Anderson Lloyd

Layered planting brings texture, calm and a sense of arrival to one of Ōtautahi's most respected legal practices.

Layered planting brings texture, calm and a sense of arrival to one of Ōtautahi's most respected legal practices.Layered planting brings texture, calm and a sense of arrival to one of Ōtautahi's most respected legal practices.
Award-winning
Layered planting brings texture, calm and a sense of arrival to one of Ōtautahi's most respected legal practices.

  • Client

    Anderson Lloyd Christchurch

  • Location

    Christchurch, New Zealand

  • Collaborators

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Anderson Lloyd's Green Home

When Anderson Lloyd moved into its Christchurch office at The Regent Building on Cathedral Square, the brief was to bring warmth and life to a professional space that staff and clients move through every day. Outside In was engaged to plant throughout reception, the breakout kitchen and the open-plan work floor, softening a sharp architectural fit-out without compromising its polish.

Rather than a generic, evenly-spaced layout, over 25 floor-standing planter clusters were hand-positioned through the main office — grouped for impact, scaled up in high-traffic areas, and placed lighter near the windows where natural light does more of the work. Kentia palms, Strelizia, Ficus Lyrata and Monstera anchor the clusters, underplanted with trailing Cordatum and Marble Queen for texture at every level.

Open-plan office with white planter boxes of layered tropical foliage dividing workstations, framed by floor-to-ceiling windows.
Open-plan office with white planter boxes of layered tropical foliage dividing workstations, framed by floor-to-ceiling windows.
Lift lobby with a large planter of Strelizia and fern against stone-tiled walls beside the elevator doors.

Greenery in every corner

In the breakout kitchen, a custom-manufactured hanging planter rack trails pothos above the bench, bringing life to a space designed for staff to gather. At reception and the lift lobby, large-format planters of Strelizia and Asplenium nidus frame the entrance and the firm's signage, giving arriving clients and staff an immediate sense of calm.

For a firm with more than 180 partners and staff across offices in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown, the result is a Christchurch office that feels distinctly considered — inclusive of every team, generous with its greenery, and genuinely inviting people back into the workplace.

Close-up of a custom hanging planter rack with trailing pothos and philodendron above a kitchen counter.
Open-plan office with white planter boxes of layered tropical foliage dividing workstations, framed by floor-to-ceiling windows.
Workstation beside floor-to-ceiling windows with a large Strelizia and potted ferns in concrete-style planters.
Anderson Lloyd reception signage on timber panelling, flanked by a fiddle leaf fig and palm in large planters.
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