New Pics from the Honolulu Moderne, nee Edition Waikiki

Last year, I was able to work (at Deborah Nevins Associates, with Ian Schrager Company and Yabu Pushelberg) on the Edition: Waikiki hotel in Honolulu.  I spent about four weeks on site doing construction administration, which was an absolutely (stressful) great time.

Last week I got to revisit the site (now operated as an Aqua property.  That's a long story.), and see how the design is faring.  I was delighted to see everything looking good.

The Alexander Palms (Archontophoenix alexandre) look great, as does the beach morning glory near the pool (we originally used plumbago, which didn't handle the chlorine spray well). 

On the lower pool deck, the autograph trees (Clusia rosea) are faring beautifully, despite relatively petite planters.  The maintenance team will need to regularly root prune them now, however.

It was so fun to have a Mai Tai on the pool deck that I first saw as a raw concrete slab with CMU block planters.  The shot below is during tree placement in April 2010.

This is the same view from last week. 

Seriously - what a fun job it is to be a landscape architect!