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Facadesign ®, LLC recently teamed up with the highly talented 50Dresses designer Tess Vigil to create a “One of a Kind”dress out of architectural products. The material of choice was GKD Metal Mesh Shimmer. Yes you have heard right it is metal mesh. Copper and Stainless Steel mesh to be exact. To learn more about Tess and her work visit www.50dresses.com, for more information on the GKD Metal mesh visit www.gkdusa.com. Share this post if you like it.
Good Morning –It has been a while, and we just wanted to say, “Good morning. Here is some eye-candy to start your day.”
Mosque in Lebanon. Enjoy. -VM
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Due to the growing student population in the Piper Unified School District No. 203, Piper High School in Kansas City, Kan. recently underwent a large-scale renovation and addition. DLR Group’s design solution incorporates sunshading,…
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Mutamut moveable Seating System at Edward Jones, St. Louis, Missouri designed by Arcturis. The high price of Real Estate and shortage of space have forced architects and interior designers to create multipurpose spaces that offer maximum profitability for hall owners. For city councils and public bodies, constructing different buildings in the same city to cover a range of uses is no longer a viable option. As a result, more and more architects are opting to design multifunctional halls that address new social, cultural and leisure needs.
Check out the before and after project pictures using printed fabrics from Clipso to renovate and update interior spaces.
The Florida International University mascot, the Golden Panther, is front and center, ready to greet the tens of thousands coming to the Century Bank Arena. For this sunshading and branding project, Gould Evans Architects specified…
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After a £19 million renovation, Lea Manor High School has been transformed into a modern, energy efficient community complex. Designed by Jacobs Architecture, the schools glazed entrance received a rainbow colored external solar shading solution to combat excessive solar heat gain, especially in summer time.
The extension of the admin building is clad in Natural Zinc diamond shingles. I found this project interesting since we use only zinc with a factory induced pre weathering zinc here in North America. Natural Zinc out of the rolling mill is shiny and develops an even grey patina within two to five years. This change is quite dramatic and the building appears to be different every day.
The new University of Florida Research and Academic Center at Lake Nona captures paramount opportunity for the university but is also the ultimate testimony to the versatility of metal mesh. Design by HOK, the $44 million,…
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