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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
The new terrace at the entrance to Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV
Tournesol Siteworks was part of one of the hottest tickets in Las Vegas last fall when renowned Washington DC chef Michel Richard opened his newest eatery, Central Michel Richard at Caesars Palace. The restaurant was named to several “Top 10″ lists within months of opening. Landscape architect Chris Attanasio designed the outdoor terrace using our Wilshire Collection rectangles to create the terrace space, and Downtown Collection as focal planters.
Downtown Collection DS-6000 planters, in a custom shade of green
More images after the jump…
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Tags: CWM Modular, Downtown Collection, fiberglass (FRP), Nevada, Wilshire Collection
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
The cover, showing our new TWIG bench
Welcome to 2012! We took the holidays off (from posting on the blog, anyway), but are excited to be in the new year.
We’ve just published our new 2012 commercial price list. This is typically the price that contractors will pay, and the price that is available through our distributor network.
The pricelist includes several important things for 2012:
Please contact your salesperson for a copy, or simply send us an email here. We can either email a pdf copy or mail you a hard copy – your choice!
Look for more to come soon…
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Tags: Boulevard Upcycled Wood, pedestals, pricelist, VGM
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
34th St. Planters, at Penn Station, NYC. Design by Ignacio Ciocchini
After the “Cities Alive” Green Roof and Wall conference in Philadelphia last week, Brian Mitalo and I went to NYC to visit several architects working on projects. At the end of the day, I found myself at Penn Station, waiting for the train out to JFK. It was a perfect chance to revisit product that we delivered nearly 10 years ago, and see how it’s holding up.
In 2002, we rotationally molded custom LLD polyethylene planters for the 34th St. partnership, a business improvement district in midtown Manhattan. We began working with their designer, Ignacio Ciocchini, as he was looking at various materials for the pots. He started the discussion assuming the pots would be made in FRP fiberglass. We convinced him that plastic could be done attractively, and be far more durable than the fiberglass.
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Tags: Custom, LLDPE, New York, traffic
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Los Feliz Residence - photos courtesy of Park Slope Landscape
A while back we featured a few images of a residential project in a blog post titled “Another satisfied customer”. Joan Grabel of Park Slope Landscape worked on the Gurman Residence in Santa Monica, transforming a beatiful 1924 home with an average landscape into something special.
Not only did she send a few images to us (and thank us for a job well done), she submitted the project to the Pro Portfolio section of the Los Angeles Times.
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Tags: Arcade Collection, California, container irrigation, CWF Flower Bowl, CWM Modual, Downtown Collection, GFRC
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
SeaCrest Series Planters at the San Diego Convention Center
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, we like to feature projects that we’ve previously done – we’re proud of how our product holds up in the field! Most images shown by companies will be right after installation – when things look their best. Because the differentiation between the quality levels of manufacturers often comes down to the product’s performance over time, posts like this will let you know where we stand on the scale. This is a great example of our product’s durability.
We just returned from the American Society of Landscape Architects conference, which took place at the San Diego Convention Center. This was the site of one of our early large installations with the SeaCrest Series planters with built-in irrigation. They are double walled, feature our sensor-based irrigation system, and are made of durable lightweight polyethylene. The planters were installed in two different phases of the convention center expansion. Well over 100 large pots were purchased (as near as we can remember) from 1997 to 1999. Sizes ranged from our 24″dia. x 22″h and 17″h (shown here on the steps leading up the front of the building) to the 55″dia. x 36″h and 17″h, several of which grace the driving entrance and act as buffers to cars. The product was specified by Vicki Estrada of Estrada Land Planning.
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Tags: California, SeaCrest Series
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Booth #2805, ASLA EXPO in San Diego
The sales team is looking forward to the next few days at the American Society of Landscape Architects conference in San Diego. We’ve been exhibiting at their EXPO for almost 15 years, and it is always a good chance to connect with our most important group of clients. Come visit us at booth #2805 anytime over the next two days.
This year promises to be something special. The show is bigger than ever – more floor space, more exhibitors, and more attendees. It hasn’t been on the West Coast for some time, so we expect to see many contacts from California.
We’re also showing something special - site furnishings, featuring our new Boulevard™ Upcycled Urban woods. We’ve got our Sydney Collection bench and table there, the modular people-oriented TWIG bench, as well as the new VersiJack deck and paver supports. We’ll have David Shaw, founder of our Australian partner Street & Garden Furniture, as well as Jerry Soh of our Singaporean partner Elmich on hand. It promises to be a great show…
We're showing a bench featuring our new Boulevard Upcycled Urban wood
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Tags: ASLA, Boulevard Upcycled Wood, California
Friday, October 28th, 2011
Sydney Collection Platform Bench
Many commercial-grade wood benches and tables are made using ipé, teak, and exotic hardwoods harvested from rainforests in South America and Southeast Asia. The durability of these woods is unmatched, but issues of deforestation, questionable chain of custody, and embedded energy in transit make them problematic.
Tournesol Siteworks has a better answer – Boulevard™ is an upcycled urban hardwood solution that offers the durability of exotics but without the environmental baggage.
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Tags: Boulevard Upcycled Wood, Innovations, site furnishings
Friday, October 14th, 2011
Two years after install, the GFRC Wilshire Rectangles still look great
We occasionally use this blog to check back in on projects that have been in for a while. Our Regional Sales Representative just re-visited this high profile project in downtown Los Angeles, originally designed by star architect Frank Gehry. The Walt Disney Concert Hall has quickly become an icon in Los Angeles. A few years after it opened, Gehry Partnerswas asked to design an outdoor seating area.
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Photo courtesy Carol Highsmith via Wikipedia
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Tags: California, CWM Modular, GFRC, Wilshire Collection
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
all images courtesy of Flower Framers of Cincinnati
Miami Valley Hospital, located in Dayton, OH, recently completed construction on a new 12-story wing designed to house their heart clinic. Designed by NBBJ of Columbus, Tournesol Siteworks provided standard and custom planters for the garden in the Neonatal Intensive Care unit, cafeteria and main entrance areas. The facility was recently awarded LEED Silver status, making it one of the greenest hospitals in Ohio. Click to continue »
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Tags: CWM Modular, fiberglass (FRP), GFRC, Ohio, Wilshire Collection
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Tournesol's new recyclers - Model WR-REC-02 in the Shadow finish
Earlier this year we announced our new options for ash and trash cans, as well as a line of recyclers in our Urban and Wilshire Collections. We just got a few images of the first installation of the recyclers, at Claremont University Consortium’s Administrative Campus Center, located in Claremont, CA. Because they are located around a public cafeteria area, they’ll see the kind of use that they were designed for! Click to continue »
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Tags: California, FRP, Recyclers, Wilshire Collection
