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THE ESSENTIAL E-NEWSLETTER FOR WATERSHAPE DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS
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| August 9, 2017 www.watershapes.com |
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FEATURE ARTICLE
Split-Level Pond
Setting up a vanishing-edge Koi pond offers unusual challenges to the watershaper. First, notes Scott Cohen, you need to accommodate the fish and keep them safe. Then there are the aesthetic issues — plus a few details of installation that require extra-special attention. [more] |
 FEATURE ARTICLE
A Full Day’s Delight
A crucial part of the backyard design process these days, writes Glen MacGillivray, is motivating homeowners to venture outside after dark. Here’s a look at how he approaches this day-to-night transition, from keeping the water moving to making it glow. [more]
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TFEATURE ARTICLE
Pond-Algae Strategies
Although a little algae in a pond is generally a good and inevitable thing, observes Mike Gannon, a bloom of any noticeable extent is never truly welcome. That’s why he has sized up and is ready to recommend a number of ways to help keep the intrusive greenery at bay. [more]
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ESSENTIAL
Coordinated Perspective
Working together for the first time, designer Stephanie Rose and builder Randy Beard became quickly and closely allied in their effort to complete a challenging project for extremely particular clients — a couple who, from concept to construction, also became key collaborators in the project. The result is a contemporary composition that blends an understated watershape and tasteful plantings with an outstanding collection of modern art.
This article, originally published in WaterShapes in November 2005, has been digitized for all readers. Click here to see the full text and enlarge the images to study them in detail.
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TRAVELOGUE
An Edge of Honor
The Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Worcester’s Green Hill Park was a labor of love when it was completed and dedicated in 2002: It unfolds as a serene, symbolic tribute to self-sacrifice and the anguish of war — and it’s well worth a visit to this day. [more]
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WATERSHAPES WORLD
Sad Partings
Herman Silverman and John Kelley, Jr., both passed away recently, a fact that has prompted Jim McCloskey to share some thoughts on their roles in shaping the industry as we know it — and in helping a young editor find his way into its deeper history, meaning and culture. [more]
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WE BROWSE SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO . . .
Inspiration Dept.: Check out this photographic survey of the most amazing hotel pools in the USA. [more]It all goes to show how much the setting really matters!
Odd Response Dept.: The citizens of Belgrade don’t seem to be taking a shine to their new musical fountain. [more]
It may be excessive, but it’ll be treasured before too long.
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WATERSHAPES CLASSIC
Straight Talk
In working on projects across a range of sizes, styles and price tags as his career developed, wrote Bruce Zaretsky back in 2007, he came to recognize key truths about the nature of the business. [more]
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Roman Fountains Offers Nozzle with LED Lights
Roman Fountains (North Venice, FL) manufactures the RRDJ2-XX-DH-LED, a flush-mounted nozzle/LED light assembly for fountain applications. The units consist of high-strength, roto-molded, polypropylene niche bodies with stainless steel grates and nozzle inserts. There are three available spray patterns and a choice of white or RGB lights. For details, click here.
Artistic Paver Introduces PlankLock Pavers
Artistic Paver Mfg. (North Miami Beach, FL) has unveiled PlankLock, a paver system designed to have the look of long, narrow planks that can be arranged in either linear or herringbone patterns. The decorative units are salt-resistant, are available in light colors for cooler surfaces, and have beveled edges to reduce trip hazards and chip-outs. For details, click here.
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WPN UPDATE
Another Face
in a Crowd?
Watershapers have a distinct ability to produce spectacular work — and, to be honest, frequent difficulty when it comes to calling their skills and talents to the attention of homeowners and others who are interested in making water part of their daily lives.
That’s where the WaterShapes Professional Network comes in: building a collective web presence in which dozens and, eventually, hundreds of sites participate as an interlinked colossus, it involves watershapers in a group entity large enough that the search engines can’t overlook it. So if it’s a strong (or stronger) web presence you’re after, check it out.
The Network is working just the way we’d hoped: Time to click aboard?
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