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PROFILE 2020

One Central Park, NSW Photography by Simon Wood

‘We design places where people want to be.’

Our Purpose

We are designers, landscape architects and urbanists connected by our purpose – to create projects which challenge and delight, whilst enhancing the lives of people and natural systems in an enduring way.

We are influential, city-shaping leaders, recognised globally for what we design and how we think.

We are for life – enhanced public life, the life of natural systems in the city.

We are for interaction – with our clients, collaborators and within our studios.

All our people across our studios are united in responding to the possibilities of place by interweaving conceptual ideas with digital technologies, systems and practices.

We draw on our global team’s thinking, to locally deliver site responsive, generous places where people want to be.

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Organisation Profile

The creative team at ASPECT Studios pride themselves on crafting compelling and visually dynamic outcomes that resonate with users. Our focus is developing human centred design solutions to improve our cities and create more viable and sustainable places for people.

ASPECT Studios is an award winning practice that brings together the skills, knowledge and expertise to deliver exceptional projects in the public realm. Our team has delivered projects across local, regional and international markets, and our clients include all levels of government, and the private sector.

Our multidisciplinary team is focussed on designs that acknowledge the entire lifecycle of the projects, and outperform both client and community expectations.

The experience and innovation we bring to projects includes efficiencies in process and implementation, expertise in construction and detailing, material knowledge and providence of past experience to know what works best in particular conditions. Our expertise is award winning and our team’s alliance has been proven through numerous projects.

Public & private space Landscape Design Master planning Concept design Documentation Site supervision Community consultation Visual impact assessment Design reviews Placemaking

Green Walls Green Facades WSUD (Water Sensitive Urban Design) Urban Forest Green Streets

Urban research Master planning Development framework plan Urban design framework Urban regeneration & renewal strategies Public realm strategies Urban design guidelines

Design Briefs Development briefs Urban design advice Design review panel

Real-Time 3D / Virtual reality solutions Serious games Architectural visualisations 2D and 3D animations Photomontages (planning tribunal) Signage & Wayfinding Strategies Interpretive Signage

Strategic play provision studies Playspace design Water play design Playspace documentation Consultation with children Site supervision

URBANISM DIGITAL MEDIALANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

LIVING ARCHI. + GREEN INFRA.

ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHICS

INTEGRATED PLAYSPACES

Barangaroo South, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2016

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Our Capability + Experience

ASPECT Studios are a group of design studios united through a philosophy that delivers innovative landscape architecture, placemaking & urban design.

Since ASPECT Studios’ inception in 1993, the studios have grown exponentially on the strength of its reputation for design-led solutions and our capability to deliver world leading design excellence and quality through creative and sustainable projects.

Our expertise spans across multiple disciplines: landscape architecture, urban design, living architecture (green roofs, walls and facades), infrastructure, environmental graphics, (signage and wayfinding), digital media and integrated playspaces.

ASPECT Studios is committed to design quality and this is exemplified by yearly peer and industry awards for our projects.

We have provided an overview of our experience throughout the document.

We believe that successful design outcomes are conceived by challenging a business-as-usual approach. We practice design to advocate for a symbiotic relationship between the human and natural environments – to deliver design driven solutions for both our clients and our communities.

Our agile adaptation of design technologies allows our teams to continuously evolve our research, visualisation, testing and design processes. ASPECT Studios supports a healthy culture of continuous research and education through design tours, competitions, academic involvement and professional associations. Allowing our people to be engaged with current thinking, techniques and anticipating emerging culture.

We deeply appreciate and value the confidence that our clients and collaborators entrust in us, to deliver designs based on ethical responsibility, responsiveness to the client and an approach that embraces the ‘total landscape’ – one comprising social, cultural, economic, and ecological considerations. Design excellence is the ultimate achievement of these pursuits – we draw upon our global expertise to deliver locally responsive, generous places, where people want to be.

