed linear garden along the length of the road, creates a significant arrival element and a desirable communitymeeting place.

In line with urban storm water bestpractice, a series of rain gardens capture

Location: Central DandenongCompletion Date: 2011Client: Places VictoriaCollaboration: BKK, Electrolight, Design Flow and Daniel SequeiraSize: 10,000sqm

Built Projects: Urban Design Case Study

Lonsdale Street, Central Dandenong

and treat localized storm water run-off tobe re-used for irrigation purposes.

An integrated artwork designed incollaboration with artist Daniel Sequeiraand Electrolight is composed of verticallighting rods and forms the centrepiece tothe Lonsdale Street experience.

Awards:2014 AILA National Award for Excellence in

Urban Design; Revitalising Central Dandenong,

2013 Walter Burley Griffin Award; Urban Design

Lonsdale Street Revitalisation, Dandenong, 2013

Planning Institute of Australia Urban Design Award

Commendation for Lonsdale Street Revitalisation,

Dandenong, 2013 Joseph Reed Urban Design

Award Lonsdale Street Revitalisation, Dandenong,

2012 AILA Victoria Design Excellence Award

Lonsdale Street Revitalisation, Dandenong

Right: Lonsdale Street,

Central Dandenong. An integrated

artwork designed in collaboration with

artist Daniel Sequeira and Electrolight

is composed of vertical lighting rods

and forms the centrepiece to the

Lonsdale Street experience.

Below: Lonsdale Street,

Central Dandenong. This 500

metre long boulevard establishes

a pedestrian and cyclist priority

environment and a vibrant shopping

centrepiece for Dandenong via the

extension of patterned paving and the

creation of garden rooms.

Left Below: Lonsdale Street,

Central Dandenong. A treed linear

garden along the length of the road,

creates a significant arrival element

and a desirable community

meeting place.

Selection of Built Projects:Urban Design

Right: Victoria Harbour, VIC. The

comprehensive public realm design

ensured engagement with its waterside

context as a vital public experience.

Left: Jellicoe Street, Auckland

Waterfront, New Zealand. New

gardens utilising indigenous flora of

the region are designed to seamlessly

emerge from cracks in the pavement.

Left Below: Bank Street Parklets, SA.

A shared and pedestrian prioritised

street integrating parklets into

the streetscape, with artist Sam

Songailo’s super road graphic. The

upgrade provides greater economic

sustainability for street traders and

enhances social sustainability,

enabling the community space to

engage in a lively city laneway.

Right Below: Adelaide Tram Shelters,

SA. The long vistas down North

Terrace and King William Streets are

an important part of the character and

integrity of Adelaide’s two ceremonial

streets. The shelters are therefore as

slender as possible, reinforcing the

linearity of the street and presenting

the minimum number of vertical

obstacles to the view.

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Location: Adelaide CBD, SAMasterplan & Design Development Completion Date: 2011Stage 1 Completion: 2014Client: Adelaide City CouncilCollaboration: Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, Peter Emmett, Karl TelferSize: 6 hectares


Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga Masterplan & Stage 1

Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga is Adelaide’s premier open space situated in the centre of the city. The proposed masterplan for this highly symbolic site brings together the many disparate forces which have traditionally competed for the space. Through a thorough design exploration and extensive consultation the TCL team developed a plan which is widely accepted by the community, stakeholders and decision makers.

This bold, flexible and elegant scheme creates a new heart of the city, housing

a multitude of events while also telling stories of the cultural significance of the place and providing a quiet refuge within the city.

Awards:2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture

Award for Urban Design; 2011 AILA (SA) Award for

Excellence in Urban Design; 2011 Commendation

for Urban Design, PIA National Awards for Planning

Excellence; 2010 Award for Planning Excellence

for SA Local Government; 2010 Commendation for

Planning Excellence for Urban Design SA

“The Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga Urban Regeneration Project proposes a new urban form for Adelaide’s six hectare central square that re-inscribes the space as the symbolic, civic heart of the city in a truly meaningful way.”

Jury Citation 2011 AILA (SA) Award

Right: Victoria Square /

Tarntanyangga. A water-play feature at

the northern end.

Below: Victoria Square /

Tarntanyangga. Generous, paved

promenades on either side of the

event space with an ‘urban lounge’

and shade structures with steel mesh

awning enclosed by ornamental vines.

Left Below: Victoria Square /

Tarntanyangga. Victoria Square has

always been at the heart of Adelaide’s

CBD, but has never lived up to its full

potential as a place for everyone to

enjoy. This exciting redevelopment

gives the space back to the people of

South Australia, and encourages the

square to be a focus point for visitors

to the City of Adelaide.

