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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
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Craftsman Square and Round pots in Aged Bronze Metal-Infused finish
We were just sent these images by our Southern California representative, Jon Willingham. He worked with Lightfoot Planning Group on the specification of the containers, which were installed by ValleyCrest Landscape Development. More after the jump…
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Tags: California, container irrigation, Craftsman Collection, CWM Modular, CWS Rectangles, Drainage Systems
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Summer planting at the City of Middletown, CT
Every day we hear the stories of public maintenance budgets shrinking. Check with almost any city park & rec department and they’ll lament the fact that they can’t keep up in the face of cuts. The Middletown (CT) Downtown Business District found that by using Tournesol Siteworks’ container irrigation system they could make their color program budget stretch further. They use our CWF container irrigation bowls with existing concrete containers, changing them out with each season. In the words of Marie Kalita-Leary, Director of the Middletown Downtown Business District:
Tournesol Siteworks irrigation systems were the end to our nightmare. The only way to get water to our planters was to use manual labor via a wagon. On hot summer days it required hours and hours of work to water all the planters along our Main St. The irrigation system from Tournesol Siteworks have saved us so much and brought us so much. During warm weather spells in the summer, I know that planters are receiving the water they need – and – the flowers look great from the minute they are planted. We save on labor and staff time. A landscaping company fills the systems with water and checks them weekly. Because the flowers and plants are receiving the nourishment they need, when they need it, we always have full and gorgeous flowers in our planters. I highly recommend the irrigation systems by Tournesol Siteworks.
more images of their color program after the break
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Tags: Bisco Irrigation, Connecticut, container irrigation, CWF, maintenance, streetscape
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

The Rolling Stone Los Angeles at the Hollywood and Highland Center
The recently-opened Rolling Stone Los Angeles at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Los Angeles created a private al fresco dining patio despite facing a high-traffic retail zone. The design (by Brodin Design-Build) relies on Wilshire Collection planters and and VertiGreen trellis panels. Click to continue »
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Tags: Calfiornia, dining, greenwall, patio, trellis, VertiGreen, Wilshire Collection
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
Monday, November 15th, 2010

We were pleased to be part of the California Landscape Contractor’s Association Trophy awards dinner on Friday of last week. It is always a big event, awarding the most prestigious projects in the largest state landscape association in the country. The organizers thought that a living wall would make a great backdrop for photographing the awards winners. Click to continue »
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Tags: California, Instant Jungle, rental, temporary, TerraScreen
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Wilshire Collection Planters and VertiGreen Trellis
The Whole Foods Market, which is just opening today in Huntington Beach, CA, wanted an al fresco dining terrace in front of their store. The designer, Courtney Le Architects, had a concept that replaced a simple fence to separate the outdoor patio from the walkway/parking area with a barrier using planters and trellis. More images after the jump…
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Tags: California, dining, trellis, VertiGreen, Whole Foods, Wilshire Collection
Friday, September 17th, 2010

VertiGreen Hybrid at Collwood St.
We just got in pictures of our second installation of the VertiGreen Hybrid product, along this wall in San Diego. The project, specified by Gillespie Moody Patterson and installed by Valleycrest Landscape, was originally supposed to be a conventional 3D trellis.
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Tags: California, living walls, trellis, VertiGreen Hybrid