Benefits: Aesthetic

Newark Liberty International Airport

This Port Authority of New York and New Jersey project required 25,000 square feet of metal mesh with an etched wave pattern for perimeter fencing around a transformer station. Despite its graceful design, the metal fabric is highly resilient, withstanding adverse weather and deterring vandalism.

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One Brookline Place Parking Garage

Minutes from Boston, the Brookline Place development includes a six-story, 683-space parking facility. Striving for an environmentally integrated concept, Elkus Manfredi designed the garage to blend into the surrounding landscape by adding 12,835 square feet of GKD metal fabric to the material palette.

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Park Square at Doral

For this Florida parking garage GKD metal fabric reduces solar input and offers protection from adverse weather conditions. GKD customized this mesh in varying densities for this project, resulting in a facade that adds visual variation and can withstand category 4 hurricane winds (up to 145 mph).

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Phelps Dunbar

Function and fashion intersect with the use of GKD Futura 3110 as both partition and balustrade. The transparency of the weave adds an open and spacious feeling, while the resilient material provides fall guard protection with a modern aesthetic.

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Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Helzberg Hall

This showstopping concert hall features GKD metal fabric in 101 freestanding metal fabric partitions which serve as the backdrop to the much-celebrated organ. The aesthetically striking and acoustically sound feature visually registers as a continuous panel in this 28,000 square foot space.

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Piper High School

Sun shading, daylighting, graphic design and space-utilization create a unique, 21st century learning environment. To promote school spirit and create an easily identifiable main entrance area, the school’s pirate mascot was custom etched by GKD into the Omega 1510 woven metal fabric.

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Plymouth High School

This massive sunshading facade consists of three panels of Omega 1510. Attached by extended loops and round bar at top and bottom, the panels also boost school pride with a custom etched graphic of the Plymouth South mascot.

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Rallye BMW

HLW International, LLC in New York specified GKD’s precision etched graphic process to bring this car dealership’s brand to life. Natural lighting and spotlighting effects continuously change the appearance of the media while its durability ensures it will maintain its elegant appearance for years to come.

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Salina South High School

When designing an improved main entrance to the school, DLR Group wanted to preserve the open courtyard in the front of the school. The design solution was to use GKD metal fabric as transparent signage that allows the school to showcase its brand without closing off the courtyard from the outside.

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Samsung Headquarters Parking Garage

With the parking garage of Samsung’s Silicon Valley headquarters constantly exposed to the California sun, NBBJ selected Omega 1520 architectural mesh to shade, ventilate and secure the building. Custom printing reminiscent of a circuit board underscores the tech giant’s corporate identity.

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