Walkspace have just completed and delivered  a range of movable bespoke planter / barrier units to the good folk at BOX Café - Aotea Square

Walkspace was approached by Auckland Live, operators of the BOX Café located to the front entrance of the Aotea Centre to investigate and present barricading design options to mitigate on-going access issues surrounding the Café after hours. 

The bespoke Westgate bench and seat fabrication and painting is now completed with final assembly taking place at our woodworker's workshop. We are extremely happy with progress and everything is coming together better than planned.

Walkspace is proud to announce that we are engaged with the lead contractor JFC and Auckland Council to supply bespoke Street Furniture to the new Westgate Town Centre, located to the north west of Auckland.

Street furniture prototypes designed to make cities more adaptable for disabled people are on show as part of the Designs of the Year exhibition at London's Design Museum.

In a bold bid to change its urban landscape for good, Brazil’s biggest city has given a green light to citizen proposals to transform car parking spots into perpetual park spaces.

Crater Lake, an 80m2 multi-use environmental installation serves as a place to meet, to observe the beauty of the surrounding environment and more importantly to emphasize social interaction.

Emerging from New York Fashion Week 2011, some simple seating from the design collaborative of David Kim and Mike Seto at ClickBoomPow. The duo created a line of colourful "New Role Models" chairs, which are designed to offer public seating with a pop of art.

Continuing on from previous blogs, we have completed the undercoats and final top coats of paint to the precast cube seating units for the Captain Springs Reserve.

The cube seats where delivered to site this morning, HIAB into position, foundations marked, drilled, and hold down bolts fitted and secured. The entire installation process took no longer than 2 hours to complete for all 8 units and all that remains is to apply a final graffiti seal to all surfaces.

People rest and relax on public steps anyway, why not give them a comfortable way to do so?

As previously blogged; the precast cube seats to Captain Springs Reserve are taking shape.  We are more than happy with the off cast F5 finish as seen above and below during our quality assurance checks over the last few days.

Walkspace recently completed a small project for the public of Christchurch with the supply of Christchurch City Council bike racks

Working with lead contractors Bushnell Builders, Walkspace developed and fabricated the stands for the New Te Kahu Park sports facility in Wigram.  The project was a first for us working with new clients and in a new region which we are extremely proud to be associated with. 

Street signs and lamp posts turn into soccer goals, basketball hoops and mini golf courses with the addition of just a few pieces of plug-in sports equipment. The year-long installation by Florian Brillet and Nicolas Lelievre in collaboration with ad firm JCDecaux, will be up until June 2015, transforms the city of Paris into one big playing field.

Krumbach, a scenic Austrian town with a population of 1,000, came up with a clever idea last year to try to put itself on the tourism map. The Bregenzerwald region is using an apparently minor design task to make comparisons between different vocabularies and schools of thought, between east and west, north and south. As an area famous for its architecture the region wants to help shape the processes of international exchange.

At Walkspace you may be thinking we don’t do things normally. You’d be right. We don’t have a catalogue to push and we don’t have a factory limited to one particular mode of fabrication. What we do have is the proven capability to work alongside architects, landscape designers and councils to develop and supply unique, functional and quality products for the public domain.

Three Wavedecks, Simcoe, Rees and Spadina are now completed and open to the public of Toronto, with a further five to come. Part of a major revitalisation and opening up of Toronto's waterfront.  

Over the next few weeks we will be releasing our F_Series of street furniture, F standing for Fold. A simple, clean, honest and functional suite with minimal fabrication applied, offering you a platform to customise and build upon.

Over the past few months Walkspace has been assisting in providing technical design and fabrication services in regard to the relocation of the REO seating elements to Lorne Street. We are proud to assist and ensure that the seating once again will become part of the Auckland streetscape and enjoyed by all.