Working waterfronts are constantly in flux; crusty, utilitarian, muscular and dissolving, with temporal qualities that engage all of our senses. Yet contemporary waterfront redevelopments are often characterised by the removal of the very qualities that attract us to these places. At Auckland’s Wynyard Point redevelopment these conventions are challenged in a development that anticipates transforming a forlorn industrial and maritime precinct into a mixed-use precinct.

Underpinning the design are two ‘key moves’. Retention and enhancing of fishing and maritime industries form the

Location: Wynyard Point, AucklandDate of Completion: 2011Client: Waterfront AucklandCollaboration: Wraight + AssociatesBudget: $32,000,000Size: 1.8 Hectare

focus of new public experiences and, interpreting the site’s peculiar archaeology of patterns and materiality to inform a new public landscape.

Jellicoe Harbour is a major tourism attraction centred on the retention of the fishing fleet, wholesale and retail fish and seafood markets, and new promenades and restaurants. Silo Park is a layered public space that facilitates a range of hybrid uses including passive recreation, event space, youth precinct, industry and folly. Each program is new to the site, yet built from the pattern language, infrastructure and the mythology of place.

Left: Auckland Waterfront, New

Zealand. The design weaves public

realm experiences around ‘as found’

conditions. The harbour edge, North

Wharf, is now a site of negotiation, a

pedestrian promenade furnished with

crate seats from which to witness and

experience the waterfront’s industry.

Right Above: Auckland Waterfront,

New Zealand. The park now plays

host to a range of public functions

including passive recreation, event

space, youth precinct and weekend

markets.

Right Below: Auckland Waterfront,

New Zealand. The gantry is a

100-metre-long by nine-metre-high

structure designed to be part folly, play

structure, lookout, arbour and event

framework.


Auckland Waterfront - North Wharf Promenade and Silo Park

“To convince politicians not to demolish derelict industrial artefacts is one thing, but to convince them also to keep the fish trawlers in place instead of pushing them elsewhere for the benefit of a tourist waterfront is something else.”

Jury Citation 2014 Rosa Barba Landscape Prize, Barcelona

Awards:2014 Rosa Barba Landscape Prize -

8th International Biennial of Landscape

Architecture; 2014 AILA National

Award for Urban Design; 2012 World

Architecture News Urban Regeneration

Award; 2012 New Zealand Urban

Design Award Built Category; 2012

Washington Waterfront Center Annual

Honor Award; 2012 AILA VIC Urban

Design Excellence Award; 2012

Resene Total Colour Landscape Award

Location: North Terrace, AdelaideClient: Adelaide City CouncilCollaboration: Peter Elliott Architects, Paul Carter, Hossein ValamaneshSize: 20,500 sqm

The jury commends this thoughtful and elegant revision to Adelaide’s civic and cultural boulevard. TCL... has conveyed an important and positive message about the capacity of landscape architects to lead urban landscape design projects.

Jury Citation - 2013 AILA (SA) Medal for Landscape Architecture

The North Terrace Precincts Redevelopment masterplan provides a vision for the entire length of North Terrace including forecourts to the adjacent cultural institutions and University.

The $60 million plan (2001) establishes guiding principles and design outcomes which form the basis of all current and future stages of the project. The foundational principle is to establish a generous pedestrian zone along the north side of the street which both has sufficient integrity and strength to read as a single place, yet be responsive to the many urban conditions that abut the Terrace.

Attention to detail and the use of quality durable materials have created an environment befitting the cultural significance of this iconic space within the City of Adelaide.

Awards:2013 AILA (SA) Medal for Landscape Architecture,

2013 AILA (SA) Medal for Landscape Architecture.

2006 Australia Award for Urban Design, 2006 ACC

The Adelaide Prize Award of Excellence, 2006

AILA (National) Award of Merit, 2005 AILA (SA)

Overall Award of Excellence, 2005 AILA (SA) Award

of Excellence for Design, 2004 AILA (National)

Excellence Award for Planning, 2003 AILA (SA)

Award of Excellence for Planning, 2000 AILA (SA)

Award of Merit Planning and Masterplanning


North Terrace, Stage One - Three

Right Below: North Terrace. During

the Adelaide International Festival of

Art 2012 images were projected onto

each of the historic buildings along

North Terrace. As is evident here, the

civic space of the street allowed for

a very large audience to watch the

‘Northern Lights’ installation.

Opposite: North Terrace. A view along

North Terrace showing the generous

inner and outer paths and the repetitive

rhythm of seating, paving, planting and

forecourts.

Left Below: North Terrace. Water

features mark each institution plaza.

