LMLA - Liesl Malan Landscape Architects

Featured Projects

Vaughan St

We’re really proud of this outcome for a city street. Before the redevelopment there were serious concerns including: street trees with rot, very limited pedestrian spaces and no footpath in places, significant number of empty shops, dangerous traffic conditions and dark spaces at night. Our design addressed these issues and created a socially and economically successful street.

The atmosphere is friendly and pedestrian traffic is high, day and night. These outcomes are the result of good risk taking by Greater Shepparton City Council and the Project Team. The street has been embraced by the community and new shops and services have moved in, filling the once empty spaces.

Swan Hill
Lake Boga Active Trails

This project is a great example of what can be achieved when you have the right skills around the table and a shared commitment to a successful outcome. From a project brief, which started with only a shared path along the highway, we were able to demonstrate that an entire active trail network could be development between Swan Hill and Lake Boga using almost entirely existing infrastructure. The project has the potential to significantly change the region with only minimal investment needed.

Landscape + People

Nearly 10 years on and over 100 projects later, 'landscape + people' remains the foundation of our practice. As regional Landscape Architects, we've worked on an incredibly diverse range of projects - the landscapes have varied from plains to rivers, regional cities to towns and villages - but our focus has always been on creating great places for people, both now and in the long term.

Our work has covered all aspects of sustainability - economic, environment and social. We've been privileged to work with communities who are deeply connected to their place. Helping them to see a more positive future for the next generation provides a foundation for our own motivation.

When we moved the studio to Harcourt a couple of years ago, we chose a less public role for our practice. This gave us an opportunity to focus on a few key projects. It's been a great journey and we're looking forward to sharing more of what we've learnt.

We're really pleased to welcome Georgia on board now that she's finished her degree (and graduated with distinction!) We've loved being part of her journey, from school student on work experience with us, to a young professional who contributes so much to our practice.

We'll take a break over the Christmas period and for the first three weeks in January so that we can return refreshed and reinvigorated. If you'd like to chat to us about your project or re/connect over a coffee, we'd love to hear from you. In the meantime, stay tuned we'll have plenty more to share with you on our new website.

Our Team

Liesl Malan
Principal, Registered Landscape Architect

Over 18 years’ experience, creative thinker, enjoys strategic, broad scale challenges. Specialised in Masterplan projects of whole towns and regions. Excellent in interdisciplinary teams
Built projects in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland. Her time on the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects National Council honed her team skills: she brings a balance of leadership, vision, enthusiasm and collaboration. In her spare time, Liesl is a cooking up a storm and meeting producers at local Farmers’ Markets.

Claire Reynolds
Registered Landscape Architect

Over 10 years’ experience, principal designer, enquiring mind, site specific design responses at various scales. Her projects include broad strategic scales to ‘on the ground’ outcomes. She strength comes from analysing underlying principles and structures. Excels at designing site specific outcomes which meet the diverse requirements of the community and authority groups and meet Australian Standards. A collaborative designer, who works closely with contractors, fabricators and maintenance teams. Claire and her family live in Castlemaine. They spend their time exploring the parks of the region.

Georgia Carroll
Graduate Landscape Architect

Skills: AutoCAD, Adobe suite, support role
That golden moment for a young professional filled with the possibility of the future.
“Through my studies at RMIT we have looked at so many international, large scale projects. Working at LMLA is a huge contrast, where small interventions with small budget can cause large scale change.”