Bespoke attended the 2014 Resene Total Colour Awards on the 4th of September and were delighted to be recognised, along with our design collaborators Surface Design Inc., as the winner of the Landscape category. This award was gained for our recently completed project, The Esplanade at Auckland Airport and in particular the utilisation of colour within the design.
Judges’ citation:
“The Esplanade is home to an unexpected use of colour in a landscape on a scale that provides variety and intrigue. The use of colour oozes confidence, dressing up an element of a project that is normally left as is. The before and after shows a remarkable transformation from ordinary and necessary into a feature that complements the beauty of nature and also stands alone in its own right. The colour draws your eye further into the project helping you to see and appreciate the full vision beyond the first few plantings. It’s a piece of art, entirely considered and thought through.”
The framework of ‘The Esplanade’ is arranged in definition by a formal allée, utilising straight axial lines with a repetition of trees to either side. Paths of both gravel and mown grass are lined with two tree species, Pyrus and Liquidambar trees that offer seasonally colour changing leaves and ornamental flowering. The ground plane is made up of a barcoded sequence of shell bands that intersect both paths and provides the rhythm and structure. Within these daffodils and wildflowers are planted that will bloom at differing parts of the year further enhancing this rhythm. This temporal and seasonal landscape is forever showing different forms, colours and states with plants blooming and trees flowering at different times all throughout the year.
A palette of carefully selected and subtly applied vibrant colours in the landscape was essential to provide variety and intrigue along what would have been an otherwise predominantly green linear strip. Resene colour ‘Pink Panther’ was one such selection employed to make an ordinary and necessary landscape element in the tree stakes into a feature that would not only compliment other selections but also stand alone in their own right.
View the video HERE
“The Esplanade is home to an unexpected use of colour in a landscape on a scale that provides variety and intrigue. The use of colour oozes confidence, dressing up an element of a project that is normally left as is. The before and after shows a remarkable transformation from ordinary and necessary into a feature that complements the beauty of nature and also stands alone in its own right. The colour draws your eye further into the project helping you to see and appreciate the full vision beyond the first few plantings. It’s a piece of art, entirely considered and thought through.”
The framework of ‘The Esplanade’ is arranged in definition by a formal allée, utilising straight axial lines with a repetition of trees to either side. Paths of both gravel and mown grass are lined with two tree species, Pyrus and Liquidambar trees that offer seasonally colour changing leaves and ornamental flowering. The ground plane is made up of a barcoded sequence of shell bands that intersect both paths and provides the rhythm and structure. Within these daffodils and wildflowers are planted that will bloom at differing parts of the year further enhancing this rhythm. This temporal and seasonal landscape is forever showing different forms, colours and states with plants blooming and trees flowering at different times all throughout the year.
A palette of carefully selected and subtly applied vibrant colours in the landscape was essential to provide variety and intrigue along what would have been an otherwise predominantly green linear strip. Resene colour ‘Pink Panther’ was one such selection employed to make an ordinary and necessary landscape element in the tree stakes into a feature that would not only compliment other selections but also stand alone in their own right.
View the video HERE
