Penguin is a beautiful seaside village on Tasmania’s North Coast, famous for its fairy Penguins, its friendly beachfront village and for its flowering verge gardens. John Mongard Landscape Architects improved the town entries and built park and streetscape works during the 1090’s, and then recently returned to develop a whole-of- town masterplan for the village […]
Read morePerry and Ling were two local residents and keen gardeners in the seaside town of Penguin, in northern tasmania. They started planting their roadside verges at either end of the old coastal road, and ended up creating a beautiful flowering coastal corridor that has become a landmark in the district. John Mongard Landscape Architects assisted […]
Read moreThe Date farm was designed with curving avenues of palms, to create a wonderful avenue of productive trees in the desert fringes of Charleville, in Queensland.
Read moreBrolga Lakes seeks to break the pattern of unsustainable suburban growth by providing low carbon footprint homes with communal facilities for waste, water, power and food. Brolga Lakes is a village set in lakes, an ecological place connected to nature and connecting its people. Brolga Lakes seeks to reform the way we live in the edges of our cities; creating a self-supported peri-urban neighbourhood. The conservation land comprising valued wetlands, has been donated to Birdlife Australia through an enduring covenant which will revegetate adjacent cleared land to create an outstanding environmental setting and a national centre for bird research.
Read moreA $2 million upgrade was project managed, designed and documented in a fast-track process for Queensland’s most popular picnic spot. The park and beachfront focus on a plaza shaped like a boat, in recognition of the town’s nautical past. Custom furniture and signage have been designed and the project includes twelve public artworks.
Read moreSmall towns in rural Australia are disappearing due to a lack of people and purpose. The Living Classroom is a regenerative project to bring both people and new ideas, framed around the exploration of sustainable farming for the future. The Living Classroom provides classrooms, teaching areas, bunk accommodation, productive gardens and grazing lots, and agricultural […]
Read moreThe Ecovillage at Currumbin was first conceptualised by John Mongard Landscape Architects (JMLA) in 1999. The concept plan, planning precincts and building/landscape codes were prepared as part of the development approval plans by JMLA in collaboration with others in 2002. The Ecovillage has become a model for sustainable development in Australia, having won over 30 […]
Read moreThe Atherton Tablelands is a beautiful cluster of rural villages surrounded by internationally significant rainforests. In 1995 John Mongard Landscape Architects were invited to come and propose some ideas for Atherton’s Main Street. What resulted was a collaborative planning and placemaking process that would span over ten years and result in the cultural and environmental […]
Read moreThe Seventeen Seventy Foreshore is a place of national significance protected by a Heritage Act. The town of Seventeen Seventy was the point of Captain Cook’s first landing in Queensland, and the gentle improvements were undertaken to celebrate the 150 years since this first settlement. The opportunity has been taken to also celebrate local Aboriginal […]
Read moreA ‘Set-up Shop’ process led to an innovative village strategy plan which allowed transferable development rights for residents with environmentally sensitive wetlands. A waterfront and harbor plan led to construction of a boardwalk bridge linking both sides of the village.
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