Landscape Architect & Specifier News

FEB 2015

LASN is a photographically oriented, professional journal featuring topics of concern and state-of-the-art projects designed or influenced by registered Landscape Architects.

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February 2015 35 Above & Top Right A series of terraces slope from the plaza to the lakeshore. The terraces are 20 mm deep reflective pools (the dark triangular areas) of raised polished black granite. The water walls are lit at night. Interspersed within this geometry are Plumeria obtuse 'Singapore Frangipani' trees in bloom, and Seashore paspalum, a warm-season grass known for its salt tolerance. Beneath the terraces are four stories of below-grade parking. The road (left image, top) is parking access for the Burj Khalifa Tower office tenants. Middle Right This is the northeast side of the Burj Khalifa Tower with its own distinctive landscape patterning of palms and succulents, with a roundabout and curlicue entrance to the subterranean parking for guests of the Armani hotel Dubai. Most of the 160 guest rooms (basic rate is $708) are on the eight lower floors of the tower, with the suites up on the 38th and 39th floors. hungry? The hotel has a choice of nine restaurants. Don't forget the Armani boutique and spa. Bottom Right The hardscape banding is a fine–grain mosaic of light gray 50 x 50 mm granite blocks. The mosaic motif is a design intent to create more intimate pedestrian ways. Bands of low-clipped hedges of ruellia brittoniana 'Katie' and Asystasia gangetica Chinese violet alternate as borders to the walkways.

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