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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
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
The walkway at La Plaza, with the living wall behind
Tournesol Siteworks was delighted to have its VGM Modular Living Wall system chosen by noted multi-disciplinary group Rios Clementi Hale Studios for the newest cultural center in downtown Los Angeles, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes.
What you should know about the location, in La Plaza’s own words:
The nation’s premier center of Mexican American culture, and the newest addition to Los Angeles County’s family of cultural institutions.
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Tags: California, Living Wall, VGM
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
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
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
Monday, September 12th, 2011
all images courtesy of Blondie's Treehouse
I was fortunate enough to run into Fran Schreibman, Director of Sales for Blondie’s Treehouse at a recent conference. She was the person responsible for the VertiGreen Hybrid trellis project that Blondie’s installed last spring/summer at a Whole Foods store in Lake Grove, NY. We profiled the installation here and here. It was one of the first VertiGreen Hybrid jobs – in fact, they purchased several of our prototype units because that’s what we had in stock at the time! She shared several images of the wall taken this summer, and much info about how it survived the winter. Click to continue »
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Tags: Blondie's Treehouse, New York, trellis, VertiGreen Hybrid
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
VertiGreen 3D trellis at the Rivers Casino parking structure
Tournesol Sitework’s VertiGreen modular 3D trellis system was recently installed at this new casino parking structure project in Des Plaines, IL. The Rivers Casino called on the Elgin, IL office of national parking structure consultant Walker Parking Consultants for the design. Katrina Laughlin of Laughlin Assocs. provided the landscape design. Click to continue »
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Tags: CWM Modular, Illinois, parking structure, VertiGreen 3D Trellis
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
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
the stock "beauty shot" of the Marina Barrage
It’s been a few weeks since my last post. In the meantime, I was down in Singapore visiting with our partners at Elmich. We started out working with them on the VGM system, and are looking to expand the number of products we share. We were visiting several installations that used their product when they suggested we go visit the Marina Barrage project. Their VersiCell sub-surface drainage product was used underneath the intensive green roof on this high-profile job.
I had seen the standard beauty shot of the project, and thought it looked pretty cool. I was told that it was a pumping station/dam for the city. Going online, I found the following:
Conceptualised and managed by PUB, the national water agency of Singapore, the Marina Barrage spans the southern end of the Marina Channel, which opens out into the sea. More than just an ordinary dam, the Barrage is a unique engineering masterpiece that fulfills three purposes for Singapore. It boosts Singapore’s water supply by creating Singapore’s 15th reservoir and its first reservoir in the city centre. The barrage also acts as a tidal barrier to alleviate flooding in the low-lying parts of the city such as Chinatown and Little India.
The guys commented that it was a national holiday that day, so it would be pretty busy. I thought – “busy? a pumping station?”.
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Tags: Green Roof, Singapore, VersiCell
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Rendering of booth set-up. Images courtesy of SAIC
We’re pleased to be working with the design team from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on their booth at this year’s Chicago Flower & Garden show. They are creating an unusual, vertical garden by combining our TerraScreen interior greenwall panels, the VertiGreen Hybrid trellis system, a vinyl printed backdrop along with neon lights. Their creativity should be a breath of fresh air at the show! We’ve been working with them on a design for a infill project in the City of Chicago, and they suggested taking the concept and abstracting it for this display. Plants were provided by Hampshire Farms of Hampshire, IL.
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Tags: Illinois, shows, TerraScreen, VertiGreen Hybrid
