Blooming marvellous as The Good Plant Company wins two major UK awards

The company, recently six years old, won a Gold Award for its work at the new Raspberry Pi HQ on Cambridge Science Park and a Silver leaf accolade for its magic at Sphere Fluidics Ltd’s flagship building at Granta Park.

The awards were presented at London’s Excel Centre and founder Ruscha Fields paid tribute to her team for their efforts.

Raspberry Pi floated on London Stock Exchange earlier this year and besides its global charitable work has produced and sold in their millions an incredibly powerful small computing device. It if used all over the world as an easy, affordable way to teach programming and physical computing to people of all ages and all backgrounds.

Raspberry Pi was moving to a new building at Cambridge Science Park and wanted to create an exceptional environment for its team – full of biophilic goodness with lots of plants throughout the office areas. The building benefits from a three storey glass atrium entrance and the client wanted to make use of this space in a creative way.

Ruscha’s team filled the office with plants, using large floor plants in the social and soft seating areas and cabinet top desk end planters throughout the open plan office.

It worked in collaboration with a Swedish company to create the incredible vertical ‘plant wires’ hanging through the atrium, together with trailing plants hanging from all the balconies.

The atrium planting creates an immersive, jungle like feel as soon as one steps into the building, creating a real wow factor. The lush planting throughout the office has transformed the feel of the office, bringing green vitality and wellbeing.

Ben Cook, Property Manager, Raspberry Pi Ltd, says: “We had an ambitious vision to turn our grey and concrete framed office into a luscious green space. I phoned Ruscha who was bursting with ideas and only saw this project as an opportunity rather than allowing the blockers to squeeze out the creativity.

“Together we pulled off some impressive installations and transformed the new Raspberry Pi Trading Headquarters into the Hanging gardens of Babylon city! The team provided an excellent service from design to maintenance - thank you all!”

The project at Sphere Fluidics showcases a variety of planting designs, textures and effects. It includes some large big leafed floor standing plants and a variety of foliage colours and shapes in the banquette seating planters and cabinet tops.

There are also hanging plants to decorate various furniture points and moss for bare walls which creates a really immersive planted space within the offices and breakout area.

Rob Treanor at Sphere says: “The Good Plant Company got under the hood of our company culture and how we were intending to use our space before presenting a set of recommendations to incorporate biophilic design.

“We worked together to shortlist plants, textures and effects which help enhance the employee experience. The result is we have created an aspirational workplace which is brought alive by the exceptional planting. It is an environment our team love working in.”

Founded in 2018, The Good Plant Company creates beautiful interior planting schemes for all types of work and leisure spaces. It also provides full aftercare services to keep plants looking fabulous. Business Weekly has used the company for several years to enhance the stage and environment at the annual Awards banquet.