Our team have won national awards for innovative outdoor design and advocacy for play as follows:
2024 – AILA
National Landscape Architecture Awards 2024 – Play Spaces – Yirran Muru Aboriginal Interpretive Playspace
2024 – Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA)
National Award of Excellence – Play Space <$500K – Yirran Muru Aboriginal Interpretive Playspace – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2024 – AILA
NSW/ACT Award of Excellence – Play Space – Yirran Muru Aboriginal Interpretive Playspace – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2024 – AILA
NSW/ACT Regional Achievement Award – Yirran Muru Aboriginal Interpretive Playspace – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2024 – Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA)
NSW/ACT Award of Excellence – Play Space <$500K – Yirran Muru Aboriginal Interpretive Playspace – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2023 – Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA)
NSW/ACT Park of the Year: Highly Commended – Elara Riparian Parklands – awarded to Blacktown City Council
2023 – NSW/ACT IPWEA Engineering Excellence Awards
NSW/ACT Award of Excellence: Highly Commended Award– Category 1B: Projects greater than $500,000 but less than $5 Million – awarded to Ku-ring-gai Council (Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects)
2022 – Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA)
NSW/ACT Award of Excellence: Park of the Year – Lionel Watts Regional Playground (and Frenchs Forest Showground) – awarded to Northern Beaches Council
2021 – Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA)
National Award of Excellence: Strategic Planning Award – Waverley Inclusive Play Space Study – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2021 – University of Manchester
13th International Podocyte Conference: PodoArt Art Competition Winner – awarded to Fiona Robbé
2021 – Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA)
NSW/ACT Award of Excellence: Strategic Planning Award – Waverley Inclusive Play Space Study – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2020 – Kidsafe National Playspace Design Awards
National Commended: Public Playspaces <$500k – Category 3A – Kelso Community Hub – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2020 – Kidsafe National Playspace Design Awards
National Commended: Infants and Primary – Category 2A – Samuel Gilbert Public School – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2020 – Kidsafe National Playspace Design Awards
National Commended: Preschools – Category 1A – McMahons Point Community Preschool – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2020 – Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA)
NSW/ACT Award of Excellence: Playspace (<$0.5m) – Kelso Outdoor Recreation Area – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2020 – AILA
NSW State Landscape Architecture Award: Play Spaces – Sydney Park Bike Track – awarded to Turf Design Studio and Environmental Partnership, in collaboration with Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2019 – AILA
National Landscape Architecture Award: Play Spaces – Jo Wheatley All Abilities Play Space – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects, City of Nedlands + Rotary Clubs of Subiaco, Nedlands and West Perth
2019 – AILA
WA State Award of Excellence: Play Spaces – Jo Wheatley All Abilities Play Space – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects, City of Nedlands + Rotary Clubs of Subiaco, Nedlands and West Perth
2018 – Kidsafe National Playspace Design Awards
National Winner: Public Playspaces – Category C (>$1,000,000) – Jo Wheatley All Abilities Play Space, awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects, City of Nedlands + Rotary Clubs of Subiaco, Nedlands and West Perth
2018 – Kidsafe National Playspace Design Awards
National Highly Commended: Public Playspaces – Category B ($500,000 – $1,000,000) – Endeavour Park – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects + Blacktown City Council
2018 – Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA)
NSW/ACT Awards of Excellence: Playspace (<$0.5m) – Illawarra Landscape Playground – awarded to Mike Hewson Studio in collaboration with Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2017 – Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA)
National Awards of Excellence: Playspace (<$0.5m) – Halvorsen Park Playground – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2017 – Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA)
NSW/ACT Awards of Excellence: Playspace (<$0.5m) – Halvorsen Park Playground – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2016 – Kidsafe
2016 Kidsafe National Playspace Design Awards: Schools – Skywalker Playground, Kellyville Public School, Kellyville, NSW
2016 – AILA
Parks and Open Space Landscape Architecture Award – Chelsea Street Playground, City of Sydney – awarded to Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects in collaboration with JILA
2016 – “Design Is”
Shaw Contract Award (International Award): Education – Goodstart Double Bay Child Care Centre, Double Bay Australia
2016 – Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA)
NSW/ACT Awards of Excellence: Playspace: Major (>$0.5m): High Commendation – Playspace Peel Reserve, The Ponds – awarded to Blacktown City Council and Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2015 – Urban Development Institute of Australia
NSW Meriton Awards for Excellence: Residential Development – Bingara Gorge – awarded to Lend Lease, in collaboration with JILA and FRLA
2015 – Urban Development Institute of Australia
NSW Meriton Awards for Excellence: Government Leadership for Urban Development – Thornton – awarded to UrbnGrowth NSW and Penrith City Council, in collaboration with Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2015 – Australian Institute of Architects
NSW Architecture Awards: Educational Architecture – Camperdown Childcare – awarded to CO-AP, in collaboration with Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2014 – AILA
Premier’s People’s Choice Award for Public Space – Lemur Forest Adventure, Taronga Zoo – awarded to Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture, in collaboration with Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects
2014 – AILA
WA Merit Award for Design – Yokine Playground, Yokine WA – awarded to Fiona Robbé & AECOM
2013 – AILA
NSW Award for Design – Lizard Log Park – awarded to McGregor Coxall, Fiona Robbé & Choi Rophia Fighera Architects.
2013 – AILA
NSW Award for Planning – City Of Ryde Play Implementation Plan – awarded to AECOM & Fiona Robbé
2012 – AILA
AILA Fellowship – In recognition of initiatives and successes in Fiona’s innovative approach to the design of children’s environments.
2012 – Kidsafe
National Playground Design Awards: Public Playspaces up to $500K – Kookaburra Playground (Nurragingy Reserve), Doonside NSW
2012 – Kidsafe
National Playspace Design Awards: Public Playspaces more than $1M – Yokine Playground, Yokine WA – awarded to Fiona Robbé, AECOM and City of Stirling
2011 – AILA
NSW AILA President’s Award This award recognises our practice’s contribution to shaping spaces that engage and serve communities well; and in particular, the special place that children hold in public life.
2011 – Australian Stone Advisory Association
Architectural Stone Awards – Fit Kidz Learning Centre, Dural – awarded to Fiona Robbé in collaboration with Karl van Middeldyk for “Hippo”
2010 – AILA
National Landscape Architecture Awards for Planning – Former Water Police/Pirrama Park Masterplan – awarded to ASPECT Studios in collaboration with Fiona Robbé
2010 – Kidsafe
National Playspace Design Awards, Public Playspaces District Parks – Pirrama Park, Pyrmont – awarded to Fiona Robbé in collaboration with ASPECT Studios
2010 – Kidsafe
National Playspace Design Awards, Public Playspaces District – Parks, Brelsford Park, Coffs Harbour – awarded to Fiona Robbé, Geolink Landscape Architects & Coffs Harbour City Council
2009 – Parks and Leisure Association (PLA)
Regional Awards of Excellence Play Space Category – Pirrama Park Playground, Pyrmont – awarded to Fiona Robbé and ASPECT Studios
2007 – AILA
NSW Minister for Planning’s Sydney Greenspace Award – Dean Reserve Playground – awarded to Strathfield Council
2006 – Kidsafe
National Playground Awards: School Setting – Willoughby Public School Masterplan
2004 – Timber Development Association
Award for Excellence in Timber Design: Exterior Structures – Arcadia Public School Playground
2004 – Kidsafe
National Playground Awards: School Setting – Arcadia Public School
2004 – Kidsafe
National Playground Awards: Public Spaces under $200,000 – Bicentennial Park Playground, West Pymble – awarded to Ku-ring-gai Municipal Council