The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has announced the winners of the 2016 Western Australian Landscape Architecture Awards at a celebratory gala of drinks and canapés and celebration of the very best of the state’s open, public and green spaces. The awards recognise the leadership and accomplishments of landscape architects consistently raising the standards for urban design and development in the state.

Awards were given to projects across the categories of civic landscape, parks and open space, infrastructure, cultural heritage, tourism, urban design, research, policy and communication, communities, graduate, and people’s choice. The projects promoted quality of design in and around urban environments, and positively impacted the community by realising the health, social and economic benefits of having green, open and public space in cities.

Projects that received an Award of Excellence or a Landscape Architecture Award at the state level will advance to the national awards later this year. One project will be awarded the best landscape architecture project in Australia.

AWARD WINNERS

CIVIC LANDSCAPE

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Fiona Stanley Hospital
Hassell

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Oxford Street Reserve
Blackwell and Associates

PARKS AND OPEN SPACE

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
The Fitzgerald River National Park Improvement Project
Department of Parks and Wildlife

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Braithwaite Park Nature Play
Emerge Associates

Yanchep Golf Estate - Entry Pocket Park and Victory Park
Place Laboratory

INFRASTRUCTURE

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Perth Airport - Airport Drive / Horrie Miller Drive / Terminal 2
Hassell

CULTURAL HERITAGE

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Albany Enhancement Projects
Aecom and City of Albany

TOURISM

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Greater Curtin Master Plan
Aecom

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Elizabeth Quay
ARM and TCL

RESEARCH, POLICY AND COMMUNICATION

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Take Me to the River: The Story of Perth’s Foreshore
Julian Bolleter / Australian Urban Design Research Centre

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Public Parkland Planning and Design Guide (WA)
Aecom

COMMUNITIES

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Withers Local Area Plan
UDLA

GRADUATE

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Tilly Caddy
WAILA Fresh and Emerge Associates

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Samuel Harry and Blackwell and Associates’ Mount Ainslie Revitalisation 

PEOPLE’S CHOICE

WINNER
Esperance Waterfront by Hassell

Images (top to bottom): Esperance Waterfront; Fiona Stanley Hospital; Tilly Caddy; Perth Airport - Airport Drive / Horrie Miller Drive / Terminal 2; Albany Enhancement Projects.