Clifftop Garden by Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture

Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture

Aboriginal Nation

Eora

Client

Private

Location

Vaucluse, New South Wales

Jury comment

Clifftop Garden offers the profession a front-seat masterclass in design crafting, plant appreciation, garden placemaking and unique site understanding. The jury found the garden timeless in its appreciation and use of endemic plant material and admired the creative reuse of site-derived sandstone waste materials. Ultimately the garden just fits into the cliff site, the adjacent new house and unique exposed context. The garden is quiet and subtle and does not shout out “look at me,” which is not often the case on sites as significant as this clifftop position.

Entrant Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture Project team Jane Irwin and Dan Harmon (JILA) Natural pool Puddleton Gardens Contractor Bates Landscape Architect Paul Pholeros Photography Dianna Snape; Dan Harmon