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Steve Martino replied to the topic Container resources in the forum STORY BOARD 10 years, 8 months ago
Kornegay designs
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Steve Martino replied to the topic 100 lessons learned from studying landscape architecture in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 12 years, 2 months ago
I’m working on a talk about garden design for the upcoming ASLA convention. part of my talk is “lessons you didn’t learn in school”, one is: landscaping is a situation where you can spend an enormous amount of money and when your done you still can have all the problems you started with….it’s often just eyewash.
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Steve Martino replied to the topic Need design help for telescoping gate in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 12 years, 2 months ago
thank you, this is not the company that i saw. i will contact these people to see if they can make a wider 3 section gate. they seem to have a different mechanism than the other gate companies. i think i will need to find an inventor to make it. thanks again.
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Steve Martino replied to the topic Need design help for telescoping gate in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 12 years, 2 months ago
thanks for the reply, these doors need a top and bottom rail. they are great doors one of my recent projects used them.
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Steve Martino replied to the topic Need design help for telescoping gate in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 12 years, 2 months ago
Russell, thanks for the response, i am hoping to find a gate company in LA that has experience w/ this type of gate, the gate design is sitting at the moment while we search for a company w/ this experience. if it comes down to having to invent the gate myself i will give you a call for some help. I’m nearby in Sunnyslope. this client expects the…[Read more]
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Steve Martino replied to the topic What is your favorite Landscape History book? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 12 years, 3 months ago
a few books on my shelf:
Title: The Poetics of Gardens Author(s): Charles W. Moore, William J Mitchell, William Turnbull, Jr. Publisher: The MIT PressThe Architecture of Western Gardens
Editors: Mosser and Teyssot
Publisher: MIT PressThe History of Gardens
Author: Christopher Thacker
Publisher: University of California Press
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Steve Martino replied to the topic Could anyone on the premises restore or design an installation without buying plants in nurseries? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 12 years, 10 months ago
absolutely, i have always thought you could design an entire garden with plants people throw out in the alley for the trash men to take away. i have salvaged numerous plants for my garden by just finding them. when i trim my succulents and cactus from my garden i hate to throw them out. i put them in salvaged nursery cans from my projects, after…[Read more]
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Steve Martino replied to the topic Revisions- Proposal and Contractual Clauses in the forum PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 12 years, 11 months ago
Amanda, i have been working for myself for over 35 years and i have probably learned most things the hard way. i read your story a few times trying to understand what you are saying rather than what you are asking. Seth and Andrew have given you some practical advice, i can give you practical advice but i think it might be more beneficial to give…[Read more]
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Steve Martino posted an update in the group MENTORS: WISE and TRUSTED counselors or teachers. 12 years, 12 months ago
This is my 5th recession, it took me years to recover from the savings & loan crash. i thought i had a safe niche, no more developer or commercial work. i have focused on high-end high design residential and cultural projects which i was sure was recession proof. what do i know? the last few years i could have used a mentor.
i started a blog…[Read more]