A whole myriad of elements have to be purchased as part of any streetscape improvement scheme.

Traditionally local foundries and carpenters would have created these elements for their local authority. More recently specialised companies manufacturing street furniture have been formed, exploiting new manufacturing technologies who then produce competitive “easy to buy” products.

The disadvantage is often the quality of design and their recurrent use leading to excessive homogenisation of our town centres with no sense of place or identity.

Contemporary urban elements can enrich, define and link space. Each piece can perform as an art piece in it’s own right adding character to the area it occupies. We would hope to design, in collaboration with the lead architect, elements that are site specific meeting the needs of the many different communities.

Deliberately robust designs can enrich an area through contrasting traditional and modern materials, and introducing not only visual stimulation but textural excitement. Combining elements to reduce street clutter allow for a much freer and simpler landscape, exploring opportunities of creating designs that reclaim the existing fabric of the landscape.