This luxury hotel presents as a 124-foot-high elliptical cylinder clad in a veil of shimmering metal fabric. GKD Escale spiral mesh ensures that guests inside have an optimal view of the city through the facade, but for onlookers outside, the mesh mirrors a subtle reflection of the surrounding landscape.
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This high-end retailer wanted to create a space inspired by a modern Japanese tea house. Architect Happenstance Collective saw how GKD’s metal fabric easily blended a fusion of the modern and the traditional while providing an attractive and transparent focal point through a partition and cladding.
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Patients, doctors and researchers come together at this interdisciplinary institute. Barcelona’s hot sun and an all-glass facade presented the need for a durable sunscreen. GKD Omega 1520 stainless steel mesh provided the perfect sustainable solution.
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Flexible GKD Escale 7 x 1 stainless steel mesh enabled the construction of a unique three-story rotunda at this convention center entrance. The metallic facade is reminiscent projects a contemporary, high-tech aesthetic while providing effective solar protection and unencumbered views from inside.
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GKD metal fabric was used extensively throughout this vast entertainment complex. Escale mesh was chosen for the large-scale facades to create a high level of reflectivity from the outside and clear views from the inside. Ocean metal mesh embellishes the interior architecture from the lobby to the elevator banks.
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When refurbishing this campus library, renowned French architect Dominique Perrault specified a black-coated spiral mesh for solar protection on the ground floor of the building. A total of 37 large, movable elements provide contrast to the colored glass panels above them.
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The design of this footbridge features tapering spiral forms of shimmering GKD Escale metal fabric. The transparent metal mesh surrounds the bridge from end to end in a helical design, a metaphor for the increasingly close association between two parts of the city separated by the river Manzanares.
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The transformation of the Porte de Versailles exhibition center involved five premier French architects. For the central design element of the largest pavilion, Dominique Perrault designed a 790-foot-long by 65-foot-high metal mesh facade to create a gallery where visitors can stroll the length of the pavilion.
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The golden veil inside the European Court of Justice is the structural highlight of this grand courtroom. A shimmering, translucent suspended ceiling is formed from 40 trapezoidal, bronze anodized Escale fabric panels – a contemporary interpretation of the classic dome.
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