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The Steven Spielberg-produced documentary Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero features Snøhetta's September 11th Memorial Museum, stainless steel cladding by Zahner.

Announcing the Zahner-KME joint venture for the European Market. Read the Press Release at the JV site. Zahner-KME in Joint Venture

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Zahner Campus North Dock Expansion has won the Monsters of Design Honor Award; designed by Crawford Architects' Stephen Colin and Michael O'Donnell.

The North American Copper Awards has recognized Zahner's copper metal-work for the Waipolu Gallery in Oahu, Hawaii.

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Announcing the winners for the Biennial ZAHNER + KCAI Art and Sculpture Competition at KCAI.

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Tessellate™ kinetic metal surfaces by Zahner and ABI released: visually stunning and environmentally responsible.

Bill Zahner named an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects.

Introducing the Hands of the Artist™ division, where Zahner engineers and craftsmen produce projects for artists.
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200 Eleventh

200 Eleventh Avenue in Chelsea

Designed by the acclaimed Selldorf Architects , this residential high-rise occupies the corner of 11th Avenue and 24th Street in West Chelsea, New York City, and was completed in mid-2011. The high-rise is part of a new residential area forged from a former industrial zone and is home to the city's galleries for contemporary art. The 19-story building is supported by a 3-story plinth which serves as a base for the 16 stories above it. This base's material palette and massing (terracotta cladding and blackened steel window frames) is in harmony with the surrounding industrial buildings, and also serves to set the tone for the less subtle forms on the tower above.

Above the plinth rises the tower's stainless-steel rain screen, a uniquely classic high-rise whose distinguished façade is visible from both short and long distances. Zahner was hired to help design and build these stainless steel architectural forms which create the visual frame for the building. The details of these forms were intentionally loosely defined during the planning process, so that they could be worked out in a collaborative fashion with the Design Assist Group at Zahner. This kind of collaborative building process is key to the development of smart connections and high-end metalwork.  Zahner worked closely with the architects at Selldorf to match their intent while meeting the constraints of sheet metal construction.

The 3-frame animation below shows the design assist process for the curving form connection, from the original 3D model to the final unitized system that Zahner would produce. Below the animation is an image of the mockup that was produced at the Zahner fabrication facility. The final result is a highly crafted connection finished with the Angel Hair™ Surface texture on stainless steel.

The video above shows one of the most intriguing features of this building. The architects wanted to create a new kind of living experience by allowing residents in the high-rise to park outside their front doors on their floor. Residents access the car elevator through a driveway at the base of the building. Each car has an electronic pass that opens the elevator and automatically directs the elevator to the appropriate floor. Residents then pull onto their floor and park in their private garage. Interestingly enough, the idea of a vehicle elevator isn't uncommon to the area, where industrial buildings have been using the technology to cart large trucks in elevators for most of the past century.

The photograph above shows the ribbon-like quality and depth of the stainless steel architectural forms that Zahner provided. Also notable is the way that the evenly spaced terracotta surfaces on the plinth beneath echo the stainless steel forms above.

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