Home to the New York Yankees, Yankee Stadium was built to replace the original 1923 stadium also known as the “House That Babe Ruth Built.” The new stadium was designed to be modern while maintaining the characteristics that comprise…
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Architect Jean Louw of 2AD Space Architects was so inspired by the use of metal mesh in the architectural realm, she decided to use the material as a creative outlet for her artwork on the side. In 2009, the South African architect contacted the…
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Tradition meets modernity at the flagship store of one of Germany’s oldest coffee roasting companies: Heimbs Café in the Schloss-Arkaden shopping center in Braunschweig, Germany. Heimbs processes more than 2,500 tons of the…
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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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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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Woermann Tower is a mixed-use tower in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria. The tower was designed by Abalos & Herreros in collaboration with Joaquin Casariego and Elsa Guerra. The tower forms part of a complex which includes a public square, constructed using Portuguese stone with the artist Albert Oehlen, and a seven storey block to the south, containing retail units and offices The curved colored glass is: Product / Cridecor® Color Vanceva® More here http://tiny.cc/hr93u
The Beth Tfiloh Lower School in Baltimore was moving from an attractive off-site location to the main campus and wanted its new building to be fun and inviting for the students. Approximately 8,500 sq. ft. of Dri-Design panels finished in three complementary colors and installed in a checkerboard pattern helped to achieve the desired effect. The .080 aluminum panels were finished in Colonial Red, Burgundy and Mansard Brown.The patented Dri-Design Wall Panel System is an affordable dry joint, pressure-equalized rainscreen system. For more information – http://www.dri-design.com/press-releases-1/beth-tfiloh-dri-design-panels-create-fun-inviting-look-for-new-lower-school-project
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. Designed by HOK with structural design…
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This is a Prodema project in Chile. The Architect is Sebastián del Río The project is called Aragano
Check out the Residence in Utah using VM ZINC Pigmento red Pigmento gives the zinc just a slight red shimmer hardly noticable until the sun hits it in the right angle. Southam & Associates from SLC, UT did the install.