2018

Greater Sydney Planning Awards Great new place to live and/or work Barangaroo South

IFLA AAPME Awards: Social and Community Health Category – Award of Excellence The Ian Potter Children’s WILD PLAY Garden

UDIA National Awards for Excellence - •President’s Award •Environmental Excellence Barangaroo South (ASPECT | OCULUS)

CTBUH Awards - Urban Habitat Award 2018: Finalist Barangaroo South / Barangaroo International Towers (ASPECT | OCULUS)

2017

10th IFLA Asia-Pac Landscape Architecture Awards; Skyrise Greenery Category - Award of Excellence One Central Park (ASPECT|OCULUS)

Relevant Awards

2019

2019 World Architecture Festival Awards Finalist for Landscape: Urban Caulfield to Dandenong Level Crossing Removal Project

2019 National Awards for Planning Excellence: GREAT PLACE Winner Yagan Square (submitted by MRA)

2019 National Awards for Planning Excellence: GREAT PLACE Commendation Barangaroo South (ASPECT I OCULUS)

2019 AILA WA Landscape Architecture Awards Tourism- Award of Excellence Yagan Square

2019 Good Design Award; Urban Planning/Landscape Architecture: The Ian Potter Children’s WILD PLAY Garden

2019 Good Design Award- Architectural Design Urban Design-Green Award Barangaroo South (ASPECT | OCULUS)

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Capability Statement

ASPECT Studios is one of Australia’s foremost public domain focused design companies, built from a team of Landscape Architects, Urban Designers, Strategists and City Makers.

We have a team of professionals who are both design and people focused. We have created some of the most memorable public realm experiences in Australia including Yagan Square (Perth), The Goods Line (Sydney), Barangaroo South (Sydney) and Darling Quarter (Sydney) and foreshore projects including Bondi Beach Foreshore (Sydney), Southport Spit Masterplan (Gold Coast) and Pirrama Waterfront Park (Sydney).

A key component of these successes has been our understanding of how people use public space and a deep understanding of the influences, pressures and stakeholders that have an influence on the qualities of these spaces.

Underpinning these bench mark designs is the strategy, understanding and knowledge provided by ASPECT Studios, who bring strategic and urban systems approaches to every project with a keen belief in the greater public benefit with a practical understanding of delivering the very best outcomes. ASPECT Studios has over 25 years experience in delivering and curating significant public realm across Australia with studios in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City and Dubai. With over 180 staff we have significant resourcing and the specialists skills to deliver a world’s best design project.

Our Team Meets Your Needs

Highly Experienced Team

We have the right people in the right roles completing the right tasks. We are proposing a senior team that combines expertise in analysis, research, public realm design, planning, urban design, consultation and production of clear and concise documents.

Studio Directors

Our Studio Directors are leaders internationally, in the fields of place making, urban regeneration and urban design

Consultation Specialists

We have the capacity to meaningfully engage with your key audiences and public space users, including residents, visitors, workers and property owners.

Placemaking

We have a deep and practical understanding of the what makes a great public realm which includes a strong focus on a sense of place, narrative development, public amenity, active transport, human behaviours and needs.

Graphic Design

A focus on preparing thoughtful and compelling drawings and documents that inspire the best outcomes and establish new benchmarks for the delivery of public space.

Innovative, Creative and Purposeful

Our team is direct, honest, articulate with an international outlook and focused on human–centric outcomes.

Highly Collaborative

We are team players and value real collaboration within our consultant team and with our clients and stakeholders. You will be dealing directly with our Studio Directors and the senior team.

Available

We have the ability to commence immediately and be appropriately resourced over the project time frame.

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Adam KiekeboschInfrastructure Director

RLA

Directors

Executive Group Services

Studio Managers

Senior Associates Associates Senior Staff

Studio Directors

Kirsten BauerMelbourneRLA / Fellow AILA

Sacha ColesSydneyRLA / Fellow AILA

Kate LuckraftSydney

RLA

Michael RowlandsPerth

RLA

Peter PhillipsAdelaide

RLA

Stephen BuckleShanghai

Katherine EnglishBrisbane (Associate)

RLA

Ian RooneyWayfinding

Deb RobbinsBrisbane

RLA

Tim ConybeareAdelaide

RLA

Tom GriffithsPerth

RLA

Matthew MackayMelbourne

RLA

Rowan D’ArcyDubai

Chris RazzellExecutiveRLA / GAICD

Damian HolmesChief Technical Officer

RLA

Ivan RossChief Executive Officer

Tamsin McLeanCapability Director

David O’BrienIT Manager

Lenae WatsonHR Manager

Deborah VenvillePayroll & Accounts

Receivables Officer

Maarten BuijsCommercial Director

RLA

Helen LiFinancial

Controller

Chris SpenceMarketing Director

Amy McArthurMelbourne

Senior Studio Mngr

Thi Vo Do DinhHo Chi Minh City

Studio Manager

Matthew ShawSydney

Senior Studio Mngr

Cathy ZhaoShanghai

Senior Studio Mngr

Veronica VescioRegional

Sarah ColesAdelaide

Organisation

David Guy / RLA (WHS/EMS)

