The Star Casino, Sydney
Sydney's only casino, The Star, features bowls made by Quatro Design at its main entrance. The casino, formerly known as Star City Casino, was relaunched on 15 September following an $850 million renovation.
Quatro Design supplied 11 of its 2.3 metre diameter Designer bowls and 8 of its 1200mm diameter Designer bowls for the project. The bowls were installed and planted out by AYZ Landscapes.
St George Leagues Club
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Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS)
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Metricon Display Home, Pelican Waters
Two 1900mm dia Zen bowls with pouring spillways are a feature of the lap pool in the Metricon display home at Pelican Waters, a new housing estate near Caloundra on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
The water-feature bowls, one at each end of the pool, are in Quatro Design's standard white. The bowls were custom-modified during manufacture to incorporate the 300mm wide spillways.
Sunshine coast pool company, Getaway Pools, installed the lap pool and the bowls.
Townsville Hospital
Quatro Design manufactured twenty-eight custom planters for the newly-completed wing at Townsville Hospital. The planters are located in two rooftop balcony areas that are designed as 'break-out' areas for hospital staff.
The GRC planters are 2 metres square with walls 800mm high, and they sit on 75mm high block feet cast into the planter floor. The textured wall surface was achieved using silicone form-liners supplied by Reckli.
In addition to the planters, Quatro Design manufactured in GRC the custom bench seats that complete the design. The seats ...
4Blue, Noosa
The centre-piece of the pool deck area in this stunning outdoor area is a large Quatro cube planter featuring a soft tip forest aloe. Queensland Pool & Outdoor Design magazine features this project on the cover of its current issue.
About 4Blue
4Blue is a specialist in swimming pool design and landscape architecture that was founded by Jamie Loft, pool designer, builder and landscape architect.
Based on the Sunshine Coast and operating across Queensland and Australia, 4Blue has rapidly gained a reputation for quality workmanship and high-level design.
With...
Green Rooms
Green Rooms is a young innovative landscape company whose staff are passionate about providing sustainable gardens for their clients.
According to Green Rooms designer, Adam Robinson, this garden dubbed Coastal Contemporary is purely a reflection of the client and their weatherboard residence by the sea. The design consists of a minimal palette of natural materials and neutral colours that were carried out from the interiors to form a strong indoor/outdoor link.
The garden is designed to have an uncluttered open feeling, but with the use of interesting...
St. Johns College, University of NSW
The merging of the old with the new is seen in this installation of Quatro trough planters at John's College, a residence for students within the Camperdown campus of the University of Sydney.
The planters line one side of the large quadrangle area, surrounded by three-storey buildings designed in the 14th century Gothic style. The charcoal colour of the planters blends with the large pavers on which they sit while contrasting with the sandstone building facades.
The 2.4 metre long troughs are from the Quatro modular series which starts with a cube...
100 Market St, Westfield Sydney Redevelopment
Quatro Design manufactured the sculptural art panels that frame the entrance to the commercial tower that is part of Westfield’s redevelopment of the Centrepoint Tower precinct in the heart of Sydney’s CBD.
Brisbane-based Urban Art Projects (UAP) was contracted to supply the artwork for the project, and internationally renowned artist, Dani Marti, was commissioned to create the woven rope sculpture which became the pattern for the silicone moulds. Quatro Design then made the 2.2 x 1.5 metre panels in GRC.
The original intent was to make the panels in...
Macquarie Private Hospital, Sydney
The recently completed Macquarie Private Hospital in Ryde, Sydney, features a rooftop garden with GRC trough planters supplied by Quatro Design. Taylor Brammer Landscape Architects specified Quatro planters for the project, and installation was by Landscape Solutions.
The 1.2 metre and 1.8 metre planters were from Quatro’s 600 modular series. To achieve the bright orange and deep red colours, the planters were painted rather than having colour oxides added to the GRC during manufacture.
DIG Landscaping
DIG Landscaping is a Sydney-based residential landscaping company that is passionate about creating the ideal outdoor space for their clients. Here we feature several of their recent landscaping projects using Quatro products.
Forster home
The brief from the client was to create an eye-catching front entrance. A raised water-feature was installed with sandstone capping and popiary buxus. A 900mm diameter Quatro Designer bowl in sandstone colour was chosen to complement the house exterior and sandstone capping.
Newtown home
The brief from the client was to...
Mater Hospital, North Sydney
Hanging planter bowls with flowering plants spilling over their rims are a feature of the new ‘Healing Garden’ at Mater Hospital in North Sydney. Quatro Design manufactured the 1.4 metre diameter GRC bowls that are suspended from the ceiling by means of stainless steel cables.
Greenview Landscapes installed the garden, and commissioned Quatro Design to custom-make the hanging bowls for the project. Each GRC bowl has five stainless steel brackets bolted to the rim to enable them to be suspended 3 metres above the ground.
Quatro Design also...
Private Residence, Darling Point
Overlooking Sydney Harbour, this private residence extensively incorporates Quatro trough and cube planters in the landscaping of its outdoor areas.
The house was recently completed after undergoing extensive rennovations. Landscdaping work was undertaken by Dan Preston of The Primary Tree.
Dan can be contacted by mobile on 0406 762 741, and emailed at dan@theprimarytree.com.
140 Gipps St Apartments, Melbourne
Salta, the builders of this prestige residential development in East Melbourne, chose Quatro trough planters to beautify the balcony areas in this penthouse apartment.
The 1.5 metre long planters are from the Quatro 500 modular series. For this project, a non-standard oxide colour was chosen for the planters in order to complement the existing colour scheme.
Images by Digital Photos Inhouse (www.dpi.net.au)
Crystal Castle, Byron Bay
The central courtyard area of Crystal Castle in Byron Bay's hinterland features this large rose quartz sphere rotating on a 1mm film of water within a matching quartz rock base.
This amazing water-feature sits within a 2.3 metre diameter GRC Designer bowl manufactured by Quatro Design.
Crystal Castle is a popular Byron Bay tourist attraction.