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Zinc shows its mettle

--Original article by The Miami Herald 4/20/2013--

Bill Zahner Appointed to US Department of Commerce Council

Released: March 2013, Read the full article.

Architectural Record Highlights Broad Art Museum
Big Museum on Campus: Michigan State University’s dazzling new building swaggers into town but fits right in.

Released: January 2013, Read the full article.

Zahner to Donate Services to the Skywalks Memorial

 

Redesign cuts cost of memorial to victims of skywalks collapse

With a lo ... 
Released: December 2012, Read the full article.

Behold Denny's Futuristic Giant Yellow Vegas Flagship

Denny's is building a mammoth yellow flagship in sunny Las Vegas which will contain, among other things, a wedding chapel, a Vegas-themed photo booth (with props, of course) ... 
Released: November 2012, Read the full article.

Perfection on the Diagonal

Broad Museum's builders left comfort zones behind

by Released: November 2012, Read the full article.

Robert Zahner Name 2012 SMACNA Contractor of the Year

Robert Zahner (left) , senior vice pr ... 
Released: October 2012, Read the full article.

Art Meets Architecture

as posted in Architect's Guide to Glass & Metal
October 17th, 2012

Located in Cleveland, the city’s new Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) features a façade as artis ... 
Released: October 2012, Read the full article.

Zahner contributes to Overland Park 9/11 Memorial

Released: September 2012, Read the full article.

Bill Zahner Attends Manufacturing Forum In Washington, D.C.
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Mr. Bill Zahner accepted an exclusive invi ... 
Released: August 2012, Read the full article.

Explorations, Defining Surface: an Exhibit of Fabrications Produced by A. Zahner Company
For immediate release:

Zahner Exhibition at the University in Texas, at Austin

March 2 – March 25
Mebane Gallery, Goldsmith Hall

“Explorations, Defining Sur ... 
Released: February 2011, Read the full article.

Zahner App Press Release
For immediate release

Zahner released its first iPhone App in December 2010, which is available to download for free on the Apple Store, for the iPhone and iPod Touch (a ... 
Released: December 2010, Read the full article.

Tessellate Press Release
A. Zahner Company and Adaptive Building Initiative To Unveil Tessellate™ at the 2010 Greenbuild Expo Chicago, IL, November 17, 2010 – At the 2010 Greenbuild Expo, A. Zahner Compa ... 
Released: November 2010, Read the full article.

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.

De Young Museum makes the cover of

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.

The Hunter Museum of Art featured in

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.

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.

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 the e ... 
Released: October 2005, Read the full article.

Turbulence House featured in

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. 

 ... 
Released: April 2005, Read the full article.

The Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park featured in

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 – 145, is ... 
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 installed ... 
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.

News & Updates

"Zinc shows its mettle" -  The Miami Herald 4/20/2013

 

Zahner's Director of Marketing, Gary Davis, discusses the benefits and uses of Zinc in architecture.

 

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

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

Introducing the Hands of the Artist™ division, where Zahner engineers and craftsmen produce projects for artists.
Visit Zahner's Hands of the Artist website

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