This is an endemic landscape as a companion to a public building. The Chancellery is located at the heart of Monash University’s campus in Clayton. The brief called for a transformation of a central campus whose buildings offered little porosity, only marginal landscapes and limited opportunity for occupation. The project deliberately uses the agency of a new building to produce a spatial armature for the wider precinct, ensuring that future staged works maintain and expand a connected and engaged public realm. The landscape design understands that part of the received idea of the Clayton Campus is the powerful expression of buildings sitting within a landscape of a greater scale. The Chancellery’s new landscape is characterized by native Australian vegetation. Neither formal nor manicured, it creates moments of immersion and rambunctiousness that transcend the normal scale and experience of a university campus. The landscape that is a companion to the Chancellery accentuates the idea of an immense Australian landscape by embedding new native and endemic planting, responding to the micro-climate of the campus and inviting occupation within it. A civic-scaled stoa hosts native climbing plants and creates an occupiable edge that connects the Chancellery to precinct, delivering an experience in the round and a centre piece for the Campus’ public life.