Erwin Taal / RLA

Warwick Savvas / RLA (WHS/EMS)

Tim Fowler

Anne-Marie Pisani

Jason Geralis

Greg Waddington

Jamie Kemp / RLA

Andrew Langford

Jessica Hodge

Natalie Bernuetz

Lauren Nissen

Louise Pearson

Ying Qian

Gemma Kleinig

Qidi Li / RLA

Paul Pilcher

Enrique Castillo

Richard Grocke / RLA

Tony Perks

Megan Salom

Chia Chi Chen

Sissy Chen

Alex De Dios

Alexandra Woodside

Bianca Pineda

Jason Packenham/RLA

Emma Wood

Senior Landscape Architects

Lyndon Slavin / RLA

Tom Roberts

Simon Roberts

Robert Grandison

D.K. Dongker

Fin Church

Kit Bullas

Isabel Sanders

Scott Badham

Tom Atkins

Simon Lacey

Yan Luo

Dermot Egan

Zoe Loomes

Chris Flawn

Senior Architectural Designer

Avril Daniel Cravioto

Wayfinding

Angela Arango

Business Manager

Shanghai

Vivi Xie

R&D Manager

Edan Weis

Senior Urban Designer

Douglas Maeda

Orit Meylakh

Scarborough Beach Park, Scarborough, QLD, Australia, 2018

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Morgan Court, Moreland, VIC, Australia, 2015

Landscape Architecture

ASPECT Studios has grown on the strength of its reputation for design-led solutions. We are recognised as a company with the capability to deliver creative and sustainable urban and regional projects. As a group, ASPECT Studios has seen its landscape and public realm projects realised with multi-award winning results throughout Australia and internationally.

ASPECT Studios practice in a culturally aware studio environment where projects are resolved through discussion of ideas, research, design and technical expertise. Our designs are based on ethical responsibility, responsiveness to the client and an approach that embraces the ‘total landscape’ - one comprising social, economic, and ecological considerations. Design quality is the ultimate achievement of these pursuits.

ASPECT Studios supports a healthy culture of research and education through design tours, competition entries, teaching and strong links with universities and professional associations.

These connections keep all of ASPECT Studios’ practices engaged with current thinking and techniques.

Technology also forms part of this contemporary approach, and is an evolving tool for research, visualisation, testing and design.

Good management of a project is not limited to its timely delivery. We see our role as continually reviewing the objectives of the project, changing processes to suit each project, and seeking and providing advice and input to/from other disciplines.

The practice’s ability to consistently provide in this field stems from our ability to integrate ecologically balanced solutions and a contemporary design approach with excellence in facilitation, consultation and inclusive participation.

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Placemaking

‘Placemaking’ is a term used to describe the process of creating meaningful and layered places. As designers of the public realm our training and design process is focused on bringing together and expressing the essential qualities of place, the landscape, its history, social rituals, and cultural significance into the design of place.

Placemaking is about designing cities that cater to people. It aims to promote human interaction, connection to the street, and allow people to participate in their public domain. Our approach creates lively neighbourhoods and inviting public spaces that attract people because they are comfortable, pleasurable, culturally appropriate, and interesting.

The most successful examples of placemaking operate and succeed on a number of levels and benefit from close engagement with the client and a highly collaborative process, including artists, architects, the local experts, and end users of place - the public.

Successful placemaking extends beyond the physical design and delivery of the projects, integrates long lasting ‘Place Management’, and ongoing activation through curated events and day to day activities which facilitate vitality, interest, civic pride, and social interaction.

As both places and people are increasingly exposed to a singular global expression, our desire for authentic place-based qualities has increased. ASPECT Studios craft designs that respond to the local identity and values of place, we design places that people want to be.

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UFURBANFOREST

WSUDWATER SENSITIVEURBAN DESIGN

IWCMINTEGRATED WATER CYCLE MANAGEMENT

LIVINGARCHITECTURE

LvA

LWLIVING WALLS

GSGREEN

STREETS

GRGREEN ROOFS

Living Architecture

ASPECT Studios is leading the way in the emerging area of “Living Architecture” in Australia. Put simply, Living Architecture is the integration of plants and water with built form. It includes green roofs, green facades, and green walls.

Living Architecture has risen in popularity in both Europe and North America, and is now being recognised in Australia as a critical concept in responding to climate change and the increased demand of water and energy in our cities. ASPECT Studios is at the forefront of this movement in Australia. Our command of the technical requirements and systems suited to Australia, combined with our design expertise is helping to lead the integration of greening and architecture.