14 Pieces by artists Hossein and

Angela Valamanesh is located on

the plaza of the Museum of South

Australia. The black granite forms

are reminiscent of the giant dinosaur

bones in the museum’s collection.

It has become a favourite cool play

space for children in Adelaide heat.

North Terrace, SA. Having all cultural

institutions along one terrace is unique.

The redevelopment of North Terrace

allows each institution to be heralded

while providing cohesion along the

whole length.

Wetlands &WSUD

Masterplans

Australian Garden, Vic

North Terrace Stage 3, SA

Oaklands Park Masterplan and Wetland, SA


Victoria Square Masterplan, SA

Winton Wetlands, VIC

Built Work /Work in ProgressAdelaide Botanic Gardens Wetland, SA


Promenade and Silo Park, New Zealand

Australian Garden, Vic

Bowden Urban Village, SA

Breakout Creek, SA

Christie Creek Wetlands - Waterproofing

the South, SA

Coffin Bay, SA

Forestville Reserve Creek Works, SA

Lonsdale Street, Central Dandenong, VIC

North Terrace Stage 3, SA

Oaklands Park Masterplan and Wetland, SA

Port Road, SA (Unbuilt)

SA Museum Forecourt, SA


The Sanctuary, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve

Wetlands, ACT

Unity Park Wetland, SA

University of Sydney, NSW

Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga

Masterplan, SA

Winton Wetlands, VIC

Built Projects: Wetlands and WSUD Case Study

Adelaide Botanic Gardens Wetland

Right: Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Wetland. Stepping stones provide an

immersive experience of the wetland.

The Adelaide Botanic Gardens Wetland is located on First Creek, a highly urbanised waterway near the centre of Adelaide. The wetland ameliorates flooding, purifies polluted stormwater runoff, is the source for an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) system, provides habitat and is an educational and recreational resource.

The conceptual design process has led to a fusion of engineering, landscape architecture and interpretation resulting in an integrated system combining physical, biological, mechanical and hydrological processes.

Location: Adelaide, South AustraliaDate of Completion: 2013Client: Adelaide Botanic GardensCollaboration: SKM, David Lancashire Design, Paul ThompsonBudget: $8.5mSize: 20,000sqm

Three primary themes - plants, water and people are explored through the design. These themes are established within a layout which improves visitor entry to the gardens through the eastern gate, maintains visitor and service access and provides a range of new opportunities for educational experiences.

Right: Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Wetland. A look-out bridge provides a

commanding view over the wetlands

and beyond. Interpretive information

in the form of coloured glass panels is

both beautiful and educational.

Below: Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Wetland. Located on First Creek,

the wetland is a highly urbanised

waterway near the centre of Adelaide.

The project ameliorates flooding,

purifies polluted stormwater runoff, is

the source for an Aquifer Storage and

Recovery system, provides habitat

and is an immersive educational and

recreational resource.

Auckland Waterfront, New Zealand.

Adjacent to Silo Park is a large

bio-retention wetland that collects

stormwater from the wider site. The

historic wharf edge has been revealed

here with the removal of declaimed fill.

Indigenous planting also references

the site’s conditions pre-industry.

This, along with the planting of the

Jellicoe Street rain gardens, references

an important element of Maori culture

- the viewing of a green edge when

approaching land.

Below: Winton Wetlands, VIC.

A project of national scientific, cultural

and environmental significance,

Winton Wetlands is the largest wetland

restoration project in the southern

hemisphere.

Right: Lonsdale Street,

Central Dandenong, VIC. A treed

linear garden along the length of

the road, creates a significant arrival

element and in line with urban

stormwater best practice, a series

of rain gardens capture and treat

localized stormwater run-off to be

reused for irrigation purposes.

Selection of Built Projects:Wetlands and WSUD

Opposite: Oaklands Park Masterplan

and Wetland, SA. A new wetland has

formed the centrepiece of the new

reserve, nestled amongst the existing

magnificent gum trees that grace the

site. The wetland cleans stormwater

from the Sturt River, and the cleaned

stormwater is then stored in a confined

aquifer nearly 100 metres under the

ground.

Opposite Below: Sydney University,

NSW. Maze Green wetland system

where water is collected from

surrounding areas and is then filtered,

stored and reused for irrigation.

Studio

TCL’s award winning success is borne out of an open studio based approach where one or more of the directors lead the design of each project supported by a talented group of landscape architects, urban designers, and architects.

The Directors, Kate Cullity, Perry Lethlean, Scott Adams and Damian Schultz each bring different disciplines and skills to the practice. Along with a shared background in landscape architecture, Kate is trained in botany and visual arts and Perry in urban design, while Scott is an expert at the design and delivery of large scale projects and Damian has extensive skills in water sensitive urban design,

wetland design and working in National Parks.

