2021 Green Industry Economic Report

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SingleOps, the leading business management software for outdoor service providers, has published its 2021 Green Industry Economic Report. The report includes data from thousands of green industry professionals in commercial and residential landscaping and tree care businesses in North America who used SingleOps in 2020. A key takeaway from the report is that landscape and tree care businesses persevered in 2020 despite challenges brought on by the pandemic, and various metrics indicate the industry as a whole performed well.

The 2021 Green Industry Economic Report is similar to previous economic reports published by SingleOps. It includes key industry metrics such as proposal acceptance rate, time to payment, and revenue per hour. In creating the report, SingleOps analyzed over 700,000 proposed jobs totaling $1.4 billion and nearly 400,000 accepted jobs totaling nearly $700 million. Following are some of the reports key findings:

One-off Landscaping

This section focuses on landscaping services that take place only once, such as landscape design, irrigation repair, installs, supply retail, and delivery.

Commercial and residential one-off landscaping service providers performed well in 2020. The average revenue per job for commercial projects was $1,598 compared to $1,198 for residential jobs. Commercial job proposals were accepted by clients 75% of the time compared to 59% for residential proposals. Time to pay for commercial jobs was 17 days versus 8 for residential, and the revenue per hour was $125 for commercial jobs compared to $139 for residential.

Recurring Landscaping

This section of the report focuses on landscape services that take place on a recurring basis such as weekly lawn cuttings.

Providers of commercial and residential recurring landscape services also enjoyed a strong 2020. Average revenue per commercial job was $5,390 compared to $842 for residential work. Commercial providers achieved a 92% acceptance rate on proposals while residential proposals were approved at a rate of 97%. Time to payment for commercial jobs was 21 days compared to 13 for residential, and the average revenue per hour for commercial jobs was $128 versus $194 for residential.

Tree Care

This section of the report focuses on the services provided by arborists and tree care professionals, including pruning, tree removal, plant health care, cabling and bracing, transplanting, fertilization, and lightning protection.

Commercial tree care service providers raked in an average of $4,620 per job last year compared to $1,369 for residential jobs. Commercial providers achieved a 62% acceptance rate on proposals while residential proposals were approved at a rate of 49%. Time to payment for commercial jobs was 24 days compared to 7 for residential and revenue per hour was $112 for commercial jobs and $120 for residential.

Across each service and customer type covered in this report, the number of proposals delivered increased and the time to payment went down, said Sean McCormick, CEO of SingleOps. These are significant insights, so we wanted to determine some of the main drivers of these trends. And a big takeaway was that the data pointed to adoption of specific software functionality, in particular digital estimates and integrated payments technology. Companies that leverage digital signatures, automated invoicing, digital/contactless payments, automated reminders, and self-serve customer portals saw higher than average sales activity and A/R efficiency, which isn't surprising for a single company, but to see accelerated adoption of these technologies influencing positive trends industry-wide, that's exciting.

Data in the 2021 Green Industry Economic Report has been aggregated and anonymized to protect the identity of SingleOps customers. The complete report can be found here.

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SingleOps is the leading all-in-one business management software for outdoor service industries, including tree care, lawn care, full-service landscaping, sod farms, and landscape supply. The company serves thousands of users who have collectively processed over $1.5 billion in revenue through SingleOps, and use it daily to operate their businesses and interact with clients. SingleOps is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. For more information, please visit http://www.singleops.com.

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Tom Brady and the Buccaneers could make NFL history this year if they can beat the Packers on Sunday. If that happens, the Buccaneers would become the first team ever to play a Super Bowl in their home stadium.

The Super Bowl has existed for 54 years and in that time, no team has ever gotten to play the game in their home stadium. The fact that the Buccaneers are even in the NFC title game is notable because that's something that almost never happens. You can call it a Super Bowl hosting jinx or just bad luck, but teams almost never make the playoffs in a season where they're hosting the Super Bowl. Including the Buccaneers, there have only been nine instances in NFL history where a team made the playoffs in a season where their stadium was hosting the Super Bowl.

Of the host teams that made the postseason -- the Dolphins (1970, '78, '94, '98), Buccaneers (2000), Cardinals (2014), Texans (2016), and Vikings (2017) -- only one of them has ever made it to the conference title game and that's the Vikings, who beat the Saints to advance to the NFC Championship in 2017, where they would lose to the Eagles. The Buccaneers became the second team to reach the NFC title game by also beating the Saints.

