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A 1,100-foot stainless steel ribbon is being installed around the building, making the NASCAR Hall of Fame identifiable.
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President and CEO Bill Zahner is featured in the August Issue of Wired Magazine, where he has now been dubbed, the "Alpha Geek" of Metal.
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The new crown for the Kansas City Royals brings a little sparkle back to Kauffman Stadium.
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The NASCAR Hall of Fame project reached 1,000,000 man-hours without a "lost-time" accident milestone recently. In recognition for Zahner's achievement TBEKD presented a plaque to Zahner
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Bill Zahner is named an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects.
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Portfolio

Reference List of Major Projects

40 Bond Street New York City Herzog & de Meuron
40 Bond is Herzog & de Meuron's first residential project in the United States. Containing 27 unique residences, the building is both traditional in it's cast iron construction, and completely...

Located at the Southwest corner of 400 Fifth Avenue, only a few blocks away from the iconic Empire State Building, the building is designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Assocs, Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman...

American Heritage Museum Laramie, Wyoming Antoine Predock
Conceived in 1986 and completed in 1993, the American Heritage Center by acclaimed architect Antoine Predock, is a unique structure which pays tribute to it's locale, in Laramie, Wyoming. Predock describes it...

Apple Stores United States Various Architects
Zahner produces several finishes that attracted Apple over a decade ago. When they opened their first flagship store in New York's Soho district, Zahner was chosen to produce the metalwork on its interior...

Argosy Casino Lawrenceburg, Indiana BDMD Architects
In the Southeast corner of Indiana, located along the Ohio River and adjacent to the states of Ohio and Kentucky, the architect's design successfully replicated the region's old structural steel trestle...

Arkansas House Northwest Arkansas Marlon Blackwell
This project by acclaimed architect Marlon Blackwell was completed in 2004 using our premium weathering steel product. Solanum™ Steel. The architects' challenge for the project was to reassemble a fire...

Art Gallery of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta; Canada Randall Stout Architects
The Art Gallery of Alberta is located in downtown Edmonton, in the province of Alberta, Canada. The building was designed by Randall Stout Architects, installed by Flynn Canada technicians, and the gallery...

Art Wall at Doha Doha, Qatar Jan Hendrix
An ongoing project due for completion in the Summer of 2010, the Artwall at the Doha is the latest collaboration with artist Jan Hendrix and Zahner Architectural Metals. We engineered and produced... 

Baja 600 Kansas City, Missouri Gastinger Walker Harden
With Gastinger Walker Harden Architects and Highwood Properties, Zahner produced the subtly spiraling roof for Baja 600 on the Plaza in Kansas City.  Zahner designed, engineered, fabricated and installed... 

Bartle Sky Stations Kansas City, Missouri Ron Fischer
Located in downtown Kansas City, artist R.M. Fisher worked with Zahner to produce the stainless steel and aluminum sculptures which rest upon massive pylons at the intersection of three major...

Broad Art Museum Lansing, Michigan Zaha Hadid Architects
Michigan State's new Art Museum broke ground in March, 2010, destined to be complete in 2012.  The New Broad Art Museum will be designed Zaha Hadid, the architect's second museum of art in the United States...
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Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, California Studio Daniel Libeskind
The Contemporary Jewish Museum was founded in 1984 in San Francisco, California, with the goal of offering contemporary perspectives on Jewish culture, history, art, and ideas. In June 2008, the Museum...

The 175,000-square-foot, $111.6 million addition, known simply by its street address, 41 Cooper Square, covers the full block on Third Avenue from East 6th to East 7th Streets, bordering the East...

Dallas Fort Worth Airport Dallas, Texas Corgan Associates
The new Terminal D at the Dallas Fort Worth Airport is the largest square-foot project completed to date using the Inverted Seam™ Roofing System.  The new terminal was built to give international travelers...

De Young Museum San Francisco, California Herzog & de Meuron
Named for San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young, this building is a completely reworked redesign from the original museum, which opened in 1895 as an outgrowth of the California...

Dream Downtown New York City Handel Architects
Currently under construction and set to open in 2011, the Dream Downtown by hotelier Vikram Chatwal will feature 316 boutique style rooms. The bright reflective building is already on its way to making a mark...

Eugene Federal Courthouse Eugene, Oregon Morphosis
The structure earned a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification for its energy efficiency and sustainability. Zahner worked closely with architects at Morphosis and... 

