Quantum physics inspires interactive fabric art

July 1, 2025  |  Projects

A 2023 interactive art project involving two Maine artists, Cynthia Thompson, owner of Transformit in Gorham, and James LaPlante, Sputnik Animation, South Portland, led to another. The 2024 installation was inspired by quantum physics concepts and explored through giant lotus flowers.
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Above-pool shade project shields school swim team

June 1, 2025  |  Projects

Hoover Architectural Products, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., took poolside shade to a new level—literally over and above—to protect the swim team at Pine Crest School in Boca Raton. The 8,846-square-foot shade structure, fabricated in two parts, comprises 288 yards of fabric and shades an eight-lane po…
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Church members help raise a new fabric roof in Lomé, Togo

April 1, 2025  |  Projects

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. A new 2-ton roof was hoisted and assembled for New Life Evangelical Church in Lomé, Togo, in West Africa, with the help of a crew of 14 community and church members.
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Fabric awning replaces metal—fast

March 1, 2025  |  Projects

A New Zealand seafood restaurant in need of a refresh to its outdoor patio turned to Kolorful Kanvas Ltd., of Christchurch. The project replaced the restaurant’s metal awning with a retractable fabric solution and outfitted the outdoor dining area with new screens and signage, making it look more …
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Add, enhance, amplify

February 18, 2025  |  Projects

When the Il Venetian restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio, wanted to expand its dining seating to the outdoors, it contacted Ohio Awning & Manufacturing Co. in Cleveland. Ohio Awning worked directly with the restaurant group that owns this high-end Italian eatery.
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GuildWorks gives a California park its first shade

February 1, 2025  |  Projects

River Park in Petaluma, Calif., is transforming. Its inaugural structure is the peninsula’s first shaded area—there aren’t even any trees—underneath a shade sail array composed of diamond shapes and providing a covered area more than 70 feet in diameter. It rises 20 feet and was created by G…
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Australia’s Wangun Amphitheater honors cultures

January 1, 2025  |  Projects

Fabric architecture includes innumerable possibilities with shape and form, which can result in imbuing even an amphitheater with rich cultural symbolism. Wangun Amphitheatre in Kalimna West, Australia, commissioned by the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GLaWAC), is such a place.…
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New Zealand backyard shade sail solution

December 10, 2024  |  IAA, Projects

The clients for this project asked for a shade sail to cover their north-west facing courtyard. The solution from SunCraft NZ, Ltd., won an Award of Excellence in the Commercial Awnings & Canopies category of the 2024 Advanced Textiles Association International Achievement Awards. It was importa…
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Fabric skin completely transforms riverboat casino

December 1, 2024  |  Projects

Calling it “a complete overhaul” doesn’t even begin to describe the transformation of the Bally’s riverboat casino in Kansas City, Mo., done by Structurflex of Merriam, Kan., with the FlexFacades cladding system. There’s nothing “old-timey riverboat” about the current look, although th…
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Covered rotunda offers comfort for medical center

November 12, 2024  |  Projects

Tropical J’s, a Hawaii-based awning and canopy manufacturer, had completed an awning for the rear of the Straub’s Medical Center during COVID. That project so impressed the CEO of the center that when it came time for another shade project, he asked his facilities manager to reach out to the…
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