Atlantic Water Gardens (Mantua, OH) has introduced seven models of TidalWave3 pond pumps. Designed to…
Pentair Commercial Aquatics (Sanford, NC) manufactures a complete line of Paragon railings for commercial and…
Lorentz (Henstedt-Ulzburg, Germany) offers PS solar swimming pool pumps for use in residential and commercial…
Safe-Rain (Toledo, Spain) has introduced Waterboy Plus, a dry-deck fountain kit made of stainless steel…
RicoRock (Orlando, FL) now offers builders an improved system for adding custom structural grottos and…
EasyPro Pond Products (Grant, MI) has added Serenity as a new color in its line…
For most of my life, I've been lucky to live within easy driving distance of a bunch of great national parks. Yosemite, Sequoia, Joshua Tree - the names alone flood my mind with memories of towering waterfalls, raging rivers, incredible landscapes, amazing rock formations and campfires that couldn't quite keep the cold at bay. In all my visits through the years, I've seen these "neighborhood" parks as naturalistic-design laboratories, as settings in which careful observation influences the work, fills the spirit and send watershapers back to the drawing board with all sorts of general ideas that might be of use down the line. Conceptual and visual treats, in other words - the stuff of inspiration. Last month, my wife and I ranged a bit farther afield than usual, hopping a plane to visit Yellowstone National Park. I have to say that the experience completely altered my sense of what a "naturalistic-design laboratory" might be. In this one park, I saw more
Once a new swimming pool is filled with water and turned over to its owners, the designer and builder have completed their work: Let's assume that the results have met or exceeded the clients' expectations and that everyone is pleased by the outcome. If all has truly gone well, little will occur in subsequent weeks to change the general sense of
'If you ask my employees,' wrote Bruce Zaretsky in starting his July 2010 On the Level column, 'they'll tell you that I'm an unrelenting pain in the neck - a real tyrant. That's because I'm always asking nagging sorts of questions such as, "Why isn't this project finished yet?" or "How much longer is this going to take?" or "Can you speed things up?" 'My questions, of course, are somewhat unfair. . . . But I have no reluctance to come across as a tyrant
