The Landscape Architecture Australia Student Prize recognises the best graduating projects from landscape architecture students at Australian universities. Australian universities each nominate a student whose projects are then reviewed by an independent jury. 

This year's jury included Daniel Bennett, national president, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Jacky Bowring, professor of landscape architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand and Ricky Ricardo, associate editor, Landscape Architecture Australia.

This year’s winning projects includes a leisure landscape at a former landfill site in Port Adelaide’s Garden Island that is fuelled by warm wastewater from a nearby power station, a scheme that seeks to influence the paths of tornadoes in North America to reduce property damage while stimulating tourism, and a rigorous analysis of bushfire mitigation policy in rural Western Australia that visualizes potential effects on the landscape.

This year’s national prize winner is Forgotten Industry, Future Form by Allison Sainty of the University of New South Wales.

The jury also awarded a high commendation this year, for The Space In-Between by John Williams of RMIT University.

Other prize winners included:

Windscape: Responses to Tornadoes in Oklahoma, North America – Aili Hardner, Queensland University of Technology

Wastescape – Marguerite Bartolo, University of Adelaide

Tidal Wars/Emergent Edges: the Politics of Adaptation – Christopher N. Hunter, University of Melbourne

A Critical Assessment of Bushfire Risk Mitigation Practices on Cultural and Heritage Landscapes – Sue McDougall University of Western Australia

Restoration of Yollinko Park – Jennifer Dearnaley, Deakin University