Blog — To & Fro Studio

AILA National Landscape Architecture Award for Place Value Ashfield

We’re proud to share that Place Value Ashfield, our project with Daniel Jan Martin, was acknowledged with a national AILA Landscape Architecture Award for Research, Policy and Communication for our project, Place Value Ashfield.

Brand identity launch for TRCB

We’re stoked to share that our rebrand, website and communications project with TRCB launched recently.

UpdatesLoren HolmesAugust 17, 2021to and fro studio, to & fro studio, TRCB Architects, TRCB

Published pieces: Future West (Australian Urbanism) Issue 8 Place Value

The latest Future West Australian Urbanism is out! It’s the eighth and final issue and it’s entirely dedicated to Place Value Ashfield.

UpdatesLoren HolmesAugust 9, 2021to and fro studio, to & fro studio, University of Western Australia, School of Design

Published pieces: “Doing density differently”: A new, landscape-led approach to infill housing

We’re pleased to be recent contributors to Foreground, an online publication for the people remaking our cities and places for the better.

AILA WA Award of Excellence for Place Value Ashfield

We’re so excited to share that, alongside Daniel Jan Martin, we were acknowledged with an AILA WA Award of Excellence for Research, Policy and Communication for our project, Place Value Ashfield.

Winter Collective 2021 at the UWA School of Design

A big congratulations to the Masters of Landscape Architecture students of Making Studio, who Rosie has been working with over the last semester.

UpdatesRosie HalsmithJune 23, 2021to and fro studio, to & fro studio, rosie halsmith, landscape architecture, masters of landscape architecture, University of Western Australia, School of Design

Published pieces: Collaborating on Yawuru Country

‘At Nyamba Buru Yawuru, all of our projects are landscape projects, one way or the other. They’re all on Country, somewhere. And the people who know the Country are the ones you need to talk to.’ Sarah Yu

UpdatesRosie HalsmithMay 31, 2021to and fro studio, to & fro studio, landscape australia, landscape architecture australia, rosie halsmith, nyamba buru yawuru, sarah yu, naomi appleby, vanessa margetts, MudMap Studio

Project launch for Fremantle architecture practice, Ehdo

We’re very pleased to announce the launch of our project with Fremantle architecture practice, Ehdo.

UpdatesRosie HalsmithMay 18, 2021to and fro studio, to & fro studio, ehdo, ehdo architecture

Debating landscape architectural pedagogies

Last week, Rosie Halsmith took part in a national round-table debating pedagogies of future practice in landscape architecture.

UpdatesRosie HalsmithMay 4, 2021to and fro studio, to & fro studio, University of Western Australia, UWA School of Design, rosie halsmith, RMIT Landscape Architecture, julian raxworthy, alex felson, claudia taborda, sueanne ware, rhys williams, gini lee, kyle bush, alice lewis

Sharing co-design methodologies at the UWA School of Design

A big thanks to Lara Pinho at the UWA School of Design for inviting us to speak as part of the School’s newly launched unit, Empowering Communities through Design.

UpdatesLoren HolmesApril 16, 2021to and fro studio, to & fro studio, University of Western Australia, UWA School of Design, School of Design, loren holmes, architecture, rosie halsmith, lara pinho, empowering communities through design, co-design, uwa school of design

Communicating design ideas with the Albany Summer Studio

Recently, Loren had the chance to give a guest lecture and design communications workshop to students of the Albany Summer Studio at the University of Western Australia’s School of Design.

UpdatesLoren HolmesFebruary 8, 2021to and fro studio, to & fro studio, University of Western Australia, UWA School of Design, School of Design, rosie halsmith, loren holmes, landscape architecture, architecture, albany, Craig McCormack, Mark Jecks

Exploring place in Ashfield with the students of UWA's School of Design

This past semester, we were lucky enough to work with an excellent bunch of students at the University of Western Australia’s School of Design.

UpdatesRosie HalsmithDecember 16, 2020to and fro studio, to & fro studio, University of Western Australia, UWA School of Design, School of Design, landform studio, ehdo architecture, rosie halsmith, loren holmes, daniel jan martin, landscape architecture, architecture, ashfield

Mural Trail celebrates the local in Collie

We’ve just spent an excellent weekend on Bibbulmun Country in Collie, celebrating the launch of the Collie Mural Trail.

Loren Holmes joins the DesignFreo committee

Over the past few months, Loren Holmes has been working alongside her fellow DesignFreo committee members towards the shared goal of celebrating design and designers in the port city of Fremantle / Walyalup and beyond.

UpdatesLoren HolmesNovember 24, 2020DesignFreo, Design Freo, loren holmes, Fremantle

Project launch for local landscape architects, Four Landscape Studio

We’re pleased to share that the website, visual and verbal identity we designed for local landscape architects, Four Landscape Studio, was launched this week.

UpdatesRosie HalsmithNovember 10, 2020four landscape studio, landscape architecture, brand identity, visual identity, verbal identity, western australian landscape architecture, website design

Winter Collective 2020 at the UWA School of Design

A big part of what we do here at To & Fro is about collaborating with the next generation of designers at the UWA School of Design. During semester one, we were lucky enough to work with architecture and landscape architecture students across the Bachelor and Masters courses at the School.

UpdatesRosie HalsmithNovember 2, 2020Rosie Halsmith, loren holmes, to and fro studio, to & fro studio, hanzhi wang, hazel wang, amy stewart, Groundings Studio, Making Studio, University of Western Australia, UWA School of Design

Published pieces: Cultivating connections

A conversation between Rosie Halsmith and Oral McGuire, community leader, cultural burning practitioner and and traditional Ballardong Nyungar landholder, was recently published in Landscape Architecture Australia, the contemporary record of landscape architecture, urban design and land-use planning in Australia.

UpdatesRosie HalsmithOctober 19, 2020Rosie Halsmith, oral mcguire, landscape architecture australia, greening australia, marlak niran, marlak niran revegetation project, Ballardong, Nyungar, Noongar

Published pieces: Common ground

Rosie Halsmith spent some time learning about the community art facilitation and landscape architecture process undertaken by Vanessa Margetts of MudMap Studio for Nyamba Buru Yawuru’s Liyan-Ngan Nyirrwa (Cultural Wellness Centre) in Broome, to develop a case study on this project that has now been featured on Foreground.

UpdatesRosie HalsmithAugust 12, 2020vanessa margetts, foreground, Rosie Halsmith, MudMap Studio, nyamba buru yawuru, liyan-ngan nyirrwa

Place Value Ashfield - Design Collaboration

Many conversations happening for Place Value Ashfield lately. Since the beginning of this year, we’ve been working on a research project exploring the potentials for a coordinated approach to urban infill housing.

UpdatesRosie HalsmithJuly 27, 2020Design Collaboration

Artist spotlight: Jamie Boyce

In our Artist Spotlight series, we’ll be sharing a bit about the artists we collaborated with for the Parkway Artway. Emerging artist and graphic designer Jamie Boyce loves creating abstract, eye-catching and colourful designs that explore concepts of youth and playfulness, through bold colours and lively shapes.

ThoughtsRosie HalsmithJune 25, 2020parkway artway, parkway project, ellenbrook, to and fro studio, to & fro studio, jamie boyce

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