Gold Coast Airport

Gold Coast Airport is one of Australia’s fastest growing airports, welcoming over 6.5 million passengers every year. Its unique location…

Building 64 North, Melbourne Airport

Melbourne Airport, also known as Tullamarine Airport is Melbourne’s primary airport and also one of the world’s fastest growing airports….

Moonee Ponds

Moonee Ponds under local Government City of Moonee Valley, is a lovely inner city suburb in Melbourne. It is perhaps…

Find us on Selector.com

Selector.com is the premier destination for architects, designers and builders looking for quality products from leading suppliers. This website is…

Halloween at Surfers Paradise Beer Garden

Following its multi-million-dollar refurbishment by owners ALH Group and the grand opening in August this year, the newly refurbished Surfers…

Rooftop Gardens

Adding additional greenery has become a priority for urban planners but finding a balance between optimum residency and greenery is…

Complimentary Internal Waterproofing

Quatro Design’s commitment to quality has been our driving force since we started designing and manufacturing bowls, pots, planters and…

The Natural Choice for Business

From Quatro Design’s humble beginnings since we started manufacturing in Billinudgel, NSW in 2004, we’ve grown into one of the…

Greener Manufacturing

Quatro Design is constantly striving to implement more environmentally friendly methods and strategies to our manufacturing processes to further reduce…

New Zealand Shopping Centres

Quatro Design’s landscape pots, planters and street furniture ranges are made in Australia to strict quality standards. We are proud…

Proudly Australian Made

Quatro Design is proud to be associated with the Australian Made campaign and have been ‘Australian Made’ certified since 2013….

Trough Planters

Quatro Design has an extensive range of modern contemporary trough planter boxes, large rectangular planters and square planters to suit any landscape application, whether it is to streetscape and provide greenery to compliment commercial spaces and office buildings or to assist with screening and privacy on balcony and rooftop gardens.

‘Cyclone-proof’ pots

We know our GRC U Bowl planters are pretty robust, but how well do they perform in a cyclone?  Now…

Brisbane’s Fringe Bar reborn as The Osbourne Hotel

The Fringe Bar in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley has been a local landmark for the past 15 years.  Its now been…

Barangaroo

Barangaroo has come a long way since the massive development within the Sydney CBD began several years ago.   This…

Quatro Bowl outside Reserve Bank of Australia

Whenever Chris or I go down to Sydney we aim to photograph projects where Quatro Design products have been installed. …

Stockland Green Hills LED trees

The amazing LED trees in the newly-opened dining precinct at Stockland’s Green Hills shopping centre incorporate 1800mm diameter Designer Bowls made…

SOFFA GRC Lounge Suite

Former Australian Minister Paul Keating grew up in the Sydney suburb of Bankstown.  Today, Paul Keating Park within the City…

George Street Transformation in Sydney CBD

  If you’ve visiting the Sydney CBD soon, look out for Sydney Light Rail’s transformation of George Street which includes…

DrainEZE now standard in all Quatro planters

Back in early June we ran a blog announcing the upcoming DrainEZE drainage hole screen.  Its a simple but effective…

Quatro Super Bowl collection

When it comes to planter pots, we probably make the biggest in the world.  Up until recently our largest pot…

two-tone fusion pots

Normally our GRC pots and planters are made in just one colour.  We can’t apply glazes of different colours and…

Pebbles in new Fleurieu Aquatic Centre

Its not quite pebbles in the pool, but the new Fleurieu Regional Aquatic Centre in the South Australian town of Victor…

Not all GRC is the same

Do you remember the Castrol advertising campaign “Oils Ain’t Oils” with Sol and his gangster friends – designed to introduce…

trellis planters

Using 3 standard Quatro 1500 (500 Series) trough planter boxes, John here at Quatro Design has set up a beautiful green wall vertical garden along one wall of his courtyard. John bolted a galvanised steel frame with mesh panel to the planters, and then around 80 Skale gree

schiavello x quatro

For our most recent collaboration we teamed up with Schiavello, a top 100 Australian private company specialising in construction, product design and property development. The work ethos of Schiavello built on quality, service excellence and innovation was an easy fit for Quatro, and we were happy to be involved in t

pod multiplies

Due to the success of our POD street furniture range, now seen in projects such at Elements at Byron Bay, Cammeraygal High School, The Hearing Hub at Macquarie University and more, we have begun work on increasing this range to include new shapes & designs.

