Figueras Seating is the leader in public seating including Planetarium and IMAX theater seating. This project her is the Sheila M. Clarke Planetarium in Salt Lake City, UT. It was designed by Edwards & Daniels and uses the 5080 Kasandra.
The Columbia St. Mary’s project is a significant piece of architectures in Milwaukee due to its size and prominent location along the upper shores of Lake Michigan. HOK ST Louis has chosen more than 136,000 sq. ft. of Dri-Design bone white and champagne finished panels for the state’s largest hospital construction project.
IKEA Cardiff was opened 38 weeks after starting on site, beating all IKEA construction records worldwide and is now being used as a benchmark for future stores. Protecting the glazed entrance area from overheating, Levolux and Stubbs Rich Architects developed a combination of horizontal and vertical shading to protect the double height glazed entrance area from overheating and showing us what could have been…
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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Second in the series: Check out the new Frank Harmon video on You-Tube. This is the second in the “Interviews with Architects” series. The link is:
Or, click the picture of Mr. Harmon above.
Have a great weekend. -VM
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There is a very specific architectural use for Cymat’s aluminum foam, quite unique from typical aesthetic applicationsas you can see. The foam can also be modified in densities and thicknesses, tailored to the customer’s needs, to mitigate the energy from a bomb blast. Please check out this video on the manufacturers website (How Stuff Works)http://bit.ly/emCqGf
Culture has no limits and neither does the auditorium of the Rafael del Pino Foundation in Madrid Spain. Inspired by the surrounding plant life, a treelike structure rises up, supporting and embracing the Rafael del Pino Foundation’s new building. The new auditorium is located on the building’s ground floor. The architect behind the project Rafael de La-Hoz, chose the Flex 6036 model, a chair that features geometric lines and fits with the concept of the building.
