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ReSTART the Heart
Rough and Milne Landscape Architects are proud to have contributed to the rebuild of Christchurch. In association with the Buchan Group, and Anton Tritt (the Restart Project architect) we donated our services in landscape design with the intention of injecting life and colour into the Cashel Mall Restart 29 project, also now termed as the ‘Heart’. The ‘Heart’ comprises of, in combination with Ballantynes, 60 odd shipping containers arranged to create two temporary shopping precincts to either side of Cashel Mall.
It soon became apparent that in order to meet the tight time frame we would have to be involved in the landscape implementation as well as just design. Using our network of resources and relationships, we were able to collaborate with a significant number of people who helped us source a huge portion of donated and reduced price landscape materials to contribute to the project. We wish to thank in particular Lincoln University student volunteers and friends who helped shovel, plant and water during the last 48hrs, prior to opening.
Our hard work under intense time pressures was greatly rewarded at midday on October 29th as we sat atop the Hummingbird cafe container with a glass of wine in hand and watched the hundreds of people visit the mall and admire the place that we helped create.
Huge thanks to:
Volunteers:
Ashburton Horticultural Society and Walter Van Der Klay
McLenaghan Contracting
Donated materials:
The Horticultural Society: Flowering plants, planter baskets, and the hanging basket wall
Wai-Ora Nursery: Native plants
Reduced Price materials:
Humes Pipeline Systems: Man hole risers (flower planters and ‘ottomans’)
360Urban: Aggrok product
Urban Paving and Landscape Supplies: Square Planters