Bookending the 2019 Domain Liveability Study series co-authored by Deloitte, an opinion piece written by Tract Senior Principal Adam Terrill argues that density doesn’t threaten liveability.[....]
We are very pleased to be able to share our entry for the Future Park International Design Competition. Our design titled ‘Bay Park’ was shortlisted from a field of 125 entries from 20 countries.[....]
The Tract Family sadly mourn the passing of co-founder Professor David Yencken AO, after a long and resolute battle with illness. His distinguished career has left an indelible legacy upon this nation.[....]
Murrindindi is the first municipality in Victoria to have a fully integrated PPF, after Planning Minister Richard Wynne approved Amendment C65 to the Murrindindi Planning Scheme today.[....]
The Logan River Accessibility & Connectivity Concept Plan is a comprehensive document outlining a series of strategies and interventions to address current barriers to access and utilisation of the Logan River. [....]
Well done and congratulations to George Gallagher on this seminal event and thank you for all of your hard work and commitment to the Landscape Architecture industry and our practice.[....]
Following on from the Domain Healthy Suburb Study undertaken last year, our team attended the Creating Healthier Communities event held by the Planning Institute of Australia last night at OneRoof Melbourne. [....]
We are excited to announce that the City of Greater Geelong has endorsed the Geelong Waterfront Safe Harbour Precinct Master Plan following recent community consultation and public exhibition process. [....]
We are ecstatic to announce ‘The Loggia’, our Show Garden in this year’s Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show has received 4 awards including the coveted City of Melbourne Award of Excellence for Best in Show, as well as the Gold Show Garden Award, Horticultural Media Association Award for Best Use of Plant Life and Mark Bence Construction Award.[....]
Working in partnership with Domain and Deloitte Access Economics, Tract is excited to introduce the first ever Domain Healthy Suburbs Study which provides an in-depth analysis of what makes a healthy Australian suburb.[....]
We are excited to announce this year’s winners of Tract’s national Travel Scholarship for 2018. This year there was a strong theme around urban regeneration and renewal amongst the applications and Tract has awarded 3 scholarships centred on this theme.[....]
Earlier today, Victoria's Planning Minister, The Hon Richard Wynne MP gazetted Amendment VC148 to introduce a suite of changes to the Victoria Planning Provisions (VPPs).[....]
Tract is proud of its involvement in securing a planning permit for PDG for the QVM Munro site, the first stage of the Queen Victoria Market redevelopment program. [....]
A huge congratulations to both Jess and Josephine from our Brisbane team on recently achieving an important career milestone in becoming Registered Landscape Architects.[....]
Tract is pleased to announce Rachel Butler as the recipient of the 2018 Young Professional Award from VPELA announced at last Friday’s annual dinner ceremony. [....]
South Melbourne Primary School designed by Hayball is Victoria’s first ‘vertical school’, doing away with fences as an exemplar of an educational environment shaped for the close-quartered, communal life.[....]
On this International Women’s Day, we reflect on the significant contributions women have made to our practice, the industry and more importantly, to the shape of our cities.[....]
Steve Calhoun, one of Tract Consultant’s founders and leading Australian landscape architect, is being celebrated this week on Domain for his contribution to making liveable, humanised spaces over a career spanning 40+ years.[....]
Wildlife Wonders a new venture by the Conservation Ecology Centre has been awarded a $2m funding grant through the Regional Jobs and Investment Package.[....]
The Cowes Jetty Triangle has been unveiled, with Tract’s landscape design transforming the Phillip Island foreshore precinct into a new community village green.[....]
We are delighted to announce the 2017 recipients of the 2nd annual Tract Sketches Scholarship. We would like to congratulate Alice Coates, Elise Bertret and Sam Otto, who will each receive the Sketching Scholarship.[....]
Creating Memorable Places and Experiences celebrates the design work of Steve Calhoun, a renowned landscape architect whose work can be experienced in domestic, commercial and civic places of significance, both locally and internationally.[....]
Tracts Urban Design team prepared the masterplan for Springwood Gawler East by Springwood Communities, which won the Residential Development Award (Between 50-600 Lots) at the 2017 UDIA SA Awards for Excellence.[....]
We are proud and incredibly thrilled to celebrate Nigel Parker, Paul Morris, Sean Gallagher and Will Dodgin, as they become Principals of Tract Consultants.[....]
Over 50 Tract Consultants staff recently celebrated Bicycle Network Victoria’s Ride2Work Day on their new terrace on Level 6, 6 Riverside Quay, Southbank.[....]
