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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Cool VGM living wall installation uses the boxes' modularity
When it comes to creativity, the designers we work with have us here at Tournesol Siteworks beat hands down. Architect Ross Andrews and Landscape Architect Jim Ridge came up with this design for a small living wall installed on a retail center in Fountain Valley, CA. Instead of viewing the modularity of the VGM system as a drawback, they leveraged the geometry to create something quite spectacular.
Installed by Matsunaga Landscape Maintenance, and grown in by our friends at Instant Jungle, this wall adds pop to an otherwise bland area. The one column reaches all the way to the ground, which allows irrigation to be run up behind it. As the wall grows in, the variation in plant material’s colors will containue to add to the effect. A great installation, and one that shows what creativity can do on a budget.
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Tags: California, Instant Jungle, retail, VGM
Monday, December 12th, 2011
all images courtesy Joe Zazzera, Plant Solutions, Scottsdale, AZ
Jeff Basset of Unisource Global Solutions, in Chandler, AZ, recently worked with our regional sales representative Jon Willingham to design an interior living wall for their offices. They enlisted the help of Joe Zazzera and his team from Plant Solutions in Scottsdale to install and maintain the wall.
We frequently have people ask us whether it is complicated to install a TerraScreen system. This series of pictures answers that question better than anything…
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Tags: Arizona, Interior, Irrigation, Plant Solutions, TerraScreen
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Photo courtesy Jim Fitzpatrick, Newport Beach Independent
Mario Batali is at it again! One of our most popular blog topics last year was the installation of an edible living wall at Pizzeria Mozza’s first store in Los Angeles (see posts here and here and here). He and partner Joe Bastianich have expanded their Pizzeria Mozza concept, putting in their second store in Newport Beach, CA. The success of the Tournesol VGM edible living wall at the first store convinced them to make it a motif at the second.
Tournesol VGM modular living wall at Pizzeria Mozza, Newport Beach CA
Jim Fitzpatrick, in a column for the local Newport Beach Independent reported on the new store a few days ago:
A drive down PCH may never be the same. Click to continue »
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Tags: California, Greenscaped Buildings, Living Wall, Pizzeria Mozza, VGM
Monday, August 29th, 2011
Second Look - Rolling Stone Lounge in Los Angeles
Last year we provided product to the Rolling Stone Lounge, located in the retail area at Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles. Our product was primarily used to screen a dining area on a walkway that gets very heavy foot traffic. We documented the project at the time in this blog post. One of the most important ways to judge our product is not how it appears immediately after installation, but how it holds up to everyday use over time. Click to continue »
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Tags: California, restaurant, VertiGreen 3D Trellis, Wilshire Collection
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Distrigas Visitor Center roofdeck, photos courtesy of Bisco Irrigation
Bobby Barbati of BISCO irrigation (our distribution partner in New England) sent through a few photos of a job that he worked on last year. The setting is a new 6000 sq. ft. visitor center at the Distrigas LNG terminal in Everett, MA. The roofdeck was designed by Michael Radner of Radner Design Associates of Framingham, MA.
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Posted in Commercial, Container Irrigation Systems, Pots, Planters & Site Furnishings, Products | No Responses »
Tags: Bisco Irrigation, container irrigation, Massachusetts, Roofdeck, Village Collection
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
photo courtesy of Rudy Ursem, Plant Design
The TerraScreen continues to make its way around the world! You can find one at our partner’s office in Dubai, and most recently I received a picture from Rudy Ursem at Green Design in Sydney. They wanted to try out the system, and have been working with our partner A-Z Irrigation in Australia. They put their first one up in their conference room to see how it works. Rudy didn’t think there was anything special about it – we beg to differ!
They are currently looking at using them without irrigation in several applications. They like the sub-irrigation component, and think that they can make it work with their current 4-week maintenance rotations.
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Tags: Australia, Interior, TerraScreen
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
images courtesy of The Inner Garden
We often say that we provide the tools, and our customers use them the way that suits them best. This turned out to be exactly the case for Joan Lynch of The Inner Garden of Pittsford, VT. She wondered why she needed a water machine to connect to the irrigation system of a TerraScreen Interior Greenwall. She suggested to Jeff Crean of our distributor Bisco that a pump sprayer would work just as well. While we hadn’t considered it, we couldn’t think of a reason why it wouldn’t work.
Joan with her pump sprayer
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Tags: Irrigation, Pump Sprayer, TerraScreen, Vermont
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Photos courtesy of Farthingale Stone
In the Spring of 2010, the City of Hugoton, Kansas formed a streetscape committee and began working on downtown beautification. Under consideration for redevelopment were 2 blocks of Main Street and 6th Street in the downtown area. Click to continue »
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Tags: CWM Modular, Iron MMP, Kansas, MMP finish, rectangles, streetscape, Wilshire Collection
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Wilshire Collection trash receptacle and ash tray at Nordstrom, Santa Monica
We supplied Wilshire Collection planters, trash receptacles and ash trays for the brand new Nordstrom store at the Santa Monica Place shopping center at the end of the Santa Monica 3rd St. Promenade. If you’ve ever been around the promenade, you’ll know the kind of foot traffic this gets – it is probably one of the higher-traffic locations we’ve ever done (and that includes 34th St. in NYC!). We worked with the Callison Partnership, who chose the FRP planters in our Iron Metal Matched Paint. Click to continue »
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Tags: Ash/Trash, California, MMP, Trash Can, Wilshire Collection
