Mindeerup Plaza Connect Mend Street
Borloo
Whadjuk Noongar
Date
2020
Collaborators
Place Laboratory
Selected Awards
2020 Award of Excellence in the Civic Landscape, AILA WA Landscape Architecture awards
2020 Iwan Iwanoff Award for Small Project, Australian Institute of Architects – Western Australia Chapter
2020 Best of Best The Architecture MasterPrize, Landscape Architecture- Installations and Structures category
2020 International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Core Values Award, Planning and Design Phase Category
2020 Australian Institute of Landscape Awards (AILA), National Landscape Architecture Awards, Landscape Architecture Award for Tourism Category.
The master plan celebrates the unique history of South Perth with thematic references to the role that the Zoo, the Garden Suburb and public transport have played in shaping South Perth. The CSMS project has the potential to be a transformative project that will see the Mends Street foreshore become the urban heart of South Perth. IPH were involved in conceptual development and focused on realising the giant animal canopies, a giant numbat and frilled necked lizard formed from plate aluminium and evolved through an origami folding process. The abstract forms provide shelter and a dynamic welcome to South Perth, two figures announcing the new piazza to visitors.