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News & Updates

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.

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The Zahner App is now available for iPhone. Features hundreds of projects by artists and architects.

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.

Experience Music Project

Experience Music Project & Science Fiction Museum

Jimi Hendrix inspired the name; Frank Gehry designed the project, and Zahner products and systems made its defining exterior possible. Residing in the shadow of the Seattle Space Needle, Civil Enginering Magazine calls it the "most complex exterior skin ever devised for a building" with over 4,000 panels fabricated by Zahner with over 21,000 sheets of metal. No two sheets and no two panels were the same.

The Experience Music Project was one of Frank Gehry and Zahner's first big collaborations, and the first implementation of what was to become the most powerful and efficient system for constructing complex curves and forms, prevalent in works by Frank Gehry and Randall Stout.

How to Build Anything

The ZEPPS™ Process was first developed to meet the demanding curvature of the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington. Notable for its twisting curves and smooth planes of stunning sheet metal, the facade is installed on the smart wall panel system we now call the ZEPPS™ Process. A highly specialized team was assembled at Zahner to develop this process. This team is called the Design Assist Group (DAG), and the members of this team continue to advance the ZEPPS™ Process, develop new systems, and guide architects, designers, and general contractors through the process of building complex forms.

ZEPPS™ allows our team to efficiently produce these complex forms with minimal waste and a reduced ecological footprint, eliminating the need for additional structural construction. This massive project includes 3,300 unique panel assemblies, resulting in over 140,000 square feet of metal surfacing. The surfaces used included our Angel Hair™ Stainless Steel, Red Interference Coated Stainless Steel and Fluorocarbon-coated Aluminum.

EMP During Construction, Revealing ZEPPS™ Process.

Experience Music Project, Completed.