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Posted on June 19, 2018July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Moment in the Sun: Greg O’Shea and Gold Coast Modernism

Gold 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 […]

Posted on June 13, 2018August 1, 2019 John Mongard

Placemaking for Centres

Centres 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.

Posted on June 13, 2018July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Placemaking – Theory and Process

Placemaking is fundamental to how we make and see the world. Placemaking processes acknowledge that to walk in the shoes of a dweller is to be in place. Vibrant Towns of the Scenic Rim is an award winning regional strategy to add vibrancy to rural towns. This presentation is a snapshot of the strategies used […]

Posted on June 13, 2018July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Future Suburbs

How will the suburbs become more sustainable and caring in the future? Place theory and engagement processes, as well as experiential design are ways to bring placemaking into the suburbs.

Posted on June 13, 2013July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Unfolding space

How 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 […]

Posted on June 13, 2013July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Dis location – Survival of the local

The 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 […]

Posted on June 13, 2011July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Landscape Eco-retrofitting

Eco-retrofitting the landscape begins with acknowledgement that sites always have existing cultural and ecological frameworks.

Posted on June 12, 2011July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Sunshine Coast Industrial Park

By 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 […]

Posted on June 12, 2011July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Robelle Domain

Review 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 […]

Posted on September 13, 2009July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Art On The Esplanade

The Strand Ephemera 5The Strand, Townsville Townsville’s main promenade, The Strand, was once again the setting for the biennial Strand Ephemera, an exhibition of temporal works of public art. On balmy clear nights we found many people exploring the parklands, looking for the twenty-two artworks which were spread out over the 2.2 km beachfront parklands. […]