Albert Park | Creative Australian Living Edition 8, 2016

In 2016, the Albert Park Rooftop was featured in Backyard: Creative Australian Living (Edition 8), recognised for transforming a narrow 30sqm garage roof into a layered urban entertaining retreat.

Photographed by Patrick Redmond, the project was described as a triumph of clever use and refined design,  demonstrating how constraint, when handled intelligently, can produce remarkable spatial outcomes.

Set above a double garage in inner-city Albert Park, the rooftop presented significant structural and perceptual challenges: limited load capacity, high exposure to wind, and a footprint that risked feeling compressed. The publication highlighted the sweeping corten curves, the sunken conversation pit, and the layered planting strategy that softened the architecture while expanding the sense of space.

Rather than treating the terrace as a decorative add-on, the design responded directly to structural limits and urban context. Integrated seating, rounded planters, subtle level changes and controlled screening combined to create multiple entertaining zones within a compact footprint.

The feature positioned the rooftop as part of a growing Australian movement toward intelligent rooftop living — where unused upper levels become functional, climate-responsive outdoor rooms.

This recognition reinforced what defines our approach:

Constraint is not a limitation.
It is a design advantage.

The Albert Park Rooftop remains a benchmark example of art-led landscape architecture applied to dense urban sites — sculptural, resilient, and built for real life.

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