Adelaide Botanic Gardens Wetland Award, ABG, South Australia Landscape Architecture Photos
Adelaide Botanic Gardens Wetland
South Australia Project: 2017 Sustainability Award – design by TCL landscape architecture and urban practice
30 Oct 2017
Adelaide’s Botanic Gardens Wetland
Location: First Creek Wetland, Adelaide Botanic Gardens (ABG), Adelaide, Australia
Urban Wetland in heart of Adelaide wins national Sustainability Award
Photos: John Gollings
TCL?s Adelaide?s Botanic Gardens Wetland has won the 2017 Sustainability Award for Landscape and Urban Design.
Located in the south-east corner of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens (ABG), the Wetland is a highly urbanised waterway near the centre of Adelaide.

Initially tasked with creating an interpretation of the wetland, TCL expanded the brief to create an experiential place with playful rather than static elements that would allow people in the city to interact with the environment for a more hands-on, educational experience.
The Wetland is designed to ameliorate flooding, purify polluted stormwater runoff, is the source for an Aquifer Storage and Recovery system and provides habitat for wildlife. In addition The Wetland now holds about 20,000 plants, mostly Australian, with majority native to the state and some rare and endangered plants grown from seeds collected by the South Australian Seed Conservation Centre.
?The Wetland creates an environmentally sustainable precinct, as well as an immersive, educative, aest...