The 2017 National Landscape Architecture Awards held last Thursday night at the International Festival of Landscape Architecture in Sydney as a celebration of the leading projects shaping green, open and public spaces across Australia.[....]
Last week, Tract's Melbourne team packed up our box of coloured pencils (along with several thousand other items) and relocated from our long time home in Richmond to the vibrancy and excitement of Southbank.[....]
With the New Royal Adelaide Hospital now open to the public, South Australian’s have a hospital facility that has set a new benchmark for hospital design.[....]
Liveable Sydney, a landmark study measuring the liveability of Sydney’s 555 suburbs according to 16 criteria, was among the winners at the 2017 AILA New South Wales Awards announced at the IVY Ballroom in Sydney on Thursday 27 July.[....]
The 2017 AILA Victoria Awards on Friday 21st July 2017 were held at Testing Grounds, in Melbourne’s Arts Precinct. A great turn out and festive air despite the chill made for a wintery celebration of outstanding people and projects across the broad field of Landscape Architecture.[....]
The 2017 AILA Queensland Awards were held on Thursday 22 June at Cloudland in Brisbane, and broadcast online, with Tract the proud recipient of three awards for Gabba 2 Goodwill Bikeway, UQ Synthetic Sports Ovals and Townsville North Railyards projects.[....]
Tract sends big congratulations to Town Planning Assistant Paul Lewis, Student Landscape Architect Kate Grant and Graduate Landscape Architect Esther Ziebell on receiving 2016 Dean’s Honours Awards from the University of Melbourne in their respective disciplines.[....]
Tract is proud to announce that Elizabeth Entriken, Graduate Town Planner from our Brisbane office, has been awarded the Minister’s Town Planning Prize for the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) at yesterday’s Planning Institute Australia Awards for Excellence 2017 held at Parliament House.[....]
Tract is currently involved in a consortium led by Terroir Architects for the design of a new Penguin Parade Visitor Centre, arrival facilities and landscape settings to replace the existing centre designed by Daryl Jackson in 1988.[....]
Congratulations to the entire 'Tropical Urbanism' - Cairns City Image Study project team on being announced as winners of the Best Planning Ideas - Small Project Award at the PIA 2017 National Awards for Planning Excellence.[....]
Tract congratulates Sam Otto, Esther Barker, Jane Wu and Phil Harkin, who have successfully gained their professional registration with the AILA becoming qualified landscape architects.[....]
We are delighted to announce the inaugural Rodney Wulff Sketches Scholarship recipients. On merit, not one but three of our Landscape Architects were announced as the 2016 recipients.[....]
In honour of International Women's Day, we celebrate and thank the strong, professional, creative, driven and inspiring women at Tract, for the contribution that you make to the vibrancy and success of our organisation and our industry.[....]
Eastlink has been recognised in the ten most significant works of Australian landscape architecture 2001–2017. Nine years after opening, Eastlink remains the benchmark project for large infrastructure with integrated environmental and recreational outcomes.[....]
Tract Consultants is delighted to announce our ongoing support as a partner of MPavilion for 2017-18. The fourth MPavilion, arriving in spring 2017, will be designed by Netherlands–based architects OMA / Rem Koolhaas & David Gianotten.[....]
Tract is proud to announce Taneile Nixon, Landscape Architect from our Brisbane office, has won the Karl Langer Award last nights AILA QLD Ceremony.[....]
Somerfield, an integrated residential development in Keysborough has been announced winner of the 2016 UDIA Victoria Awards for Environmental Excellence and Residential Development.[....]
Eight years after opening, Eastlink remains the benchmark project for large infrastructure with integrated environmental and recreational outcomes.[....]
The 2016 PIA Queensland Awards were held on Friday 11 November at the Gabba in Brisbane with Tract the proud recipient of three awards for Clifton Township Concept Masterplan and Cairns City Image Study projects.[....]
As planners and designers of the built environment, largely in an urban context, we are well placed to make a tangible contribution to social equity.[....]
Linda’s commitment to Tract’s values is demonstrated in her professionalism on many public realm projects both in Canberra, Sydney and currently for the Dee Why Town Centre Upgrade.[....]
Nathan and Amy from the Brisbane office could tell you all about it. They attended the Logan River Vision workshop last Friday organised and facilitated by the Logan City Council.[....]
On Monday the 1st of August, the Domain Liveable Sydney 2016 study illuminates the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald, while numerous articles inside and online offer an insight into the Harbour City's most liveable suburbs.[....]
