Arcadia Landscape Architecture

As a design-focused landscape architecture and urban design practice, Arcadia approaches every project from the perspective of the human experience. Passion and constant innovation underpin world-class outcomes that explore and harness the unique value and potential of each site. At Arcadia we design outdoor places that create profound and lasting connections between people, spaces and […]

Opened in 2024, more than 16,000 people a day pass through Sydney Metro Barangaroo station, commuting to Barangaroo’s commercial and dining precinct, the headland park or through to Sydney’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Precinct in The Rocks. The landscape design at Barangaroo Station Park, with its stunning backdrop of Sydney Harbour, has created an iconic […]

Built over a railway line, Wadanggari Park is a key piece of landscape infrastructure vital to linking a community rapidly increasing in size after the approval of significant infrastructure projects and residential rezoning. Wadanggari Park demonstrates how innovative thinking about existing assets, such as airspace over the railway line, can result in a valuable piece […]

The only park in Australia built over a railway line, Wadanggari Park symbolises the future of Sydney – a modern urban park, connecting people with ancient Indigenous narrative and natural bushland, in a densely populated area. With a narrative based on the resilience of the Wadanggari (banksia), Wadangarri Park uses innovative thinking about space to […]

An unutilised small space at the Robertson Road Gates of Centennial Park has been transformed into a welcoming cultural garden, influenced by a Dharawal Dreaming story about the banksia (Waddhangarii). The Centennial Park Cultural Garden is a physical connection to Cadigal Country and a celebration of the critically endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub that was […]

The new Reconciliation Garden at University of Queensland’s Herston campus embraces and celebrates Indigenous culture and place, fostering cultural exchange and learning while respecting and aligning within its context of health and higher education. Sitting adjacent to the heritage-listed Mayne Medical Building, the Garden brings ancient cultural knowledge of medicinal plants into a contemporary learning […]

Friedlander Place has taken a once forgotten piece of the urban fabric, transforming it into a community centerpiece. With the CBD of St Leonards undergoing rapid change due to the new Crows Nest Metro station and increase in high density development, this new public space is a key piece in linking the new and existing […]

The Sales Ring Playground has been designed by Arcadia to provide a playspace for children of all ages, where the long and rich cultural heritage of the Newmarket Randwick site is nurtured and celebrated. The playground is part of a new public park, Inglis Park, which has become the new heart of the suburb of […]

Arcadia Landscape Architecture has conceptualised and delivered the landscape and public realm for the Susan Wakil Health Building on Gadigal country at the University of Sydney. The new state-of-the art facility integrates clinical, research and teaching environments for the University of Sydney’s Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Central Clinical School, the Sydney School […]

Translated to ‘dare to do, as much as you can’, the Saint Ignatius motto encourages students to push their limits and strive their hardest, whilst respecting the qualities and traditions written deep into the fabric of the school. When Arcadia was engaged by St Ignatius to undertake a landscape masterplan and detailed design for the […]