Before this year, the eight Super Bowl hosts that made the postseason had a record of 3-8 in the playoffs during the season where the big game was being held at their stadium.

If the Buccaneers are going to end the Super Bowl-hosting jinx, they simply have to do something that they've already accomplished this year: Beat the Packers. Back in Week 6, the Buccaneers destroyed Green Bay 38-10 in a game that was played at home. This time around, the Buccaneers are going to have to win at Lambeau Field.

In a twist, if the Buccaneers do win, they'd become the first wild-card team to make it to the Super Bowl since the Packers did it in 2010. A win over Green Bay would also mean that the Buccaneers' first home game of the postseason would come in the Super Bowl. The Bucs opened up postseason play at Washington and then won in New Orleans.

Although no team has ever played a Super Bowl in their home stadium, two teams did get to play the Super Bowl in their home market. After spending the season at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Rams made it to Super Bowl XIV, which was played at the nearby Rose Bowl. Being close to home didn't actually help the Rams though, as they lost 31-19 to the Steelers.

The only other team that got to play close to home was the 1984 San Francisco 49ers. In Super Bowl XIX, the 49ers beat the Dolphins 38-16 in a game that was played at Stanford Stadium, which was less than 30 miles away from their old home at Candlestick Park.

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Theres a segment of art fans who regularly demand the Mona Lisa be cleaned and restored. Its a touchy debate. If the painting were to be restored, it might better represent what Leonardo da Vinci intended as he created it. But if so much as a line of her smile was damaged during such attempts, a real possibility when dealing with a 500-year-old painting well, art fans dont like to consider the loss of even a single stroke of paint on that famous face.

There are similar debates throughout the art world as experts consider what was, what is and what will be for masterpieces of all kinds. Paintings. Classic architecture. Sculpture. The list goes on and on.

Even golf courses.

The early 20th century has been dubbed by many to be the golden age of course design in the United States, as 94 of the top 100 layouts on Golfweeks Best Classic Courses list were built in the four decades through the 1930s as cars proliferated and airplanes took off. The 1990s and early 2000s also were boom times, but nothing compared to that previous stretch in which famed designers artists, really produced so many masterpieces.

And just like famous paintings, these courses sometimes show their age. Throw in the effects of benign neglect or, even worse, well-intended alterations that abandon key characteristics, and many of the best golf courses have slowly lost much of their original designers intentions, even without considering the greater distances that modern golf balls travel.

Greens shrink and their internal contours are often subdued. Bunkers migrate, changing shapes, depths and sizes. Fairway widths are altered. Trees grow to block ideal lines of play. Golf courses are living, breathing creations that are subject to ever-changing budgets, growth patterns and whims of membership committees nothing remains static.

As with any work that might be done to the Mona Lisa, there are many considerations when tackling the problems of aging golf courses. But Mona Lisa doesnt live outside in a field, subject to weather and all kinds of dynamic forces. Golf courses do, and they need work to retain their artistry.

Enter the modern golf architect, many of whom have become restoration artists. For most of todays designers, much of their business since the financial crash of the late 2000s and subsequent drop in new golf course development is less about creating their own namesake layouts as it is restoring, renovating and otherwise touching up existing layouts.

In fact, its safe to say that in the past decade we have entered a golden era of restoration and renovation. The top courses on Golfweeks Best Classic Courses list is full of prime examples, many of which are on full, televised display during major championships. Even the list of top resort courses in the U.S. which tends to favor more modern layouts is dotted with significant renovations and restorations.

Theres been an appreciation building over time going back several decades, and I think whats been happening is, because of this golden age of restoration, not only is there an appreciation for the name architects A.W. Tillinghast, Donald Ross, Alister MacKenzie, C.B. Macdonald and several others theres a greater appreciation for their talents and their golf courses, said Gil Hanse, whose portfolio of restorations with design partner Jim Wagner continues to grow. Theres maybe more of an appreciation for those architects now. You can see that across the board for other modern architects and the courses they have touched, too.

Hanses restorations and renovations include but certainly are not limited to Merions East, most recently host of the 2013 U.S. Open; Winged Foots West, most recently host of the 2020 U.S. Open; The Country Club, next hosting the 2022 U.S. Open, and Los Angeles Country Clubs North Course (in collaboration with author and blogger Geoff Shackelford), next hosting the 2023 U.S. Open.

Its a long-winded kind of answer, Hanse continued, and theres been this kind of appreciation for a long time, but now because of all this good restoration work that is happening of which we are happy to do our part theres an even bigger appreciation of the older golf courses and those architects. Wow, we knew these guys were good, but we didnt know they were this good.