Perry Lethlean DirectorB.L Arch, MD (Urban Design), PhD (RMIT),

Adjunct Professor RMIT, FAILA

Perry is considered to be one of Australia’s

and more recently one of the world’s leading

contemporary urban and landscape designers.

His work is widely published, particularly

his successful entries for major national and

international design competitions including the

National Arboretum in Canberra and the University

of Sydney. His skills in urban design, at both the

large master planning and detailed design scale,

make him a valuable asset to TCL and clients.

He is a sought after design lecturer and critic at

Universities and as a juror for professional practice

awards and advisory design bodies.

Perry has led the successful implementation of

complex landscape and urban projects such as

The Forest Gallery at the Melbourne Museum,

The National Arboretun Canberra, winner of the

2014 World Architecture Festival, ‘Landscape

of the Year’, Auckland Waterfront - North Wharf

Promenade & Silo Park NZ, winner of the 2014

Rosa Barba Landscape Prize, and The Australian

Garden, Cranbourne which won the 2013 WAF,

‘Landscape of the Year’ Award.

Scott AdamsDirectorB.L.Arch. (RMIT), M.L.Arch (RMIT), AILA

Scott has led multi-disciplinary design and

documentation teams on some of the firm’s largest

and most complex urban, civic and landscape

projects. These include projects nationally

and internationally awarded by urban design,

architecture and landscape architecture institutes.

Projects include the Darlington Campus at Sydney

University, the Redevelopment of Lonsdale St in

Dandenong, Vic, Craigieburn Bypass, Vic, and

Auckland Waterfront - North Wharf Promenade

& Silo Park, NZ which won the 2014 Rosa Barba

Landscape Prize.

Scott is committed to the development of

environmentally sustainable practices throughout

the design process and built implementation. He

has also tought landscape architecture at Sydney

and Melbourne Universities.

Kate CullityDirectorB.Sc. (Botany) Dip. Ed. (University of W.A), PhD (RMIT), Adjunct Professor University of Adelaide, AILA

Kate is a nationally and internationally

recognised and awarded landscape architect

and environmental artist, with particular skills in

the integration of public art with landscape and

urban design. She has worked as both an artist

and designer for a number of international art and

garden festivals both in Australia and overseas.

Her background in botany and her strong

personal interest in horticulture have resulted in

her involvement in the planting design of sites

throughout Australia. Kate has been a member

of the core design team in many of TCL’s award

winning projects including the Redevelopment

of North Terrace and Victoria Sq in Adelaide and

The Australian Garden, which won the 2013 WAF,

‘Landscape of the Year’ Award.

Kate has taught at both secondary and tertiary

levels and is most familiar with the education

sector. She has recently completed a PhD which

reflected on 25 years of TCL’s practice, as well as

her interest in beauty, aesthetics and care and how

these qualities can be aligned with creating and

appreciating sustainable landscapes.

Damian Schultz DirectorB LArch B Arch GradDipDesSt

(University of Adelaide), AILA

Damian has worked with TCL since 1997 in both

the Melbourne and Adelaide offices on a variety

of projects gaining experience in Landscape

Architectural projects in a multitude of contexts

and scales. In the last 10 years he has project

managed many of these projects which have

resulted in both state and national AILA design

awards in recognition of the quality of the

outcomes produced.

Damian has great expertise in water sensitive

urban design and wetland design and is also

recognised for his high technical skills. Projects

include the Redevelopment of North Terrace, SA

and the Frontage to The University of Adelaide.

Perry Lethlean, Director

Jason Avery, Landscape Architect

Alexandra Lock, Landscape Architect

Richard Kleinig, Senior Landscape Architect

Lauren Gillard, Communications and Graphics Coordinator

Anne-Marie Pisani, Senior Landscape Architect

Grace Lin, Senior Landscape ArchitectElly Russell, Senior Landscape Architect

Kate Cullity, Director

Nicky McNamara, Landscape Architect

Lisa Howard, Associate

Simone Bliss, Senior Landscape Architect

Agata Erodogan, Business Manager

Neha Juddoo, Graduate Landscape Architect

Scott Adams, Director Damian Schultz, Director

Lucas Dean, Landscape Architect

Enoch Liew, Graduate Landscape Architect Ashleigh McFarlane, Office Manager

Jessica Collins, Office Assistant

Jennifer Lynch, Graduate Landscape Architect

Jim McGuinness, Graduate Landscape Architect

Jonathon Chan, Graduate Landscape Architect

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