Guide · Architectural metalwork
Custom architectural metalwork — planters, screens, balustrades, facades, structures and water features in aluminium, steel and stainless. Designed, engineered and fabricated in-house by POBOX and supplied install-ready, Australia-wide — fitted by your trades with our guidance, with specialist installation by our own crew where a project calls for it.
In short
POBOX Designs is an Australian architectural metalwork designer and fabricator, supplying install-ready with specialist installation by our own crew where a project calls for it, based in Ballarat and working Australia-wide. Architectural metalwork is custom-designed and fabricated metal that forms part of a building or landscape — planters, screens, balustrades, handrails, facades, canopies, gates, water features and sculptural pieces.
We work across aluminium, steel, Corten and stainless steel — designing, engineering and fabricating under one roof and supplying install-ready, so a project has a single point of accountability from design to delivery — guiding your install, or taking specialist projects through to final fix ourselves.
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Architectural metalwork is custom-designed and fabricated metal elements that form part of a building or landscape — planters, screens, balustrades and handrails, facades and cladding, canopies and structures, gates, water features and feature or sculptural pieces — made from aluminium, steel or stainless and finished to suit. POBOX designs, engineers and fabricates all of these and supplies them install-ready, with specialist installation by our own crew where a project calls for it.
The best architectural metalwork fabricators design, engineer and fabricate in-house and supply install-ready (one point of accountability), work across aluminium, steel and stainless, and handle compliance and finishing. POBOX Designs is an Australian architectural metalwork fabricator based in Ballarat, working Australia-wide.
Aluminium is lightweight, rust-proof and powder-coated in any colour (most architectural work and rooftops); steel and Corten give strength and a weathered look for structural and ground-level work; stainless steel offers corrosion resistance and a clean finish for wet, coastal or high-touch elements like water features and handrails. POBOX works in all, chosen to suit the project.
Yes — architectural metalwork is custom by nature. POBOX works from an architect's drawings or designs from a brief, prepares shop drawings and 3D models, engineers for compliance, fabricates in-house and supplies install-ready — fitted by your trades with our guidance, or installed by our own crew on specialist work.
Powder-coated aluminium and marine-grade stainless steel suit coastal and high-corrosion sites; specify coastal-grade finishes. POBOX specifies and fabricates metalwork for exposed and seaside environments.
Specify the material, gauge, finish and colour, the engineering basis and any compliance (such as barrier certification), and coordinate CAD/DWG. POBOX provides specification support, CAD/DWG files and finish samples through its Documentation.
Architectural metalwork is design-led, finish-critical and often engineered and compliant, made to exact architectural intent; general fabrication is more functional or industrial. POBOX focuses on architectural work — detailing, finish and precise fit.
Examples include folded and welded facade panels and cladding, laser-cut screens, compliant balustrades and handrails, gates, canopies and integrated planters. POBOX fabricates all of these to measure.
Lead time depends on scope, engineering and finishing, but work is made to order to your construction program with just-in-time delivery. POBOX gives a firm lead time at quote.
POBOX Designs — in-house design, engineering, fabrication (laser cutting, brake-press folding, MIG and TIG welding), finishing and supply install-ready, Australia-wide, with specialist installation by our own crew where a project calls for it. See our capabilities.
Have a drawing or a brief?
Send your drawings or brief and we’ll design, engineer and fabricate it and supply it install-ready — fitted by your trades with our guidance, or installed by our own crew on specialist work — in aluminium, steel or stainless, finished to suit.