Experience Music Project Seattle, Washington Frank Gehry
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... 

Fisher Center Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Frank Gehry
Located at the north end of Bard College in upstate New York amongst the foothills of the Catskill Mountains, Fisher Center is a project designed Frank Gehry Partners, LLC, completed in 2003. After nearly... 

Hoag Rawlings Library Pueblo, Colorado Antoine Predock
The new Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library is a new 109,000 square foot facility built on the site of the original library, using a portion of the existing library. Located in Pueblo Colorado and designed by...

Hunter Museum of American Art Chattanooga, Tennessee Randall Stout Architects
Designed by a protege of Frank Gehry, Architect Randall Stout actually grew up in Tennessee, so to envision Chattanooga's new American Art Museum was particularly meaningful for Mr. Stout. The Hunter...

Irving Convention Center Las Colinas, Texas RMJM Hillier
As of June of 2010, the building's construction is on schedule to be completed in Novmeber of 2010. Las Colinas is a master-planned community within the city of Irving which is home to many...

Juilliard Stairs New York City Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Zahner worked with the architects at Diller Scofidio + Renfro to produce a gliding red staircase for the recent rennovations at The Juilliard School in New York City. The two staircases are located one after...

Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri Austin Group
The new production facility for the Kansas City Star involved the Austin Company, a group of designers and engineers who specialize in producing industrial facilities, such as printing presses.  The Kansas City...

Kansas City Zoo Kansas City, Missouri BNIM
Custom copper standing seam and bold batten roof panels with built-in gutters formed to create the unique geometry of the surface. Copper was allowed to naturally age...

Kauffman Stadium Kansas City, Missouri Populous
The Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City was recently revamped and redesigned by the architects at Populous, formerly a division of HOK. The new structure includes a perforated surface that wraps the entire...

Lake Whitney South Central Connecticutt Steven Holl
The project features the largest green roof in Connecticutt, zero off-site storm water discharge, and geothermal heating and cooling. It also includes expanded wetlands for biodiversity, and was chosen as...

LAPD Memorial Los Angeles, California Gensler
The new LAPD Memorial to Fallen Officers stands as a testament to strength and courage. Not only to the force, but to each individual police officer who has died in the line of duty. A previous...

McCoy Federal Building Jackson, Mississippi Schwartz/Silver
The three-and a half million dollar addition to the Mccoy Federal Building in Jackson, Mississippi will update the image of the building as well as the function. Zahner will engineer and produce the curving glass...
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Meyer Fletcher New Milford, Connecticutt Studio Daniel Libeskind
At the time of writing, this is Daniel Libeskind's latest project has just been complete, but images have not been released. The building was skinned with bronze interference-coated stainless with a mirror...

Miyake New York City Frank Gehry & Gordon Kipping
Zahner teamed up with Frank Gehry and Gordon Kipping to produce undulating forms and structural support system for this high fashion store in New York City.  Hand-formed titanium panels were attached to the...

Morimoto New York City Stephanie Goto
Designed by Stephanie Goto and Tadao Ando, this upscale bar in Chelsea is just a few steps from the south end of the new High LIne in lower Manhattan. Zahner produced the exterior, a blackened zinc corrugating ...

Morphosis Exhibit Paris, France Morphosis
From March through July of 2006, a sweeping exhibit entitled "Continuities of the Incomplete" was displayed at the acclaimed Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. Morphosis came to long-time partner...

NASCAR Hall of Fame Charlotte, North Carolina Pei Cobb Freed
The new NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina opened in May of 2010. Lead design architect Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners envisioned a möbius strip-styled stainless steel roadway racing around the...

Neiman Marcus Natick, Massachusetts Elkus Manfredi
The Neiman Marcus in Natick Massachusetts was given special treatment by architects at Elkus Manfredi and the design and production facility at Zahner Art & Architecture. The front facade wraps around the...

Nissan Studios Farmington Hills Michigan Luce et Studio
Nissan Design America commissioned architectural team Luce et Studio to design a studio and laboratory for the Nissan Design Group to innovate new technologies and concept cars. Zahner worked with...

Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Biloxi, Mississippi Frank Gehry
The reconstruction process of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art is nearing completion.  Located in Biloxi, Mississippi, it is a non-profit art museum and arts center dedicated to the George E. Ohr...

