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IFLA Eastern Region Award for Excellence
current | 1st awards | background
The judging of the first IFLA ER Award has been completed. Winners are listed below. This award is for projects of public or private nature that
achieve significant benefits or enhancement of the quality of the
environment. Nominations were for landscape projects
constructed or implemented during the last three years (2000, 2001 or
2002) in a member country. Background information on the Awards is available here.
IFLA Awards of Excellence
- New Plymouth Foreshore Isthmus Group, New Zealand
- Seonyudo Park Seo Ahn Total Landscape (STL), Korea
- Project Manukau Coastal and Foreshore Restoration,
Boffa Miskell,
New Zealand
- Auckland Regional Botanic Garden
Threatened Native Plant Garden,
Catherine Hamilton Landscape Architect,
New Zealand
- Victoria Park
Jointly, Hassell (Sydney) and the NSW
Department of Public Works and Services (DPWS),
Australia
- Edenbrooke Residential Community
Stephen Pate Landscape Architects,
Australia
IFLA Awards of Merit
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Award of Excellence 03
New Plymouth Foreshore, New Zealand
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IFLA Award of Excellence
New Plymouth Foreshore, Isthmus Group, New Zealand
New Plymouth is New Zealand's largest west coast city.
The District Council identified the need to develop the foreshore as part of its broad 'Mountain to the Sea' masterplan for the rejuvenation of the city centre.
Key points being to:
- Respect and acknowledge the west coast's robust nature; the sea, wind and natural
character of the coastline
- Reconnect the City to the Sea
- Accentuate the experience of being on the unique west coast
In order to be closer to the project Isthmus Group formed a liaison with New Plymouth landscape architect Richard Bain who moved in to Isthmus Group's local office.
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IFLA Award of Excellence
Seonyudo Park, Seo Ahn Total Landscape (STL), Korea
The main design concept for the Seonyudo Park was to reveal the geographical and spatial potential of Seonyudo island, situated on the Hangang River in the midst of the city of Seoul. At the same time, the design concept focused on fully expressing memories of Seonyudo's history and the Seonyu water purification plant, by utilizing the peculiar shapes of space and land created by organically composed facilities, while also conveying messages for the environment, nature and the future.
In this context, Seonyudo was classified into four separate spaces:
- First, the riverside in the lower part of the retaining wall that surrounds Seonyudo is a space designed to promote ecological restoration of the Hangang.
- Second, the hillside adjoining the retaining wall is a space for playground, relaxation and culture, featuring a forest and commanding a fine view.
- Third, the theme gardens that unfold along the flow of the water are a space designed to express ecology.
- Fourth, the park is a space for education, exhibition and management that supports and strengthens public knowledge of the urban environment and ecology.
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IFLA Award of Excellence
Project Manukau: Coastal And Foreshore Restoration,Boffa Miskell, New Zealand
Project Manukau is one of New Zealand's largest construction projects. The $451 million project involved a major upgrade of the Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant, the removal of 500 hectares of oxidation ponds and the rehabilitation of 13 kilometres of coastal foreshore.
Boffa Miskell was brought in to assist Watercare Services Ltd design and manage the coastal and foreshore area. Boffa Miskell's team was a multi-disciplinary one involving landscape architecture, ecology and interpretative signage and wayfinding. The Boffa Miskell team developed a concept to provide for passive recreation, meet the needs of migratory birds, restore ecosystems, mitigate the visual impact of structures, and rehabilitate the coastal environment. The design is one in tune with nature and the original form and character of the Manukau Harbour.
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IFLA Award of Excellence
Auckland Regional Botanic Garden
Threatened Native Plant Garden, Catherine Hamilton Landscape Architect,
New Zealand
Almost a quarter of New Zealand's native plants are considered to be threatened or uncommon, with over 170 native species within the Auckland and Northland regions considered to be endangered.
The Native Plant Threatened Garden at Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens is New Zealand's only threatened plant garden displaying threatened species in their natural habitat, with key associated species.
Natural materials and shapes and icons with a Pacific look and feel appear in all design and art elements of the garden. Not only reflecting New Zealand culture but also bringing together all elements of the garden, both natural and cultural.
