Miles Streetscape

This project is a collaboration with FourFold Studio, Vee Design and Bark Architects. It involves the revitalisation of the main street of Miles in Western Queensland.

Currently underway, we have been able to collaborate with FourFold to engage with community representatives in order to understand the culture and history of the town. Through this process we were able to build upon a solid foundation of community involvement and gain a deep understanding of the special qualities of this unique community.

This framework has allowed us to design a number of place-specific objects and embellishments that sit neatly in the landscape design for the streetscape.

  • illuminated ceiling panels that sit in an arbour, with artwork or a design treatment that speaks to some of the town’s history
  • a free form timber table fashioned on a hotel bar which burnt down early in the history of the town
  • a vintage rum bottle installation that recounts a tale of local stock drovers stashing rum bottles into trees on their way to and from town with a herd for sale at the yards
  • a wall of greats which will feature carved faces or other elements that are connected to local historical characters
  • a series of reclaimed steel sculptures made by a local artist that speak to the significant wildlife of the area


We look forward to seeing these concepts emerge through detailed design and then delivery in 2021.

Wall of greats timber carvings

Artistic arbour ceiling panels

Long bar table

Vintage rum bottle installation

Local wildlife sculpture

Early concept sketching

Early concept sketching

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Palmwoods Town Square

 
Palmwoods Town Square

Working with the landscape design team POMO were able to create a number of key design initiatives that would contribute to the locally inspired placemaking program and deliver on practical community needs.

POMO was engaged to design and construct a number of landscape elements. Each element was custom designed and born from the uniqueness of Palmwoods, they reference local history, using locally sourced materials and were being made collaboratively with local craftspeople and artisans.

Underlying this was a larger design and management process run by POMO involving construction design, design reporting, engineering certification, construction and project management and installation on-site. A true multidisciplinary and multi-skilled program with a wide range of stakeholders and projects participants.

The project won the Excellence Award at the 2018 Queensland AILA awards for Civic Design. It also won gold in the same category at the national awards.