New product videos, case studies, demonstrations and smart city documentaries.
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#BackyardExperiment 10MIN
How do you activate an underused concrete area in just 8 days? In partnership with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Street Furniture Australia conducted a social experiment in Garema Place in Canberra’s CBD. Using techniques inspired by American placemaking expert William Whyte, this short documentary explores the power of public space and its significant impact on users and communities.
#BackyardExperiment was designed by Context, and was the recipient of the 2018 Australian Smart Cities Award, 2018 AILA ACT Landscape Architecture Award for Community Contribution, and the 2017 Research Project Award NSW from Parks and Leisure Australia.
Making of the Aria Smart Bench: Concept to Good Design Award 2.30MIN
This video takes us through the making of the Aria Smart Bench, from research with users and designers to concept, testing and refining prototypes, to winning the 2019 Good Design Award.
How eBin Saves You Time and Money 2MIN
An Escola eBin by Street Furniture Australia is a great low-risk start to your smart city journey. See how it reduces waste, makes collection more efficient and improves safety.
Aria Seating System 2MIN
Aria is a modular kit of parts including seats, benches and connector panels to allow designers to create Curves, Rings, S-shapes and Back-to-Back settings. Use reliable standard parts in site-specific custom configurations.
Design Your Experience with Aria 30SEC
Modularity allows you to tailor Aria for the experiences you want to provide for your community. Customise settings for dining, working, socialising, rest and play – all with standard parts.
Chinchilla Botanic Parklands, Water Play Park 30SEC
Honouring Chinchilla’s status as Australia’s ‘melon capital’, the town’s exciting new waterplay park is inspired by watermelons, enhanced by Mall Sun Lounges with tailored battens in white, green and pink.
Vivid Sydney in Action, 2019 1MIN
Street Furniture Australia helped two young architects from CM+ with the design and build of colourful, immersive artworks for Sydney’s annual festival of light, music and ideas.
Introducing ARIA (available 2018) 1MIN
Take a sneak peek into ARIA with PowerMe Table scheduled to be released in 2018. ARIA is a modular seating system that can be built into any shape you want. PowerMe is a future-proof wifi charging table.
How Remove an In-Ground Bollard 1MIN
Kieran takes us through the steps of removing and replacing an in-ground bollard.
Factory Timelapse 16SEC
Street Furniture Australia is a proud supporter of Australian manufacturing. Our production team is dedicated to Toyota LEAN practices to minimise waste and maximise quality. All core products are dispatched from the floor, based in Regents Park in western Sydney. Watch the factory in action.
Durability of Street Furniture 30SEC
How durable are Street Furniture products? Our team travelled around Australia to take footage of how furniture items were faring many years after installation. Although no longer ‘perfect’, all the products observed had aged well in a wide range of environmental conditions.
#CiderFountain 39SEC
At the 2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture, we served Batlow Apple Cider through our Arqua Drinking Fountain. We advise not to try this at home!
With the look and feel of natural timber, backed by 12 months of performance testing for the public realm, engineered wood joins Street Furniture Australia’s selection of batten materials. Designers and place custodians can now choose from three batten options to achieve a timber look: natural Spotted Gum hardwood, low maintenance aluminium Wood Without Worry, and engineered wood known as Onewood HRT. This new hardwood alternative offers the natural warmth of timber with simplified care. What is engineered wood?Onewood HRT (Homogeneous Reconstituted Timber) is a solid engineered timber, made from fast-growing FSC and PEFC-certified poplar and eucalyptus fibres that are compressed under heat and pressure with a resin binder. Unlike plywood it is solid throughout with an organic grain and, like real hardwood, can be sanded to refresh. Street Furniture …
Now showing at Washington D.C.’s National Building Museum, ‘Coming Together: Reimagining America’s Downtowns’ explores how US cities have renewed and reactivated their centres since Covid-19. Curated by Georgetown University urban planning professor Uwe Brandes and designed by Reddymade, the exhibition showcases creative approaches to public space, walkability and mixed-use revitalisation. Multimedia installations, maps and case studies from more than 60 US cities show adaptations of the past five years – with empty offices turned into housing, reallocating street lanes for parklets and ‘streateries,’ and remaking sidewalks as gathering spaces. Thematic galleries – Social Distancing, Cities Take Charge and City Action Hall – reflect the shock of the pandemic and creative responses that followed. As visitors traverse the exhibition, they are invited to reflect: how hollowed-out downtowns of 2020 gave way …
Linea Bin is the newest addition to Street Furniture Australia’s minimalist Linea range. Built from stainless steel for strength, durability and a refined aesthetic, it has been thoughtfully designed with input from landscape architects and waste managers to deliver hygiene, accessibility and sustainability in the public realm. Built to LastA robust stainless steel frame and panel system ensures Linea Bin performs in high-traffic environments. A full-height stainless steel 316 piano hinge and splash tray provide exceptional strength, hygiene and corrosion resistance, withstanding daily impacts from trolleys and cleaning equipment. “Durability was paramount,” says Pearson Bulmer, Senior Industrial Designer at Street Furniture Australia. “Every detail needed to perform in the public realm for years to come – but also be designed for disassembly so parts can be repaired, replaced or recycled …
