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Barrel Cactus Living Wall by Plant Solutions
The Barrel Cactus Vertical Living Wall was built in Scottsdale, Arizona. Designed by Joe Zazzera, GRP, LEED AP and installed by the Plant Solutions Team in May this year, this project is a vertical living wall using golden barrel cacti and a custom built frame. Dunham Workshop built the vertical frame out of steel. The intent was to create a piece of “living art” to draw attention to the entry of the Plant Solutio...

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Habitat Horticulture

Jun 11th

Posted by Gavin in Making living wall art

Habitat Horticulture was founded to bring plants into urban areas. They install living walls to improve a building’s aesthetics as well as to make it a healthier place to live and work. David Brenner founded Habitat Horticulture and is the designer of the living walls. His unusal education of a degree in Environmental Sciences with a minor in Psychology helped him delve deeper into the effects plants have on people. Brenner likes to work with plants that are extremely threatened or completely extinct in the wild. His passion is to continue to use threatened plants to help preserve them as much as possible.

Living Pillar

Green Pillar

What used to be a stark concrete pillar has just recently been transformed by Habitat Horticulture into a living “plant pillar”. New Resource Bank, located in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district is a bank designed to help environmentally conscious businesses grow through better loan rates and green incentives. Habitat Horticulture’s living wall is a nice addition to the banking facility’s Gold LEED certification.

Here are a few other living wall designs for indoor and outdoor use. I love the copper and steel frames/reservoirs.