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Friday, May 18th, 2012
All photos courtesy Farthingale Ornamentals
We just recieved images of a recent installation at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center St. Louis. It really illustrates how sprucing up an existing property with new pots & planters can give a place a “pop”. The facility offers 223 rooms and 37 meeting/banquet rooms. The hotel is actually located in Chesterfield, MO, the largest city in west Saint Louis County with a population of just under 50,000.
Don Hellstern of Farthingale Ornamental & Architectural Stone in Kansas City is a local distributor of Tournesol Siteworks products, and was kind enough to send along these images. Don worked closely with Fred Kovar of the Harrick Group in Chicago, a respected firm specializing in the design of hotel projects nationally. Fred called out an unusual custom color for the Urban Tall pots (see this post for more Urban Tall), “Parrot Orange”. We received a sample, and were able to match the color.
"Parrot Orange" certainly pops against the background
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Tags: Custom Color, CWC, CWM Modular, Missouri, Urban Collection
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
All images courtesy Belli Fiori Landscape
While we don’t get involved in many residential projects, it’s nice to see one that comes together as nicely as this. We certainly can’t take much credit. Our pots are lovely on this project, but the real star of the project is Belli Fiori landscaping of Redwood City, CA.
A spectacular residential landscape, with pots as accents
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Tags: Arcade Collection, California, residential, Wilshire Collection
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Aged Copper Village Collection planters, ready for packaging
While walking across our production floor today, I saw an order going through the final prep and polishing before being packaged up. The pots, our Village Collection VS-2400 in the metal-infused Aged Copper finish, positively glowed. They look great, and will be packaged and shipped shortly.
There’s only one way to get them to look like this. Two of our crew, Anthony and Luis, were putting the finishing touches on the last couple of pots. I took out my cell phone and snapped a few shots of them doing the buffing.
Anthony and Luis, hard at work hand-polishing the finish
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Tags: Aged Copper, metal infused, Village Collection
Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Mi Dia restaurant patio, Dallas, TX
In 2008 we fabricated a custom Urban planter for a retail mall project in Florida. The planter was designed to hide bollards, so was designed specifically to be the same size as our 24″ square, but 48″ tall. Once that project was complete, we adapted the tool for our own use – and the Urban Tall planter was born.
The pot is something of a “red-headed stepchild”. It is has different proportions than the rest of the Urban Collection, and so only garners one line in our marketing materials. Nevertheless, it has become one of our more popular planters. Although it doesn’t get much attention, we felt it deserves it’s own post.
The planters in the image above and below were specified & installed by GHA Architecture/Development of Dallas, TX. The Mi Dia From Scratch restaurant, and the neighboring Winewood Restaurant (both located in Grapevine) used the URT-2400 with our CWC-R1850 container irrigation self-watering insert. All the containers were delivered in the T-0 texture in black.
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Tags: California, container irrigation, New York, Texas, Urban Collection, Urban Tall
Monday, March 12th, 2012
Urban lightweight concrete planters at Park Place Retail in Irvine, CA
We recently provided lightweight GFRC concrete containers for Shops at Park Place in Irvine, CA. This retail project is part of the 3 million square foot Park Place mixed-use project, containing class-A office, residential and retail areas. The design, by LPA, Inc. (also of Irvine), was purchased dircectly by the owner (Madison Marquette) and installed by general contractor JM Stitt.
Note the custom tall planters behind the Urban Collection in front
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Tags: California, Custom, GFRC, Urban Collection, Wilshire Collection
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
The Urban Collection, shown at the Hyatt Gainey Ranch in Scottsdale, AZ
In response to a number of requests from customers last year, we’re implemented a quick ship program for 2012. With the way that we typically work, it’s hard to get a pot order, even a small one, out in less than a week. This year, we decided to put in place a program that will make it possible! Best of all, there will be no additional cost for this service.
The quick ship program features two of our most popular FRP (fiberglass) planter collections, the Urban and Metro. Limited quantities of most rounds, squares and rectangles will be available to ship within 5-7 business days, depending upon the final color and finish. Metal infused finishes will typically take slightly longer than base or MMP finishes. Confirmed ship dates will depend upon order size and current inventory levels.
This existence of this program in no way guarantees a specific delivery window to any customer. Check with your Tournesol salesperson for product availability and specific details.
A Metro Collection square, as seen at the Crocker Galleria in San Francisco
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Tags: fiberglass (FRP), Metro Collection, quick ship, Urban Collection
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
all photographs copyright Tremco Incorporated
When Tremco Incorporated, a leader in sustainable construction and part of the RPM Building Solutions Group, renovated its corporate headquarters in Beachwood, OH, they featured a 9000 sf vegetative roof from the Tremco Roofing and Building Maintenance Division. Vegetative roof expert Rana Creek, based not too far from us in Northern California, did the design for them. Rana Creek recommended the use of Tournesol Siteworks FRP planters and our VertiGreen 3D Trellis system to cover several large structures on the roof, as well as screen an equipment area. A full documentation of the project can be seen at www.tremcogreenhq.com.
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Tags: Ohio, Roofdeck, VertiGreen 3D Trellis, Wilshire Collection
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Wilshire Collection planters at the Kravis Center, Claremont-McKenna College
There are more to some jobs than meets the eye. This is one of those.
When Diane Fazio of Land Images in Los Angeles called us about this project, the clock was already ticking. Because of structural problems, a reflecting pool slated to surround this Rafael Viñoly-designed lounge in the center of the new signature entrance to the university couldn’t be installed. Yet the opening of the building was only two weeks away! This building is a big deal, and the reflecting pool was a very obvious component of this building:
Kravis Center consists of the construction of a five-level, 162,000 square-foot academic and administrative facility and will serve as the western gateway to the Claremont McKenna campus. The overall project includes offices, classrooms, seminar rooms, an underground parking structure, and outdoor courtyards. (from the university’s website)
Diane wanted to know if we had enough material on hand to be able to provide them with planters to ring the area originally intended for the pool. That worked out to be nearly 330 linear feet of planters! Not only that, but could we finish it and deliver prior to the dedication in two weeks?
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Tags: California, Custom, FRP, Wilshire Collection
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
