The latest news and updates from the UDLA team.

Loren Holmes 17/2/25 Loren Holmes 17/2/25

Scarborough Beach named on Tourism Australia’s 2025 Best Australian Beaches list

Loren Holmes 21/1/25 Loren Holmes 21/1/25

Funding green light for Geraldton Green Connect Project

Funding green light for Geraldton Green Connect Project (Maitland Park)

Loren Holmes 10/12/24 Loren Holmes 10/12/24

A big opening weekend for the Morley Ellenbrook Line

METRONET’S Morley-Ellenbrook Line officially opened

Loren Holmes 1/12/24 Loren Holmes 1/12/24

Fremantle Architects Xmas Party hosted by UDLA

UDLA hosted the Fremantle Architects Xmas Party – the first landscape architectural studio to do so.

Loren Holmes 7/11/24 Loren Holmes 7/11/24

Rewilding Fremantle: A conversation for FDW

Our Rewilding Fremantle conversation for Fremantle Design Week was a success!

Loren Holmes 7/10/24 Loren Holmes 7/10/24

UDLA & Ronald McDonald House ‘Home for Dinner’

UDLA spent an evening preparing a meal for the Ronald McDonald House ‘Home for Dinner’ program

Loren Holmes 6/9/24 Loren Holmes 6/9/24

FDW. Rewilding Fremantle: Rebuilding natural systems to boost biodiversity

Fremantle Design Week's 2024 Program is out, and UDLA is excited to be a part of it.

Loren Holmes 28/8/24 Loren Holmes 28/8/24

Three projects nominated for this year’s UDIA WA Awards for Excellence

Three UDLA projects nominated for this year's UDIA WA Awards for Excellence

Loren Holmes 6/8/24 Loren Holmes 6/8/24

Colonialism to Country: Truth Telling through Architecture with Professor Braden Hill

Colonialism to Country: Truth Telling through Architecture, with Professor Braden Hill

Loren Holmes 1/8/24 Loren Holmes 1/8/24

The Oval at Subi East crowned WA Park of the Year

Loren Holmes 27/6/24 Loren Holmes 27/6/24

Duyen Nguyen joins UDLA’s Melbourne studio

Duyen Nguyen has joined the UDLA team as Project Director

Loren Holmes 4/6/24 Loren Holmes 4/6/24

Future Leader Award for Amy Stewart

Loren Holmes 4/6/24 Loren Holmes 4/6/24

AILA Award for Fremantle Prison Heritage Landscapes Strategy

Landscape Architecture Award for Fremantle Prison Heritage Landscapes Strategy

Loren Holmes 4/6/24 Loren Holmes 4/6/24

AILA Award for City of Vincent Link and Place Guidelines

City of Vincent’s Link and Place recognised at the AILA WA Awards

Loren Holmes 26/4/24 Loren Holmes 26/4/24

Atwell Studio Opening

Last week, amongst friends, family and collaborators, UDLA officially celebrated our move to our new studio in the heart of Fremantle.

Loren Holmes 10/3/24 Loren Holmes 10/3/24

Led by Culture: Collaborative Design at Subi East [Perth Design Week 2024]

Led by Culture: Collaborative Design at Subi East. A lunch and learn conversation for Perth Design Week

Loren Holmes 7/3/24 Loren Holmes 7/3/24

Promotions and new studios at UDLA

It’s a particularly busy and exciting time at UDLA

Loren Holmes 28/11/23 Loren Holmes 28/11/23

The Six Season Bidi / Trail at Subi East

The Six Season Bidi Trail at Subi East is officially open

Loren Holmes 27/11/23 Loren Holmes 27/11/23

Official launch of new Sandover Medal Walk and Subi Oval open space

The Oval at Subi East now officially open

Loren Holmes 22/9/23 Loren Holmes 22/9/23

Fremantle Harbours Masterplan in the news

Loren Holmes 20/9/23 Loren Holmes 20/9/23

Good Design Award for Curtin University Indigenous Learning Circle

Loren Holmes 19/9/23 Loren Holmes 19/9/23

Birunbirun (rainbow bee-eater) for the win in Victoria Park!

