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 moreCurrent progress on the Beaudesert Town Centre works includes a new Main Street, relocation of an CWA meeting hall, and a new civic amenities building. A unique events area features a stage and events pavilion designed to complement the adjacent heritage railway building. A new civic park features two yarning circles and interpretive gardens and […]
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 moreHow a space unfolds into a place is a mystery. What ingredients are required to make our cities valued? We go about our daily lives and the things we touch and feel remind us of who we are and where we belong. For most of us the things we care about are actually small and […]
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 moreContext Gladstone has been a City of extremely accelerated development in times past, and it is likely this rate of development will happen again. It has some remarkable natural attributes including a deep harbour and substantial mineral resources, which will continue to provide enormous economic potential for the region, however these assets need to be […]
Read moreTraditionally, Melbourne’s development has pushed out indiscriminately into the surrounding rural landscape. As a result, local ecologies have been compromised and natural systems disrupted. Tooradin is a village strategically located at the only place where the South Gippsland Highway meets the waters of Western Port. The Village is located 65 kilometres south east of central […]
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