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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Mi Dia restaurant patio, Dallas, TX
In 2008 we fabricated a custom Urban planter for a retail mall project in Florida. The planter was designed to hide bollards, so was designed specifically to be the same size as our 24″ square, but 48″ tall. Once that project was complete, we adapted the tool for our own use – and the Urban Tall planter was born.
The pot is something of a “red-headed stepchild”. It is has different proportions than the rest of the Urban Collection, and so only garners one line in our marketing materials. Nevertheless, it has become one of our more popular planters. Although it doesn’t get much attention, we felt it deserves it’s own post.
The planters in the image above and below were specified & installed by GHA Architecture/Development of Dallas, TX. The Mi Dia From Scratch restaurant, and the neighboring Winewood Restaurant (both located in Grapevine) used the URT-2400 with our CWC-R1850 container irrigation self-watering insert. All the containers were delivered in the T-0 texture in black.
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Posted in Commercial, Company News, Hospitality, Multi-Family Residential, Pots, Planters & Site Furnishings, Products | 2 Responses »
Tags: California, container irrigation, New York, Texas, Urban Collection, Urban Tall
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, 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
Monday, November 29th, 2010
all photos courtesy of Blondies Treehouse
This is a project that will define the capabilities of what our new VertiGreen Hybrid system can do. That might sound a little dramatic, but when we saw the images, we realized that the contractor, Blondies Treehouse of Mamaroneck, NY, really understands the product and used it to their advantage. As a reminder, they gained experience with the product at the Whole Foods store in Long Grove, NY. Click to continue »
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Tags: Jean Nouvel, New York, VertiGreen Hybrid
Monday, November 1st, 2010
photos courtesy of Blondies Treehouse
You may recall the post that we featured here, about this Whole Foods store located in Lake Grove, NY. As we mentioned in that post, the installation of the initial 128 sq. ft. of living wall went so well that the owner decided to expand the wall to the entire area. Blondies Treehouse of Mamaroneck, NY, was the contractor that did both the intial as well as the subsequent installation. They’ve been extremely pleased with the way the VertiGreen Hybrid it has been growing in. We’re hoping to get installation images from another, much larger installation that they’ve recently done soon.
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Tags: Grocery stores, living walls, New York, VertiGreen Hybrid, Whole Foods
Monday, October 4th, 2010
All photographs courtesy of Town & Gardens Ltd.
Meet Hanna – and welcome to her wall. Not her wall, technically – it belongs to a commercial client in Manhattan. It graces the interior of their SoHo neighborhood offices. But Hanna is a senior designer with Town & Gardens, Ltd., and this is her baby. She’s justifiably proud of her work. More images after the jump…
The upper story of the wall, shown from the second level
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Tags: Commercial, New York, TerraScreen, Town & Gardens
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Images taken 1 month after installation
For those of you who follow us, you probably saw a “First Look” posting about a month ago featuring our newest living wall product, the VertiGreen Hybrid. The project, a Whole Foods Market in Lake Grove, NY, is one of the first larger-scale installations of this product anywhere! More images and information after the break…
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Tags: Blondie's Treehouse, Living Wall, New York, VertiGreen Hybrid, Whole Foods
Friday, June 25th, 2010
All photos courtesy of Blondie's Treehouse
We’d been working on a living wall project for this new Whole Foods grocery store on Long Island for the past few months with Blondie’s Treehouse of Mamaroneck, NY. The building had been approved with a living wall element as an integral part of the facade, so the store couldn’t open without it.
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Tags: assembly, Blondie's Treehouse, living walls, New York, VertiGreen Hybrid, Whole Foods
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
The trees at the 10th Ave. Plaza are all in Tournesol Siteworks liners
When we were first contacted to assist with the liners for the Highline in New York, we knew immediately that it was going to be a big deal. For those not familiar with it, a stretch of abandoned elevated railroad track running through the meatpacking district in NYC was converted into an elevated park. You can find a variety of images here. Very cool. And, very newsworthy – it has gotten more hype and publicity than nearly any other project we’ve been associated with. Too bad, then, that no one will ever see the product that we made for it!
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Tags: fiberglass (FRP), New York, planter liners
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
all images courtesy of Greener by Design, New York City
Far above the corner of Eighth Ave. and 34th St. in New York, the Haymes Investment Company has created an idyllic terrace garden on the 22nd floor of the 5 Penn Plaza building. Designed by Landgarden Landscape Architects and maintained by Greener by Design, the project used Urban and Wilshire Collection planters to create a comfortable space overlooking the New York skyline.
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Tags: Greener by Design, New York, roof garden, terrace, Urban Collection, Wilshire Collection
