Award-winning Projects
The Roads Estate
Trezise Lane Residential Estate including Canadian Creek restoration (Hygge Property)
City of Ballarat – Ballarat Environmental Stewardship Awards 2026 – winner of the Community Environment Group Award for Canadian Creek Reserve Restoration for The Roads Estate, Mount Clear
Woowookarung Regional Park
Dementia Friendly Forest and Sensory Trail (2019)
AILA Victorian Chapter 2022 Landscape Architecture Award – Health and Education Landscape category for Woowookarung Dementia Friendly Forest and Sensory Trail.
AILA National Landscape Architecture Award – Health and Education Landscape category for Woowookarung Dementia Friendly Forest and Sensory Trail.
2022 Victorian Disability Sport and Recreation Award for Inclusive Open Space
Woowookarung Regional Park
Dementia Friendly Forest and Sensory Trail
2022 Victorian Disability Sport and Recreation Award for Inclusive Open Space
Lake Tyrrell
Tourism Infrastructure Design (Buloke Shire Council)
AILA Victorian Chapter 2022 Landscape Architecture Award – Tourism category for Lake Tyrrell Tourism Infrastructure Design
AILA National Landscape Architecture Award – Tourism category for Lake Tyrrell Tourism Infrastructure Design
Meninya Street Precinct Moama
Concept Design
AILA New South Wales Chapter 2023 Regional Achievement Award for Western New South Wales Region
Stonehill Residential Estate
Gully and escarpment restoration and rehabilitation (Devine Group)
AILA Victorian Chapter 2025 Landscape Architecture Award –Infrastructure category for Stonehill Gully and Escarpment Regeneration (Bacchus Marsh)
AILA Victorian Chapter 2025 Landscape Architecture Award – Award of Excellence Land Management category for Stonehill Gully and Escarpment Regeneration (Bacchus Marsh)
Thomson Hay Landscape Architects is a large regionally-based practice located in central Victoria, near Ballarat. Our staff are passionate about exploring landscape design ideas that extend the thinking of the client while ultimately fulfilling the client brief.
Our diverse skills developed over more than 30 years of practice are combined with a thorough and rigorous design approach to provide our clients with innovative, practical and achievable landscape design solutions.
Our approach to landscape planning and design considers aesthetic, ecological, economic and cultural elements of the landscape while acknowledging the sense of place.
About Thomson Hay
With over 30 years in the industry, Thomson Hay Landscape Architects have extensive experience in many areas of landscape architecture including:
- Land Development planning
- Public Open Space - concept and construction plans
- Design, planning and technical advice for Council Permits
- Infrastructure - resources and facilities planning
- Education - play based learning, school masterplans, kindergartens & recreation facilities
- Health - care farms, aged care facilities and therapeutic garden design
- Masterplanning & Strategies
- Visitor Facilities and Nature-based tourism
- Civic and Streetscape functional design
- Sculpture and urban art design
- Signage - Wayfinding, interpretation and signage strategies
- Residential Garden & Pool Design
- Farm & Property Development
- Photo Simulations for communication and marketing
- Drone photography & footage
- Playspace design and nature play
- Wetlands, waterway assessment & rehabilitation
- Landscape and vegetation management plans
- Small town revitalisation strategies
- Cost estimation
- Project management and contract administration
- Community engagement
- Collaboration with Traditional Owners and Indigenous community members
