Landscape Architecture Australia

For Play Spaces

Award of Excellence

Railway Park Play Plummer and Smith

Aboriginal Nation

Arakwal People of the Bundjalung Nation

Location

Byron Bay, New South Wales

Client

Byron Shire Council

Jury comment

The jury celebrated this significant reworking and recrafting of the existing Railway Park in Byron Bay as a sensitive and purposeful collaboration between the council, the local community and the region’s Aboriginal community, the Arakwal people. The new park provides a vital and beautiful outdoor community space. The landscape designers have successfully celebrated, protected, retained and

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