Originally the POD r

pacific bondi beach

Pacific Bondi Beach is located on Campbell Parade, immediately behind the world-famous Bondi Surf Club and beach. The project sees the redevelopment of the old Swiss Grand Hotel site.  It combines luxury residential apartments with a boutique hotel (QT Hotel), and a retail and food precinct.

Quatro Design supp

pods land at cammeraygal high school

Cammeraygal is a new high school on Sydney’s North Shore at Crows Nest.  It was the original site for North Sydney Girls High School when it opened in 1914, and then in more recent years it was one of the seven colleges comprising the Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE NSW. The site is now a regular high sc

the streets of barangaroo

Barangaroo is Sydney’s newest neighbourhood, and many of the streets within are quite literally the city’s newest roads. The first building was completed in July 2015, when the first section of Barangaroo was opened.

As tenants started moving in so to did the streets start to open to pop-up food vendors

elements of byron bay resort

Quatro Design is proud to have been involved with Elements of Byron, a new resort and spa development located in Byron Bay.   

Opening in early February 2016, Elements of Byron takes architectural inspiration from the native flora and fauna of the area. Organic and feminine in form, the low impact single-

maryborough street revitalization

Maryborough, nestled on the Mary River in Queensland, boasts a relaxed atmosphere and beautifully preserved colonial streets.  The town is steeped in history with the original wharf district now home to vintage restaurants, pubs, museums and art galleries.

Under the Fraser Coast Council, Maryborough recently u

our grc community

Take a look at what our friends in the US [Tournesol Siteworks] are up to.

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In collaboration with Australia's own Street & Garden and designer Alex Lotersztain, Tournesol Siteworks have manufactured five

reserve park logan city council

In collaboration with Street & Garden for the Logan City Council, we produced a number of pieces from our Flinders range for the Reserve Park revitalisation project in Slacks Creek.

Glass fibre reinforced concrete Flinders modules were made with the addition of yellow powdercoated steel elem

brisbane international garden show

Last weekend we visited the Brisbane International Garden Show and as always headed straight to the landscape displays, always full of inspiration, this years entries didn't dissappoint. We were proud to contribute one of our 800 tall U bowls to Horticultural Training (design by JW Concepts) and congratulations t

getting greener as we grow

At Quatro Design we’re continually striving to be more efficient in our energy and water use. We’ve recently implemented two improvements here at our Murwillumbah factory. 

To reduce our electricity usage, we’ve replaced the metal halide lights in the factory and the fluorescen

relief for designer planters

We are currently working on a project for the Fraser Coast Council which sees our planters with a low relief (bas-relief) design on one side of each planter. This is acheived by placing a reverse relief inside the planter mould then casting in glass fibre reinforced concrete (GRC). To ensure the relief design remains

the langham hotel sydney

The Langham Hotel, which has won almost every prestigious domestic and international award, is a superb urban retreat known for its tranquil, boutique ethos, recently underwent extensive refurbishments to the tune of $30 million. A complete redevelopment of the lobby, dining areas, guest rooms and ballrooms saw

boulder rolls into the hamilton

The Hamilton is a new residential & commercial project in Brisbane, designed by Woods Bagot for developer Shayher Group. The public outdoor spaces of this project feature our new street furniture range, Boulder. Boulder was borne collaboratively with design development from Surya Graf of Street & Garden&

lourdes hill college

Lourdes Hill College located in Hawthorn, an inner eastern suburb of Brisbane, received a new extension earlier this year and Quatro Design was approached to supply & install planters in the beautification and greening of the new outdoor spaces created. An array of Quatro U bowls, Cylinder, & Cube planters we

quatro planters stand out at the star

Many who have visited The Star Casino at Darling Harbour in Sydney will have seen the large Quatro Designer Bowls at the front entrance to the building.  More recently Quatro planters were installed on the rooftop deck areas as part of the Casino’s upgrade.  

The installation of over 50 planters req

jupiters casino

Late last year Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast began work on their proposed $345 million makeover. Quatro Design has supplied multiple cube & trough planter boxes for Stage 1 using different sizes and shapes to create a tetris of inter-locking planters for balcony gardens.

