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Specifying street furniture can be a thankless task. Everyone likes the idea of publicspaces being comfortable places to meet, but criticising ‘clutter’ is a soapbox topic du jour.

However, where street furniture is carefully selected for a certain place, some wider, vaguer, over-rehearsed arguments tend to evaporate. They are trumped – rightly – by the particular demands of particular sites.

Where a location poses tricky questions for landscape architects, urban designers and planners, be they architectural, topographical or environmental, innovativestreet furniture products play their part in helping to find answers.

There are examples amongst the featured products and case studies below: Continental-style co-ordinated ranges for city centres; purpose-made equipment for public transport nodes; ecologically made bollards for special supermarket projects; hand-crafted benches for therapy gardens.

Likewise in the headline blog post, landscape architect Agata Szacilowska outlines the rationale behind selecting street furniture for an urban regeneration project. And we also look at snapshots of street furniture designs that incorporate distinctive technologies and unusual creative features.

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  Marshalls Street Furniture
  Sineu Graff Metropolis European-style street furniture
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  Benchmark Design Ltd
  Centerline contemporary urban street furniture suite
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  Seelevel Design
  Bespoke seating in stone, cast metal, timber and steel
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  Trueform
  Bus Rapid Transit bespoke modular shelter system
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  Woodhouse
  Escofet Prima Marina liquid stone lightweight bench
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  Falco UK Ltd
  Skyline digital-print concrete/steel seat (Vasart range)

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  Furnitubes International Ltd
  Gabion bollards for Marks & Spencer Eco Store, Sheffield
  
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  Chris Nangle Furniture
  Therapy garden seating and shelters, Falkirk Hospital
  

• Designing town centres for walking and belonging
  

  GUEST POST: Agata Szacilowska, Landscape Architect with the Greenspace Development Environmental Services team at North Lanarkshire Council, describes the design and regeneration of Motherwell’s historic town centre.

• Innovation in street furniture
  

  Outdoor seating for the Institute for Ageing and Vitality, rolling-top benches for wet cities, and pop-up furniture.

• Solar power and street furniture
  

  As we’re getting used to solar-powered bus stops in the UK, the next generation of solar-powered public furniture is being designed.

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