Landscape Architect & Specifier News

APR 2013

LASN is a photographically oriented, professional journal featuring topics of concern and state-of-the-art projects designed or influenced by registered Landscape Architects.

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Right & Inset The Twin Tower steel I-beam artifact is illuminated by seven 90-watt halogen PAR38 uplights positioned and aimed to enhance the details of the beam. The color temperature is 2700 Kelvin, a color perceived as yellowish white, a warm glow that complements the beam��s rust color. All the fixtures on site, except for the lighting under the granite benches, were given custom shrouds. Above & Right Custom 6-ft. long, 15-watt, 3500K LED linear strip luminaires behind acrylic opal lenses are tucked into the outside edge of the pentagonal planter that surrounds the steel beam. The light strips are angled down 45-degrees (inset) to illuminated the stainless steel plates with the 2,977 engraved names of the Twin Towers�� victims. The strip lighting also throws some peripheral light onto the walking path around the planter. Beverly Hills fire chief Tim Scranton personally selected the charred, bent 30-foot structural I-beam from the New York Port Authority as the main focus of the 9/11 Memorial on North Rexford Drive in Beverly Hills. In January 2009, Jim Ply, president, Oak Crest Landscape http://oakcrestlandscape.com in Pasadena, Calif., was selected to conceive and design all aspects of the Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial. It was only after the memorial was complete that he undertook the challenge of designing the memorial lighting. Jim has over 25 years of experience in landscape design and installation, from quaint cottages in Laguna Beach to estates in Beverly Hills. Design Intent The design intent was to produce an inviting public memorial that would be as visually powerful at night 54 Landscape Architect and Specifier News as during the day. The steel I-beam artifact from Ground Zero is the main feature. It stands within an elevated pentagonal planter that is meticulously engraved with all 2,977 names of the deceased on the five angled-top surfaces. To the left of the planter stands two large stone Twin Towers, both carefully scaled to the exact proportions of the real Towers. Just beyond the towers a field of nonmowable turf was planted to represent the 40 victims of the crash of hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 in a field near Shanksville, Penn. Design Limitations The focal point of the monument was to be the steel artifact beam, but when the highly reflective stone panels of the Twin Towers were installed, it was clear eye went more to the towers than the steel beam. The dark rusted finish of the steel, combined with the several large brows created by the beam���s (Continued on page 56)

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