Bill Coore who with design partner Ben Crenshaw has worked on classics such as Pinehurst No. 2, Maidstone, Seminole, Riviera and many others agrees.

We do seem to be in an era where there are significant efforts going on to try to restore or, in some cases I guess you could say, address the current playing conditions of some of the classic old courses, Coore said. They are all living, breathing things like we are, and they change and evolve.

In the case of the best courses in the country, they have for the most part evolved in a very positive fashion. But they do change. Sometimes the changes are so incremental that theyre almost unnoticeable until years and years later. Then, you realize they were slightly better the way they were intended. You see a lot of that going on, I think. Were trying to recapture the original intent and playing characteristics of some of these old courses.

It can be a daunting task. How exactly does one go about touching up a masterpiece without damaging it? The first step typically involves some definition of intent.

Part of the process you go through is, what are the goals? Coore said. What are you trying to obtain if youre working at one of those great old courses? Is it purely trying to recapture the character and the aesthetics? Is it trying to recapture the playing characteristics? Is it trying to address issues pertaining to more modern golf? Is it all of the above?

The terms thrown about can muddle things. What exactly is a restoration? And what is a renovation? Do those terms ever cross, and how many shades of gray are present between them?

The easiest way for us to describe it, for Jim Wagner and myself, is that a restoration is when the original architects thoughts, style and design are the driving force behind every decision on the site, Hanse said. A renovation is when were interjecting our original design thoughts into an existing golf course, allowing our prejudices, thoughts, skills, etcetera, to influence what we think would make for a better golf course.

Hanse pointed to his and Wagners work at Winged Foots West course in New York as a restoration, with the duo trying to reclaim the characteristics instilled by the original designer, Tillinghast. Greens edges had crept in since the course opened in 1923, leaving fewer hole locations. Some bunkers had become irrelevant. Among all the work involved, perhaps key was Hanse and Wagners expansion of putting surfaces back to their original sizes and shifting of bunkers to better fit Tillinghasts intent of challenging players.

At the opposite end of Hanses redesign-renovation spectrum is Pinehurst No. 4, a Ross layout at the famed North Carolina resort that had been the subject of numerous subsequent redesigns since its opening as a full 18 in 1919. Defining it as a renovation and not a restoration from the start, Hanse and Wagner built what Hanse called close to being a whole new golf course through mostly existing corridors in the pines, and that renovation opened to play in 2018.

Pinehurst is a great example of the different ways to approach a renovation or restoration, as it has been 10 years since Coore and Crenshaw wrapped up what most certainly was a restoration of Pinehurst No. 2, the resorts flagship course that rests directly next to Hanses since-renovated No. 4.

Often cited as among the best of Rosss designs, No. 2 had changed considerably over the decades following its 1903 opening. The courses most famous features are its crowned greens, but much of the rest of the course might have been almost unrecognizable to Ross, who lived for years to the side of the third green. Most dramatically, the native sandy areas alongside fairways had been replaced with grass at rough heights, presenting totally different appearances and playing challenges.

No. 2 hosted U.S. Opens in 1999 and 2005, and even between those Opens the course changed, with fairways growing more narrow between ever-expanding fields of rough. After that 2005 Open, the resorts operators wanted to make drastic changes. Employing Coore and Crenshaw in 2010, they opted to take the course back in time, restoring what once was to replace what it had become.

Sometimes we look back at some of the architecture that has happened at Pinehurst, whether its golf course architecture or building architecture, and you scratch your head a little bit, Tom Pashley, now the president of Pinehurst Resort, said at Golfweeks Architecture Summit in November of 2020. How did this happen, how did that happen?

The decision was made, and it was a risk but it was obviously the right decision, to take No. 2 back. It had become a very manicured golf course, and the standing wire grass areas were only ornamental. It didnt look like a Sandhills course. Things had happened over the years, and the courses had evolved and all that, and we just said, look, this land is where Ross laid out the original four courses in Pinehurst, and we need to be true to some sort of aesthetic, the Ross aesthetic.

So Coore and Crenshaw were tasked with taking the course back, but to what, exactly? And for whom, Tour pros in the U.S. Open or resort guests? And how to do that?

