STORY BY CATHERINE STEWART FAILDM

AILDM NATIONAL STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION 2007

First Prize:
Denise Smallwood of North Melbourne Institute of TAFE, Victoria

Second prize:
Dennis Cochrane – Ryde TAFE, Sydney

Highly Commended:
Andrei Kozyrev – University of Canberra
Genevieve Corish – Ryde TAFE Sydney
Yen Ong – NMIT Melbourne

Good landscape designers focus on three main points to be successful:

• listening skills that help them really understand their clients needs and wishes,

• making every design specific to its site, reflecting its topography, climate, soils and streetscape

• communicating their design solutions in plans, sections and perspectives so clients can easily imagine their new garden

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