Rush\Wright Associates

Who has a right in the copy? By Michael Wright

Discerning which rights and protections a work might receive under copyright law can be a difficult process. For landscape architects, however, unique barriers to moral authorship complicate an already thorny challenge.

A welcome encounter: Springvale Community Precinct by Adrian Marshall

A new community hub in Melbourne’s south-east celebrates the diversity of its multicultural community through an exuberant approach to colour and texture, and careful attention to detail.

Springvale Community Precinct feels good. The successful collaboration between Rush Wright Associates and Lyons opened in 2020, four years after the practices won a limited competition run by the City of Greater Dandenong. Springvale Community Precinct takes the old library, council offices and a smattering of car parks and green spaces and replaces them with a new community hub building and a unified park extending over 2.6 hectares. The budget, partially funded by the sale of the former Springvale depot, was generous, thanks to a client able to recognize the value of good design.

The landscape has retained almost all the trees on site – an assortment of mostly exotics that Rush Wright has chosen to multiply around the edge of the park – while the park’s inner core is planted out in richly varied and carefully chosen palettes of native species.