LOUNGE WITH A VIEW

Lake Tyrrell is a 20,000-hectare salt lake north of the town of Sea Lake and 420 kms north-west of Melbourne. The lake is dry for most of the year, with a shallow water cover in winter that makes for exceptional reflections of the sky and cloud formations during the day, and stars at night.

Photo: Thomson Hay Landscape Architects

Specified by Thomson Hay Landscape Architects, Street Furniture Australia supplied single and double Mall Sun Lounges for the ‘Sky Lounge,’ a place to view the sunset and stars.

According to David Hay, Director of Thomson Hay Landscape Architects, the form of the seat was ideal for star-gazing.

Photo: Thomson Hay Landscape Architects

“The purpose and arrangement of the seats is primarily to comfortably view the night sky – although it appears to also be a sunset viewing location,” he said.

“Tour groups are taken out to the lake from the nearby township of Sea Lake both during the day and night and the seating arrangement allows small groups to move around the seating circle to experience all views of the sky. We visited the site earlier this month and the night sky and milky way was stunning.”

The landscape architects specified anodised aluminium battens for the furniture, to stay cool in the baking heat of the salt lake during the day.

“Due to the extreme heat experienced at the site during the summer months we researched what would be the most suitable material for the seat battens – to stay as cool as possible – and specified anodised aluminium battens. This selection appears to be the right one,” David said.

Photo: Thomson Hay Landscape Architects

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