Trial Parklet Program News Today

For 16 years now, Architecture & Design magazine has hosted the nation’s most respected and most coveted Sustainability Awards program that is devoted entirely to Australia’s vibrant and vital building, construction, and design sectors.

Since 2015, the People Parkers recycled plastic mobile parklet has facilitated the rapid, sustainable and considered reimagining of car parking spaces and roadways into temporary outdoor dining quarters. Born out of the Glebe Point Road Trial Parklet Program, the original People Parker parklets were set up along Glebe Point Road to see how the space could be made more community-focused, friendly, and in tune with the overarching feel of the bohemian inner-Sydney suburb.

In 2015 People Parkers was born out of Glebe Point Road Trial Parklet Program which was a case study of how parklets could be used to improve amenity, community and business outcomes along Glebe point road.

The largest section of the 2021 Sustainability Awards encompasses a range of categories that are project orientated. This year the entries raised the bar on all aspects of sustainable design, with all winners exemplars of sustainable architecture and design.

The 2021 Sustainability Awards received over 250 entries across projects, people and products, with the high calibre and level of design making the process of selecting the finalists an arduous task.