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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Gallery: What would you do to feel more alive, focused and happy at work? …to have employees that show up on time and have focus? It might be as easy as adding foliage to your space. Cunningham Group, an internationally known sustainable architecture firm, did just that at their beautiful, modern Culver City headquarters, Hayden Place. 
Tips: Watch Dwell’s Will Lamb interview Cunningham Group Principal Amelia Doyle Feichtner and FormLA Landcaping President Cassy Aoyagi about the benefits of indoor foliage and the innovative foliage-filled lobby at Hayden Place. 
Wet-to-Dry: Two plants provide plumes of white that look like large sticks of cotton candy peppering California hillsides. One is native here and throughout similar coastal sage and chaparral plant communities, and is well adapted to fight drought and fire. The other invaded our hillsides and bears responsibility for a good share of Los Angeles’ fire, flood, slide cycle. Which will you choose to have in your garden? 
Hayden Place Lobby
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- The benefits of natural light and views of nature are well known, and the modern architects at Cuningham Group have mastered the art of creating beautiful indoor-outdoor relationships.
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- Indoor foliage greets those entering Hayden Place at the door and makes it hard to leave! Additional container gardens throughout the space amplify levels of oxygen, further enhancing the aesthetic and health of the workspace.
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- At Cuningham Group’s headquarter’s in Culver City, Hayden Place, the firm also designed space for foliage into their innovative lobby. FormLA Landscaping provided foliage design and installation.
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- Indoor foliage increases attention spans, improves attendance, reduces the frequency of colds, and removes harmful VOCs from the air. All that, and it looks pretty great too!
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- Meeting goers have the optimal view of the Hayden Place atrium. FormLA Landscaping hoped to provide meeting attendees with a view as like-nature as possible.
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- While this greenery isn’t living, it does extend the feel provided by the lush foliage in the lobby.
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- Sunlight and airflow are key to the survival of indoor plants. Even on the opposite side of the conference room from the foliage-filled entry, there is an ample supply of both at Hayden Place.
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- FormLA Landscaping took great care to ensure the foliage, which can be seen from 5 distinct angles within the space, had an optimal aesthetic from each vantage point.
Modern Beachside Beauty
The custom door created by John Krwczyk features waves and an olive tree, extending a warm welcome and adding a sculptural element to the garden space.
In sync with the austere lines of the building, this low-growing version of the FormLA® IdealMow™ lawn requires no chemical fertilizers or pesticides and very little water in this environment, a material employed to protect both the ocean and surfers from toxic chemicals.
Clean lines and a simple color palette complement the modern, minimalist architecture and tailored, clean interior designs.
This outdoor kitchen is only visible to the cook. The curved accent wall protects both the outdoor and indoor aesthetic.
Mature, fruitless olive trees provide shade, buffer noise from PCH, and provide privacy from hillside properties.
The curved accent and retaining wall provides a sense of movement and elevates mature olive trees.
Stylishly simple, the curved beds of permeable gravel accented with concrete pavers allow rain to absorb into the landscape.
Simple and commanding, this rock sculpture provides a focal point from the interior entryway as well as the approach to the front door.
Infrastructure was critical to protecting both the aesthetic and the ocean. Subsurface drip irrigation is all but invisible and produces no run-off or noise.
Like golden clouds, these grasses provide warmth and movement to the peaceful green and white landscape.
The spines and points of this tree aloe add fire-element drama to the Zen-like space.
From within the Dane’s cubist home, this Zen-like garden and the ocean take command of a flawlessly simple, warm interior space. Mark Weaver and Associates, an interior design and project management firm, worked closely with FormLA Landscaping design and build teams to ensure the garden became an effective interior design element.
