This parking garage is part of a campus that includes the home for the New World Symphony – America’s Orchestral Academy. The energy-efficient structure featuring GKD Helix 12 metal fabric maximizes natural lighting and ventilation, offers safety and security, and can withstand hurricane force winds.
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For the Century Bank Arena at FIU, the architects shielded the interior from the hot Florida sun with more than 3,000 square feet of stainless-steel metal fabric. Large-scale, stainless steel school letters were fabricated and attached so that the sunshade also serves as a boost to school pride.
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The hot Arizona sun presented a environmental challenge for this LEED Silver university building. Steven Ehrlich Architects found the solution using GKD Lago metal fabric to add energy efficient elements of solar control to the building through a sustainably sourced building material.
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In addition to making a design statement, the architects sought a facade solution that would mitigate the relentless California sun. A stainless steel GKD mesh facade played a key role in effectively reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the building, helping the project achieve LEED Platinum status.
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This library showcases a video installation featuring a basket weaver at work over the course of 12 months. The video, shown on a transparent facade of GKD Mediamesh mounted inside the building behind a large glass facade, displays the complete weaving process over a continuous two-week period.
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The Central Corridor Light Rail Transit West Bank Station features the artwork of Nancy Blum alongside the sunshading and safety functionality of metal fabric. With custom etching on GKD Omega metal fabric, stainless steel soaring birds fabricated by Fedtech were then mounted onto the mesh.
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A sweeping five-story, airfoil-shaped panel of GKD Futura 3110 demonstrates the extreme energy-savings that can be afforded by metal fabric. The panels offer transparent sun control while creating an environment with an abundance of healing, natural light in this biomedical cancer research center.
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Spanning this science building facade is an energy efficient sunshade. An outrigger attachment system uses top and bottom arms as the primary anchors while smaller intermediate supports stabilize at every floor plate. The result is multi-level energy efficiency, sustainability and transparency.
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The Lawrence Group wanted the new St. Louis Federal Reserve building to make its mark in the Gateway City to the West but needed practical benefits like natural lighting and sunshading. They chose GKD Sambesi mesh to envelope the building giving it a modern look and unobstructed views to the outside.
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Internationally renowned architect Dominique Perrault concepted our North American headquarters to create a space that would foster a sense of community among the workforce. The simplicity of design and use of our own product throughout the building resulted in a showcase of woven metal fabrics.
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