News & Updates

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

Portfolio

Reference List of Major Projects

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18.36.54 New Milford, Connecticut 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...

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200 Eleventh New York City Selldorf Architects
Designed by the architects at Annabelle Selldorf, this residential high-rise occupies the corner of 11th Avenue and 24th Street in West Chelsea, New York City, and was completed in mid-2011...
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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...

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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...

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65 E. Goethe Chicago, Illinois Lucien Lagrange
The exterior cladding of the new luxury residences in Chicago by the architects at Lucien Lagrange was produced by Zahner® in Kansas City. The Standing seam room wall panel design was clad with...

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Alexandria Parking Structure San Francisco, California WRNS Studio
Zahner produced a perforated bronze-anodized aluminum screen wall, designed by WRNS Studio for Alexandria Real Estate Equities. The perforated pattern was designed from imagery of foliage
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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...

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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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... 
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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... 
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Bartle Sky Stations Kansas City, Missouri Ron Fischer
Located in downtown Kansas City, artist R.M. Fischer worked with Zahner to produce the stainless steel and aluminum sculptures which rest upon massive pylons at the intersection of three major...
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BOK Center Tulsa, Oklahoma Pelli Clarke Pelli
The new facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma is a nearly 20,000 seat multi-purpose arena for sports, concerts, and massive events. The project involved Zahner's production and installation of several thousand...

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Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine Machado & Silvetti
Located in Brunswick, Maine, the Bowdoin College of Art went through a redesign and renovation to the building envelope by the architects Machado and Silvetti. Completed in 2007, the...
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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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Cats Paw Hong Kong Chris Cooney
Designed by architect Chris Cooney, the Cat's Paw Bar is located in the Kowloon District of Hong Kong. The project features a series of stainless steel ribbons, each generated from scale models constructed...
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Completed in 2010, the Northwest Corner Building was commissioned by Columbia University for the beginning of their campus expansion on the upper-west side of Manhattan...
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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...
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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...

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Daeyang Gallery Seoul, South Korea Steven Holl Architects
Designed by Steven Holl Architects and located in Seoul, Korea, this space will serve dual purposes, as both a residential guest house and an art gallery for visitors. JongSeo Lee of Steven Holl Architects is leading the project...
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Dallas Fort Worth Airport Dallas, Texas HKS, HNTB, and Corgan
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...
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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...
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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...
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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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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...
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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...

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Independence Temple Independence, Missouri Gyo Obata
One of the first projects of renowned that Zahner produced locally, the Independence Temple is designed by Gyo Obata, evoking the spiral shell of the nautilus, produced in stainless steel. The complex spiraling roof...
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Irving Convention Center Las Colinas, Texas RMJM Hillier
Designed by RMJM Hillier of Scottland, the convention center is located in Las Colinas, a master-planned community within the city of Irving, which is itself situated halfway between sister cities Dallas and...

 

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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...
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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...
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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...
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Kauffman Center Kansas City, Missouri Moshe Safdie

 

The Kauffman Center for Performing Arts is having a dramatic and transformative impact on Kansas City, changing both the city’s skyline as well as the experience of artists and audiences...

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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...
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Lake Whitney South Central Connecticut Steven Holl Architects
Designed by esteemed architect Steven Holl Architeects, the project is an example of how something as undesired as a water treatment plant can be given a sophisticated treatment itself...

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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...
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Lumenhaus World Wide Various Architects
The latest collaborative design project from Virginia Tech, the Lumenhaus is an ecologically-conscious portable housing project. Based on the design principles of Bauhaus, the project is updated with 21st ...
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Maggie's Centre Dundee, Scotland Frank Gehry
This center among the first designed and built for Maggie Keswick Jencks, who died of breast cancer in 1995. Jencks dreamed of a place where cancer patients could be treated as human beings, a center built...

