World Landscape of the Year 2014 prize goes to Australian garden with a pointed pavilion
World Architecture Festival 2014: Australian firm Taylor Cullity Lethlean has won the World Landscape of the Year prize for the second year in a row for the new National Arboretum on the outskirts of the Australian capital, Canberra (+ slideshow).
![The National Arboretum Canberra by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/10/Canberra_Arboretum_dezeen_468_5.jpg)
Working with architects Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, Taylor Cullity Lethlean transformed an area of bushfire-damaged land to create a botanical garden displaying a collection of endangered trees and plants.
![The National Arboretum Canberra by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/10/Canberra_Arboretum_dezeen_468_1.jpg)
The garden features two buildings – a pointed pavilion that can be used as a venue for parties and weddings, and a visitor centre with a shallower pitched roof that marks the entrance to the park.
![The National Arboretum Canberra by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/10/The-National-Arboretum-Canberra-by-Taylor-Cullity-Lethlean-and-Tonkin-Zulaikha-Greer-Architects_dezeen_2.jpg)
Both the pavilion and the visitor centre overlook a turfed amphitheatre, a series of gardens and a forest that will mature over time. Sculpted terraces and a stream descend down the hillside towards a valley, which contains a dam to provide recycled water to the gardens.
![The National Arboretum Canberra by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/10/The-National-Arboretum-Canberra-by-Taylor-Cullity-Lethlean-and-Tonkin-Zulaikha-Greer-Architects_dezeen_15.jpg)
Last year the award went to a botanical garden at a former quarry in Australia, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean with plant expert Paul Thompson, which is described by the team as "the first botanical garden purely for Australian native plants".
![The National Arboretum Canberra by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/10/Canberra_Arboretum_dezeen_468_4.jpg)
The prize was awarded as part of the World Architecture Festival in Singapore.
![The National Arboretum Canberra by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/10/Canberra_Arboretum_dezeen_468_0.jpg)
For more on this project, including plans and information from the architects, click here »