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Said to be the largest gathering of landscape architects and allied professionals in the world, the 2019 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture took place in November. Over four days delegates came together to learn, celebrate and build relationships at the San Diego Convention Center. The Street Furniture Australia team were pleased to introduce US landscape architects to Wood Without Worry, our low-maintenance timber alternative. The Aria modular furniture system and Augmented Reality site furniture app were also on show at a well-attended PPN Explore the Floor talk. For Happy Hour we even served Australian apple cider through our Drinking Fountain, which attracted a curious crowd. Cider Fountain at Happy Hour Batlow Apple Cider, all the way from the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, was served through an Arqua …

Street Furniture Australia visited the United States, with international sales representative Juanita Marlowe touring Los Angeles and San Francisco. Part one – SFA in LA: First Stop, Hollywood. Golden Gate Bridge lookout. After checking in with our US office and phone centre, Juanita began a series of meetings with San Francisco architects and landscape architects, to show #BackyardExperiment and the new Build Aria augmented reality app. This included lunch-and-learn sessions with SWA Group in the city and Sausalito offices, breakfast with HOK and morning tea at WRT. Juanita was also pleased to meet with Gensler and James Corner Field Operations. Watching the #BackyardExperiment film at SWA, Sausalito. Juanita in action. The HOK office. A trip to Street Furniture Australia’s first project in San Francisco, Mission Dolores Park, found the Classic …

Come on our Urban Design PPN EXPO tour during the 2018 ASLA Meeting in Philadelphia and see how we’ve quantified the impact of design with activation projects in Australia. Earn PDH by joining this Professional Practice Network (PPN) tour on Sunday October 21, from 9.45am to 10.45am – go to PPN Live to register, only 30 places available. The Expo is located at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, from October 19-22, 2018. Many of us have seen the effects of great place design on a community’s social and mental health, and business prosperity. Most of your clients would value these effects, if they could be proven with hard data. You might have considered how smart city technologies can help. Join us to examine two Australian case studies that aim to quantify the impact of …