Loren Holmes 16/8/23 Loren Holmes 16/8/23

Double congratulations for Amy Stewart at the UWA Design Awards

Double congratulations to our colleague Amy Stewart for taking out two of the recent UWA Design Awards 2022.

Loren Holmes 3/8/23 Loren Holmes 3/8/23

Open EOI invitation: 5x Visual Artworks

Open EOI for a new artwork to be located on the Coogee Chemicals site along Patterson Road in Kwinana.

1/8/23 1/8/23

Communicating Design at UNDA and UWA

This year, in addition to her role as Design Communications Director at UDLA, Loren has taken on a couple of teaching roles.

Loren Holmes 1/8/23 Loren Holmes 1/8/23

We’re on the lookout for an Associate Landscape Architect

Loren Holmes 28/6/23 Loren Holmes 28/6/23

Riley De Campe – Registered Landscape Architect

Big congratulations to our colleague, Riley De Campe, for recently completing the registration process with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA).

Loren Holmes 22/5/23 Loren Holmes 22/5/23

Karla boodja bilya djinda at Goolugatup

Karla boodja bilya djinda at Goolugatup in Melville

Loren Holmes 10/5/23 Loren Holmes 10/5/23

We are looking for a Bid Coordinator to join our team

We are currently looking for a Bid Coordinator to join our team

Loren Holmes 4/5/23 Loren Holmes 4/5/23

Connected canopies at Iron Ore Parade, Newman

We were excited to be back in Newman recently to see how well the trees in the green spines of the Newman Town Centre revitalisation project have been growing. Planted in 2012, these Tipuana tipu (also known as ‘Pride of Bolivia’) at Iron Ore Parade were installed in double rows, with a tree on either side of the path.

The result, as the recent photo shows, is a connected canopy for maximised pedestrian comfort. With increasing awareness of the importance of urban canopy, it’s visual proof of our favourite tree proverb – “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now”.

Loren Holmes 27/1/23 Loren Holmes 27/1/23

Ocean Reef Marina Update

Progress at Ocean Reef Marina continues. Last last year, the State Government announced a funding uplift for the project to include Perth’s first coastal pool. The Olympic-sized pool is expected to be in place by 2025 with the multi-staged construction of the marina due for final completion by 2036.

Loren Holmes 18/1/23 Loren Holmes 18/1/23

Caine Holdsworth’s Arboriculture Qualification

Another colleague congratulations from us this week – this time to Associate Landscape Architect Caine Holdsworth who recently completed (with first-class honours!) a Graduate Certificate in Arboriculture from the University of Melbourne.

Loren Holmes 12/1/23 Loren Holmes 12/1/23

Amy Stewart Awarded 2022 Landscape Australia Student Prize for UWA

We’re thrilled to share the news that our colleague Amy Stewart has been awarded the 2022 Landscape Australia Student Prize for UWA.

Loren Holmes 15/12/22 Loren Holmes 15/12/22

UDLA Director Scott Lang recognised with an AILA Fellowship

UDLA Director Scott Lang has been recognised with a Fellowship at the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA).

Loren Holmes 14/12/22 Loren Holmes 14/12/22

Curtin University TL Robertson Library works Update

UDLA are pleased to see works progressing well at the T.L. Robertson Library Refurbishment at Curtin’s Bentley campus. UDLA were engaged to develop the public realm landscape improvements associated with the service upgrades due for completion early 2023.

Loren Holmes 9/11/22 Loren Holmes 9/11/22

Subi East Oval Redevelopment Update

We’re proud to share progress on site at The Oval Precinct – the first stage of the larger Subi East Redevelopment project that we have been undertaking for DevelopmentWA in collaboration with Design Partner OCULUS.

