SPRING 2010 – Issue 43

Posted on 19 December, 2011 by

IN THIS ISSUE

AILDM NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS 2010
Glenice Buck and Susan Latty give us a run down on this year’s Design Award Winners.

ORGANIC OVERLOAD AND INORGANIC IDEAS
Catherine Stewart covers the ins and outs of soil additives.

AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE DESIGN STYLE
Susan Latty shares her views on Australian contemporary design style.

BOTANICAL LANGUAGE: PART 1
Ruth Czermak describes botanical language and the correct way to use plant names.

PERSIAN PARADISE
Bruce Thompson tells the story of Persian garden design, its features, origins and relevance.

CONCRETE POOLS: PART 1
Robert Meloury writes on concrete pool design and how to go about it.

SUBTROPICAL SPLENDOURS
Catherine Stewart shares her experience of visiting the Queensland Home Garden Expo at Nambour.

Plus regular features on recent landscape events (In Brief), Book Review, Product News, AILDM News and more!

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Student Stars

Posted on 7 May, 2008 by

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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Food For Hort

Posted on 29 April, 2008 by

As you drive around your home town how many edible plants can you see in people’s gardens? Not many I’m sure – maybe a solitary lemon tree, mango or olive. Think how much more interesting and versatile our gardens would be if we incorporated food plants into the design.

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Singaopre Gold

Posted on 29 April, 2008 by

STORY MARK HILL RYDE TAFE SYDNEY

SECOND IN THE AILDM STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION 2006

As a student you always carry that little bit of hope that something special will happen, not only to propel you into the real world, but something that gives you the chance to look back on all your hard work and know why you pushed yourself. I, thanks to AILDM and BORAL was given that special thing.

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AILDM Student Design Competion 2006 – Donna Laing

Posted on 29 April, 2008 by

Last year’s AILDM student competition saw many outstanding entries. In previous issues of Landscape Outlook we have shown you the plans of our first and second prizewinners, Tamsin Edwards Francis and Mark Hill.

Winning third prize in this competition is an outstanding achievement considering the extremely high standard of entries. Donna Laing was a Certificate student from the Blue Mountains campus of the Western Sydney Institute of TAFE who was given special permission to enter, as usually the student must be studying for a Diploma as a minimum. Donna’s teacher saw the talent in her student and put forward a good case for her – and the result certainly supports her confidence.

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AILDM Student Design Competition – Mark Hill

Posted on 29 April, 2008 by

Continuing our series on our major prizewinners in the 2006 competition, our second place winner was Mark Hill, a student at Ryde TAFE in Sydney.

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AILDM Student Design Competition 2006

Posted on 20 April, 2008 by

During 2006, AILDM ran its second national design competition. Attracting nearly 80 entries from 4 states and both TAFEs and universities, the standard of the entries was very high, showing the great skills developing in our landscape design student population. Prizes included a trip to Singapore to work with Jim Fogarty on his display garden for the Singapore Garden Festival, two $500 book vouchers and 6 other merit awards.

Tamsin Edwards-Francis of Brisbane North Institute of TAFE Queensland, (Grovely Campus) won first prize

OTHER MAJOR PRIZEWINNERS WERE:

Second prize – Mark Hill of Ryde TAFE, Sydney NSW
Third prize – Donna Laing of Western Sydney Institute of TAFE,
Blue Mountains NSW
Highly Commended – Christopher Webb of University of Melbourne
Commended – Melanie Foster and Vicki Pericak, both of Ryde TAFE

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Student Design Winners 2005

Posted on 15 April, 2008 by

Congratulations to Wendy Carroll and Victoria McCallum the winner and runner up of the 2005 AILDM Student Awards. Their brief: to design a garden 12x15m for a family of four. The design had to include an outdoor dining area, water feature and at least one large tree in a north facing garden. Here are their designs.

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2007 Landscape Design Award Winners

Posted on 28 October, 2007 by

Landscape Outlook is proud to showcase the winning designs. Allan Correy our Patron presented Matthew Cantwell with the Allan Correy Award for Design excellence at the third annual Design Awards dinner in June. Judges Michael Cooke and linda ross selected the following winners.

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AILDM National Landscape Design Awards 2006

Posted on 28 September, 2007 by

An enthusiastic crowd gathered at Pavilion on the Park restaurant in Sydney’s Domain to celebrate the second annual AILDM Design Awards. It was a great evening with mouth watering food and time to catch up with friends and colleagues. Against the backdrop of an eye catching display by new AILDM sponsor Colourwise Nursery the winners received their trophies designed by talented Sydney-based sculptor and designer Roger Apte.

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