by AF 1110 i3 — November 16, 2009—Landscape Forms, a designer, manufacturer and marketer of award-winning commercial outdoor furniture and accessories, has introduced Metro40, a collection of integrated site furniture, from shelters, lighting and receptacles to benches, bike racks and bollards.
The company’s design partner for this collection is BMW Group DesignworksUSA, a global design consultancy with more than 37 years of design experience. Starting with research in Europe, Asia and North America, Landscape Forms and BMW Group DesignworksUSA applied their distinctive competencies to create an integrated collection of comfortable, beautiful and flexible urban transit and streetscape furnishings with global appeal.
Metro40 is designed to manage people in motion and help cities provide the comfortable, attractive, high-quality facilities and amenities required to build a broader constituency for public streetscapes and public transit. This is a goal widely viewed as critical for the environment, public health, safety, comfort and quality of urban life.
The Metro40 Collection of Integrated Solutions includes:
- CONNECT A pedestrian-scale transit shelter, designed for bus or light rail
- COLLECT Litter and recycling receptacles
- REST A bench, with or without back
- RIDE A bike rack
- STOP A bollard, designed for traffic control, with optional lighting
- HI GLO A 12-feet tall LED Pedestrian Light
- LO GLO A 3-feet tall LED Pathway Light
- SHOW A display structure, designed to house advertising, signage and transit information
The Metro40 collection will be available for installations beginning the first quarter of 2010
For more information, see the Landscape Forms Web site as well as the company’s ad on FMLink.
