Photo gallery

  • The retractable roof on BC Place Stadium features SEFAR® Architecture’s TENARA® architectural fabric. The project was completed in September 2011. Photo: Sefar U.S.
  • BC Place in Vancouver, BC, Canada, has been transformed into a year-round, open-air facility with an innovative retractable roof. Photo: Sefar U.S.
  • Historic fire truck has bright future. Photo: MacBoston Truck
  • Mister Sew-N-Sew’s master craftsman and owner, Charlie Kees, enjoyed finding a soft cover solution for an antique fire truck; his wife Marcia’s father had been a fire chief. Photo: Mister Sew-N-Sew.
  • Floor-to-ceiling metal mesh facade is dramatic welcome for hotel guests. Photo: Cambridge Architectural.
  • Metal mesh fabric applications, such as the W Hoboken Hotel façade, define and separate space, while also providing visibility, light, air flow and durable strength. Photo: Cambridge Architectural.
  • Moss Inc.’s magnificent stage setting for the 2010 Video Music Awards got almost as much press coverage as Lady Gaga’s gown made entirely from meat. Photo: Moss Inc.
  • The 70-by-50-foot tensioned fabric petals covering the walls, ceiling and floor, offset huge video screens showing a feast of film and music. Photo: Moss Inc.
  • Carpet sculpture hangs from rafter of a former church in Croatia. Photo: Numen/For Use.
  • Numen/For Use takes material properties as the starting point for public installations such as “Tuft Pula.” “Very often fascinating art is changing the perspective on something. I guess we did it with tape.” Photo: Numen/For Use.
  • Inflate Products Ltd. designed and fabricated PUMA’s inflatable, transportable fabric structure used to entertain participants and spectators during the Volvo Ocean Race. Photo: Inflate Products Ltd.
  • Inflate Products Ltd. designed and fabricated PUMA’s inflatable, transportable fabric structure used to entertain participants and spectators during the Volvo Ocean Race. Photo: Inflate Products Ltd.
  • This rugged polar ice-crawling vehicle carries delicate sonar equipment covered by an equally rugged custom-designed red tarp from Harp’s Tarps.
  • By installing a UniTent low-shrinkage, high-tenacity polyester membrane roof structure inside the Jamsil indoor pool, Hanwha Polydreamer helped the city of Seoul reduce construction, heating and air-conditioning costs. Photo: Hanwha Polydreamer.
  • Parsons Engineering chose Geotube® containers for a massive Superfund clean-up project in Onondaga Lake, which begins this spring and will involve four years of dredging and dewatering contaminated sediments. Photo: TenCate Geosynthetics Americas.
  • A TiO2 nanoparticle spray applied to Wendy, a temporary outdoor architectural installation, will remove NOx and solvent-type chemicals from the air—providing a breath of fresh air to patrons visiting MoMA PS1 from late June to September. Photo: MoMA PS1
  • A TiO2 nanoparticle spray applied to Wendy, a temporary outdoor architectural installation, will remove NOx and solvent-type chemicals from the air—providing a breath of fresh air to patrons visiting MoMA PS1 from late June to September. Photo: MoMA PS1
  • Inflate Products Ltd. designed and fabricated PUMA’s inflatable, transportable fabric structure used to entertain participants and spectators during the Volvo Ocean Race. Photo: Inflate Products Ltd.
  • The two most important factors considered when planning transport for the container freight were the size of the rolls and the method of loading and unloading without incurring damage to the material. Photo: Geosynthetic Technology Ltd.
  • “The world’s largest lagoon liner” was completed by Geosynthetic Technology Ltd. in just seven months. Photo: Geosynthetic Technology Ltd.
  • More than 350 acres of continuous polypropylene geomembrane lining was recently installed on a project in Kazakhstan. Photo: Geosynthetic Technology Ltd.
  • Heart patients who need constant electrocardiogram monitoring can stay in the hospital or wear a harness that is uncomfortable, hot and hard to wear around the clock. Hohenstein Institute researchers plan to provide a better option. Photo: ©Metrax GmbH.
  • Recent Soyuz launch mishaps have led to concerns among international space station partners and potential delays in satellite launches, scientific experiments and tests of products such as the Dutch space pouches. Photo: ©2012 TenCate Protective Fabrics.
  • Fabric Architecture’s ArchiClad framing technology features specially designed aluminum extrusions developed for the company’s Tensrail® system, which allows complete adjustment in fabric tension. Photos: Fabric Architecture Ltd.
  • Fabric Architecture’s ArchiClad framing technology features specially designed aluminum extrusions developed for the company’s Tensrail® system, which allows complete adjustment in fabric tension. Photos: Fabric Architecture Ltd.
  • Fabric Architecture’s ArchiClad framing technology, used for the Ribbon sculpture at the University of Salford media learning center, is suitable for internal or external ceilings or walls. Photo: Fabric Architecture Ltd.