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| Crystal Cruise's Crystal Symphony's Living Wall |
Designed
for an al fresco area in the ship’s Deck 11 Trident Grill, the unique
living wall uses a varied and diverse selection of indoor
plants to display a world map. The living wall is 37.7 feet (11.5
meters) long and 7.9 feet (2.4 meters) high and will receive regular
maintenance by Crystal Symphony’s onboard team of florists.
“In
keeping with our ongoing focus on design, we wanted to create a focal
point that was both highly contemporary and visually stunning,”
says Alexandra Don, Crystal’s vice president, hotel design and
services. “The end result is a living wall that brings the Trident
Grill to life and serves as an eye-catching backdrop to the incomparable
service and choices that always characterize a Crystal
holiday.”
Joel
Nash, marketing manager for ANS Group Europe added, “This bespoke
project is an exciting and exhilarating scheme. Installing living walls
on a cruise ship is taking us to a completely new level and opens up
all sorts of possibilities. When you think this
wall will be travelling as far north as Lapland and down to Cape Horn,
it takes your breath away.”
A
living wall is a vertical garden that is pre-planted in panels and then
attached to the wall or facade of a building. Plants stay intact
in their vertical positions because their root structures are anchored
in two to four inches of soil kept within the panel.
The
installation of the wall on Crystal Symphony is yet another example of
Crystal’s "Crystal Clean" environmental and educational efforts
both onboard and on shore. A living wall acts as a bio filter,
enhancing air quality by breaking down harmful airborne contaminants and
transforming them into clean oxygen. By absorbing carbon dioxide and
releasing oxygen, it reduces greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere.
Crystal’s
passion for taking care of guests in an inviting environment of
extraordinary space, quality and choices has earned the company
more “World’s Best” awards than any other cruise line, resort or hotel
in history. A keen focus on design has also earned the line numerous
industry design honors, including first-ever awards from
Hospitality Design magazine and the Association of Retail Environments (A.R.E.) in 2012.
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