At least for us, the single biggest priority is to take ourselves out of it, Coore said. If we leave signatures that weve been there, we failed, quite frankly. The goal is to recapture at least at places like Pinehurst or Maidstone or wherever the goal is to try to recapture what made that place so special in the beginning. And all those cases, they were built long before Ben and I were ever on this earth. So we take ourselves out of it, yet were so involved in it, trying to study the original intent. What did Donald Ross intend at Pinehurst No. 2? What was the focus? How did the course play and look?

Coore and Crenshaw got a major boost when local resident Craig Disher presented them with aerial photos of Pinehurst No. 2 taken on Christmas Day in 1943. The design duo received another break when Pinehurst agronomist Bob Farren told them the current irrigation system had been laid in the same trenches as the water pipes installed during Rosss time, allowing them to figure out the previous center lines of the fairways while projecting their width based on how far water would have been sprinkled.

I said, Bob, if thats the case, we have not only a road map, we have the center of the road, Coore said of the old irrigation system.

Such sleuthing can be crucial to a true restoration. At Pinehurst, those kinds of efforts allowed Coore and Crenshaw, with a fairly high degree of certainty, to present the course as it looked in 1943, with wider fairways surrounded by native grasses and no traditional rough.

The U.S. Open returned to No. 2 in 2014, with Martin Kaymer winning on a firmer, faster and browner layout that looked almost nothing as it had in 1999 and 2005. It was a departure from the typical U.S. Open setup of tall rough, but the work was roundly praised. And with the U.S. Golf Association now slated to establish a second headquarters at Pinehurst, the U.S. Open will return with No. 2 as an anchor site in 2024, 2029, 2035, 2041 and 2047.

Were very proud of Pinehurst, because the people there are very proud of it, Coore said. I know there were people who said, what on earth are they doing, theyre going to destroy the place. But I think given the time since the work and its probably been enough time to begin to assess that this was a positive move.

I grew up in North Carolina and I played golf at Pinehurst as a kid, and I remembered it from what it was in the 1960s, and I just knew from my own memory that it had changed dramatically through the years. Ben and I certainly never would have gone there and said you need to change this, you need to restore this. All that influence came from the Pinehurst people, who said weve been listening and studying that this course is not the way it used to be. It was a huge leap of faith.

While Pinehurst serves as a great model for restorations and renovations, its hardly alone in efforts to refine a golf course, even among U.S. Open venues. Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania, host to nine Opens, for example famously removed thousands of trees in the 1990s and 2000s to restore playing corridors as intended by original designer Henry Fownes. That certainly would be one of the most visually impactful restorations for any television viewer.

None of this is exactly new. Robert Trent Jones Sr. was known for his work on championship courses, and his son Rees followed in his footsteps. Courses have been the targets of redesign efforts ever since the game developed. Old Tom Morris certainly was known to tinker.

But as courses continue to age, efforts have been stepped up at many private clubs and resorts alike, often with grander goals of revisiting previous work that was more limited in scope. Whereas announcements of course openings filled the news wires in the early 2000s, todays design news is more typically filled with restorations and renovations not a week goes by without announcements of such work across the U.S.

Its all a great opportunity for current architects, but it can be very different than creating a new course. In a sense, great restorations are more of a research endeavor than a design process.

When youre in the field, theres a ton of archaeology, Hanse said. Youll find old bunkers and things. Were working at Oakland Hills right now, and well be sifting through, and That looks like old bunker sand. Yep, theres a layer, chase it and find where it goes. So there are markers on the ground. Working at Baltusrol, weve been sort of peeling away layers of bunker sand buildup along the edges of greens. You have thatch and sort of top dressing, then all the sudden you hit this sort of blackish soil layer. You can chase that soil layer, and that sort of reestablishes where the edge of the bunker was. If youre paying attention, you can find these things.

Hanse said the greatest example may have come at Los Angeles Country Clubs North Course, a George C. Thomas Jr. original design from 1921 that had been reshaped and diminished through the decades. A skilled contractor on an excavator kept finding all kinds of clues to the original course beneath the sod, especially as to the placement of the second and sixth greens.

He found the old green surfaces that literally had been covered by dirt they hadnt even stripped the grass off it, Hanse said. Pulling this away, we even found old cup holes. It was remarkable. We were just able to pull away the dirt and have the old green edges and contours intact. That was one of the coolest things I have ever seen.

But the fact there are clues in the dirt doesnt necessarily make it any easier for the architects.

