The large office building was revamped to host stylish one-bedroom rental flats in the heart of Marshalltown. The challenge was to create a link into the street on a pedestrian level and bring the building down to ‘human-scale’. Another challenge was to do this without compromising the security and entrances – and that residents will…
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Commercial gardening and especially retail gardening can be challenging with many stakeholders and goals. We investigated some strategic solutions and wrote an article for ProLandscaper careful not to have a one-size-fits-all solution – because with this in the end it fits no one and you have a one size fits no one product…Rather carefully plan…
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Entering the entertainment courtyard and viewing from the food courts these seating steps presented an opportunity for waterwise indigenous planting – with no automated irrigation, water fountains and lights… We planted large feature Aloidendron barberae (Aloe trees) with a mixture of Plumbago, Portelucaria and Dietes in mass planting blocks. For the full project please read…
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It was an honour be a small part of the team that worked on this project for NEVADA GROUP. The Flamingo shopping centre also won a SAPOA award for the best small regional mall SA 2019. The beautiful ‘bucket’ pots were made by Allsorted Designs, planting by The Source Landscaping And Design and the architects Paragon…
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The revamp of the Sun1 hotel in Southgate Johannesburg on a limited budget included introducing indigenous street trees and water-wise planting on the road verge. Feature colourful planting around the entrances, with screening along the room windows. Signature planting palette was introduced to create an example for the future hotel upgrades.
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This regional mall was such an adventure to work on… The developers were extremely passionate about the project, and we worked with a very talented team of landscape contractors and architects. What impressed me most was the commitment from the developer that planted over 120 indigenous trees around the precinct and opted to plant…
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The new development for Investec properties, Cornubia mall includes more than 1ha intensive indigenous commercial planting … At Cornubia mall, now almost 9 months old there were quite a few interesting statistics with regards to numbers…read the extract below or for the full article published in the July issue for the ProLandscaper. “This project entails…
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The new development for Investec properties, Cornubia mall includes more than 1ha intensive indigenous commercial planting surrounding the large shopping mall. The landscape storyline narrates four seasons to distinguish between the different zones. The northern section, completely on deck, is without irrigation and very water-wise, as opposed to the southern section with the iconic fig…
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The airport upgrade at Mthatha was part of the infrastructure upgrade programme under the previous presidential administration. Planting used were all indigenous with shade trees in the parking, feature planting and colour around the entrances and veld grass and water-wise ground covers along the pathways. There were a lot of challenges including herds of goats…
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