Final Coat
International Paint brings color to Houston’s
revitalization project
Houston’s city leaders recently completed one
of the area’s largest urban revitalization projects. The landscape design team of Page
Sutherland Page, along with artist Margo Sawyer,
designed and executed plans for a 12-acre park in
downtown Houston. When completed, the designated
green space will offer residents a number of colorful
gardens, an amphitheater, recreation fields, a playground, restaurants, water features and an underground parking garage.
While observing the architectural and natural elements surrounding the parking garage, Sawyer chose red
and blue as the sources of inspiration for the color composition of her design, “Synchronicity of Color.” Having
experienced disappointing results with the rapid fading
of coatings on other project installations, Sawyer sought
a coating for the Discovery Green project that would
meet her high performance and aesthetic standards.
Coatings applicator, Brooks Industrial Coatings of
Austin, TX pointed her to the technologies of
International Paint.
International Paint, with U.S. headquarters in Houston,
TX, took the opportunity to invest in the revitalization
effort by donating the coatings needed for the installation.
Working under tight deadlines, Sawyer chose 50 gallons of
epoxy primer Intercure 200HS, due to its ease of application and fast-dry characteristics. One hundred gallons of
Interfine 878, an acrylic polysiloxane finish, was also
selected in a variety of colors for its track record of color
and gloss retention capabilities in the commercial building and oil and gas industries. International Paint provided an additional 25 gallons of thinner, bringing the
total to 175 gallons of paint donated to the Discovery
Green revitalization project, valued at $24,000. CW
While observing the architectural and natural elements surrounding the parking garage, artist Margo Sawyer, chose red and blue as the
sources for inspiration for the color composition of her design, “Synchronicity of Color.”