Loren Holmes 28/10/22 Loren Holmes 28/10/22

Fremantle Design Week reflections

Fremantle Design Week concluded with a PechaKucha event hosted by UDLA’s Design Communications Director, Loren Holmes.

Loren Holmes 18/10/22 Loren Holmes 18/10/22

Designing Cities Symposium

We thoroughly enjoyed the Designing Cities Symposium, as part of the recent Fremantle Design Week. UDLA's Studio Principal Shea Hatch facilitated the Symposium, during which we heard from a range of insightful perspectives about the process of making cities.

Loren Holmes 17/10/22 Loren Holmes 17/10/22

Trusting the Process - for Fremantle Design Week

We were thrilled to hold an event for the inaugural Fremantle Design Week. Titled Trusting the Process, the event was an open studio conversation with Vanessa Margetts, Pierre Quesnel, Rosie Halsmith, Hamish Firth and Fred Chaney.

Loren Holmes 14/10/22 Loren Holmes 14/10/22

Double win for Curtin Yarning Circle at the AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards

Double win for the Curtin Yarning Circle at the AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards

Loren Holmes 5/10/22 Loren Holmes 5/10/22

Join us for Trusting the Process - our open studio conversation

We’re excited to be participating in the inaugural Fremantle Design Week – a walkable design festival in the heart of Walyalup. Our event, Trusting the Process, will be taking place from 6.30pm on Wednesday 19 October at our studio on Josephson Street.

Loren Holmes 31/8/22 Loren Holmes 31/8/22

We are hiring a Major Projects Administrator

We are currently looking for a Major Projects Administrator to join our growing team.

Loren Holmes 18/8/22 Loren Holmes 18/8/22

UWA Sunken Garden restoration

The restoration of the much-loved, heritage-listed Sunken Garden at the University of Western Australia is underway

Loren Holmes 15/8/22 Loren Holmes 15/8/22

Curtin Yarning Circle on the Dezeen Longlist

The Curtin University Yarning Circle has made it onto the Dezeen Awards 2022 landscape project longlist

Loren Holmes 11/8/22 Loren Holmes 11/8/22

Woodman Point Ammo Jetty design taken to next stage

We’re pleased to see that UDLA’s design for the landscape associated with a new and partly retained jetty at Woodman Point is getting taken to detailed design – one step closer to its realisation and new life for future generations.

Loren Holmes 9/8/22 Loren Holmes 9/8/22

Fremantle Harbours Masterplan out for community comment

A project we’ve been working on for a few years is the Fremantle Harbours Masterplan. It’s now available to look at (and comment on) via the Department of Transport’s MySay website.

Loren Holmes 27/6/22 Loren Holmes 27/6/22

Curtin Yarning Circle celebrated with two awards at the 2022 AILA WA Awards

We’re honoured that The Curtin University Indigenous Learning Circle (Yarning Circle) was recognised with two Landscape Architecture Awards (for Cultural Heritage and Health & Education) at the recent AILA WA 2022 Awards.

Loren Holmes 21/6/22 Loren Holmes 21/6/22

Stejara Timis joins the UDLA team

Stejara Timis has joined the UDLA team as Project Associate.

Loren Holmes 20/6/22 Loren Holmes 20/6/22

Subiaco Oval Redevelopment Sneak Peek

We were pleased to see our images of the Subiaco Oval Redevelopment project reach the news recently.

Loren Holmes 17/6/22 Loren Holmes 17/6/22

UDLA's Frank Barreto and the recent UWA School of Design Awards

A big congratulations to UDLA Designer Frank Barreto for taking out a prize at the UWA School of Design Awards, presented at this year’s Winter Collective Exhibition.

Loren Holmes 11/5/22 Loren Holmes 11/5/22

Bremer Bay Town Square

We had such a good time in Bremer Bay Town Square the other week - getting snaps, meeting locals and seeing how it’s been tracking since we were last down this way.