ASPECT Studios’ vision is of a city where natural processes are integrated into the very fabric of the urban environment - where plants, water, soil and built form are as one - and together these elements promote a healthy community and resilient environment – a Living Architecture!

Key benefits of Living Architecture include:

• Contribution to human wellbeing through the provision of green space

• Improvement in the thermal performance of buildings

• Regulation of the urban heat island effect on the wider city

• Regulation of storm water impacts on both buildings and the surrounding environment

• Integration of water recycling and reduced usage in buildings

• Contribution to biodiversity values in cities

• Clear statements of commitment to sustainable design

• Increased property values and improved amenity

• Achieving environmental ‘stretch targets’ such as ‘net zero water, energy, waste

ASPECT Studios understands that the key to a successful implementation and widespread up take of Living Architecture is brought about through the collaboration of a diverse group of professionals, from landscape architects, engineers, policy makers, architects, ecologists, soil scientists, and horticulturists.

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Green Infrastructure

ASPECT Studios seeks throughout its practice to reduce the carbon footprint of its projects and to improve the health and well-being of the community and the environment.

This can be achieved through improved planning and design, product selection and use of “Green Infrastructure” systems. We define Green Infrastructure as the natural systems that underpin and are integrated with our urban fabric.

Green Infrastructure along with Living Architecture, Urban Forests, and Water Sensitive Urban Design form an interrelated web of benefits that respond to the pressures of urbanisation and climate change.

These are the key Environmental Sustainable Design (ESD) methods and elements that the Landscape Architecture profession is actively involved in.

Their application reconsiders engineered infrastructure to provide increased natural benefits on site.

These ESD solutions can be provided within project budgets and also contribute to the long term financial savings to the projects through increased life span, reduced maintenance costs and improved environmental marketability.

To ensure that we stay at the forefront of sustainable thinking and products, we consistently engage with ESD professionals to peer review our work to ensure that the quality and level of environmental performance is optimised to budget and aesthetic outcomes.

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Urbanism

Urbanism gives clients an integrated and holistic approach to designing places that make a difference. We seek to enhance the lives of all people and natural systems in a long lasting way.

Urbanism delivers creative spatial visions and solutions by bringing together our experience in the cross-related fields of master planning, landscape architecture, urban design, architecture, urban infrastructure, urban economics, and community engagement. We add value by drawing from our international design and policy experience in Europe, the United Kingdom, and Asia.

We take delight in making sense of complex environments, no matter how large or small and no matter how many players. We exploit our understanding of urban processes to bring forward design excellence. We are nimble and opportunistic in our strategic approach.

Urbanism assembles collaborative teams of specialist experts to meet the unique demands of each project, place and client. We are committed to listening to and collaborating with clients and communities who understand their environments and objectives.

Communication which inspires and can be readily understood and supported is a central part of our approach. We insist on a three dimensional communication of place, beyond the plan. We give high level master planning and design advice to all tiers of government.

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Digital Media

Architectural Visualisations (Arch Vis) are alluring images that best promote a project. They are modelled to the highest level of detail to accurately present the project in the best possible way.

A Photomontage, or 2.5D Visualisation, is the result of compositing a real-life still shot with a digital model. Photomontages are generally used as a quick method of visually representing the design intention within the real-life environment. Because of this, they are perfect for development applications, securing planning permits and using during planning hearings.

Animations, or fly-throughs, are a traditional way to present a project to clients, the public and other stakeholders. The emphasis is on the cinematic experience.

Through lighting, cinematography, and animated people, cars and landscaping, the viewer is able to grasp the

complexity and spatial qualities of large projects. 3D models can also be inserted into prerecorded video footage using a technique called Camera Matching.

Serious Games are designed primarily for purposes other than pure entertainment. Serious Games are ideal for public awareness and education, training and simulation.

Spatial Prototyping uses game engine technology to communicate complex projects to the public and project stakeholders. The solution is an interactive virtual reality application ideal for urban planning and development projects.

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Environmental Graphics

ASPECT Studios’ environmental graphics team has delivered award winning signage projects for both the public and private sector for clients such as Department of Planning & Community Development, Parks Victoria, VicRoads, Stocklands, and the Cities of Casey, Whitehorse, Monash, Maroondah, Moonee Valley, Greater Dandenong, Adelaide, Port Adelaide, Enfield and Coorong District.

Our multidisciplinary team is focused on the delivery of legible, connected and durable wayfinding and identity outcomes.

