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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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Designed by 360 Architecture and located in Iraq, the new Basrah Sport City Center is part of a larger complex that aims to boost the city as a sporting center in Arabia...
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...
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...
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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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...
Designed Gould Evans for the Cerner Headquarters, Zahner produced this uniquely perforated stainless steel sculpture and sign for the Cerner Corporation in North Kansas City...
A swarm of suit jackets dominates the central corridor of Clyde Frazier's, a 10,000 square foot experience which spans a New York city block...
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...
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...
Designed by HKS, the Dallas Cowboys Stadium is among the largest in the world, seating 100,000 people. Zahner produced the stainless steel perimeter metalwork throughout the Dallas Cowboys Stadium...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Designed by Antoine Predock Architects, the new award-winning courthouse in El Paso has been recognized around the United States for both its architectural qualities...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Envisioned by Frank Gehry as an artistic effect, this canopy was built by Zahner and installed in New York City on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Canopy shaded the museum's cafe...
The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum was designed by Rem Koolhaus of OMA for Impressionist Art. Three of the walls clad in Zahner's Solanum™ Steel were engineered to rotate, allowing curators to change the...
Hands of Man is a work of public art conceived by L. William Zahner, as a gift to The Salvation Army in Kansas City. The artwork was produced by tracing the hands of Salvation Army employees. These hands drawings were scanned and cut in copper, using Zahner's art fabrication...
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...
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...
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...
Designed by Perkins + WIll Canada, this award-winning University of Toronto Instruction Centre's new building is certified LEED Silver, and was completed in 2011...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Designed by architect Michel Rojkind for an upscale rebranding of the Liverpool Department Stores in Mexico, the Interlomas location has been a massive success both in the media and...
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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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...
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
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Architect Michael Maltzan's trophy house for Michael Ovitz has attracted the attention of art collectors worldwide. The new residence includes gallery space to house many of the significant artworks collected by talent agent Michael Ovitz. crack
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Shafran Planetarium in Cleveland, Ohio is designed by Cleveland architectural engineering firm Westlake Reed Leskosky. The planetarium officially opened January 15, 2002...
Zahner produced the three massive "wings" which salute the sky using the ZEPPS™ Process for complex structures. The subtle dual curvature required precise engineering and intelligent organization, because this was the first Export ZEPPS™ Project...
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...
Designed by Gensler for Southern Methodist University, The Collins Executive Center is a center for brigin Zahner provided the contractors with pre-patinated copper with artistic variation. Zahner's process...
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...
Designed by George Butler Architects for the Power & Light District of Downtown Kansas City. This is a parking structure whose facade is constructed using a perforated aluminum surface with Angel Hair Stainless steel architectural features...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Designed by YWS Architects of Las Vegas, Nevada, Zahner provided the engineering and fabrication of two large winged stainless steel elements at the northeast side entry of the casino. Thes "wings" are constructed of steel tubing and aluminum ...
Designed by New Mexico-based architectural firm Antoine Predock, the new project is connected to one of the largest inner-city forests in the United States. The Building serves as an exhibit hall for both the interior...
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...
Designed by HKS of Dallas and Daly Genik of Los Angeles, the 15-story award winning building is certified LEED Silver, winning the prestigious Millennium Award. Completed in 2010, the hotel...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Considered as the most intelligently conceived performance center in the world, this structure located in Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas serves both traditional and experimental theater, performance art, musical performance, and more.
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...
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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