Botanical garden in Australia wins World Landscape of the Year 2013
World Architecture Festival 2013: this year's award for the best landscape project at the World Architecture Festival has gone to a botanical garden at a former quarry in Australia.
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Situated in a former sand quarry in Cranbourne, outside Melbourne, The Australian Garden was designed by landscape studio Taylor Cullity Lethlean and plant expert Paul Thompson.
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The garden is laid out as a journey through Australian fauna, from the desert to the coast, set among buildings and beside artificial lakes.
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The garden showcases 170,000 plants across 1700 species, and is used by both researchers and the public.
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"This garden brilliantly summarises the great variety of Australian flora as well as the large part of the country which is arid desert," said the panel of judges. "Like a botanic garden, it is a collection of difference, but with a strong unifying set of journeys through the various landscapes.
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"This landscape stood out with its originality and strong evocation of Australian identity without having to use any signs or words – just the beautiful flora of Australia’s countryside."
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Last year the World Landscape of the Year title was given to a riverside park in Singapore.
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World Building of the Year 2013 was awarded to the Auckland Art Gallery and World Interior of the Year 2013 was presented to a tiled apartment in Barcelona.