2024 ‘Trip to Sydney’ Promotion Winners Announced!
Street Furniture Australia ran studio workshops with landscape architects throughout the year in Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. These 30 minute presentations focused on our journey to achieve Carbon Neutral Certification through Climate Active, and introduced the award winning Piatto Chair.
At the end of each presentation, quiz winners went into a draw to win some amazing prizes. The grand prize winners have now been drawn!
Our interstate winners, with a lucky chosen colleague, will fly QANTAS to Sydney in March, 2025 and stay at a 5-star hotel in Sydney’s CBD for three nights. Tours and events are planned each day, including an exclusive dinner with visiting American landscape architects, landscape tours and a visit to our factory in Regent’s Park.
Top of their agenda will be Street Furniture Australia’s annual Jazz at the Mint event, which will unveil new products during a fun night of live jazz, Negronis and canapes at The Mint, one of Sydney’s most beautiful, historic venues.
Interstate Winners
Victoria – Mark Rodriguez from Rush Wright Queensland – Lucy Cooper from Vee Design. South Australia – Heath Edwards from Tract. Western Australia – Jess Gannaway from Realm.
Unyoked Voucher
The winning team from each New South Wales Studio Workshop went into the draw to win a weekend away in nature with Unyoked valued at $600. Unyoked provides cabin and tiny house escapes in pristine wilderness.
Four US Landscape Architects have also won a trip to Sydney with our distributor partners Spruce and Gander
We will be co-hosting Landscape Architects from Texas and California with our US distributor partner Spruce and Gander. This VIP prize will include Sydney tours and exclusive events, planned to coincide with our interstate prize winners trip and Jazz at the Mint 2025.
For the past year, we’ve been on an incredible journey with our amazing clients and friends, sharing the inspiring story of Street Furniture Australia’s groundbreaking achievement: carbon neutral certification for their entire product range and manufacturing process through Climate Active. 🌱👏 ~ Spruce and Gander
Successful products are often followed by copycats. Over the past year we have become aware of an increase in reproductions of the Linea range attempting to create a similar aesthetic at a lower price. This can compromise the overall durability and environmental credentials of projects being delivered, affect ongoing maintenance requirements, and in some instances pose a risk of injury to the public. The design of Linea is deceptively simple while delivering exceptional attention to detail. Details matter not only for beauty, but also for providing durability, and safety, that will last decades. Linea strictly uses the highest quality and sustainable materials, has passed rigorous strength tests, and is designed for longevity, with easily replaceable parts. The product range is the result of hundreds of hours of research and development …
Street Furniture Australia’s entire product range and manufacturing operation has received carbon neutral certification through Climate Active™. Achieving carbon neutral certification marks a significant milestone in our operation and the culmination of a four year long process of detailed measurement and analysis. Climate Active™ is the only Australian government-backed carbon neutral certification programme for businesses to measure, reduce, and offsets their carbon emissions. It is one of the most rigorous carbon-neutral programs in the world. An approved Emissions Reduction Strategy (ERS) is central to achieving certification through Climate Active. Street Furniture Australia has elected to use SBTi validated science-based targets to ensure their ERS is meaningful and aligns with the 2015 Paris Agreement – to limit global temperature rises to 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels. For those emissions that can’t be …
Our Presentation Specialists bring a fun, interactive and informative workshop about our carbon neutral journey and latest products to your office. In 30 minutes (plus Q&A) you will explore materials and finishes, touch and feel samples, and bond with your colleagues over delicious treats in the comfort of your office. There will also be a mystery prize for a lucky winner (optional). ‘The presentation content was informative, engaging, interactive and relevant. Genuinely one of the better supplier workshops! It was efficient yet insightful. The interactive nature of it enhanced engagement with the team,’ Sam Westlake, Senior Associate, Hassell, Sydney. ‘Possibly our favourite product presentation to date! Engaging, great content and appreciated the physical samples and prototypes,’ Alexa Ongoco, Senior Landscape Architect, TCL, Brisbane. ‘Thorough presentation with actual product to see and …
Street Furniture Australia and US partner Spruce & Gander in March hosted landscape architects from California and Texas on a visit to Sydney to experience a factory tour, site visits and a new product launch. The American landscape architects represented MJS Landscape Architecture, RHAA Landscape Architecture + Planning, TBG Partners, Avid Trails and Ten Eyck Landscape Architects. Over a week-long trip the guests were treated to famous sights of Sydney including the iconic Bondi Beach, a harbour cruise and dining at top restaurants in urban Surry Hills and the new Barangaroo precinct. Travelling to Regents Park in Western Sydney, they toured the Street Furniture Australia factory to see first-hand how products are designed, made and shipped all over the world. This included meeting the production team, industrial designers and engineers. …
Clients from Sydney, Adelaide, California and Texas joined Street Furniture Australia and AILA NSW to celebrate the unveiling of new products on March 14, 2024, with margaritas and live music. Jazz at The Mint is an annual product launch held at The Mint, an iconic site in the heart of the Sydney CBD. It is an elegant affair and a unique opportunity to connect with landscape architects and built environment professionals at a global scale. This year’s party featured the new Linea Planter System and upcoming Piatto Chair, a single-seater hybrid between cafe and robust public space furniture – available now for specifications. The gathering was opened by Uncle Allan Murray, representing the Metropolitan Aboriginal Land Council, with speeches from: Ben Stockwin, AILA CEO, acknowledged the 10 year relationship with …
To celebrate the unveiling of the Piatto Chair at our annual product launch party with AILA NSW in Sydney, Jazz at The Mint, clients were invited to enter this quirky contest. The competition called for teams to incorporate Piatto Chairs into an ‘Awkward Family Photo’ portrait, for a chance to win Piatto Chairs of their very own. Congratulations to the creative crew from Yerrabingin, who delivered the strongest awkward family vibes on the night. Highly commended goes to the entrants below, and the full photo gallery from the event is available for viewing. Please contact marketing@streetfurniture.com if you would like to request a high res file to print and frame for your best room.
