“Elegant and contemporary, these gardens set new benchmarks in residential design in landscape architecture, demonstrating how the historic fabric in the inner city can be transformed and become useful for a new generation of families.”

Jury Citation 2013 AILA (SA) Award

This garden for a contemporary art collector in North Adelaide is made up of a series of very diffrent garden expressions. Despite this, it presents a cohesive approach to the site and the architecture of the renovated house.

The front garden design takes its inspiration from elements of French Renaissance landscape design. The formality of the turn of the century Adelaide Villa is echoed with a play of clipped hedge discs and a copse of crape myrtles in a field of gravel.

The contemporary addition at the rear is given space to breath, while allowing for a number of different garden expressions including a lush textural jungle garden, a generous lawn and stone platform for artwork, a contemporary perennial garden and tall hedging to define the various garden spaces.

Team:

Landscape Architects: TCL Taylor Cullity Lethlean

Artists: Lisa Roet (sculptor), Khai Liew (timber bench), Ghost Patrol (wall art), Sebastian di Mauro

Project Team: Kate Cullity, Kevin Taylor, Kylie Hales, Grace Lin

Photographer: Grant Hancock