Without question, I think Ben and I would both say that theres more stress in (restoring a classic course than in building a new one), said Coore, who along with Crenshaw delivered one of the most-anticipated new courses of 2020, the Sheep Ranch at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon. Its because youre not dealing with your product. Youre trying to return the greatest potential of somebody elses product, a product that has proved to be successful and sometimes even revered around the world for years.

So its way more stressful and intense than creating a new product where, even though the site might have great potential and expectations, the course doesnt exist yet. On a new course youre living up to what the potential of the site is, but youre not living up to what was. Youre not chasing a ghost.

This story originally ran in Golfweeks 2021 Ultimate Guide.

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As you contemplate your garden areas for next year, what is the most critical task? Correctly preparing the garden bed new or old.

New beds require more prep work if you are starting an area that has turf on it. Here are two ways to turn turf into a garden area.

One method is to use a non-selective herbicide to kill off the top growth. Once it is dead, use a flat bottom shovel to cut the top vegetative layer off and remove or rent a sod stripper. You can till it in, but you will have clumps of dead turf everywhere which makes cultivation with a hoe more difficult and you will be mad at yourself for years that you did it this way.

A non-chemical method would be to solarize the area using black plastic for a few weeks or until the plant material all dies back. Then remove the dead layer in the same fashion. Avoid tilling under living turf, you will never be able to grow in the lumpy, grassy weedy mess that it will become.

Vegetable gardeners often re-use the same site for many years and thats okay. For 3 years, I have used the same spot without tilling, and overall I have less weeds than if I tilled. Every time you till, weed seeds are brought to the surface to receive sun and, guess what, germinate!

If perennial weeds are an issue like dandelion, thistle and grasses, your best solution is to spray them with an herbicide. Chopping them up by hand or using a tiller, just creates more. Solarizing is ineffective on perennial weeds as it doesnt kill the root. Always use chemicals responsibly and dont spray when plants are blooming and bees are visiting.

The value and uses of plants differ greatly from one to another.

Some plants are mainly for personal enjoyment like the blooms of peonies and iris. Others have many medicinal qualities or are used for food. Which plant can you enjoy the bloom of, use in a bouquet, cook with its oil, make rope from its stalk, roast and eat its seed yourself; grow as a fence to hide your neighbors, grind to use as cattle feed, use it as bird food and make dye from its petals? The sunflower!

Sunflowers are one of the easiest annual flowering plants to grow. Sunflowers have become very popular over the past years, and there are many varieties to choose from.

The height can range from 10 inches to 10 feet! Sunflower petals come in a variety of colors: yellows, oranges, reds, whites, browns and burgundy. Centers or seed heads, can also vary in colors. Some varieties like Teddy Bear are similar to a giant chrysanthemum.

Seeds should be planted directly in the garden soil as they grow rapidly and starting them indoors will result in a weak stem. Seeds are large, and easy for kids to plant.

Some types of sunflowers are pollen-less. These types are mostly bred for the cut flower industry as pollen can be messy and stain your clothes while harvesting or arranging in bouquets. Naturally pollen attracts bees and cut flower producers prefer the bees do not visit.

Once the flower is pollinated it begins to decline, as does its beauty and shelf life. Pollinated flowers begin to mature on to seed development, losing their petals along the way. When you are planning to use them for bouquets, cut them when the petals are just starting to lift off the face of the flower for the longest vase life.

Sunflowers that produce seed can be left in the garden for the birds to feed on over winter. The biggest drawback from growing sunflowers is chopping out the stalk when the season is done. Yes, even the next spring you might still need a hatchet or an axe depending on the type you grew.

Commercial production is huge to our west in the Dakotas, growing the majority of the sunflowers in the United States. If you are interested in seeing fields of sunflowers, the North Dakota Tourism tracks the bloom of numerous fields across the state and provides GPS coordinates for enthusiasts to locate. Over half a million acres in North Dakota are planted in sunflowers.

The flower heads on young plants actually follow the sun from east to west. Older mature plants face mostly east. Having lived in North Dakota for a spell, I can say the sunflower fields between the fields of sugar beets and potatoes were spectacular!

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There is no silver lining to a pandemic that has killed more than 1.5 million people globally. But as COVID-19 barraged us with new challenges, it also forced adaptation that in the design world translated to faster, lighter, cheaper and more flexible buildings and landscapes. This kind of grass-roots change has been called many things: ad hoc architecture, guerrilla architecture, pop-up architecture, tactical urbanism.