The experience and innovation we bring to projects includes efficiencies in process and implementation, expertise in construction and detailing, material knowledge and providence of past experience to know what works best in particular conditions.

Our signage expertise is award winning and our team’s alliance has been proven through numerous projects.

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Integrated Playspaces

As a practice ASPECT Studios is keenly aware of the importance of play experiences that children have and the effect that this has on the quality of their lives and their development into capable and adaptable adults.

We strive to create playable spaces in all of our work and understand that ‘playable space’ is not restricted to designated playgrounds, but includes the daily environment of children – the interstitial spaces, such as a generous flight of stairs with a handrail that is great to climb on and slide down, or a mound of leaves and branches left on the street verge that provides resources to build a temporary cubby house.

To facilitate play and provide stimulating environments in which the many kinds of play can be carried out requires a shift in thinking about how public space is planned and managed.

We also understand the importance of interaction with and exposure to nature, natural elements, ecosystems,

and natural forces in the development of healthy children. To support children’s interaction with nature we are working to protect and restore remnant natural spaces and to provide increased vegetation in urban areas.

This includes work to include water infiltration gardens in streets and parks that allow children to experience the ephemeral passing of water from the roofs and paved areas, through filtration gardens and into the aquifers below.

Ultimately we believe that by providing better environments for children the whole community benefits.

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Yagan Square, Perth, WA, 2018

ProjectExperience

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In 2008, Lendlease engaged international architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners to lead the bid team for the master plan of the Barangaroo South, a site that reflects a trend toward blending urban life where we can work, live and play in the CBD within a collection of high-quality public and private spaces.

ASPECT Studios teamed up with landscape architecture and urban design practice OCULUS to form a joint venture company, ASPECT | OCULUS, to lead the public realm design. Our scope included master plan, concept design, development application, design development, documentation and construction administration.

The strategy for the design of Barangaroo South Public Domain was to reconnect the waterfront to the city through new streets, pedestrian lanes and a waterfront serviced by a ferry that connects to Sydney’s 14km waterfront promenade.

Barangaroo South provides a range of opportunities for people to come together, inhabit, occupy and use the space. It unlocks an unprecedented connection between the city and harbour and provides an intimate human-scale experience that forms a striking contrast to the energy and intensity of Sydney’s CBD.

CLIENT

Lendlease / Barangaroo Delivery Authority

TEAM

ASPECT | OCULUS, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, PTW, FJMT, Collins & Turner, Hassell, Tzannes, Durbach Block Jaggers, Tony Caro

LOCATION

Barangaroo, Sydney, NSW

YEAR

2017

Barangaroo South

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The Goods Line

CLIENT

Property NSW

TEAM

ASPECT Studios, CHROFI, ACOR, AR-MA, Deuce Design, GML, JBA, Lighting Art + Science

LOCATION

Ultimo, Sydney NSW

YEAR

2015

AWARDS

2017 IFLA Asia-Pacific Awards; Cultural and Urban Landscape – Award of Excellence

More than 80,000 tertiary students, locals and visitors are linked to the many major attractions of Darling Harbour, with 26 million visitors annually.

Connection to arts, media, education and cultural institutions along Sydney’s Cultural Ribbon, such as UTS’s Frank Gehry designed Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, the ABC, and Sydney TAFE are expressed.

Loaded with civic ambition and public purpose, The Goods Line is a place which speaks to a new kind of social infrastructure for the city, where multiple opportunities for gathering, playing and exchange of ideas can occur.

The opening of The Goods Line in Ultimo brings the vision of a more connected, sustainable and innovative Sydney one step closer to reality. A New South Wales Government initiative, this unique elevated city park has seen a disused rail corridor reimagined as a leafy, energised public campus in the heart of one of the most densely populated, urbanised and formerly disconnected parts of Sydney.

ASPECT Studios led the design team and our scope of works included concept design, development application, tender documentation and construction administration.

The Goods Line forms the key strategic link from Sydney’s Central Station through to Chinatown and the Darling Harbour entertainment and leisure precinct.

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Victoria Harbour Public Realm Implementation

CLIENT

Lend Lease

TEAM

ASPECT Studios, AECOM (documentation), Lovell Chen (heritage) and the City of Yarra (public art curator)

LOCATION

Melbourne, VIC

YEAR

2011 – Ongoing

AWARDS

2011 AILA NSW Awards, Urban Design Award (Master Plan)

2011 Planning Minister’s Award (Planning Excellence) for Master Plan Stage

Public Realm projects include:

• Collins Street extension (with tram line)

• Temporary Activation Park (active sports and dog park)

• Bourke Street extension

• Village green upgrade C2

• Water Plaza V5

• Dock Square

• Waterfront promenades

• Laneways

• Integrated public art

Victoria Harbour will deliver a distinctive new urban edge for Melbourne that continually evolves as a reflection of its community and history. It will make sustainable living and working a way of life through a considered balance between urban form and urban life and creating places that capture our imagination.

