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The Box Hill High School landscape works recently won the commercial landscape award in the Building a Better City Design Awards run by the City of Whitehorse. The project, including architectural works by Williams Boag Architects also won the overall honour for best project, the Mayor’s Award. The design included the Whitehorse Road frontage, comprising a pared-back palette of materials and plants that complements the striking heritage building facade.

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The Monash University Halls of Residence project is for a new 600-bed residential college complex on the Monash University Clayton Campus. FFLA is working with BVN architecture on the site that is located between a wetland, an environmentally sensitive area of vegetation and sporting ovals. It adjoins the primary pedestrian link between the existing halls of residence and the academic precinct. The landscape design seeks to maximise the benefits of these adjacencies to the new building, as well as to the existing context.

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FFLA is currently preparing a Coastal Management Plan for the Bells Beach Coastal Reserve. The project includes extensive community and stakeholder consultation to address the site user and environmental needs. A key project consideration is the resolution of conflict between tourism and other park users whilst also responding to the pressures of hosting an international surfing event within an environmentally sensitive area. A series of options have informed the consultation process and explored scenarios for resolution of issues.