The shortlist for the Landezine International Landscape Awards (LILA) has been announced with the Parliamentary Play Space in the capital making the cut.

The Studio Pacific project is a finalist in the Schools and Playground section along with four other international projects.

Lead landscape architect on the project Mark Fletcher says the Studio Pacific team is “very excited that it has been selected as one of the five shortlisted entries.

“There was a lot of great work submitted for the LILA awards and so to be recognised amongst the competition is pretty special.”

He believes the project has been well received by the LILA judges because “we had a strong concept and what was realised on the ground stayed very true to that.

“It was a great client vision that challenged us to do something special within the heritage grounds of our Parliament. We wanted to create something that was not only fun for children but appealed to all ages and a lot of time and effort was spent getting it right – from siting the play area amongst the trees, to creating the form of the slide and to detailing the slide components. A lot of credit goes to the team that built it too.”