Such ideas devised by world-class designers and amateur enthusiasts alike emerged immediately in the form of modular hospitals, mobile treatment centers and tented drive-through COVID testing sites, but they have since spilled into streets and other public spaces, taking advantage of the relative safety of the outdoors. They offer not only utility but also hope and inspiration in a supremely dark time. The quick, flexible thinking behind them has begun seeping into architecture, construction and urban design, worlds that are known for permanence, red tape, slow change and a limited sphere of practitioners.

Here are some of the best ideas that have emerged from around the world this year. They are clever and sometimes astonishing solutions from all types of creative people, solving new challenges beautifully, effectively and quickly.

Perhaps the field most affected by this wave of ad hoc architecture has been restaurants, which by necessity have expanded onto sidewalks, parking lots and even streets a move enabled by quick adjustments by municipal governments worldwide. (New York, for one, made its Open Restaurants program permanent.)

The Page, San FranciscoSan Francisco has long been a hub for parklets, those small parks built on street parking spots and sidewalks. The citys dining parklets are some of the best and most plentiful in the country. Some have bamboo-clad walls, intricate murals, planted dividers or A-frame structures. Thanks to designer and tattoo artist Mattie Breen, who goes by Mattie B, this dive bar and pool hall in the citys Divisadero neighborhood essentially re-created its interior outside. Breen and owner Bob Wait installed faux brick walls, fireplaces, old-time paintings, photos and plastic taxidermy. Much of the haul was taken from salvage yards, Breens and Waits personal collections, and the restaurants interior. Breen, who learned to build from his grandfather, a carpenter, sees the surge in creative projects as a lifeline for artists like him who are struggling during the pandemic. When things start to get tight you really start to think about what you can do to survive, he said.

When COVID-19 closed indoor drinking and dining in San Francisco, Mattie Breen collaborated with Bob Wait, owner of the Page, to re-create the bar and pool halls interior vibe in a new outdoor space.

(Jacquelyn Warner)

Setaara, Atlantic City, N.J.Afghan French restaurant Setaara in the summer took the extraordinary step of building a temporary two-story structure around a rear courtyard inspired by a Moroccan riad. Tiered plywood arches, supported by a steel frame, ring a fountain filled with rose petals and lighting imported from Morocco, Egypt and Turkey. Restaurant co-owner Abdullah Panah, whose family hails from Afghanistan, is a building enthusiast (and also a medical student at Rowan University). The design, he said, was inspired by his trips in the Middle East, particularly to Morocco and Iran. Once he gets planning approval, he and his team of builders will layer in stucco and tile cladding and add a second-floor dining space and a third-floor rooftop terrace, with views of the Atlantic City strip. So far, Panah said, the restaurant which has installed heat lamps and fire pits for winter is busier than its ever been.

The restaurant Setaara in Atlantic City, N.J., responded to demand for outdoor dining spaces by building a two-story, Moroccan-themed open-air structure around a dining courtyard.

(Abdullah Panah)

Caf Galleria, Midway, UtahAs the winter sets in, restaurants have taken to employing globes, igloos, greenhouses, yurts, tents or cabanas equipped with blankets, fire pits and space heaters to help diners stay warm and safe. The city of Chicago even held a competition to encourage winter dining ideas. But none is quite as beautiful as Caf Gallerias Alpenglobes, polycarbonate spheres built with curved, stained timber frames and timber flooring, and equipped with tables and benches, integrated heating, music and lighting. Reservations to dine in the so-called reverse snow globes on the patio are booked through February, while the restaurant and its designers, Insight Exhibits, have started a business building Alpenglobes nationwide for restaurants, hotels and even private residences.

Alpenglobes started as an outdoor dining solution for a Utah restaurant, but they may start popping up in other parts of the country.

(Alpenglobes)

Dine Out, New York

Melbas, one of the Dine Out participants with open-air seating in New York.

(Rockwell Group)

Relatively early in the pandemic, restaurant and hospitality specialists Rockwell Group devised free of charge a modular kit of parts that included flooring, barriers, shading, lighting and furniture as well as space for sanitation and equipment. The system, now being fitted with wind shields and heaters for the winter, has been employed in restaurants in all five boroughs of New York, and the outline of components is available for free download. We never see anything like this up in Harlem. This only happens downtown, a woman told the New Yorker, referring to Melbas, one of Dine Outs restaurant partners.

Another pro bono hero is Design Advocates, a New York group of affiliated architects and designers whose Test Fits initiative has assisted local businesses and communities adapting their spaces to COVID using simple materials, bold colors and unusual patterns.

