Author Archive | Ian Lowndes

UQ Lakes Revegetation Lowndes Landscapes (25)

UQ Small Bird Freindly Biodiversity Project now completed

Commenced in 2014, Solargreen Landscapes were commissioned by the University of Queensland and the Society for Conservation Biology to write background scientific and feasibility ecological reporting for a planting project to improve ecological diversity between the UQ Campus and the river. Specifically the project was targeting in-decline small bird species, to encourage existing populations at […]

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Highgate Hill Rain Forest Restoration

Located off Dornoch Tce Highgate Hill Solargreen has been engaged by 3 adjoining land owners to restore degraded steep land that used to have an intact canopy that was destroyed in the storms 2 years ago. In the meantime, many obnoxious weed trees and vines have sprung up, forming, for one of the residences, an […]

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2016 Solargreen BOSC (8)

BOSC Window Display

At 69 Vulture St West End is the  BOSC- the ‘Bar of Social Consciousness’. At night you can have some great on tap beers, and during the day you can see Solargreen’s namesake- the Solar Watered Green Wall.  We regularly update the info in the window, so drop by and catch up with the latest […]

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UQ Therapies courtyard constrcuted

UQ Therapies Building Landscape Architectural Design

The brief– cost effective design for two tired and under used courtyard areas. Result– a new covered courtyard meeting area for Therapies building staff and students (featuring permeable paving); and a rejuvenated outdoor courtyard featuring sandstone block seating and native planting. A link block wall creates usable storage space under a building access footbridge.   […]

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