For a little more info on the extent

Currumbin RSL Cenotaph Memorial Gardens

Congratulations to Mick Stovin of Green Mandala for the amazing job he and his team have done at the new cenotaph memorial garden at the Currumbin RSL. Mick completed the project this week just in time for the upcoming ANZAC day commemorations.  

Quatro Design is honoured to have been involved in the project.

madame brussels lane

Located at 50 Lonsdale St in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD lies Madam Brussels Lane. A revitalized retail precinct named after the notorious Melburnian, Madame Brussels, brothel owner and resident of Lonsdale Street.

It was a delight to work with Place Partners in helping to create a vibrant urban space using

glassfibre reinforced concrete finishes

Here at Quatro Design we have been making glassfibre reinforced concrete (GRC) pots and planters boxes for over a decade and in the last 12 months we have seen an enormous shift in the desire for unique finishes. Textured, painted, high-gloss, earthen, we’ve even played with a wood-grain finish, here are a few

chevron renaissance custom planters

If you’re visiting Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast over the holidays, check out the custom Quatro street furniture/planters in the newly refurbished Chevron Renaissance.   The transformed retail area is now a laneway-style precinct with street art, cafes, bars and speciality stores.  

The de

project: westfield garden city

Back in July I blogged about the large terracotta-look flowerpots that we had made for Westfield Garden City in Brisbane.  On Tuesday Sam took a ‘field trip’ to Garden City and took some photos of the pots.  We thought you might like to see them now they’ve been installed.  

Sam als

custom tree rings for tract

Following our 4 part mould making blog series we finally have the finished, fully installed tree ring. These tree rings were specified & designed by Tract for the Monaco Apartments project in Rhodes, Sydney, and made in 3 sections to form a 4m diameter ring. The overall project included 3 of these tree rings alon

helensvale library

The recently-completed Helensvale library and community centre on the Gold Coast features a large tree planter plus bollards made by Quatro Design in GRC.  The large custom  seat planter is 3.5 metres x 2.5 metres, and was made without a floor in it.  This enables the tree roots to grown downwards into

its our 10 year anniversary

A decade is a long time in business, and last week we celebrated our tenth anniversary.  Quatro Design was born way back in 2004 with a plan to make pots and planters in GRC. 

It’s probably fair to say we were long on optimism and short on experience.  But since then we’ve come a long way

world of concrete expo in las vegas

'What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas' isn't necessarily true. Last week I returned to Australia after visiting in late January the enormous World of Concrete Expo held annually in Las Vegas.

It took me almost two days to see most of what's on display — which is just about anything and everything t

a whole lot of soul in paradise

Here's a look at the recently revamped Soul development in Surfers Paradise. Working with Greg Boevink from the Soul design team we supplied five of these seat-planters used in the project and were happy to see them in use on the weekend with people lounging in the sun, or keeping out of it in the shade. The Gold

quatro approved to use australian-made logo

Quatro Design has now been manufacturing here in Australia for almost 10 years, and recently we applied for and received certification to use the Australian made logo.   So we're proud to feature the logo here on our website and on our products, at a time when most garden pots and planters available in Austr

my bamboo planters

Back in late 2011 when I wanted a plant screen between our patio area and our neighbour's back yard, I decided on using fast-growing bamboo. 

Bamboo can make great visual screens, but one of the concerns many people have about planting bamboo is that the roots will undermine their walls and paths, and take

designer bowls on display

We enjoy seeing our products on public display.  So it was a delight to see several of our Designer Bowls incorporated into the landscaping of Metricon's three display homes at Rochedale in Brisbane.  Metricon is one of the largest new home builders in Austalia, and our products regularly feature in the

exciting new gem

An inquiry almost two years ago by the Star Casino in Sydney has led to the development of the new GEM street furniture range. 

We were approached by Star Casino’s Design team and asked if we could design some planter boxes to enhance the entrance to the high roller Darling Hotel at the Casino’s Py

our local canteen

Our local coffee haunt in Burleigh Heads, Canteen Coffee, not only does a cracking cup of java, but they are slowly taking over the whole arcade and filling it with vintage, rustic furnishings, and a selection of our planters filled with the most beautiful succulent specimans. Showing how perfectly the clean structur

congratulations adam robinson

Adam Robinson is a great supporter of Quatro Design, so here's just a shout out to say congratulations on your latest spread in Real Living. Amazing as always! Here's some images of the project featured in the magazine article that Adam sent us. 

Check out more of Adam's work at www.adamrobinsondes