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Bundy On Tap, Bundanoon

Bundanoon, a small town in the Southern Highlands, made headlines in 2009 for their community-led initiative to become a ‘bottle-free town’. Local citizens were concerned about the environmental impact of water bottles, and a meeting of 20 local businesses led to a community agreement to phase them out. Street Furniture Australia launched the Arqua Station in 2008. It was the result of a collaboration with the environmental group Do Something! to develop a public drinking fountain and water refill pole for single-use bottles in order to reduce the impact of plastic bottles in landfill. SFA’s research and development team designed an innovative water fountain that exceeded existing models and dealt with common problems such as poor hygiene, vandalism and inadequate access for wheelchair-users. The Arqua Station was the perfect solution …

20 dec 2014

Eaglehawk Play Space

Eaglehawk’s $1.3M play space is inspired by the Banjo Paterson poem ‘Mulga Bill’s Bicycle,’ featuring a series of adventure zones for children to test their skills. The eaglehawk-shaped playground, built beside Lake Neangar, is designed by City of Greater Bendigo’s landscape architect Gary Lantzsch. The space explores storytelling through landscape architecture, he tells StreetChat. Paterson’s poem begins, “Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze”; and Lantzsch’s playground dramatises the home-grown hero’s misadventures with custom play equipment, artwork and activities. It is also an opportunity to influence children into enjoying reading and associating it with play. The designer received permission to use the 1896 poem and iconic illustrations by Kilmeny and Deborah Niland from the 1973 edition throughout the playground. The park begins at the junior end through …

22 jan 2019

Garden For the Future

Custom promenade seating, 133 metres long, is installed in the Garden For the Future, an extension of the Bendigo Botanic Gardens designed by TCL with Paul Thompson for the City of Greater Bendigo. The garden opened in April 2019, with the long, curved seating installed in July. Its battens are made from 700 linear metres of Red Gum timber, reclaimed from trees removed for the Ravenswood interchange project on the Calder Freeway. The promenade bench is “a place to sit and relax,” says the City of Greater Bendigo, with seating in high demand around the garden. “We’ve found that a lack of public seating is detrimental to many people enjoying the Botanic Gardens and this is one of the most frequently requested features,” they say. “The seating will also provide …