Full-service fête

June 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach, Calif., takes an anniversary fundraiser out of a ballroom and into an “amazing” tented space. Permits are a typical hurdle for tented events. But when Choura Events prepared for a high-end installation at Marine Stadium in Long Beach, Calif., for the 75th an…
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Installation under pressure

April 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

High-tech conference attendees network and socialize under a high-tech inflatable structure. When global cloud computing company Salesforce.com needed to turn a block of San Francisco into a covered plaza for the 120,000 attendees of its annual Dreamforce event, it opted for a large inflatable struc…
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Build up

April 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

Röder Group debuts three-story temporary structure. Rising above the snowy landscape of the Bavarian Alps, a three-story modular, mobile structure by Röder Group debuted at INNOSCENE14 in late January in Ruhpolding, Germany. The cubic design of the three-story Solution Tower offered spacio…
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Glitz and glamour

April 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

Tents extend a home’s elegant space for a 1920s-themed party. In the spirit of The Great Gatsby, elegance, optimism and gaiety marked a private holiday party that took place in an undisclosed location in New York state last December. Fred’s Tents & Canopies Inc., Stillwater, N.Y., wo…
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Winning tent design

December 1, 2013  |  Industry News, Project Briefs

Providing a hospitality venue for America’s Cup was a race to the finish for HTS–USA. As the oldest international sporting trophy, the America’s Cup attracts world–class sailors and yachts and the attention of sailing enthusiasts worldwide. And for the 34th America’s Cu…
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A clear view

December 1, 2013  |  Event Production, Project Briefs

A Minnesota bride makes a last–minute decision to forgo tent fabric. When the site of a backyard wedding offers a view of Minnesota’s St. Croix River Valley, you can understand a bride’s disinclination to obstruct the view. And when you consider Minnesota’s ever–changi…
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Collaboration results in mobile marketing tent

December 1, 2013  |  Markets, Project Briefs

Networking at IFAI Tent Expo 2013 results in a tent that looks like a house. A mobile marketing tent for pharmaceutical giant Merck toured Canada in 2013, but it came together in Germany, Montreal and Orlando, Fla.—where IFAI Tent Expo 2013 brought together tent manufacturers Losberger US LLC …
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Tents as office space

October 1, 2013  |  Industry News, Project Briefs

Choura Events supplies high-end solution for temporary auto dealership offices. Tents are a familiar sight on car dealership lots—just the appearance of white peaks communicates “sale” to potential customers. But when Toyota of San Diego needed a temporary sales office during a rec…
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A world of pink

October 1, 2013  |  Event Production, Project Briefs

Tent structures that look like Barbie’s™ Malibu home invite fans inside. Since May 2013 it seems Barbie™ has been living in a life-sized Malibu Dreamhouse® near Alexanderplatz Square in Berlin, Germany (similar to the exhibit that opened previously in Sawgrass Mills, Sunrise, F…
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Executing the dream wedding

October 1, 2013  |  Event Production, Project Briefs

Chic Event Rentals exceeds a client’s vision for a backyard wedding. You know you’ve done well when a client tells you that she never imagined her backyard could look so great. This was the case for Anthony Karabetyan, owner of Chic Event Rentals of Monterey, Calif., and a May backyard w…
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