Ergo Appartments and ANZAC Memorial Walk were both recognised at Fridays night's 2016 AILA SA Awards Dinner as winners of the Civic Landscape - Landscape Architecture Award. Congratulations to both of the teams involved on these outstanding projects.[....]
The recently opened Penguin Plus Viewing Area on Phillip Island, designed by Tract in collaboration with Wood Marsh Architects, has been awarded the 2016 AILA VIC Awards of Excellence in Tourism.[....]
Tract worked in collaboration with Glen Murcutt, and local practice Elevli Plus Architects to design the Australian Islamic Centre in Newport, which is currently under construction.[....]
Recently, the Melbourne School of Design hosted its annual awards night, the MSD Dean's Honours Awards, which celebrated the most outstanding academic achievements of their postgraduate students in 2015.[....]
Steve Calhoun, Founding Director of Tract Consultants was recently interview by Anne Latreille for the University of Melbourne publication Atrium.[....]
Congratulations to the entire Acacia Place project team on being announced as Gold Winners at the 2016 Melbourne Design Awards in the category of Landscape Design.[....]
Phillip Island's Penguin Plus Viewing Platform has won the United Nations Association of Australia's (VIC) Infrastructure Innovation Award at the 2016 World Environment Day Awards.[....]
It is often said, "Never work with children or animals” - and while there aren't many four-legged animals at Marrickville Primary School, there are certainly a whole lot of children![....]
The largest hospital in Australia is currently under construction in Adelaide and due for completion later this year. As Landscape Architects on this enormous and technically complex project, Tract discuss their role in 'Designing Landscapes for Improved Heath Care Delivery at the New Royal Adelaide Hospital.[....]
Anzac Centenary Memorial Walk in Adelaide was officially opened on Saturday 23 April 2016 by the Hon Hieu Van Le AO, Governer of South Australia, ahead of ANZAC day commemorations on Monday.[....]
Tract is proud to have collaborated with Hamton and Rothe Lowman Architects to deliver Eden, Haven and Sanctuary (Acacia Place), a spectacular mixed-use development on the Yarra River in inner Melbourne.[....]
The Circa 1886 Reserve and playground form part of a new residential estate currently under construction on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. The Reserve is located adjacent to the historic, hilltop Eyrecourt homestead (circa 1886) and has been designed to visually extend the heritage site into the new estate and complement its gardenesque style.[....]
Today at Tract Consultants we are celebrating International Women’s Day by recognising our strong, professional, creative, driven and inspiring women.[....]
In December 2015, Tract received four UDIA Victoria awards for three projects on which we were the Landscape Architects. Congratulations to the project teams on these outstanding projects, all three of which are a testament to the collaborative efforts between the designers on the projects.[....]
Tract is delighted to partner with The Age and Deloitte Access Economics to produce Liveable Melbourne, a major research project investigating how liveability varies across Melbourne.[....]
The AILA 2015 Victoria Awards were held on Friday 16 October at Melbourne Town Hall with Tract proudly taking home two awards for Zinc House and 108 Flinders Street projects.[....]
Join us for a conversation between eminent Landscape Architect, Steve Calhoun, and Professor Gini Lee to discuss the role of design in the physical and cultural evolution of Melbourne. Through 40 years of practice, planning & design firm Tract, has shaped places for civic interaction, conduits for movement, encounters with ‘nature’. Steve and Gini will [....]
Mark Fuller, Brisbane office’s resident artiste, and fellow architect Szczepan Urbanowitz have published A Brisbane Sketchbook of buildings and landscapes in Queensland’s capital.[....]
Tract & AILA Fresh have collaborated to bring you The Journey. The Journey is an interactive map of public landscape destinations in inner Melbourne, developed for the AILA This Public Life Festival & Landscape Week.[....]
Tract's 2014 'Rethinking the Strip' Forum broke new ground, literally starting a new conversation about the streets of Australia, on the streets of Melbourne.[....]
MPavilion is an event hub, a meeting place, a temporary landmark, a spontaneous detour, a starting point. From October 2015 to February 2016, we’re collaborating with thinkers, doers and makers to bring you a free four-month program of talks, workshops, performances and installations.[....]
The Barangaroo project has won this year's NSW AILA Presidents Choice Award. Congratulations to the Tract Team, and in particular, Matthew Easton for his work on the Barangaroo over the past year and a half.[....]
Late on Friday night, when most involved in the planning and development industry had switched off for the weekend, the Minister for Planning introduced the most sweeping changes to Melbourne central city planning for decades.[....]
