PROTECTIVE GEAR FOR NEW YORK CITY TREES.It's tough being a tree in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City--traumatized by trash trucks, deified de·i·fy tr.v. dei·fied, dei·fy·ing, dei·fies 1. To make a god of; raise to the condition of a god. 2. To worship or revere as a god: deify a leader. 3. by dogs, and banged up by bicycles. One on 53rd Street was so mistreated that a longtime resident on the block posted a sign: Please Do Not Trash This Tree. Enter nonprofit Trees New York, which together with Cooper Union art school decided to go beyond signage while adding a touch of pizzazz. Their international design competition for tree guards that also function as bike racks drew more than 125 entries. Manuel Saez's winning combination of full and semi-circles that ring each tree, "The Adonis," was created while he was an undergraduate in industrial design at the University of Bridgeport University of Bridgeport is a private, non-sectarian university in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. Its campus is located in South Bridgeport on Long Island Sound. The University offers undergraduate, graduate, and health sciences programs. . Now a master's student in Bridgeport's technology-management program, Saez says he liked the challenge of creating a design that would be appealing and cheaply mass produced. His is made of steel. Concern for trees was a bit of a motivator. "Every time I go to New York, I see all the bicycles--just a wheel or a bike frame--tied to a tree," he says. "And that's kind of sad. That was a good inspiration." Saez won $3,000 for his design, which, along with the design of the runner-up, James Smith James Smith is the name of: People named James Smith Sports figures
The competition, which AMERICAN FORESTS American Forests is a nonprofit conservation organization that promotes healthy forests and urban tree planting. The organization was established in 1875 as the American Forestry Association, by physician/horticulturist John Aston Warder and a group of like-minded citizens helped judge, was supported by a grant from the USDA USDA, n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council (www.treelink.org/nucfac). |
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