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

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.
Visit Zahner's Hands of the Artist website

Fisher Center

Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

Located at the north end of Bard College in upstate New York amongst the foothills of the Catskill Mountains, the Bard College performance center is a project designed by Frank Gehry Partners, completed in 2003. The engineers at Zahner and the architects at Gehry's office enjoy a dynamic working relationship that continues to evolve and push the boundaries of what is possible to design and build.  The Bard College was completed a year after Weatherhead at Case Western, another project by Gehry with Zahner metal-work.

Bard College marked a shift from recent projects, for both Zahner and Gehry. The canopy is perhaps the first design by Frank Gehry to leave the ZEPPS™ understructure exposed.  

Model of Fisher Center

The Fisher Center represents an example of recent work by Frank Gehry where the structure is exposed from beneath and around, like his Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Chicago. Although this kind of deconstructive architecture is often criticized, we like it because it shows off our signature structural product, the ZEPPS™ Process, series of systems designed by Zahner to enable efficient construction of complex forms. The ZEPPS™ Process eliminates several construction steps because it requires no additional supports or finishing due to its exclusively structural aluminum components. Over 3,200 stainless sheets were installed on top of 710 unique ZEPPS™ Panels -- each panel interlocks with the next to form the dynamic but uniform surface of the roof and sides.

The entire profiled surface of each structure was clad with 16 ga Angel Hair™ Stainless steel. The stainless steel skins were lapped and fastened using a custom-engineered counter-sunk fastener.


Fisher Center, during construction.
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Working in CATIA and Pro-Engineer and utilizing Gehry Partners master model, Zahner developed a workable surface using the ZEPPS™ Process to form the walls and roof of this dynamic set of structures. The panels consist of a high strength aluminum frame structure profiled to form the shape desired by the architect. Per the architects request, the interior side of the panel was left uncovered to expose the intricate framing members. Along with standard EIFS walls and glazing, the ZEP panel systems formed the entire wall and portions of the roof structure.

Fisher Finished at Sunset

Fisher Finished at Sunset

Fisher Finished at Sunset

Fisher Finished at Sunset

Fisher Finished at Sunset

Fisher Finished at Sunset

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