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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Los Feliz Residence - photos courtesy of Park Slope Landscape
A while back we featured a few images of a residential project in a blog post titled “Another satisfied customer”. Joan Grabel of Park Slope Landscape worked on the Gurman Residence in Santa Monica, transforming a beatiful 1924 home with an average landscape into something special.
Not only did she send a few images to us (and thank us for a job well done), she submitted the project to the Pro Portfolio section of the Los Angeles Times.
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Tags: Arcade Collection, California, container irrigation, CWF Flower Bowl, CWM Modual, Downtown Collection, GFRC
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
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Booth #2805, ASLA EXPO in San Diego
The sales team is looking forward to the next few days at the American Society of Landscape Architects conference in San Diego. We’ve been exhibiting at their EXPO for almost 15 years, and it is always a good chance to connect with our most important group of clients. Come visit us at booth #2805 anytime over the next two days.
This year promises to be something special. The show is bigger than ever – more floor space, more exhibitors, and more attendees. It hasn’t been on the West Coast for some time, so we expect to see many contacts from California.
We’re also showing something special - site furnishings, featuring our new Boulevard™ Upcycled Urban woods. We’ve got our Sydney Collection bench and table there, the modular people-oriented TWIG bench, as well as the new VersiJack deck and paver supports. We’ll have David Shaw, founder of our Australian partner Street & Garden Furniture, as well as Jerry Soh of our Singaporean partner Elmich on hand. It promises to be a great show…
We're showing a bench featuring our new Boulevard Upcycled Urban wood
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Tags: ASLA, Boulevard Upcycled Wood, California
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
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
The Fixtures Living showroom in Costa Mesa, CA
We recently received several installation shots from our friends at Instant Jungle in Santa Ana. They worked with Kevin Evernham at Fitch, a leading retail architect in Scottsdale, AZ and Burke Construction on the showroom for Fixtures Living in Costa Mesa, CA. The people at Fitch describe the showroom best:
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Tags: California, Custom, Instant Jungle, Interior, 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
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
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Tournesol Siteworks goes to the beach!
This looks like a great place to hang out this Labor Day weekend! A casual patio on the beach in San Clemente, CA, is a design by Jim Pekarske Landscape Architecture. Click to continue »
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Tags: autofill, California, edible, residential, Wilshire Collection
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
