As street furniture designers and manufacturers, we bear responsibility for our environment so we’ve been reviewing our ranges to find ways of making them more environmentally friendly, enabling landscape architects to up the ante on sustainability and meet green goals.
Our outdoor spaces are so much more than just grass, trees, and fields. These days we value the outdoors more than ever, to spend time with friends, to exercise, to eat or just to be around nature. Grey areas are getting greener, a trend that landscape architects are tasked with bringing to urban settings.
Do you have a keen interest in seeing how things are made? You're not alone, there’s certainly something satisfying about seeing something come to life in front of your very eyes, that's why we have created a great opportunity aimed at specifiers and project contractors.
New kinds of meeting places are being created in towns and cities to encourage social interactions. Adding quirky seating attracts attention, it becomes a focal point of a space offering a statement piece. We explore the weird and wonderful seating and planter configurations all achievable with Uniun.
As champions of green space we explore the real values in our precious parks and why they should be protected and embraced at all times.
With people spending more time outside the need for planting has increased, so how do you choose the right planter for your scheme? We take a look at ways AKRI, our latest planter solution can be used to enhance different environments.
Shapes, curves, forms and lines. These elements combined play a vital role in transforming space and creating a unique experience on landscape schemes. We look at some exciting ways our RailRoad modular seating solution can be used to create unique designs on landscape schemes.
Developing usable and functional spaces for education in schools, colleges and universities can have significant benefits on students' health including; improved concentration and lower stress levels for better learning. We explore ways our outdoor furniture can be used to benefit educational establishments.
We took a look at some of the most spectacular views taken from various bench locations up and down the country, the perfect spot for sitting and watching the world go by.
We long to be together again united in outside spaces, a shopping trip with friends or a picnic in the park but how can street furniture be used as a permanent solution in our way out of the pandemic?
2020, the year for hand washing, zoom calls and social distancing. But getting people outside continues to be a really important part of our mission and if lockdown confirms anything; it’s how precious our outdoor spaces are and their importance for our mental and physical well-being.
There are compelling reasons why schools and colleges should make more of their external learning environments.
We explore the importance of street furniture within the public realm.
Uniun offers a contemporary approach to seating and planting for both internal and external spaces. Formed upon a rotationally-moulded base, the module can be used as a full planter, or combined with an Iroko laminated timber bench top to create a seating module or combined seating and planter module.
Elements began as a standard-sized seating product only but given its popularity since launch, and in response to client comments and requirements, we have significantly expanded the range to include wider, narrower and higher seating options.
We are delighted to be able to sponsor our contemporary RailRoad Edge bench to garden designers, Pro Gardens for their New York High Line inspired show garden ‘The Low Line’. The garden will feature at this year’s Malvern Spring Festival taking place on 5th - 8th May 2016.
At Furnitubes we are passionate about street furniture, we take a look at why we think a bench is more than just a bench in the world of street furniture.
Planters provide ways for shrubs, herbaceous and flowering plants and grasses to be introduced into public spaces where planting would not otherwise be possible. Introducing greenery improves public areas by softening the landscape, encouraging people to stay and enjoy, and even contributes to improving public health. With a wide range of standalone styles, and planter benches and seats available, it's never been easier to create green spaces in our cities and towns.
Whether it’s bollards, benches or bins, street furniture can fulfil the practical requirements of almost any site or scheme. When selected elements are compatible, designed to work together and also functional, street furniture can enhance an area and improve accessibility. Cleverly chosen elements and intelligent placement improves the public realm and aids in the drive to minimise clutter.
Curves, wave forms and serpentine shapes on landscape schemes are incredibly popular, often used to entice and draw people in, as the eye has a natural tendency to follow around, beyond and to the conclusion of a curved shape.
Explore the possibilities of creating your own unique curve, wave and serpentine designs with the RailRoad seating range, the ultimate in adaptable street furniture.
Curved seating and circular arrangements are increasingly popular on many landscape schemes. The use of curves and circles serves a visual or practical purpose, adding significant interest to designs.
Explore the possibilities of using modular seating to create your own circles, curves and unique designs and see some of the numerous configurations and options that can be formed with the RailRoad seating range.
Furnitubes launch the new RailRoad seating range - the ultimate in modern, flexible seating design. Based on a series of interchangeable straight and curved modules, and inspired by railways and model train sets, the range is designed to be joined together to create seamless runs of continuous seating.
Interchangeable furniture is based around a series of standard ‘mix and match’ components, or ‘elements’, that offer you the maximum choice of styles, sizes, materials and features when designing outdoor spaces. The main benefit of this approach is that with many 1000s of possible combinations, your selection is tailored specifically to suit your site and the end product is likely to be a truly unique solution.
New SmartSpace® Seven product range launched at Landscape Show ’14 in Battersea Park.
Furnitubes will be exhibiting at the UK’s leading landscape trade show taking place in Battersea Park, London 23 & 24 September. The Landscape show will feature the flexible and innovative Smart Space urban furniture design Seven created by Furnitubes’ in-house designers.
Visit us at stand D19 at the Landscape Show 2014 where our team will be on hand to answer any of your questions.
“Established as the essential trade event, LANDSCAPE attracts garden designers, architects, landscape contractors, local authority landscaping professionals, facilities managers and interior designers from all over the UK and beyond”.
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