Power & Light Bridge Kansas City, Missouri Helix
This project is not a bridge for people or cars, but for the primary electricity conduits that feed downtown Kansas City. Designed by the architects at Helix, utilitarian truss structure is cladded with a...

Pritzker Pavilion Chicago, Illinois Frank Gehry
The Pritzker Pavilion at Millenium Park in Chicago consists of fourteen unique elements constructed of straight stick steel support and ZEPPS™ Assemblies, each clad with Angel Hair™ Stainless Steel...

Rosenthal Museum Cincinnati, Ohio Zaha Hadid Architects
The new Center for Contemporary Art opened in 2003, Zaha Hadid's first Museum in the United States.  Located in Cincinnati, Ohio, the project uses blackened aluminum, a difficult patina to produce.  This custom...

Royals Crown Kansas City, Missouri Populous
The new Crown at the Royals Stadium was produced in collaboration with Populous (Formerly HOK). The crown was designed to top the new vertical screen at the stadium, one of the biggest screens in the world...
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In the space between where the Twin Towers once stood in New York City, a museum is being constructed and will be clad by Zahner Architectural Metal.  Construction has already begun on the foundation...

Tacoma Art Museum Tacoma, Washington Antoine Predock
The new Tacoma Art Museum opened in 2003, doubling it's square footage from the old museum and creating new flexible gallery space for it's collection. The collection is primarily composed of...

Tacoma Museum of Glass Tacoma, Washington Arthur Erickson
A bridge connects the museum to downtown all the way across a freeway, displaying thousands of Dale Chihuly works along the way. Zahner produced the metalwork...

Taubman Museum Roanoke, Virginia Randall Stout Architects
The City of Roanoke is situated in the surrounding mountainous landscape of the Shenandoah Valley, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Appalachian Mountains. A quiety and traditional city, it seemed...

The Dodge Building Kansas City, Missouri Gastinger Walker Harden
Named in honor of lead donors to the Kansas City Art Institute, the 34,000 square foot Dodge Painting Building at 4446 Oak St. is an upgrade from the previous building used by the painting...

The Fairmont Vancouver BC James KM Cheng
The Fairmont is a 44 story hotel on 1038 Canada Place Way which situates it only a block from the water. Zahner became involved when the architects opted for a perforated screen system which disguises...

The Smithsonian Washington D.C. Ramona Sakiestewa
Zahner was requested for the production of several elements adorning the new National Museum for the American Indian, an institution dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life...

The Wyly Dallas, Texas OMA / REX
Probably the most intelligently thought out performance center in the world, this structure serves an enormous range of performance-based art. Designed by REX Architecture firm and Rem Koolhaus, whose...

Weatherhead School Cleveland, Ohio Frank Gehry
Named for the Cleveland philanthropist who donated $36.9 million towards its construction, the Peter B. Lewis Building was designed by Gehry Partners, LLC.  The five story facility is decentralized in its design...

Wings of Aphrodite Kansas City, Missouri Crawford + Suikang Zhao
Working with Chinese artist Suikang Zhao, Crawford Architects and Zahner Art & Architecture gave the old Bartle Hall Loading Docks both a facelift with transparent metal wall panel systems and a functional...

Winspear Opera House Dallas, Texas OMA / REX
Completed in 2009, Zahner worked with the architects to develop a canopy system which would allow beneficial light through the courtyard while preventing harsh rays of the sun.  The Winspear is one of five...




Additional Zahner Projects

Leona Drive
Ray and Maria Stata Center Exterior
Freedom Center
11th and Oak Parking Garage
65 E. Goethe
Trinity River
Modern Art Museum / Fort Worth
Gaines Residence
Weisman Art Museum
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
All Star Resort
American Medical Association
Aristocrat Motors
Capitol Building, Topeka KS
Children's Mercy Hospital
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Figlio's Dome
Grady Memorial Hospital
Harold Washington Library
Heartbeaps
Hummer Automotive
Kauffman Stadium Crown Icon
Lakeside Nature Center
McCormick & Schmick's
Midwest Research Institute - MRI
Mobile Credit Center
Nauvoo Temple
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
Newcastle Public Library
Philadelphia Airport
Planet Hollywood, Orlando
Pulitzer Foundation
San Francisco Merchandise Mart
Sprint
Tampa Museum of Science and Industry
The Great Platte River Road Archway
Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse
Tomorrowland
Tsing Yi Station
Whitaker Federal Courthouse