The low-cost Design Advocates approach to outdoor dining in New York.

(Alan Tansey)

Civic spaces are more important than ever, and many are being used in new ways. Plazas have become skate parks, green spaces have become marketplaces. A few have been dramatically, and quickly, transformed with social distancing in mind.

Domino Park, New YorkOne of the most photographed outdoor spaces during the pandemic has been Brooklyns Domino Park, hugging the East River in Williamsburg. It was transformed in May with about 30 8-foot-diameter white circles spray-painted on the artificial grass, delineating space for social distance. Park director Michael Lampariello, a landscape architect, came up with the idea after the city had threatened closure of parks, which were becoming overwhelmed by those escaping quarantine. We thought that keeping the park open was one of the most important things we could do, said Lampariello, who noted that the initial implementation using a line-laying system jury-rigged for use as a compass took about three hours. Thanks largely to social media, parks around the world followed this lead.

With a little spray paint, Domino Park became a pandemic Instagram star.

(Marcella Winograd)

Checkerboard Park, Elblag, PolandA similarly simple but elegant solution was the strategic mowing of the overgrown garden of Elblags Centrum Sztuki Galeria EL, an arts center that occupies a cavernous Gothic church. Gallery director Adriana Ronewska-Kotyska, who trained as an architect, devised the checkerboard concept to help visitors picnic on the grass. After measuring space for blankets, she realized that most were the same size (6 feet long) as social distance requirements. She made a sketch, and her only investment was paying a gardener $50 to mow the squares. The gallery moved its summer concerts, usually held inside the church, to the lawn, which became a sensation on Instagram and other media.

In Elblag, Poland, the grass outside the Centrum Sztuki Galeria EL art gallery was mowed in a checkboard pattern to provide an outdoor space where people could hang out while still maintaining social distance.

(Lukasz Kotynski)

Cathedral Gardens Play Park, Belfast, IrelandMost of us associate pop-ups with shopping, but COVID has prompted cities to open pop-up parks on parking lots, underused green spaces and abandoned properties. Thanks to an emergency allocation from the Belfast City Council, Cathedral Gardens Play Park rose in less than two months to a square next to the University of Ulster and St. Annes Cathedral. Designed with input from local toddlers, the park features imagination-friendly equipment like a giant spinning hamster wheel, bendy benches, outdoor musical instruments, a swinging bridge and colorful mushrooms on a carpet of rainbow-colored sod called Unicorn Grass. The park is expected to be up as a trial for about two years.

Cities worldwide have opened miles of thoroughfares to pedestrians, providing badly needed public space thats often enlivened with art, play facilities and bike lanes. Others have transformed streets into green spines, exhibition spaces and town squares.

Common Ground, Jackson, Miss.

A detail of the giant mural on Duling Avenue in Jackson, Miss., including its blue grid of 8-foot squares.

(Travis Crabtree)

This vibrant street mural lining Duling Avenue in Jacksons Fondren neighborhood created by local designers Scott Allen and Casey Jennings and supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Fertile Ground Project invited a hesitant public to use the street for dining and recreation. Originally created for the Dining on Duling event in June, the grid of blue 8-foot squares clarifying social distance and leaving room for tables and activities is still in use. Between each square are colorful, playful shapes: Squiggly forms represent the Mississippi River, staggered lines represent chair legs, asterisk shapes represent plants, and circles represent plates. Our community was eager to get out of their houses and socialize after three months of lockdown, said Rebecca Garrison, executive director of the Fondren Renaissance Foundation. We wanted to amplify the message that we were still a strong community, even though circumstances dictated a detour from the things that typically defined us.

A giant mural on Duling Avenue in Jackson, Miss., gives the public another outdoor space, with the design and placement of chairs clarifying safe social distance.

(Travis Crabtree)

Tactical Urbanistas, LondonThis collective of artists, founded in April in Londons Hackney area, has used colorful art to enliven closed streets, reclaim parking spaces for pedestrians and encourage social distancing. Using acrylic paint, bollards and tires, the group blurs the line between open and closed space. Londons streets are not safe for social distancing, and a disproportionate amount of space is given to cars at the expense of other road users, a member of the group told BBC.

For those wishing to energize their own streets, Baltimore-based pavement mural specialists Graham Projects have created an online toolkit called Make Place Happen. The designers promise to carry out some of the proposals, working with local authorities.

