Fri, Mar 27 2026, 10 - 11:30am
Daniels Building, 1 Spadina Crescent |  2nd Floor, KPMB Seminar Room 230

Organized in collaboration with the Foolhardy’s Red House Restoration Project and the Town of Perth, the Tay Basin Landscape Ideas Competition invited creative proposals for the redevelopment of the Tay Basin site as a flexible and welcoming public square. 

Located along the Tay River in its historic downtown core, the approximately one-hectare site currently functions as a mixed landscape of open lawn, trees, and parking near key landmarks including Perth's Crystal Palace and the proposed restored 1816 Red House. 

The competition challenges all undergraduate and graduate students to envision how the area could better support community events, markets, public gathering and everyday use while integrating sustainable landscape strategies and universal accessibility. The competition was also integrated into LAN3200: Landscape Architecture Competitions, a graduate seminar in the Master of Landscape Architecture program. 

The Daniels LAN300 seminar is taught by Professor Alissa North, a landscape architect, founding partner of North Design Office, and scholar whose research examines contemporary landscape architecture practices, public space design, and the role of competitions in shaping the discipline. Through the course, students analyze influential landscape architecture competitions and apply this knowledge by developing their own proposals for the Tay Basin site.

At the vernissage, the jury will share their thoughts on the student work and highlight what they found most compelling in the submissions. Winners and honourable mentions will be announced at 11:30 a.m. Selected projects will move on to a public exhibition in Perth later this spring.

The jury members are: 

• Robert Allsopp
• Alex Bozikovic 
• Victoria Gibb-Carsley
• Noah Greer  
• David Leinster 
• Cathy McNally 
• Adam Smith (Jury Chair and Competition Co-Coordinator) 
• Gary Waterfield 

Tay Basin site images above courtesy of Alissa North