Context is a highly professional team of landscape architects and urban designers offering services in landscape architecture, urban design, site planning, and environmental design. The practice has offices in Sydney and Melbourne and has over 15 years experience in private and public sector design. Context prides itself in maintaining an integrated approach to landscape design that achieves high standards of creative excellence and innovation. The work of the practice has been recognised by many local and international awards.

Public Domain

Context has a strong skills base and extensive experience in urban landscape and public domain projects, ranging from waterfront redevelopments to national highway upgrades. We have award-winning experience in local and international public domain projects from master planning to construction completion.

Tourism and Culture

Context has a wealth of experience in master planning of entertainment landscapes that are informed by the knowledge and understanding of a diverse mix of local and international places.

Education

Context has extensive experience from master planning to construction stages of local and international university campus landscapes. The vision behind these public spaces becomes the creation of a distinct identity under which the campus life of teachers and student from a diverse cultural spectrum can thrive.

Infrastructure

Context offers extensive experience working in multi-disciplinary teams and within a consortium on some of Sydney and Australia's largest public transport corridor, road and freeway upgrades, including the recent national Pacific Highway Upgrade.

Heritage

We have award-winning experience in the management and interpretation of heritage landscapes. We provide strategy and design advice on conservation management plans, assessment of heritage significance, interpretive design and adaptive re-use of our naturally and culturally significant places and landscapes.

Residential

Context specialises in local and international residential landscape design. Our award-winning master plans respond to the key components of environmental and ecological sustainability, while designing for a rich variety in lifestyle.

Environmental Planning

We provide advice in environmental design and planning and are dedicated to preserving ecological integrity and creating environmentally sustainable developments. We have specialist experience in water sensitive urban design and the regeneration of natural ecologies including Cumberland Plain Woodlands and riparian corridors.

Parks and Recreation

Context has extensive skills in a range of residential projects from waterfront revitalisation to significant parklands, on a local to regional scale. Our award-winning designs strive to develop a design language that is underpinned by an essence of timelessness for both active and passive recreational spaces.