Liff

STUDIO

A landscape architecture studio helping make better decisions about land. From first principles through to construction, and from gardens to catchments.

How We Help

Rights of Nature

Together We:

Develop pathways toward RoN legislation

Build alignment with communities and stakeholders

Translate Rights of Nature into practical implications for your city

We work with our partners Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights to help cities explore and implement Rights of Nature (RoN) through a practical, place-based methodology.

Urban Design

Our Focus:

Urban forest and greening strategies

Streets, parks and public realm

NBS, Nature-positive growth and policy

We help shape neighbourhoods, streets and public spaces that balance people, nature and long-term resilience. Working with government, developers and multidisciplinary teams, we create places that are beautiful, functional and regenerative.

Strategic Advisory

Confidence to move forward

A roadmap for success

The problem to be solved

Establish:

Need advice, strategy and land clarity at any scale? 

From early conversations through to project strategy, we help bring clarity to complex decisions. Aligning people, identifying priorities and reducing uncertainty before significant time or capital is invested.

Land restoration priorities 

Catchment-wide connectivity

Environmental intelligence

Catchment Planning

Awareness on:

How healthy is your catchment as a whole?

We help understand the state of nature across public and private land, revealing how ecosystems connect, where intervention matters most, and what to do first.

Masterplanning

Perfect For:

Knowing where your headed

Aligning with partners

Protecting investment actions

Our signature offer: Start your journey by considering the whole site as it sits together. Walk away with clarity on vision, actions sequencing and how it will feel. 

Cities & Capital works delivery

High-End Residential

Commercial landscapes

Traditional Design

We're experienced in:

Needing expertise from concept design through to construction drawings. Our process ensures you get clarity, beauty and functionality across SD,DD,CD & CA. align on vision, design intent, planting outcomes and budget across the whole journey.

Council requirements

Vegetation commitments

Coordination of consultant input

Resolve:

Development Application

Not needing the whole design journey, but want the right eyes across a project for council submission. We work with you succinctly, in coordination with consultants to prepare drawings for DA.

Works

Key design outcomes

Feature planting & gardens

Bespoke landscape elements

Best For:

We'll get our hands in the soil.

We selectively deliver landscape works where design benefits from being carried through to completion. Our gardening and horticultural expertise comes to the fore, where we love to see planting design become a growing artwork.

Planning Investment into Land?:

We're experts in landscape,

bringing clarity through design,

achieving excellence.

We work with aligned landholders, becoming part of the project team and committed to achieving an exceptional outcome.

Environmental resilience

Enhance Biodiversity

Increase Property Value

Planning investment into nature-focused development 

Private residents seeking to regenerate their land

Landholders

Legacy

Lifestyle

Who We Work With

Working with aligned clients across South East Queensland & Northern Rivers - wider Australia & New Zealand

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Liff  Studio

Liff Studio is led by Thomas Gooch, a Landscape Architect with over two decades of experience. 

Thomas uses Landscape Architecture, systems thinking and entrepreneurship to help people make better decisions about land.

Over the past 20+ years he has worked across civic, public and residential projects, from high-end residential landscapes across South East Queensland and the Northern Rivers through to Melbourne's Greenline redevelopment for the City of Melbourne and internationally.

He previously founded the environmental intelligence startup Office of Planetary Observations and co-authored the Declaration of the Rights of the Moon — exploring how landscape practice can better bridge planetary systems, living ecologies and constructed outcomes.

Today his work focuses on helping landholders navigate complexity, identify opportunities and create beautiful, functional and regenerative landscapes.

His passion is exploring how practice can work across scales — from gardens to biospheres — while remaining grounded in place, craft and human experience.

We are intentionally selective.

Projects are led personally, approached with care, and long time horizons. 

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We recognise the traditional owners of the land where we work, their elders past and present and their relationship with the landscape.

We recognise the Earth’s right to exist in its integrity, with all planetary boundaries intact and healthy so that all life on Earth can be sustained.

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Tasking ahead of time

Historical back-casting

Identify Trends

Carbon Value

Sequestered Carbon

Urban Forest

Contextual Position

Cooling Effects

Connectivity

Modelling

For Habitat Connectivity

For Urban Heat Islands

Contextual Position

Cooling Effects

UHI Hot/Cool Spots

Loss/Gain

Tree Health

Canopy %

Time Series Analysis

Valuations

Green Infrastructure

Tree Planting Opportunities

Land Surface Temperature

Tree Canopy Mapping

Key Insights From Our 

In-House Nature Data AI Platform