The date farm was designed by JMLA in conjunction with Jim Phillips Irrigation consultant in Charleville, Queensland. The farm has reached maturity and is bearing commercial scale fruit thanks to owner Mark Hampel’s careful approach. A cool room is being built to house the fruit, and the storage facilities have been upgraded. Over ten thousand […]
Read moreThe datefarm in Charleville, Queensland was designed by JMLA to harness the beauty and productivity of the palms in a curvilinear landscape. The layout of the farm intended to also provide an interpretive setting for agrotourism. The farm now attracts several thousand visitors a year, who come to sample the date produce in a dramatic […]
Read moreToondah Harbour has been the subject of a heated debate about its future, particularly around recent development plans for intense highrise development adjacent to the Ramsar listed wetlands. The Walker development plan was called- in by the Federal Government in 2024 due to unacceptable environmental impacts. Following a five month community-based planning and design process, […]
Read moreThe Living Classroom has built an amazing system of waterways and forests to provide water and biodiversity at the regenerative farm.
Read moreWelcome to Plainland. Plainland is on a plain designated for the growth of Brisbane. It has a shopping centre off the highway and sits amongst the cows of surrounding grazing land. Plainland is plain: the cost of house and land dictate it. A bold entry statement and a path to the shops are civic flourishes. […]
Read moreGold Coast is a city infatuated with its image. It is the Miami Vice jostling with BrisVegas in the Sunshine State. Bold and brash, the sky is not the limit in Gold Coast City. The city embraced height from its early days and this coincided with Modernism as it washed over our shores from America […]
Read moreCentres are the heart of our shared living places. place theory and experiential design processes can be harnessed to connect centres to their landscape and people.
Read moreThe marketplace is clearly failing the landscapes and the towns we live in. Australian country towns are dying as the global economy seeks to extract the cheapest goods in the cheapest location. We live in a very large island with a small population and with inbuilt inefficiencies of distance and time to markets. Our standard […]
Read moreBy John Mongard For Landscape Architecture Australia, No. 129, 2011 The following article is a review of contemporary industrial landscapes and corporate parks, focussing on the recently completed Sunshine Coast Industrial Park on the Sunshine Coast by Gamble McKinnon Green. Industrial estates are the parts of our cities which are normally the ugliest and most […]
Read moreThe challenge for designers in this moment of change is to re-conceptualise people as citizens rather than consumers, to place value on civic life and to create a shared democratic citizenship. This paper focuses on three important actions required to achieve a more ethical public realm: feeding/greening/caring. 1 MB PDF
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