Meet the Australian landscape architects moving away from “making beautiful things and scenery to being about change”.
For 200 years, Sydney’s Green Square often flooded. It was also where wool was washed, and hung out in fluffy piles to dry, polluting local waterways.
It said the equivalent of an Olympic pool of polluted water is drawn from a drain flowing deep beneath the site and cycled through the wetland. Every three days clean water is returned to Alexandra Canal. Speaking at the Danish consulate in Sydney, Orff talked about the Living Breakwaters project off Staten Island in New York. The project by Orff with a team of others received the fifth annual OBEL Prize for architecture.Orff, the founder of SCAPE, outlined her credo that architects needed to move away from “making beautiful things and scenery to being about change.”
In Queensland, the Hanlon Park/Bur’uda Waterway Rejuvenation won three awards for returning nature to inner-city Brisbane. It transformed a “concrete lined channel” into a place of joy and wildness, the jury said. Orff said landscape designers worked with so many other disciplines, they were like a “visionary coordinator”.
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