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    Client

    Westgate Oxford Alliance Ltd Partnership

    Landscape Architect

    LDA Design

    Contractor

    Laing O’Rourke

    The Project

    Originally opened in 1972, the Westgate Centre in Oxford has been the city’s main shopping destination for over 40 years. The £440 million redevelopment of the site by Westgate Oxford Alliance – a partnership between Land Securities and The Crown Estate – opened in October 2017 and includes nearly 800,000 sq feet of retail, restaurant and leisure space.
    Furnitubes street furniture at Westgate Centre in Oxford
    Furnitubes street furniture at Westgate Centre in Oxford
    Furnitubes street furniture at Westgate Centre in Oxford
    Furnitubes street furniture at Westgate Centre in Oxford
    Furnitubes street furniture at Westgate Centre in Oxford
    Furnitubes street furniture at Westgate Centre in Oxford
    Furnitubes street furniture at Westgate Centre in Oxford
    Furnitubes street furniture at Westgate Centre in Oxford

    Project Solution

    Our designers worked with landscape architects LDA Design to develop a series of planting and seating solutions for the rooftop terraces, designed around a kitchen garden concept and creating a series of unique outdoor spaces for 12 bars and restaurants. Planters were manufactured predominantly in steel, some with additional timber cladding and others with integrated seating and lighting. 

    For Westgate’s ground level arcades and spaces we worked again with LDA in the development of their punt seating concept, based on the square-ended long flat-bottomed boat used for recreation on the Thames. Broken down into 6-seater modules, each unit comprises a rotationally-moulded plastic base in bold colours reminiscent of those seen on real punts, topped with solid and slatted timber platforms. The end units were designed to convert into part-seat / part-planter in future. The size of the modules is designed to allow them to be readily moved around the site to accommodate other events.

    Products used

    Furnitubes AKRI 300 steel retaining walls planter
    birds eye view of pedestrians sitting on AKRI on lunch break at strand

    AKRI 300 & 600

    Retaining steel walls with integrated seating

    Uniun modular bench and planter solution
    Bench and planters in school playground

    Uniun Bench

    Bench and planter combinations

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