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IFLA Award of Excellence
Victoria Park HASSELL (Sydney) and the NSW Department of Public Works and Services (DPWS), Australia
Victoria Park is a 24.47-hectare residential and commercial development with projections for 1850 apartments and 150,000 sq m of commercial space. Waterloo Swamp, filled in and paved over beginning in the early 1900s, has been encouraged to exert its influence - although limited - on the overall form, function and character of this new inner city neighbourhood.
The NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects' Project Award for Environment (2002) recognized the contribution that the Victoria Park public domain makes toward the aesthetics of sustainable design. The jury commented that "the new neighbourhood has integrated urban design principles with advanced environmental design to create a new urbanity linked to the cycles of nature, most notably, the movement, detention, filtration, detention and recycling of storm water".
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IFLA Award of Excellence
Edenbrooke Residential Community, Stephen Pate Landscape Architects, Australia
The site for Edenbrooke, a 600-lot residential development, was once used for grazing in the late 1800s. In 1914, it was acquired by Queensland Cement and Lime. After 80-odd years of lime and cement production, the site was seriously degraded.
The subdivision was designed around restoration of the creek. At the heart of the design is the focus on the control of water runoff, and the stripping of sediment and nutrients from the stormwater run-off. The first of these devices, swales and treatment beds, were installed to control runoff during construction. The balance were designed to establish what is now a total system, which has resulted in a net improvement to water quality in the creek between the entry point and the outfall.
The design outcome, in the broadest sense, has placed road alignments and property alignments such that they have minimum impact on existing substantial vegetation, that the entire site stormwater runoff can be managed and directed in relation to two large wetlands, one online and one offline, and that the creek and its surrounds become a major recreational and circulation element within the estate.
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IFLA Award of Merit
Incheon International Airport, Seo Ahn Total Landscape (STL),Korea
As the symbol of 21st century Korea, and located at the center of the Northeast Asian region, this airport is capable of serving 43 cities in the region with populations of over 1 million, each within three and a half hours' flying distance from Incheon.
The construction goal of Incheon International Airport is "to build an environment-friendly airport." The landscape planning also fits in with this goal of establishing a beautiful hub airport with "Green Airport in the Sea" as a basic landscape concept, thereby creating a landscape differentiated from that of other foreign airports.
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IFLA Award of Merit
Steampacket Waterfront Geelong,
Taylor Cullity Lethlean,
Australia
The site is situated between Yarra and Moorabool Streets and is Geelong's principal urban waterfront address. The design has six key components.
- It explores the manner in which the City meets its waterfront providing a diversity of
edge conditions that allow people to experience water in a range of different ways.
- The establishment of a grand civic-scaled promenade. It is a place to walk up and down and view all forms of scenery.
- The establishment of places of intensification, such as the harbour that punctuates
the linear promenade. These areas are located to terminate views, become social
places and are designed to resonate with qualities of the site's remnant histories.
- The use of materials textures, furniture, rhythms, and forms enrich the detail of the site; they change, evolve and are part of a sequential journey along the Bay.
- The consideration of the temporal. That is, allowing for organized festivals and events, yet being equally visually dynamic when the site is less populated.
- It is robust, designed to withstand its northern aspect to Corio Bay and allow for imaginative forms of public use to evolve over time.
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IFLA Award of Merit
Peace Park, Sang Am district in Seoul,
SunJin Engineering & Architecture Park Seung-Ja,
Korea
Peace Park represents the World Cup Park and was installed on flat land between the World Cup Stadium and Gangbuk Riverside Driveway.
The design has four key components:
- its restored ecosystem after the landfill recovery
- improvement of the region environment by the 2002 World Cup Games
- expressing eco-city construction by introducing open space of Sang-Am new millenium town
- the image of Seoul as cultural and eco-city for tourists, and restful spot for exercise and eco-education for the residents
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IFLA Award of Merit
Taipei Country Plaza, Mingkuo Yu and Associates,
Taiwan
The project site is located in a newly developed urban center in Ban Chiau, a suburban town of Taipei. It was a urban renewal project, called New Ban Chiau Train Station Special Districts which was created by cleaning up the vacated old factories and moving the existing railway underground. The total area is 50 hectares. It is a new town in town. In addition to new Taipei County office building, department stores, and commercial facilities, it is a new transportation center with the conjunction of normal railway train, high speed train, rapid transit and bus terminals.
It was desired to create a civic plaza with a capacity to accommodate 900 cars and 1400 motorcycles underground. It will serve as living room for Ban Chiau city.
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