International award for Taylor Cullity Lethlean's Australian Garden A key part of the design team for the public spaces in the Jellicoe Street area, Taylor Cullity Lethlean, has picked up another award for excellence in landscape architecture. It's Australian Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne in Melbourne - as well as other awards - was recently given the International Federation of Landscape Architects Award for Design Excellence. The award was given at the Asia Pacific Region Congress in Korea. The garden is a place where visitors can immerse themselves in Australian flora, landscapes, art and architecture. It features a gallery of exhibition gardens, sculpture and displays that all highlight the beauty and diversity of the Australian landscape. In it there are more than 100,000 plants, including 1000 trees, in 15 different landscape displays and exhibition gardens. Perry Lethlean is delighted the landscape design of the Australian Garden has now been recognised internationally. "The Australian Garden demonstrates how landscape architecture can lead and curate the integration of diverse teams of artists, sculptors, horticulturalists, architects, and an array of other specialist disciplines to achieve an integrated designed outcome," he says. This integrated approach is one that Lethlean is keen to use with the public spaces around the Jellicoe Street area in Wynyard Quarter which are currently at the developed design stage. "The careful and sensitive integration of valued site qualities together with contemporary designs for planting, play spaces, lighting, architecture and art will create a cherished community destination," he says.

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