The most profound commissions will almost always be private landscapes. They involve an intense and continuous collaboration between the client and the designer, and the results are in flux until the last tool has been wielded in the construction of the project. I work very closely with the client to ensure the best possible outcome with the resources available to them, providing the ultimate value for money in guiding the design and construction process through all the complexities that can be thrown into the path of the project.
McGregor Crescent Tweed Heads
A proposed multi-unit residential development.
2015 (Duncan Gibbs for developer client)
2015 (Duncan Gibbs for developer client)
Rose Lane Residence Murwillumbah
A mass gravity retaining and access structure on an unstable one-in-one slope between a house and the Tweed River. New terraces were created and paths and steps cut into the slope to dramatically increase the useable space on this very steep site, including improving access to the river.
2012 - 2013 (Duncan Gibbs for residential Client)
2012 - 2013 (Duncan Gibbs for residential Client)
River Street Residence Murwillumbah
Horizontal and vertical surfaces juxtaposed and working to a programme of access and maximum usable space in a small backyard overlooking the Tweed River.
2007 - 2008 (Duncan Gibbs for residential client)
2007 - 2008 (Duncan Gibbs for residential client)
Riverhouse Riverstone Crossing, Upper Coomera
A big landscape and strata titled community social and recreation facility using big geometries on a small budget.
2008 - 2010 (Duncan Gibbs @ Cardno for Stockland)
2008 - 2010 (Duncan Gibbs @ Cardno for Stockland)
Temporary Carpark Riverstone Crossing, Upper Coomera
Suburban rooves in grass.
2009 (Duncan Gibbs @ Cardno for Stockland)
2009 (Duncan Gibbs @ Cardno for Stockland)
Tumbulgum Residence
A formal subtropical pleasure garden on the Tweed River. This commission included an extensive approvals process including an integrated Development Application to cover riverbank stabilisation works, a small private beach, a pontoon jetty and a boat ramp. A geometric 'creek-line' water feature with large fish ponds at each end flows from the front entry bridge. Large advanced trees and palms were sourced. Careful grading of the site ensured flood water could be carried away easily. An extensive planting palette has been developed in continuing consultation with the client since the garden's framework was established. Many of the larger broad-leafed tress were planted as tube stock and have now really filled out the garden.
2005 - 2007 (Duncan Gibbs for residential client)
2005 - 2007 (Duncan Gibbs for residential client)
Dover Heights Residence
A terrace on top of a street level garage to a nineteen sixties block of flats, overlooking the Pacific gets a new pergola.
2002 (Duncan Gibbs for residential client)
2002 (Duncan Gibbs for residential client)
Interlink & Kimberly Clark Industrial Estates, Erskine Park
Big, geometric plantings of indigenous species for big, geometric industrial landscapes.
2006 (Duncan Gibbs @ Sturt Associates for Macquarie Goodman)
2006 (Duncan Gibbs @ Sturt Associates for Macquarie Goodman)
Kelvin Grove Residence
A landslip is redesigned as a gabion amphitheatre.
1996 (Duncan Gibbs for residential client)
1996 (Duncan Gibbs for residential client)
Steel River Sculpture Newcastle
A long sandwich of the various hard by-products of smelting and rolling steel rise from the earth and look as though it might fly, tipped with a concrete beak and a corten and stainless wing.
1999 (Duncan Gibbs)
1999 (Duncan Gibbs)