green walls
Ornamental green ‘tree’
structure in Sun City’s
Entertainment Centre
Dawid Fraser, Operations Manager for Bidvest TopTurf North West,
described the construction of the so-called ‘green wall’ or slanted
‘vertical garden’, symbolic of a large tree, at the newly refurbished Sun
City Entertainment Centre. Fraser explained that a major revamp was
being done to the interior of the Centre and that the concept design had
involved a central steel ‘tree structure’ under an extensive skylight. The
ample indoor light was seen as an opportunity to use live plants rather
than artificial. TopTurf suggested that the tree structure of steel piping
should be covered with the polyethylene Modiwall planted wall system
(see November issue of ADM – Netcare Pinehaven Hospital) to enhance
the grandeur and the environmental value of the ‘tree sculpture’.
At the recent 2017 South African Landscapers Institute (SALI) Awards of
Excellence, the interior plantscaping of the refurbished Entertainment
Centre at Sun City achieved a Gold Award.
Photographs courtesy Bidvest TopTurf
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