The Green behind the Gold: principles for urban landscaping

How can we design urban landscapes that create cool, leafy spaces and celebrate the Gold Coast’s subtropical character?

This seminar will explore principles and strategies from the City of Gold Coast’s recently released Private Development Landscape Guidelines. Join members of the LatStudios team as they discuss how the six key citywide design principles can be applied to encourage private landscapes that are responsive to context, resilient, contribute to vibrant neighbourhoods and reinforce subtropical character and local biodiversity.

Examples of well-designed projects from the Gold Coast and South-East Queensland will be drawn upon to illustrate the opportunities – and challenges – of accommodating successful landscaping. A range of private development typologies from dwelling houses to commercial developments will be shown to illustrate good outcomes

Key learning: Well-designed greenspaces deliver benefits to residents, boost business, and enhance city liveability

Wendy Davies is a Director of LatStudios. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) and Registered Landscape Architect with over 30 year’s international experience, specialising in landscape planning, strategies and project management. She has led a large number of high-profile landscape planning and design projects for major development. She was a recipient of the 2019 AILA National and Queensland Presidents awards and has led project teams to success with various AILA Queensland Awards. Most recently Wendy and the LatStudios team worked with City of Gold Coast on the and she is enthusiastic to see how better private landscape outcomes can benefit liveability and sustainability outcomes, including urban tree canopy targets.

Glenn Hay is a Practice Director of LatStudios and a multi-award-winning Registered Landscape Architect. Glenn has worked across all scales of landscape architecture from small and large scale private residential projects through to commercial, industrial and community facilities as well as large scale urban developments. Glenn’s key projects of note on the Gold Coast include the Harbour Town Anne Street Garden Villas (Queensland Minister’s Award for Urban Design) and the Parklands Project, the recipient of numerous AILA, UDIA, AIA and Gold Coast Urban Design Awards.

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