The staff at Nicholas Bray Landscapes have been working on the Anglicare Aged Care facility in Dapto, for the past three years. The complexity of this project is based around the aged care facility’s location, which is amongst an existing forest of indigenous trees. The landscape has been about integrating the built form, within a sensitive ecological community. Collaborating with a team of architects, civil engineers, bushfire, flora and fauna consultants, we have delivered a landscape masterplan. The garden areas surround a new residential aged care facility and individual living units. The landscaping consists of deep soil plantings and podium gardens, with a combination of passive and active spaces.
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To view Anglicare’s Aged Care website, click here.
About the author
Nicholas Bray, Registered Landscape Architect (RILA 958, AILA)
Nicholas Bray is the principal of Nicholas Bray Landscapes, a landscape architecture and construction business based in Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands. With 25 years of experience across landscape architecture, horticulture and environmental planning, he designs and builds gardens for large acreage estates, rural properties, vineyards, schools and commercial sites throughout the Southern Highlands, Central and Southern New South Wales.
Nicholas studied landscape architecture in Australia and Canada, and horticulture at the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley in the United Kingdom. He has worked at the Hanbury Botanical Gardens in La Mortola, Italy, and completed projects in Spain, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Canada.
His work balances the built and natural environments with site specific planting, stonework, pools and water features, and he is well known for guiding complex landscape plans through council approval.