Corkery Consulting
A unique animation produced to showcase a potential fix for the restoration of Tasmania’s Lake Pedder has been awarded a major prize at the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) National Awards.
The animation “Lake Pedder – from Inundation to Restoration”, produced by Sydney based landscape architects Corkery Consulting, won the prestigious National Award For Research And Communication at the AILA Awards, held on the 17th of October at the Forecast Festival of Landscape Architecture in Brisbane.
The AILA Awards recognises and celebrates outstanding achievements and contributions in design, planning, urban design, land management, research and communication and residential landscape architecture.
The animation visualises the history of the Lake’s now notorious damming and the potential methodology for this to be reversed.
Adrian Pilton, AILA Awards Jury Chair, says Corkery Consulting were able to use their advanced graphic skills to produce an animated visualisation, which simplified a highly complex process, and which would prove highly useful in restoring the Lake.
“Initial attempts by the Lake Pedder Restoration Committee to explain the complex process of how Lake Pedder can be restored were hindered by the lack of simple and clear illustrations,” he says.
“The landscape architects have succeeded admirably in illustrating the balance that can be achieved between environmental, social and economic values in this significant case.”
Pilton added that the standard of this year’s entries at the AILA Awards was incredibly high, and Corkery Consulting should be commended for their exceptional work in taking out this prize.
The National Awards were a centrepiece of AILA’s Forecast Festival of Landscape Architecture, which celebrated this country’s most innovative landscape architecture projects and ideas between 16th and 18th of October in Brisbane.
The Jury was made up of highly respected built environment professionals Adrian Pilton, Lorrae Wild, Catherine Keirnan and Shane Thompson.
Mark Frisby, AILA National President, says that it was great to see so many practitioners and collaborators coming together to celebrate the achievements of Australian landscape architects.
“The 2014 AILA National Awards showcase how landscape architects are making our cities and landscapes more liveable and sustainable,” he says.
“The National Awards and Forecast Festival were a big success, and AILA, Australia’s key body for landscape architecture, is approaching its 50th year in 2016 in terrific shape.”
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