Landscape Architect: Tony Sinkowski/ Pete Walker & Associates
Grower and Consultant: Tornello Nurseries
Stanford University Medical Center
Landscape Architect: Tony
Sinkowski/ Pete Walker & Associates
Grower and Consultant: Tornello Nurseries
Stanford University students and staff travel around an elegant campus comprised of sandstone buildings with barrel-tiled roofs. And here is an unexpected departure from the architectural norm: The Medical Center Building, its modern appearance softened and enhanced by Phyllostachys nigra Henon bamboo, grown at Tornello Nurseries’ Florida facility.
This is a striking timber bamboo with warm, silver-gray culms that complement the building’s stainless-steel elements and provide a visual buffer between this structure and its sister building some 100 feet away. A park-like serenity was afforded each space. People can gather beneath the bamboo to socialize; sometimes, though, they just seek a quiet moment under P. nigra Henon’s forest-sized canopies.
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