ASPECT I OCULUS in joint venture are undertaking the planning, concept design and documentation of the public realm throughout the development. The projects have involved extensive consultation and collaboration with with Places Victoria, City of Melbourne and Yarra Trams

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Yagan Square, Perth

CLIENT

Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority, WA

TEAM

ASPECT Studios, Lyons (architects), iredale pedersen hook architects, Aurecon, Waterforms International, WSP

LOCATION

Perth, WA

YEAR

2018

BUDGET

73.5million project (total build)

The concept is representative of the ideas of convergence: of geologies, tracks, narratives, indigenous and non-indigenous people and culture within the Square itself.

Wildflower gardens showcase the unique and diverse qualities of Western Australia flora and landscape. Visitors can see a variety of Eucalyptus species found in Perth and across the State. The planted gardens also heighten the seasonal characteristics and colours of Western Australia.

Water also plays a major part in the story of Yagan Square and a unique feature has been developed with Artist, Jon Tarry. As a sequence of connected elements, the water feature provide physical and experiential enhancements to the public landscape, encouraging the visitor to look, touch, feel and enjoy.

Initiated by the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority, Yagan Square is part of the Perth City Link Project – one of the city’s most exciting redevelopments, reconnecting the CBD with Northbridge for the first time in more than 100 years. Perth’s newest major public space is a place to have fun, meet, play, eat and shop.

ASPECT Studios, together with Lyons and iredale pedersen hook architects, won the competition bid to design this new city shaping space.

The design concept responded to the vision of Yagan Square being an inclusive, welcoming and active cultural and civic destination. Emboding all the characteristics of the local area, Perth and Western Australia more broadly.

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Dandenong Railway & Linear Park

CLIENT

Level Crossing Removal Authority, Lend Lease, CPB.

SCOPE

Urban Design, Concept Design, Documentation

TEAM

ASPECT Studios, Cox Architects, Aurecon, PB Double-A Communications, John Raynerl

LOCATION

Melbourne, VIC

YEAR

2015 – 2018

The project includes the creation of town squares, activational nodes and diverse public spaces. Tree planting will bring to life a new urban parkland and the elevated rail also allows for the retention of mature trees, which are home to local bird and wildlife species.

Melbourne’s busiest rail line is set for transformation with the $1.6 billion Caulfield to Dandenong Level Crossing Removal Project. ASPECT’s Melbourne Studio is collaborating with multidisciplinary partners to complete the overall bid proposal of an elevated rail solution for this corridor, which will result in the creation of a whole new public realm.

The design for the removal of nine level crossings along the rail corridor opens up space for a public realm that was previously unavailable and provides more opportunities for community use under the rail line. The elevation creates more than 11 football fields (225,000 m2/22.5 ha) of open space, parklands and new community areas, as well as 17 km of pedestrian and cyclist paths.

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ASPECT Studios, collaborating with Lendlease and FJMT, were the successful team in the government run bid for Darling Quarter, at Sydney’s premier tourism and leisure location - Darling Harbour.

It is a major 1.5 hectare place-making project for Sydney with a retail terrace, public park, two 6-star commercial buildings and an innovative children’s playground as its centre piece. At over 4000m2 the playground is the largest in the Sydney CBD and with its interactive water play facilities has become a regional attraction for Sydney.

The project, through its strategic urban design, fine scale detailing, and placemaking has completely transformed the south-eastern precinct of Darling Harbour to the most visited tourist destination in Australia.

ASPECT Studios’s scope included master planning, concept design, design development, documentation, and construction services.

The project has won the highest industry accolades including ‘The Australian Award for Urban Design’, the ‘President’s Award’ from the International Federation of Landscape Architects, as well as multiple international and Australian industry awards.

Darling Quarter illustrates that delivering high quality public realm brings not only public benefit but significant retail activation and work place amenity.

CLIENT

Property NSW / Lendlease

TEAM

ASPECT Studios, FJMT, Waterforms International, ARUP, David Eager, Hyder

LOCATION

Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW

YEAR

2011

AWARDS

2012 Australia Award for Urban Design; Large Scale

Darling Quarter

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