Author: Greenedge Design

3 Years of Greenedge Design

This week we celebrate reaching the end of our 3rd year as a practice. To celebrate the ongoing achievements of our regional practice and involvement with the Sunshine Coast community and beyond, our Practice Leader Greg Thomas shares an insight into where we have come from and where we are going.   “When I started Greenedge Design, from a makeshift stand-up desk in my garage, I couldn't imagine that I would be leading a 6-person strong team and working on dream projects within the first 3 years. To get to this point has been exciting, but sometimes exhausting especially juggling life with a young family with twins.   Over the past years it has not been uncommon to receive an email from me late at night or reach me on my mobile when I was on annual leave, but I accepted that is the commitment I had to make in order to establish a practice that seeks...

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Back to Back AILA QLD Awards

For the second consecutive year, we are pleased to be recognised by our peers for our work at the Immanuel Early Learning Centre Play Space; taking home the inaugural Play Spaces Landscape Architecture Award at the 2017 AILA Awards Night in Brisbane.   The Awards Night The AILA QLD awards night was a great opportunity for the Greenedge Design team to socialise with other passionate, like-minded landscape architecture professionals from all over Queensland and beyond. With three projects submitted across two categories; the New Leaf Early Learning Centre (play spaces) and Maleny Trail (tourism) were unsuccessful on the night but the team were privileged to take home a Landscape Architecture Award for the Immanuel Early Learning Centre, which was nominated in the play spaces category. This was the first year that the category had been included in the awards program and to take out the inaugural award alongside the other recipient Roma Street Parkland's...

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Goodstart Adelaide Street Grand Opening

We congratulate our client Goodstart Early Learning for the recent opening of their newest Brisbane CBD centre in the historic Broadway building, Adelaide Street. This interior landscape / play space was designed by Greenedge Design and overcame some significant technical challenges including limitations in weight loading and non-penetration of the existing slab, services / drainage provision and a variety of play spaces and equipment to cater for this 207 place centre. We're extremely pleased to have designed a truly unique play environment complete with a tree house with artificial tree and an interactive bespoke water play area.     Since the completion of this project in mid-June, the interior play space of the Adelaide Street Early Learning Centre has gained significant media interest. Architectural design publications Bower Bird,  Architecture & Design, Australian Design Review and Nine News Queensland have featured the project, explaining the unique approach and challenges that arose from designing an early learning centre within a building...

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2017 Recruits

The team at Greenedge Design are pleased to welcome two new faces in 2017. Joining us during our peak period back in January was George Bostock. George joins the Greenedge Design team as a Project Lead / Registered Landscape Architect. He has 16 years of industry experience, working in both the USA and UK before settling in Australia in 2004. Since then he has worked in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, giving him extensive knowledge of the profession abroad as well as in Australia. George also holds a Diploma in Building Design, bringing with him a high level of drafting knowledge.   This year has also seen Greenedge Design further our development pathways with the inclusion of Rebecca McDonald. Rebecca joins as a Graduate Landscape Architect, having completed her Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Adelaide at the end of 2016.  Moving from Adelaide to escape the cold winters, Rebecca brings...

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