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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

Miyake

Issey Miyake Tribeca, in Titanium

Issey Miyake Tribeca is a project for the Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake designed by Gordon Kipping in a historic cast-iron warehouse building in the Tribeca District Manhattan. The project features a titanium sculpture designed by Frank Gehry as a center piece, extending from a shaft emerging from the cellar floor into a turbulent swirl engulfing the ceiling of the ground floor retail space.

Zahner worked for Gordon Kipping and Frank Gehry to produce undulating forms and structural support system for this high fashion store in New York City. Hand-formed and machine-formed Titanium panels were attached to the support system, a complex curving tubed branching form which runs throughout the store and can be seen in several detail shots below.

Titanium is a notoriously difficult surface to work with. The material has incredible memory, which is why it's been re-branded as a smart metal for high-end eye-glasses.  In construction, the difficulty with it's memory is that it wants to revert to a flat form.  It also has a much harder huge tensile capacity, which enables it to take greater loads, but also makes it difficult to form.  

Fro the Miyake project, Zahner engineered a flexible system which allowed the Architects to join the installers in New York. Custom-engineered machined stainless steel rotation points gave the metal sheet forms a large degree of leniency. Together the architects and installers manipulated the metal into their desired forms, referencing the fashion displayed on the store's ground floor and lower level.

The above two images show the Miyake Project during construction and the CAD rendering of the structural tubing which the entire sculpture is hooked into.  The tubed system as well as the metal surface were developed collaboratively between the architects and the Design Assist Team at Zahner.

The above images are from Gordon Kipping, showing the architect with the artists and fashion designers involved in the project.   Also shown are the initional sketches as well as the photographed result of Frank Gehry's Tornado installation in the Issey Miyake Tribeca.

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