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Jeavons has entered three playgrounds for ‘ Australia’s Best Playground ’, a competition organized by AILA (Australian Institute of Landscape Architects). The competition aims to recognize and celebrate Australia’s well-designed public playspaces and the landscape architects responsible for the design.   People’s Choice voting has begun and closes on 28 April 2016. Click below to take a peek at […]

Marnebek School in Cranbourne, Victoria, recently constructed a new and exciting Sensory Garden as part of a further upgrade of their outdoor play space. The garden is connected to the Sensory Room at Marnebek.   Jeavons worked with the staff and students at Marnebek to develop a unique and highly detailed concept design for the space. The design is

The outdoor playspace at Renown Kinder in South Yarra has been rejuvenated, seamlessly incorporating new playspaces and gardens with the existing play structures and vegetation.   A sand and water play area with a pebble creek bed (consisting of loose and mortared pebbles) has been installed, along with a water pump. Granite rockery with moss still intact

The Herald Sun newspaper organised a survey of parents to discover Melbourne’s Top 25 Playgrounds. Jeavons Landscape Architects designed or had involvement in 6 out of the 25 favourite playgrounds!   Playgrounds within the Top 25 include: ​ Bicentennial Park Location: Scotch Parade, Chelsea Highlights: giant slides, Liberty Swing, spinning bird’s nest swing, fenced, close to skate

Today we celebrated the opening of the second stage of the outdoor playspace for the Crèche at Austin Health in Heidelberg. The outdoor playspace redevelopment is to provide a natural learning environment and to creatively maximize use of the existing outdoor space.   A Landscape Master Plan for the Crèche was developed by others in 2013, and Jeavons firm was hired

From all of us at Jeavons Landscape Architects, we would like give a warm thank you to everyone who joined us at our annual end of year breakfast at Jardin Tan.   ​ ​Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year!

The Ardeer Green Activity Hub is located off West Street, Ardeer and has two major cycling routes intersecting at the park; the M80 path and Kororoit Creek Trail, which then links to the Federation Trail to the city. The site also has strong environmental values with riparian vegetation to the Kororoit Creek and a strand

Jeavons staff had a fun Morning Tea today with some playful food art.   ​Hallowe’en is coming up this week, so we indulged in some ninja-style shortbread cookies that were made by one of our team members. Delicious!

Beaumaris Reserve Playground is a popular park and playground well loved by the local community. When Council identified the playground for renewal, the local community were adamant that former features and play elements of the playground were to be preserved in the new design. A community based design for the original “Magic Park” created in

The GET OUTSIDE seminar focusing on Landscapes for Play and Learning in Schools was successfully presented by Jeavons on September 10. The seminar was held at the City of Melbourne Flagstaff Bowling Club and was attended by over 80 participants.   We would like to thank our guest speakers: • Mr. Patrick Love – Manager Planning Catholic Education Melbourne