John Mongard Landscape Architects presented a talk at the 2023 Qld PIA Conference at the Gold Coast showcasing their long track record in donating design ,planning and community garden assistance to their local community.
Read moreWest End Centre is in the midst of a dramatic change with a near doubling of shops through new shopping Centre developments nearby. Boundary Street is the traditional main street of West End. How will the Precinct thrive amongst this change? How will the traditional main street continue to offer its distinctive character and shops? […]
Read moreJohn Mongard taught placemaking in 2019 as part of a Myer Foundation grant and collaborated with Sebastien D’archen and his town planning students at The University of Queensland. A co-design workshop was held in Boundary street, in the heart of West End, which led to creative plans for the future of the centre. Read about the […]
Read moreJohn Mongard taught placemaking and collaborated with Laurel Johnson and her town planning students at The University of Queensland during 2018, as part of a Myer Foundation grant. Our workshop with local residents generated a new plan for the local centre. See the video of the co-design workshop here:
Read moreThe big idea in our strategy is that we can reclaim at least 11 hectares of unused public spaces to create the public realm that the community needs now and into the future. This space is available now on unused road reserves and crown lands within the peninsula and should be used to build the […]
Read moreEssential Questions Who is a dweller? What is PLACE, as opposed to SPACE? Where Is PLACE? How do we recognize, or facilitate PLACE? Why is the concept of PLACE important? What is PLACE making? 1. Who is a dweller? A dweller knows, feels and remembers a place intimately. Dwellers are people who inhabit an area […]
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 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 moreReview by John Mongard FAILA for Landscape Architecture Australia 2011 South-east Queensland continues to grow, and new cities are emerging in its bushland periphery to cope with the pressure of around 66,000 people arriving every year1. Springfield is a new planned city to house an estimated 89,000 people by the year 20252, and its town […]
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