State Street Promenade, Santa Barbara

Downtown Santa Barbara closed 10 blocks of State Street to cars in May, transforming it into the State Street Promenade. The move followed an emergency ordinance giving businesses more space for outdoor social distancing. The street and its sidewalks have since been enlivened with outdoor restaurant and bar seating, planters and music. Side streets added their own parklets, and establishments have entered into a kind of design one-upmanship to stay competitive, said Robin Elander, president of the community organization Downtown Santa Barbara. It had been spoken about for many years, but there was never enough consensus to do it, said Elander, who expects the street closure to continue next year and, in some form, permanently. The City Council is investigating new lighting and bike lanes.

A street view in Santa Barbara, which moved cars off the main drag downtown and used the road for outdoor dining.

(Tim Persson)

Not everyone has spent the pandemic binging Netflix. Drive-in movies have made a comeback, and some of the best in California include Cinemauto in L.A.s Chinatown, featuring film, dining and shopping; and Electric Dusk in Glendale, where you can watch flicks on the roof of a Sears parking lot, providing for great views. But these are just the beginning of the creativity thats been spawned for those who need to get out for a mental break from home isolation.

The Flaming Lips, Space Bubble ConcertsPerhaps the most on-the-nose response to the pandemic came from the Flaming Lips, who have performed concerts with band members and their fans encased in human-scaled plastic bubbles. The first performance, a test run at their hometown Criterion theater in Oklahoma City in October, featured about 100 inflatable orbs, and they kicked off space bubble concerts at the Criterion this month with even more more orbs. You just cant infect the person next to you, no matter what you forget about, how excited you get, Flaming Lips lead singer Wayne Coyne told CNN. Coyne has long been a bubble aficionado. He and his wife, Katy Weaver, were married inside one last January.

Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips performing in a bubble in 2019, before the pandemic. This year the bands audience got bubbles too.

(Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Cinema sur lEauOn July 18, Paris popular Paris Plages series which transforms the banks of the Seine and the Canal St. Martin into temporary beaches opened with Cinema Sur Leau. Viewers watched a movie, Le Grand Bain, while floating on electric boats in the Bassin de La Villette. An audience watched from 38 boats while others were socially distanced in beach chairs on land.

People on boats get ready for the start of Le Cinema Sur LEau, or Cinema on the Water, in Paris.

(Associated Press)

Educators have long advocated for outdoor learning, ushering students out of their claustrophobic classrooms to get fresh air and a new perspective. The COVID crisis has made this concept more attractive particularly in warmer months, and creative designers have responded with ingenious ideas.

The third grade sukkah at Prairie Hill Waldorf School in Pewaukee, Wis.

(Brian Slawson)

Prairie Hill Waldorf School, Pewaukee, Wis.

To make in-person learning more feasible, every class at Prairie Hill Waldorf School has an outdoor space for learning. Designs, devised by each class teacher, include indoor-outdoor tents (first grade), sukkahs (third grade) and, for fourth grade, a 12-sided outdoor classroom walled in plywood, supported by a central column and topped with a tarp like a circus tent for learning, with large openings for fresh air to flow in and out. Learning opportunities, first-grade teacher Stanlee Maliszewski said, have widened substantially.

Every leaf that falls, every caterpillar, every butterfly, you have to learn to make that a part of your lesson that day, she said. The hearty Wisconsinites plan to continue using the outdoor spaces through the winter.

One of Curl la Tourelle Head Architectures early tent projects for schools was at Manorfield Primary School in London, where the design provides some protection from the elements but still has large openings for fresh air.

(Killian OSullivan)

Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture, LondonThis firm has worked with tent manufacturers who normally make structures for weddings, conferences and other events; during the pandemic, theyre creating outdoor learning spaces for British schools. The architects, who are veterans of educational design, advise the schools on how to organize the new spaces, where to put them and how to keep them safe. They started with a plasticated fabric classroom at the Manorfield Primary School in Londons Tower Hamlets neighborhood, then moved to a solid-walled tent topped with cone-shaped roofs that acts as an outdoor dining hall for the Elsley Primary School in Wembley. (Large openings allow for natural ventilation.) Theyve developed solutions for a half-dozen schools and drawn up proposals (so far not executed) to create entire outdoor campuses. The work, senior architect Richard Taylor said, has encouraged the firm to focus on better integrating outdoor space into its future schools. The company is working with a modular builder to create timber-framed pop-up facilities that would be far better designed than most of the countrys so-called education porta-cabins.

A rendering of Curl la Tourelle Head Architectures concept for a pop-up outdoor school.

(Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture)

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