Choice shade solutions

January 1, 2013  |  Awnings & Canopies, Fabric Structures, Features

Finding the right shade and weather protection for a customer may mean assembling the right combination of products. By Jamie Swedberg Sometimes it’s relatively easy to figure out the shade solution that will suit a customer’s wants and needs. “There are people who have been gettin…
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Reinventing architecture with fabric “interventions”

December 1, 2012  |  Fabric Structures, Features, Projects

Dutch artist and designer Petra Blaisse believes in “the reanimation of desolate buildings,” and her latest “intervention” at the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Italy, uses daylight, shadow and space-transforming curtains to bring a vacant exhibit space new …
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On the water: redevelopment in fabric

December 1, 2012  |  Fabric Structures, Projects

The City of Owensboro, Ohio, has been developing its riverfront over the past 10 years, making it a cultural hub for tourism. At the end of the walkway to the river is an overlook area featuring a landmark fan-shaped tensile fabric structure. Integrated atop a stage area, the dynamic structure was d…
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Tenderness at the Beaux Arts Ball

December 1, 2012  |  Fabric Structures, Projects

Since its launch in 1913 by the Society of Beaux Arts Architects as “the most artistic entertainment of the kind ever given in New York,” the Beaux Arts Ball in New York City has provided unique themed environments not to be missed by the beau monde. This year’s theme was “te…
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Parachute-style roof covers stadium

December 1, 2012  |  Fabric Structures, Projects

[Hightex Group PLC] London, U.K. The BC Place Stadium in downtown Vancouver, B.C., was completely updated recently, including the replacement of its air-supported roof with a tensioned cable net roof. Hightex Group PLC designed it with a fixed PTFE/glass tensile membrane and a retractable central se…
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Pavilion performs beautifully

December 1, 2012  |  Fabric Structures, Projects

[Structurflex LLC] Kansas City, Mo., U.S.A. Sitting on top of an underground parking garage, a performance pavilion designed and engineered by Structurflex is a steel frame-supported PTFE-glass fabric tensile structure with cellular polycarbonate paneling. The fabric, Sheerfill® from Saint-Gobai…
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Tensile sculpture “flies” over an amphitheater

December 1, 2012  |  Fabric Structures, Projects

[G.H. Bruce LLC] Tucson, Ariz., U.S.A. “Where Flying Fishes Play” is a tensile sculpture created to shade a corporate amphitheater in Phoenix, Ariz. The project, managed by G.H. Bruce LLC, features four HDPE canopies of silver Comtex® from Polyfab™ USA. Three layers of 1&frac12…
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Weather or not—fabric measures up

December 1, 2012  |  Business, Fabric Structures, Features, Markets

With a great selection of materials available, fabric structures adapt to different climates and project needs. By Barb Ernster Trying to find the right solution for the right application in a particular climate is generally foremost in architectural work. The issues to be addressed in developing bu…
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Open in Amsterdam: the largest composite facade for Stedelijk Museum

November 20, 2012  |  Fabric Structures, Projects

The combination of Teijin’s Twaron and Tenax super fibers is an architectural first. The newly renovated Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is an undisputed eye catcher on the Museumplein, and is also the largest composite building in the world. The enormous and seamless white façade that no…
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SEFAR® Architecture LightFrame illuminates Switzerland art museum

November 7, 2012  |  Fabric Structures

Modular fabric ceiling system provides diffused light source for Art House Uri. Visitors to the Art House Uri in Altdorf, Switzerland, now have the opportunity to experience the latest in lighting and textile design as they view the works of local artist Heinrich Danioth displayed under a SEFAR®…
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