Spaceshaper, the innovative UK tool for planning public spaces, has arrived in Australia, and CLOUSTON is in the vanguard, with Directors Crosbie Lorimer and Tony Cox becoming the only accredited facilitators in NSW and the Northern Territory respectively.
We are delighted to announce that after many years of providing our services to a range of clients in South East Queensland from Sydney, we have opened a Gold Coast Office to be managed by one of our most experienced Senior Landscape Architects, Cassandra Denney.
While this year's Vinnies CEO Sleepout has been extended to all of Australia's capital cities, including Darwin, CLOUSTON NT Director Tony Cox has chosen to rug up and join Leonard Lynch and Crosbie Lorimer in the cold at Sydneys Luna Park to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless people.
Keen as always to reflect trends in the wider community, CLOUSTON has experienced its own mini baby boom in recent years, with the latest addition being Jimmy Flinders Kinch, born to Associate Director Justine Williams and her husband Niall Kinch on January 10th 2010.
The striking Stanhope Parkway Bridge, gateway to The Ponds 3000 lot residential development, was officially opened by Landcom on Tuesday 17th November with a celebratory reception for all consultants involved in the project, but the drinks were not the only thing flowing.
On Wednesday 4th November, CLOUSTON threw open its doors to about 25 Landscape professionals as part of the AILA 'Salon' initiative. The diverse group of attendees was treated to three project presentations exploring the notion of design continuity and the challenge of maintaining design objectives from brief to delivery.
In the remote Kimberley of NW Australia, a new style prison with an emphasis on training and rehabilitation is under construction. Inmates, many of whom will be from the surrounding regions, will be housed, retrained and educated in a campus style prison within the Pindan landscape, close to Derby.
As the MS Society's annual Sydney to the Gong ride approached, CLOUSTON vowed to field a bigger and better team of enthusiastic cyclists for this year's event. Leonard, Crosbie, Martin (who missed last year due to illness), Antje and Christine were ably supported by four burly ring-ins recruited from friends and family to once again tackle the 58 - 90 km stretch between Sydney and Wollongong.
Over many years of offering internships to both local and international students of Landscape Architecture, CLOUSTON has benefited from some extraordinary burgeoning talent, and this year we are lucky enough to have Adam Jeffery on our team.
The Bankstown CBD Bus Interchange has been awarded the CCAA 2009 Public Domain Award for Streetscape, with the jury citing that it was impressed by the way that a restrained palette of materials, cleverly framed and contained by concrete, has been used to convert this complicated and heavily used suburban interchange into an everyday place of robust legibility, even dignity.