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The Many Faces of Thom Mayne's 41 Cooper Square

The East Village is a New York City neighborhood with a complicated vibe. It's a place where restaurant equipment wholesalers and ancient brick walk-ups rub shoulders with spank ... 
Released: December 2009, Read the full article.

State of the Cooper Union

New Yorkers take good things for granted. We accept the city's virtues as entitlements and are vocal about its imperfections—we complain, or kvetch, in the native parlance, with ... 
Released: December 2009, Read the full article.

Stucco Garage in S.F. is a Work of Art

Anybody with eyes can see that Northern California is awash in a sea of stucco. It's the drab default of last resort, spread like wallpaper across buildings where nobody really  ... 
Released: November 2009, Read the full article.

The Semantic Metal Surface

When defining a logic to use a particular surface material, various aesthetic qualities such as color, texture, patterns and boundaries are often considered. In our pursuit to  ... 
Released: October 2009, Read the full article.

Fabricating with a Digital Foundation

A shop floor technician at Zahner Co. powers up a laptop - a mundane sight, until you consider what he's about to view. He opens a dynamic PDF, zooms in, rotates the image, and ... 
Released: September 2009, Read the full article.

Taubman Wins Prestigious Architecture Award

Chicago, Illinois. . . The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. and co-presented by The European Centre for Architecture Art Des ... 
Released: September 2009, Read the full article.

The Civic Value of a Bold Statement

We’ll have to wait to find out exactly what the end of the Age of Excess means for architecture in New York. Yes, the glut of high-concept luxury towers was wearisome. But some  ... 
Released: June 2009, Read the full article.

Wyly Theater

Art and engineering merged last week as The Dallas Morning News' photographers toured the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre and the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, two of the m ... 
Released: March 2009, Read the full article.

Taubman Museum of Art

Located on a prominent corner of Roanoke’s downtown, the Taubman Museum of Art creates a gateway to the city for visitors arriving from US I581. As Roanoke’s most contemporary s ... 
Released: December 2008, Read the full article.

Columbia Finishing Section of Campus 113 Years Later

Columbia University is finally completing the northwest corner of its six-block main campus in Morningside Heights, 113 years after construction began there. It is doing so wit ... 
Released: December 2008, Read the full article.

Bartle Hall Loading Dock Goes from Drab to Dramatic

The north loading dock of Bartle Hall, an ugly entry point to downtown for 30-plus years, has been radically transformed to not only look good but also function better. The $7.3 ... 
Released: November 2008, Read the full article.

Turret-Press Tools Create Works of Art

Special tooling allows A. Zahner Co. to create custom panels that clad some of the most famous museums and art house in North America.

The Fabricating / Manufacturin ... 
Released: August 2008, Read the full article.

EMP: Experience Music Project

Anyone who says they’ve never wanted to be a rock star is either lying or in denial. The desire to pick up a guitar and wail is just as much human nature as the need to breathe. ... 
Released: May 2008, Read the full article.

Seven Outstanding Professionals Tapped for Hon. AIA

L. William Zahner, Hon. AIA, is the fourth generation of his family to lead the A. Zahner Company, which has supplied high-quality architectural metal products and services f ... 
Released: February 2007, Read the full article.

A Fabricators Perspective

“Man’s mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to it original dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Over the last decade, the design, engineering and construction  ... 
Released: January 2007, Read the full article.

Zahner Listed as the Best Thing Made in KC

"The Pitch", Kansas City's independent news magazine has come out with their annual Best Of Kansas City.  This year, 2006, A. Zahner Company was recognized as "The Best Thing Ma ... 
Released: October 2006, Read the full article.

A. Zahner Company featured in Star Magazine

The September 17, 2006 edition of the Kansas City Star's Star Magazine features A. Zahner Company, with an article entitled "The Hands of the Artist".

Last year a docent ... 
Released: October 2006, Read the full article.

“Streams: Data Driven Fabrications Connecting with Indiana’s White River.”

Collections of sticks, leaves and stones from Indiana’s White River fill the Ball glass jars that dot the windowsills in Prof. Kevin Klinger’s classroom. Two canoes rest at the  ... 
Released: April 2006, Read the full article.

The Hunter Museum of Art featured in "Architectural Record"

The November 2005 issue of "Architectural Record" magazine features the Hunter Museum of Art by Randall Stout [see pages 122 – 129] in a section devoted to museum projects aroun ... 
Released: November 2005, Read the full article.

De Young Museum makes the cover of "Architectural Record"

The November, 2005 issue of "Architectural Record" magazine has placed the New de Young Museum on their cover and, in a section devoted to museum projects around the world, betw ... 
Released: November 2005, Read the full article.

Dallas / Fort Worth Terminal D featured in “Architectural Record”

The October 2005 issue of "Architectural Record" magazine contains two Zahner projects and one is the new DFW Terminal D project. 

A project of this size requires  ... 
Released: October 2005, Read the full article.

Water Treatment Facility featured in two architectural magazines

Both the October 2005 issues of “Architecture” and "Architectural Record" magazines highlight a Steven Holl designed project.

A water purification facility, located in  ... 
Released: October 2005, Read the full article.

Sheet-Metal Magicians - Metropolis - October 2005

An obscure company is fast becoming the go-to fabricator for facade and structural innovation.

On a glaringly bright June afternoon in Kansas City, IReleased: October 2005, Read the full article.

Turbulence House featured in "Architectural Record"

Every year, the April issue of "Architectural Record" magazine focuses on residential projects and 2005’s issue has Steven Holl’s  “Turbulence House” on pages 182 – 187.&nb ... 
Released: April 2005, Read the full article.

The Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park featured in "Architectural Record"

The January 2005 issue of “Architectural Record” features Zahner’s ZEPP System and our angel hairTM finish shingle cladding system.  The band shell, found on pages 136 – 14 ... 
Released: January 2005, Read the full article.

MIT Stata Center featured in “Architectural Record”

“Architectural Record" magazine's August 2004 issue features Gehry Partners’  designed MIT Stata Center on pages 97 - 111.  Zahner designed, engineered, fabricated and ... 
Released: August 2004, Read the full article.

Zahner introduces custom patinas on zinc.

As one can see when viewing the November 2005 issue of "Architectural Record" magazine, the Hunter Museum of Art by Randall Stout [see pages 122 – 129] features a custom patina  ... 
Released: March 2004, Read the full article.

Business Week recognizes Apple’s Soho Flagship store.

Apple Computer’s Flagship Store, located in the Soho area of New York City receives a national design award when it was recognized by “Business Week” magazine as one of the best ... 
Released: January 2004, Read the full article.

Apple’s Soho Flagship store featured in "Architectural Record"

Apple Computer’s Flagship Store, located in the Soho area of New York City was featured in the  October, 2003 issue of "Architectural Record.”

Working with the Berk ... 
Released: November 2003, Read the full article.

Ohr-O'Keefe Museum

The centerpiece of the $16-million Museum, designed as a series of pavilions amid a four-acre grove of ancient Live oak trees on the Mississippi Sound, is a gallery dedicated to ... 
Released: July 2001, Read the full article.

Frank Gehry Rock Temple

In 1969 a screaming, reverberating rendition of the Star Spangled Banner by Jimi Hendrix seemed to herald an end to innocence. His resonant lyric "Are you experienced?" is now r ... 
Released: July 2000, Read the full article.