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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The Southwest Washington Medical Center Parking Structure, Vancouver, WA
Back in the Fall of 2005, we were just starting to hang planters off the side of buildings. We had recently acquired Flower Framers of Cincinnati, a manufacturer of window boxes and other hanging planters. That led to the insight that we could probably do the same type of product for larger commercial applications. The planters at the Southwest Washington Medical Center, installed in 2005, were one of our first attempts at the design and fabrication of large, custom hanging boxes. The photograph taken above, and most following, were taken by our sales manager John Denman during a visit to Vancouver, WA in December, 6 years after the product was installed.
Custom hanging planters, taken in the Fall of 2011
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Tags: Custom, Hanging Planters, lessons learned, Revisit, Washington
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
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
Monday, March 7th, 2011
Design for custom irrigation insert for Frontgate
It’s been some time since we’ve had a product other than our Flower Framer windowboxes sold in the retail arena. We were delighted to be approached by Frontgate (a division of Cinmar), who were looking for a container irrigation insert to sell along with an exclusive pot this year. They were able to fit our standard CWC-1300 and CWC-1600 irrigation inserts to several pots that they offer, but had something special in mind for their feature product this Spring. They wanted a custom size for a large, square woven planter.
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Tags: catalog, container irrigation, Custom, Frontgate
Monday, May 24th, 2010
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…
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Tags: California, Custom, VertiGreen, Wilshire
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Corner-mounted TerraScreen interior living wall
A small residential installation of a TerraScreen interior living wall illustrates the flexibility of the system into nearly any application. This unit, a TW-7049 panel, was cut in two and wrapped a corner of the dining room of this home. Pictures of how it was done after the break…
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Tags: California, Custom, Living Wall, residential, TerraScreen
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
I wanted to feature this installation because it showcases the durability of the FRP material in demanding circumstances. A few posts ago (Hyatt Regency Gainey Ranch) I repeated something I’d heard from a local contractor in Phoenix (and I paraphrase) – “after one year outside in Phoenix, most fiberglass containers are toast”. These pots were installed in Dec. ’07, and these images were taken in April ’10. The “AAA-five diamond” Fairmont Hotel in Scottsdale, AZ isn’t exactly a low-traffic installation, and the pots are still looking great. It’s a direct result of the way we manufacture our fiberglass. We use 2-3x more fiberglass than most manufacturers and won’t ever “cut” our product with fillers that add to the weight without adding strength. More images after the break…
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Tags: Arizona, Custom, Quality, Trash Can, Wilshire Collection
Friday, February 5th, 2010
- 36″ x 36″ x 31″ Deepstream IPE planter with Tournesol thermoplastic liner
We work closely with several other manufacturers of pots, planters and containers, and thought it might be interesting to show the results of our collaboration. Deepstream Designs creates wonderful planters using extruded aluminum legs and IPE wood slats (as shown above), or resin and composite panels. We provide them with our standard thermoplastic planter liners (either with or without container irrigation), or in this case, custom-manufactured welded planter liners.
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Tags: Custom, Deepstream Designs, Florida, planter liner
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
The previous two posts about San Jose featured applications of Tournesol Siteworks pots and planters used to green the streets of Downtown. This post features one of the city’s most interesting experiments – widening the sidewalks. Click to continue »
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Tags: California, Custom, CWM Modular, GFRC, streetscape, Wilshire Collection
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
The City of San Jose, CA, has made amazing strides in greening their downtown this year, and Tournesol Siteworks has been fortunate to provide pots and irrigation for most of the work. Click to continue »
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Tags: California, Custom, GFRC, hanging, in the news, Urban Collection, Wilshire Boxes
