Site Office is a landscape architectural consultancy specialising in the design of innovative and high quality public spaces. For the past 8 years, we have been working steadily on a range of projects with a strong public realm focus, exploring different strategies designed to improve the quality of many urban spaces within the city. We are advocates of innovative landscape design solutions that become the catalyst for change within the urban environment.
We are particularly interested in the myriad of wonderful and often unpredictable ways in which people inhabit and use public space. The beauty of public space is it’s multiplicity and complexity; as such we explore design strategies that avoid simplification and reduction and seek to draw out the inherent richness and diversity of the site and its inhabitants. Our work focuses strongly on developing functional designs that offer multiple and new ways of experiencing public space. We are also interested in the overlap and interaction of different uses that often results in spontaneous and unexpected interactions.
We understand the importance of public space in promoting positive connections between people, particularly in an era that is increasingly focused on the individual rather than the community. Our design projects seek to engender a strong sense of community ownership and pride in the site, to ensure the ongoing success of the design well after the designers have left.
Award for Planning, AILA Victoria Chapter, 2010
Box Hill Gardens Master Plan, City of Whitehorse
Award for Design in Landscape Architecture, AILA Victoria Chapter, 2009
St Kilda Foreshore Promenade, City of Port Phillip
Award for Design in Landscape Architecture, AILA Victoria Chapter, 2009
Barkley Hopkins Street Planters, City of Maribyrnong
Award for Planning Excellence in Landscape Architecture, AILA Victoria Chapter, 2009
Maribyrnong River Master Plan, Cirty of Moonee Valley
President’s Award for Water Sensitive Urban Design, AILA Victoria Chapter, 2009
Maribyrnong River Master Plan, Cirty of Moonee Valley
Award in Urban Design, Victorian Architecture Awards, Australian Institute of Architects, 2009
St Kilda Foreshore Promenade, City of Port Phillip
Best Landscape Design, Whitehorse Urban Design Awards, 2009
RSPCA Kennel Courtyards, RSPCA, Burwood
Award in Design, AILA Victorian Chapter, 2008
RSPCA Kennel Courtyards, RSPCA, Burwood
National Landscape Architecture Award (Design), AILA 2008
Special Jury Citation: Small Project Innovation
Raglan Street Parkland, Port Melbourne, City of Port Phillip
Merit Award in Design, AILA Victorian Chapter, 2007
Future Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne
Commendation Award in Design, AILA Victorian Chapter, 2007
Raglan Street Parkland, Port Melbourne, City of Port Phillip
Premier’ Design Awards, Shortlisted entry, 2006
Diversity Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne
Chairman’s Premier Award, Architectural Excellence in the South East Awards, 2006
Future Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne
Best Environmental Building or Landscape, Architectural Excellence in the South East Awards, 2006
Future Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne
Parkland Design Award, Parks and Leisure Australia (National Award), 2005
Keast Park Master Plan, City of Frankston
Commendation Award in Design, AILA Victorian Chapter, 2004
Mount Street, Heidelberg, City of Banyule
Merit Award in Planning, Keast Park Master Plan, AILA Victorian Chapter, 2004
Keast Park Master Plan, City of Frankston
Open Space Management Award , Parks and Leisure Australia Victorian Chapter, 2004
Keast Park Master Plan, City of Frankston
Merit Award, Urban Masterplans, AILA Victorian Chapter, 2002
Mount Evelyn Urban Design Framework, Shire of Yarra Ranges
PaiseaDos - Australia New Zealand, Editor José Manuel Vidal, Paisea, Valencia, 2011, pp 132-135.
Sunburnt : Landscape Architecture in Australia, Sun Anne Ware & Julian Raxworthy, Sun Publishers, Amsterdam, 2011, pp 76-83.
‘Thickened Edge: St kilda Foreshore Promenade’, review by SueAnne Ware in ‘Scape International Journal of Landscape Architecture, Volume 02 Autumn 2009, Wageningen Netherlands, pp 72-75.
‘Raglan Street Parkland’ in Contemporary Urban Design, Loft Publications, Cologne, 2009, pp 324-333.
‘Lost Space Park’, review by Gweneth Newman Leigh, in Landscape Architecture (USA), August 2009, pg 36-41.
‘St Kilda Foreshore Promenade’ in Melbourne Design Guide, Alphabet Press, 2009.
‘St Kilda Foreshore Promenade’ in Sunburnt - Australian Practices of Landscape Architecture, Descript Publishing, May 2009, pg 19-20.
‘St Kilda Foreshore Promenade’, review by Julian Raxworthy, in Landscape Architecture Australia, May 2009, pg 48-53.
‘Diversity Garden - A Botanical Transect’ in 1000 X Landscape Architecture, Verlagshaus Braun, 2009, pg 30.
‘RSPCA’, review by Peter Bickle, in Architecture Australia, 2008.
‘Dryness’, J. Raxworthy, in Scape International Journal of Landscape Architecture, 2008.
‘Raglan Street Parkland’, review by Dimity Reed, in Landscape Architecture Australia, February 2008, pg 58-61.
‘A New Formalism’, Catherine Bull, in Landscape Architecture Australia, August 2006, pg 40-43.
‘Peninsular Garden’, Belle, December / January 2006/07, pg 111-117.
‘Making Connections’, Review by Richard Holt in Architectural Review, No. 95, December 2005, pp 98-101.
‘Courtyard Garden’, in Inside Out, October 2002, pg 114-119.
Design Competition for a Pubic Place, Edited by Stephen Frith, National Capital Authority, Canberra, 2001, pg 54.
‘A Conversation with Site Office’, in Kerb – Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue No.17, November 2009, pg 85-89.
‘Public Space : Is Good’, in Review 05, Queensland University of Technology, 2006, pp 23-30.
‘Useless Landscapes’ in Architectural Review, No. 95, December 2005, pp 66-67.
‘Territorial Infrastructure’, in The Mesh Book – Landscape / Infrastructure, Edited by Raxworthy & Blood, RMIT University Press, Melbourne, 2004.
‘Rising Damp’, in Kerb – Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue No.12, November 2003.
‘Bed of Salt’, in Architectural Review, No. 081, September 2002, pp 16-17.
‘Landscape as Text(ure)’, in Kerb – Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue 10, December 2001.
‘Embodied Infrastructure – The economics of composite urban structures’, Mesh Conference Proceedings, December 2001.
‘The topological twist in landscape architecture’ in Kerb – Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue 06, April 2000.
‘Black Stump ; Landscape, Aboriginality & Disclosure’, in Architecture Australia, January 1998, volume 87, no.1, pg 72-75.
‘Representing Landscapes Digitally’, in Landscape Australia, pg 34-39, May 1998.
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