This Week on Landscape Design:

• Check out this building which was awarded six stars for sustainable design. Should we have more buildings like this?
• Find out what the time in the prison garden meant to the prisoners. It not just a way to pass the time.
• Check out these four Luminous-Landscape Workshops taking place in some of the most picturesque locations around the globe.
• Mixing play and learning: That’s the goal of the design at Yi Zhong De Sheng Secondary School in China. Read more about it here.
• This design blends Gentlemen’s Club with treehouse. Learn more on how this came to be.

On Industry News:

• Is this the future of design? Children were invited to design the South Australian national parks in Minecraft.
• Housing prices in Australia are steadily increasing and one way to curb high prices are architects. Find out how.
• Duckbuild’s artsy townhouses are more sustainable than initially though. Read more about it here.
• External cladding helped fuel Lacrosse Apartment Fire in the Melbourne Docklands. Find out what really happened in this article.
• “Earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings kill people.” How important are building codes? Check out this article.

On Industry Events:

• April 30 – John Gollings Master Class – A Talk in Canberra
• May 1 – QLD Landscape Technical – An Exhibition at Townsville
• May 1-3 – Regional Victoria Living Expo – An Exhibition in Melbourne
• May 5 – I Like Your Tome, But What’s The Content?! – A Forum in Melbourne
• May 5 – SA Landscape Technical 2 – A Presentation in Adelaide
• May 6 – Fundamentals of Contract Administration – A Presentation at Kingston
• May 7 – Cabots & Wood Solutions – A Presentation at Kingston
• May 7 – Toolkit for Revegetation & Turf Selection – A Presentation in Melbourne