The House of Pierre behemoths such as the Metropolitan Opera House and Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center has increased itself a parable of green which opened the year last campus redevelopment project. And these days, as owners around the world, Lincoln Center is engaged in the joys and headaches of this suburb sacre du printemps: lawn care.
"It is not as simple as keeping a clean glass wall,", said Peter main Flamm, Director of the Lincoln Center real estate, planning and logistics. "It requires attention and love and care."
The lawn of EUR square feet - at the top of the new restaurant Lincoln, on the Esplanade of the North, along the West 65th Street - had a rough start. He was forced to close two weeks after the opening last June because of mysterious brown spots that proved be dehydration caused by problems of irrigation. It has approximately reopened a week later and remained open until November.
"Are from seeds you get on any project,", said Frank s. Rossi, a scientist of lawn grass and associate professor in the Department of horticulture of Cornell University, who was the guru of the lawn of the Lincoln Center and was a consultant for the lands of the New York Yankees. "Ninety-five per cent of the lawn is not differently handled than any lawn in the Hamptons or Scarsdale".
This season, Lincoln Center is committed to doing things. It is reactivation of improvement of sprinkler systems. fertilization, sowing and mowing the lawn with a value greater than three inches, to minimize the crab grass growth, and the grubs; and aerate the soil and by adding more land. The lawn is scheduled to reopen to the public on May 11.
"I think that this season we will see in full capacity with all functional, all in place," said Elizabeth Diller, whose architecture firm, Diller Scofidio & Renfro, designed the lawn and the rest of the redevelopment of Lincoln Center. "" "". Less than a month, he should be kind of great. "Like all good-looking lawn".
But Lincoln Center is not really like any beautiful lawn - not only because that the grass is held in place by a carpet of cellular polyethylene perforated, known as a geoweb, in addition to its roots, but also because hundreds of thousands of people tromp, picnic and spread around it.
"I do not think they appreciate how popular the thing would be,", said Mr. Rossi, also an expert on golf course maintenance. "You can barely see the grass because there are so many people".
Finally, Ms. Diller would like to see the lawn to remain open throughout the year, but you realize that this could be bad for the grass, not to mention pocketbook of Lincoln Center, if a disputed person decided to drag onto it, skis or sled, after a snowfall.
"I am a little concerned about it get too popular", said Ms. Diller. "It must be lush and wonderful and always feel that you can have a corner of the Earth".
Officially called the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination lawn after its principal funder, the grass is more disputed by its versatile identity of ceiling of restaurant, public park and sustainable roof. "It's got be right there with the most unusual lawns, in the world," said Adrian Benepe, Commissioner of the city parks.
Of course, the lawn consumed a prodigious amount of psychic energy and expertise agricultural long before it opened. The firm Diller has conducted research on more robust herbs which could withstand rigorous winters in New York and New York hard accusing a traffic. (The architects settled on mixed with Bluegrass fescue.) The firm has drawn on its experience of design of an exhibition of 1998, "The American Lawn: Surface of everyday life," at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.
In Jersey City, the architects built a mock-up of the scale of the lawn in Lincoln Center studied through the seasons, tests of the various species of grasses. And they enlisted Mr. Rossi - a k a Dr. Turf, said Ms. Diller - who wrote the end operation and lawn maintenance manual.
Mr. Rossi, stated that the grass was also chosen because it can withstand the "heat island effect," caused by concrete and glass, surrounding and requires less water, fertilizer and pesticides than regular lawn.
"If you take the right grass from the outset on your lawn, you inherently have to do less of it," he said. "Therefore the owners must take account for the time and effort, that we have taken to obtain the good grass." It starts with getting the right grass. ?
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