The Australian Garden has taken out one of the country’s top landscape architecture awards.By Melissa Meehan
THE Australian Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne was awarded three landscape design awards from the Victorian Branch of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
Taking out the top award in landscape architecture, the Australian Garden is now a finalist in the national award, which will be announced in early 2008.
Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne director Chris Russell said that the awards confirmed the talent of the designers, and the skill and commitment of the staff who worked on the Australian Garden.
“This is a substantial coup for the Australian Garden,” Mr Russell said.
Two of the awards won by the gardens were for the Australian Garden as a whole, and the third award went to the Future Garden, one of the five exhibition gardens.
“In the past 18 months since it opened the Australian Garden has confirmed its place as the best new tourism development in Victoria and Australia,” Mr Russell said.
“It has also cemented its world-class design reputation.”
According to judges, the Australian Garden was an outstanding example of a landscape architecture project that “amplified the quintessential nature of Australian landscapes”.
Taylor Cullity Lethlean with Paul Thompson designed the Australian Garden.
