Let your imagination soar
As you’ll know if your building includes one, atriums can often seem cold and overwhelming. But we’ll let you in on a secret: such large spaces provide ideal growing environments, because they tend to be airy and well lit.
So what better opportunity to let your imagination soar? We are experts in large landscape design, so we can help you create an imaginative scheme that adds intimacy, warmth and elegance on a human scale – and lush, green displays that impress visitors and colleagues alike.
Planting in atriums has another benefit. It can help you to manage your indoor environment, through shading and cooling by evapotranspiration. See the Green Buildings section for details.
Ambius has unmatched expertise and capability in producing large-scale interior landscapes, and many of our installations have won prestigious awards. Our large-scale project managers work with architects and developers and can manage all aspects of the interior landscaping of a building, from design, through plant selection and sourcing all the way to installation and on-going maintenance.
If you would like to talk about big ideas for big spaces, call 0800 0370 128 or send us an email.
Large space: London bank
Modern head office building of an historic London bank. The atrium features exotic plants in large landscape beds, sculpture and a koi carp pond. The interior landscaping has won several awards for design and maintenance over the last few years.
Large space: Matrix house
This multi-storey office building in Basingstoke, Hants is the epitome of large landscape design. There are plant displays on all levels, but the matched set of 16 large Ficus nitida trees forming an avenue in the main atrium is the focal point. The interior landscaping here has won several awards since it was first installed over 15 years ago.
Large space: Millbank
An atrium has been formed by enclosing the large space where several historic Georgian buildings come together. The atrium is used as a meeting place refreshment area for the staff of the building’s many tenants. The interior landscape design evokes a sense of the exterior surroundings with planting in a style similar to that seen out-of-doors (although with plant species that will survive the indoor environment).
Large space: Schlumberger
Schlumberger’s research and development centre on the outskirts of Cambridge occupies an iconic building designed by Sir Michael Hopkins. The plant displays in the central part of the building get a significant amount of their light from daylight that is transmitted through the translucent fabric that forms the building’s envelope. The interior landscaping here has won awards following a recent redesign of the displays.
Sheffield Winter Garden
A purpose-built covered public park in the centre of Sheffield houses a huge collection of exotic plants from around the world. The structure, which uses an innovative timber construction method, is the recipient of several architectural awards whilst the interior landscaping has won awards for horticultural excellence.
Large space: Stockley House
An anonymous office building in London’s Victoria district houses one of the country’s most exciting large interior landscape schemes. The design of the interior landscape includes dense planting of lush tropical species together with an indoor pond and a fountain that shoots a jet of water several storeys high make Stockley house an especially interesting place to work.
Large space: Victoria Plaza
An ultra-modern office building adjacent to Victoria Station required contemporary planting both indoors and outside.
