Yokohama Living Wall at the Pebble Beach Concourse d'Elegance
I was down in Pebble Beach going by the Concourse d’Elegance (the most prestigious vintage automobile show in the country), and I happened to notice this display by Yokohama Tires. After googling Yokohama, I discovered that they’ve been using different living wall displays in exhibits and shows around the country, and that it’s gotten them a lot of publicity.
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next three photos courtesy of Instant Jungle
We wanted to take the chance to feature work by several of our partners in Southern California that have put up demonstration projects in Santa Ana and Rancho Cucamonga. More pictures and details after the break…
Expanded VGM Living Wall at Mario Batali's Pizzeria Mozza
We’ve received far more press and kudos for the living wall installed by Greenscaped Buildings at Pizzeria Mozza than any other project we’ve done. Even though the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s living wall is substantially larger, it lacks the cache of a celebrity like owner Mario Batali. The folks at Pizzeria Mozza like their wall so much that they asked to expand the wall higher. More pictures after the break…
We’ve got several trade show/conferences coming up, and hope that you’ll be able to join us at one of them!
The Calscape show, put on by the Plantscape Industry Alliance, is taking place on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday before Labor Day. It promises to be a great event! One highlight will be a field tour on Wednesday of Greenscaped Building/Good Earth Plants facility in San Diego. They have our TerraScreen® living wall indoors, a VGM® edible garden outdoors, and a VertiGreen® Hybrid as well. They will have a broad spectrum of green roof and living wall technologies on display.
At the show we’ll be showing off the versatility of the TerraScreen® interior living walls on stands. This combination allows us to make a “mobile garden”, as one of our clients called it, and really liberated the use of interior green walls. We’ll also be showing off the newest 3rd generation VGM® module, VertiGreen® Hybrid, as well as our pots, planters, and irrigation.
The conference is being held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, located right downtown. If you want to find out more about attending, call us for details!
The National Am. Soc. of Landscape Architects meeting will be taking place at the Washington, DC Convention Center from September 10-13. We love the opportunity each year to connect with our landscape architectural clients, and this year is no exception. The location is central enough that anyone from the Mid-Atlantic seaboard should try to make it.
While in town, you should go by the United States Botanical Gardens (on the National Mall) and check out the VGM® modular living wall that they created. It is a great coincidence for us – last year we had just installed the Garfield Park Conservatory living wall in Chicago before the ASLA, and this year the US Botanical Gardens. There is a very large living wall specified for an exciting new Sir Richard Rogers-designed project on New Jersey St., but that doesn’t appear to be going in until next spring.
We’re also working with the firm of Oehme Van Sweden on this year’s ASLA Legacy project, which will benefit Coolidge High School in Washington. We’ll be donating several large containers to go at the entrance of the garden that they are creating at the school. We’re always pleased to be associated with projects that expand the awareness of landscapes and green building in schools.
If you are interested in getting a show-only day pass for the conference, give us a call at 800-542-2282. We still have a few passes left, and would be glad to see you at the show!
UR-3600 square planters in bronze finish
This high-rise near downtown San Diego, owned by Affirmed Housing Group and built by Turner Construction, was never supposed to be a customer of ours. According to our regional sales representative Jon Willingham, the client had already purchased a significant number of planters from a local manufacturer when Turner and the landscape contractor Benchmark Landscape gave us a call. The unwanted planters were stacked in a corner of the project when he arrived…
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The Pacific Coast Builder’s Conference (PCBC) is the premiere residential home builder’s trade show on the West Coast, and always an important one for ValleyCrest Landscape Development. This year their design team came up with the idea to use living walls for the common areas that they sponsor. Their first call was to Tournesol Siteworks.
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Urban Collection planters after installation
The designer of this project, located in suburban Los Angeles, made the most of a small space with tight weight restrictions. By mixing the modern-feeling Urban Collection planters, large stone mulching, and plant selection, DWLA landscape architects created a modern minimalist feel, getting the most out of the green in the project.
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photo: Earnie Grafton, San Diego Union-Tribune
This great article in the San Diego Union-Tribune highlights the use of the VGM system for an edible wall application at the Urban Corps non-profit in San Diego. The Urban Corps “trains at-risk youths for the workplace with an emphasis on green jobs such as recycling”, and has installed a full edible garden on the roof of their building. Of course the work was done by our friends at Greenscaped Buildings in San Diego – just one of the many living walls they’ve put in recently. Check out the article to find out more…
photo: Earnie Grafton, San Diego Union-Tribune
TerraScreen living wall panels
The law firm of Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch recently put in a spectacular rooftop lounge above their offices in downtown San Diego. Although open to the sky, it is walled in on 4 sides. The designers, including McCullough Landscape Architects, approached Greenscaped Buildings about putting in a living wall on the side of the lounge overlooking the harbor (what a view!!). More images after the break…
When landscape architect Melendrez Assocs. was working on the planters for this student housing project on the Univ. of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, they had originally envisioned 24′ long, galvanized steel troughs. While that may have seemed like an inexpensive solution, the custom fabricating cost, durability, and long-term maintenance made the planters relatively expensive.
Tournesol Siteworks was brought in to look at the job, and was able to provide a lower-cost, more reliable solution by creating custom fiberglass planters with an “unbuffed” aluminum finish. It looks and feels like metal, but doesn’t have the shine of the finished aluminum product. More pictures after the break…