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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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Miami Intermodal Center Miami, Florida Perez & Perez
A Massive project is underway in Miami, Florida as part of the transit program for coming and going to Miami International Airport. The project will give travelers to and from the airport several options to connect

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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...
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Moca Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio Fashid Moussavi Architecture
The new museum in Cleveland is being designed and engineered with the architects at FOA (Foreign Office Architects). The architects designed an elegant prism to house the museum's collection in a new space...
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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 ...
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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...
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Murphysboro Sculpture Murphysboro, Illinois John Medwedeff
Designed by artist John Medwedeff, this public art project is located at the town center of Murphysboro, Illinois. Completed in 2010, the 35' long sculpture serves as a bandshell, creating a small amphitheater for...
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Museum of Science and Industry Tampa, Florida Antoine Predock
Completed in 1995, this spherical theater, with its form clutching the earth, is the key organizing element of the entire facility. Part of a complex of buildings organized around...
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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...
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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...
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New World Symphony Miami, Florida Frank Gehry
Zahner® is working with acclaimed architect Frank Gehry on the New World Symphony, a massive project in Miami involving a campus renovation with a world class symphony hall. The school's primary...
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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...
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Noisette Pavilion North Charleston, South Carolina BNIM
The Noisette Park Pavilion is a fast-track project completed in June 2005 with the architects at BNIM. Zahner designed, fabricated and installed the entire structure, including all steel elements. The entire project was computer...
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Oakley Headquarters Los Angeles, California Colin Baden/Langdon Wilson
Designed by Colin Baden and Langdon Wilson, the Oakley Headquarters is located in Foothill Ranch, California, just south of Los Angeles. Baden, an architect by trade, guided the project ...
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Oculus Kansas City, Missouri Reilly Hoffman
In the 2006-07 year, artist Reilly Hoffman won the competition with a sculpture entitled, "Oculus" -- the artist then met with engineers and the shop fabricators at Zahner, and in the late fall of 2006, began planning how to produce the project...
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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...
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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...

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

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SFMTA Ticket Kiosks San Francisco, California Lundberg Design
Designed by architects at Lundberg Design for the San Francisco cable car kiosks, these two ticket booths were clad in perforated stainless steel by Zahner.  The architects wanted to reveal imagery of the...
 
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Shafran Planetarium Cleveland, Ohio Westlake Reed Leskosky
The Shafran Planetarium in Cleveland, Ohio is designed by Cleveland architectural engineering firm Westlake Reed Leskosky. The planetarium officially opened January 15, 2002...
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Silver Towers New York City James Carpenter
The courtyard of the Silver Towers Residence in New York City was designed by the acclaimed James Carpenter Design Associates, an architectural team that is renowned for the use of light...
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Spaceport America New Mexico Foster & Partners
Located in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico and designed by Foster + Partners and the URS team, Spaceport America is the first private spaceport in the world. The building will house both the visitors and space...
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Stony Brook Long Island, New York Perkins Eastman / ABI
In 2008, Zahner began developing a series of products with world renowned kinetic artist and designer, Chuck Hoberman. Hoberman foresaw a future where kinetic surface which could respond to environmental...
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Suzanne Roberts Theatre Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kieran Timberlake
Completed in 2007, the new theater for Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts was designed by Kieran Timberlake and named for Suzanne Roberts, former actress, playright, and director. Zahner was brought on to do...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Modern in Fort Worth Dallas, Texas Tadao Ando
Widely referred to as "The Modern," the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth was designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando as a new building for the city's growing collection of contemporary art...
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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...
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UNMC Tower Omaha, Nebraska James Carpenter
Designed by lead architect Richard Kress at James Carpenter Design Associates, this project is an immense tower surfaced in custom-perforated gold interference stainless steel. These perforated panels...
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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...
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White Chapel Terre Haute, Indiana VOA Associates
Designed by VOA Associates, the White Chapel is part of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The project is located in Terre Haute, Indiana, and was completed in 2005...
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Winds 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...
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Winspear Opera House Dallas, Texas Foster & Partners
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...
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Wyly Theater 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...
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Zahner Campus Kansas City, Missouri Crawford Architects
Working with Crawford Architects in Kansas City, the Design Team at Zahner developed and produced the exterior facade for the new expansion, dubbed "Cloud Wall," a series of fins which runs along...

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100th Anniversary SMWIA Washington D.C. Frank Gehry
To celebrate the centennial of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association, the SMWIA commissioned the up-and-coming Frank Gehry to create a building within a building in Washington DC. Installed...
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Additional Zahner Projects

Turbulence House
Ray and Maria Stata Center Exterior
Freedom Center
11th and Oak Parking Garage
Ovitz Residence
Trinity River
Waipolu Gallery
Weisman Art Museum
Gaines Residence
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