This case-study is a bit of a roller coaster ride. It’s set in the Shire of Livingstone, which stretches midway along the Queensland Coast from Rockhampton in the south to Wild Duck Island to the north – 12,000 square kilometres. The team that manages the Shire’s public open spaces is necessarily large – thirty members [...]
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JUGGLING OVALS
Does anyone really enjoy delivering a tricky sports field reconstruction? Probably not, but everyone loves to hear about them. Here’s one that has all the bells and whistles: a four metre difference in levels (that’s not a typo), the need to keep part of the playing surface available throughout construction,and the too-common issue about there [...]
20,000 DANCING FEET
If you’ve been to Adelaide, there’s a good chance you’ve spent some time beneath the trees of the Botanic Garden, or the Botanic Park which sits across from it. Whether you were enjoying the cool shade of the gums and ferns of the Australian Forest, or the dappled shade on the sweeps of lawn in [...]
THEN AND NOW
There’s a great story behind TerraCottem, and it’s wrapped around two people: Russell James and Tarrant Baguley. Russ knows all about the beginning because he was there. Taz came into the picture a little later on and he’s the man with an eye on the future. It’s a tale filled with international origins, a fair [...]
BIG WAVES = BRILLIANT MAKEOVER
Who would have thought that a foreshore pummelling would end up leading to something as wonderful as a new central park at Kingscliff? As it turns out, the storm events - which kick-started the process - led council and community to put something into place that is much, much better than what was there previously. [...]
THAT’S TAZZ... AT YOUR SERVICE
He’s someone you don’t forget easily, thanks to the hair colour which Tarrant Baguley inherited from his red-headed mother. At 37, his own head-full is only now sporting its first grey hair, but some of you reading this will rememberTazz when he first started out in this business, as a youth about to turn 21… [...]
What's in the mix?
Prepare yourself to hear something you probably already know; something you agree with; and something you wish you could sort once and for all. In this case landscape architect Des Cloake gets on the soap-box and does a good job of summing up the challenges and solutions. But first a little about Des and the [...]
LEARNING LANDSCAPES
A great deal is demanded from the outdoor space that surrounds a school. Think back to your own primary and secondary years and you’ll likely remember: the spot where you sat to eat lunch; the places where you played till bell-time. Since most of us obviously develop an appreciation of the living environment during these [...]
A SWAMP. SOME DOLLARS & WILD CATTLE
Just when you’d thought you knew all there was to know about revegetation, along comes a project with its own cowboys: the good kind, with dogs and horses… Louise Duff has been working in natural resource management for 15 years. Currently she’s managing the Hunter region for a newly amalgamated organisation – Conservation Volunteers Australia [...]
TIM’S TERRITORY
It’s almost too massive to imagine, the sales arera that Tim Sharpe covers. If you take Perth’s Swan River as a starting point, it forms Tim’s northern boundary. The Indian Ocean lies along the western edge, the Great Australian Bight the southern, while the Western Australia border closes out the east. This area may be [...]
