Downtown and Wilshire Collection planters, The Clark Hotel, Los Angeles
We recently worked with Syntax Builders on the pool deck of the Clark Hotel. This historic hotel in the heart of downtown L.A. was built in 1913, and known for most of its years as the Hotel Clark. The current owners are adding a pool and lounge area, and reopening the building as a 350-room hotel.
New 2- and 3-stream Urban Collection recyclers
If you flip through this year’s catalog, you’ll find that we put a lot of work into expanding our range of ash & trash receptacles. We’ve added a number of options to what we were creating before, including adding a range of 1-, 2- and 3- stream recycling systems. They will be part of our Urban and Wilshire Collections, two of our best selling products.
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 »
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 »
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 »
Using Wilshire Rectangles to form a "living wall"
While we’re on the “hotels in Los Angeles” theme here (see the last post), it seemed a good time to post a few pictures from a project we worked on earlier this year. While it wasn’t a particularly large installation, it demonstrates nicely, as did the Hotel Redbury project, how Wilshire Collection rectangular planters can be used to form a sort of living wall. More after the jump…
The Glade at the Redbury Hotel
The Redbury Hotel just opened at the famed corner of Hollywood and Vine in Hollywood, CA. This upscale boutique hotel, part of The sbe Collection, features a terrace garden that they’ve called “The Glade”, which includes (from their website):
Teak Decking, oversized wicker furniture, large planters, daybeds, moorish inspired lanterns, and lush landscaping with wall of creeping fig & trees
in short, it sounds like paradise! More after the jump…
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…
University Village Starbucks is one of the busiest in Seattle
Most have heard of the problems Starbucks Coffee stores went through several years ago, leading to significant changes to their chain- retraining employees, shuttering underperforming stores (including one near us), re-emphasizing the coffee experience, etc. We were excited to be contacted by Starbucks’ Seattle-based design team to work with them on their new store concept.
More after the break…
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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