For many watershapers, plants are a mere afterthought. That’s a mistake, says “garden artisan” Scott Cohen. He takes the opposite approach by embracing planted areas as one of the primary design elements in all of his company’s projects. Doing so, he explains here, reduces liability, increases project control and opens up myriad design possibilities.
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Superior Shade offers suspended cantilever shade structures, which utilize suspension braces at the top of the structure to support the extended shade. This allows for a single column per beam. Features include 8-foot and 12-foot entry height, surface or inground mounting and 20 shade fabric colors. Read more here.
AquaStar Pool Products, Inc. is now offering a new line of filters. Pipeline Filters are available in two different sizes: the PLF27000 for pools up to 27,000 gallons, and the PLF35000 for pools up to 35,000 gallons, both with compact footprints. The filters feature a patented safe-release collar for lid and feature a double-locking ring that mechanically compresses and decompresses the O-ring seal using two large handles. Read more here.
CGT offers Poolside’s new shimmering Skyline Mosaic liner. Inspired by both city skylines and water reflections, the liner is printed on pale-blue pool liner material, and is enhanced with Poolside’s exclusive "aquashimmer" feature, which adds the sparkling effect. Engineered with added chemical and UV protection, the Skyline Mosaic is available to fabricators in North America and Europe from Poolside’s collection of pool liner materials. Read more here.
Marilyn Monroe’s legacy has a new home in a plaza directly adjacent the recently dedicated Downtown Park in Palm Springs, Calif. It’s a beautiful park with an ingenious design that blends modernism of the fabled resort city, while harmonizing with the desert environment. It also features a truly beautiful and inventive watershape.
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Joan Roca has designed and built pools in some of the most beautiful locations in the Western Hemisphere, each conceived to harmonize and enhance their surroundings. For all of his years of watershaping mastery, there’s something about this subtle pool on a wooded hillside in Panama that stands out.
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Atlantic Outdoors offers Pergolas, Pavilions and Gazebos in many different styles, in wood, vinyl or heavy timber-frame models. Size profiles are customizable – ranging from 8’x10’ to 16’x16’. Gazebos are available as octagons, ovals and rectangles. All structures offer the choice of roof color, roof materials and stain/vinyl color.
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While lawsuits and expert witnessing has become an unfortunate cottage industry for the watershaping industry, long-time mediator and watershaper, Curt Straub, urges professionals and their clients to think in terms of “alternative dispute resolution” methods ahead of turning to civil court action. Doing so, he says, saves time, money and frustration.
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As the New Year dawns and uncertainty remains, the big questions about the future far outweigh the answers. While editor Eric Herman freely admits that his own crystal ball has been on the fritz for the past two years -- as he points out -- knowing what we don’t know, as well as what we do, has value in assessing the road ahead.
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We all know that water is essential to life, but do we know why, or to what extent the presence of water influences living organisms. Here Eric Herman shares insights found in an amazing and venerable text written in the 1960s known as “The Sensitive Chaos” a treatise on the influence of water that touches all aspects of biological science, as well as geology and weather patterns.
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