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I agree with the above mentioned methods, the factors that I have seen that require stabilizer are in areas of freeze/thaw (it may help), in areas of high rain (minimizes some repair work), in areas where there is high traffic (especially bikes or golf carts), and if it is a handicap access (check local regulations). otherwise plain DG is normally…[Read more]

Landon,
Also, if you were attempting to really impress someone or just wanted a different term for “sense of place” you can go with Genus loci.

6 to one person, half dozen to another person.

We’re just having the antiskate benches fabricated from shop drawings. We import a lot of custom sized and finished cut stone from China – pavers, slab etc. A customer asked us to come up with something antiskateboard for this project. So we designed it to their size requirements, spec’d a groove size that would hard to skate on but still OK to…[Read more]

It can be done either way. I think a lot of it will be based on the amount of foot traffic that it will get. usually using a 1/4″ minus granite. It can be done by just rolling/tamping it. Or there are many different types of liquid stabilizers out there. Your granite suppliers usually carry some form of it, or paver suppliers will often stock it…[Read more]

It depends on the material but for the most part the installations we have used it in and they have varied including high traffic commercial applications, we have pretty much done nothing except put it down. We have in some situations had to put a fabric under neath to stabalize the soil. Decomposed granite is a very good path material and is…[Read more]

Thanks for the good information. I hope others will illuminate as well.

I’ll be interested to see what other responses there are (specifically on costs and companies), as this is something I’m looking at as well. The only name I know of and that a previous firm I worked for used was Leatzow.

I can tell you that most state licensure laws have a provision/requirement for a minimum amount of professional liability…[Read more]

Do you have any pictures or a link to this product?

Recent advances in stone fabricating technology enable my business, Groundfloor Stone, to provide a variety of aesthetic and cost-efficient antiskateboard solutions. We have a current order for six granite 18″x18″x72″ benches for a school district in northern New Mexico. These have been etched crossways end to end with a 1″ wide by .25″ deep…[Read more]

Believe it or not, Hotel Modera is already on my list. So you are right on with what I’m looking for.

The Hotel Modera in Portland has a nice courtyard with Living Wall. Unfortunately, it was under construction when I was there last summer.

Hotel Modera

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take a look at some of the projects on DPZ’s site (Duany Plater Zyrbek). Sorry, cant remember the address off hand, just google it. They have lots of small town centers and infills there with good data on the projects. You could also look at some of the graphics from my capstone project on my folio. I did a mixed use town center for a rural…[Read more]

As for sprawl the best thing that I know of is Portland Oregon, one of the few larger cities in the US that placed a expansion boundary on a city that was not geographically bounded on three of its sides (it has agricultural and environmental open space on the three sides, and a river to its north) as for in fill are you looking for good or bad…[Read more]

you can always look to Vegas… themed gardens and themed architecture give you a chance to see what others interperate as the vision of a place.

I think I found it, Andrew – Home Ground, Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez, Trinity University Press – good words in there – krumholz…I think that was the one I remembered..I found it on the New York Times Book Review, search the Book Review since 1981 button, (NOT the whole New York Times…) and there is a pretty…[Read more]

I looked the other day and couldnt’ find it – it was a big glossy well-marketed book..I will try again – seems like it came out like four years ago – I’ll get back to you…

Really? Do you remember the title of this book? Hoodoos is a fun word…