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lighting elements Above A D3 Media controller and Pharos Controller now control the new and existing LED lighting, via Knet2 protocol over Cat6 or fiber optic cable. The controls are split between three control racks. The main controller is located in the basement under Roosevelt Street near the maintenance office. for planting both in front of and behind the line of yews or boxwood, creating an illusion of depth even in narrow beds. Another request of Mr. McCaffery was for a feature that would draw patrons back to the Roosevelt Collection, visit after visit. The idea for a koi pond came from a desire to make an attraction at the center of the space that would delight all ages. After a visit to the huge koi pond in the historic Union Station in St. Louis, Missouri, the design team decided that this dynamic water feature was perfect for the centerpiece of this park-like space. ���We were tasked with making the space a ���knockout,������ Mor said. The team drew further inspiration from the warming allure that nighttime lighting brings to the plazas of Europe. ���After seeing the Roosevelt Collection in person in August 2011, the need for alluring lighting was one of the things we stressed most to Mr. McCaffery and the Antunovich architects,��� Mor added. ���Specifically, we addressed the large white globe lights installed at the entrance by playing off their ���egg��� nature and creating a ���nest��� around them using dogwood and perennial grasses.��� Another special set of landscape elements was the fire pits, which give a sense of enclosure and separation from the busy roadways. Tall hedges were incorporated to provide a botanical wall around the outdoor living rooms. The plant design was 62 Landscape Architect and Specifier News installed on mounded soil beds. There were both climatic and logistical conditions that made this project challenging. The site can be especially hot and windy, even for those experienced with the extreme conditions of the Chicago climate. Wind is funneled into the space by the outward curved shape of the buildings at its entrance, and sunlight reflects off the glass fa��ade to such a degree that it becomes a solar oven. Furthermore, since the site was built above an underground parking lot, the design team had to work with extremely narrow and shallow planting beds. For this reason, the weight of the soil and plants also had to be kept to a minimum. The immediacy of the project���s schedule became another design obstacle when many of the plants originally specified by the designers had to be substituted for flora more readily available. Some areas were redesigned on site, and others were completed with whatever seasonal plants were available during that season. The 2012 annual plantings were composed strictly of the plants available at the date the team received the design assignment. Thus, the plant list for many areas of the project is comprised of two complex lists: the first is a list of the plants pre-ordered and custom grown for spring 2013 and the years after; the second is composed of available substitutes for installation midsummer through autumn of 2012.