Project Type: Residential Garage
Problem: It was a classic parental dilemma: how to give the kids access to the garage for hobbies and play, but keep them away from Dad’s next-most-precious possession: his classic Ferrari.
Solution/Description of the Installation: Installation of a Series 240 Accordion Door now serves to divide the family garage into two distinct zones – kids and pets have full run of one half, while Dad’s expensive toy is safely sheltered in the other.
“Our access flooring solution provided everything the designers and client wanted – a timber floor finish with a homogenous aesthetic, ease of access into the floor void, ease of replacement in the event of damage and a reduction in construction phase and long-term waste.”
Marc Devereux, Kingspan Data & Flooring
Sector: Offices
Location: London, UK
Architect: Foster + Partners
The European headquarters for Bloomberg is one of the world’s most environmentally-friendly office buildings.
Designed by Foster + Partners for a 3.2-acre site in the heart of the City of London, the scheme comprises a pair of connected 10-story stone volumes linked by aerial bridges. It hosts some 1.1 million square feet of office space – as well as a new entrance to Bank Underground station, cafes and restaurants, two public plazas, and a museum dedicated to the Roman archaeologic site it stands upon.
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When you have great choices making a decision is difficult, it’s great when your project can have both! This project for Magento in Culver City utilized both the Moderco Crystal acoustic glass and the Signature 8500 Operable Partitions. The results were beautiful glazed glass panels at the entry and operable partitions with markerboards for an additional room when needed. This project was wonderfully designed by Wolcott Architecture | Interiors and our GC was HBC.
Texas State University-San Marcos, founded in 1903, currently serves more than 28,000 students in 110 undergraduate and 96 graduate programs. Distinguished alumni include the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. The main campus in San Marcos, Texas is situated on the edge of the beautiful Texas Hill Country. Construction of the university’s Speck Street Parking Garage with 735 parking spaces was completed in August, 2008 and designed to address the urgent need for more student and special events parking. The facility is located at a principal campus entrance and borders a quiet residential neighborhood. The design team was challenged to develop a highly-attractive façade that concealed parked cars, supported the Spanish Colonial architecture utilized throughout the campus, and met the mechanical ventilation requirements for the enclosed parking structure.
Winston-Salem, the City of Arts and Innovation, has a new facility for artists. Designed to be an economic catalyst for neighbourhood growth, the 14,500-square foot Art for Art’s Sake (AFAS) building features two galleries, an art centre for community education, artist studios for rent, an AFAS board room, event space, leased office space and an outdoor sculpture garden on the building’s front lawn. Together, the unique campus provides a new indoor/outdoor venue for the city, furthering the non-profit AFAS mission to “build, educate and celebrate” community through art.
By cladding the building with UniQuad panels in ice white matte over ice white matte, the UniQuad system met Stitch Design Shop’s energy performance needs and desired look – all in a single panel design.
For its client Fletcher Jones, one of the most successful luxury auto dealers in the United States, Gensler used its multidisciplinary design approach to integrate branding and architecture into a memorable customer experience in Ontario, California.
The glass display case continues indoors. In the 100,000-square-foot Ontario dealership, Gensler senior associate Deeg Snyder encloses its double-height lobby from adjacent spaces without losing any daylight, views or functionality. An operable NanaWall SL45 Aluminum Framed Folding System provides a sense of openness, while presenting the latest cars in a museum-like setting.
Santa Barbara has an amazing addition with this new four star resort Hotel Californian, beautifully designed by DesignArc and built by MATT Construction. L2 Specialties provided some amazing finishes and operable walls from Moderco to maximize the Ball Rooms and event spaces.
Problem: The management of a hospital wanted to improve its existing emergency room by increasing privacy for patients and making that workspace more flexible and efficient.
Solution/Description of the Installation: The addition of a sleek, easily cleanable Series 740 Alumifold door creates two, much-needed trauma rooms, each providing patients with an enhanced level of privacy during emergency treatments.
6 Great Marlborough Street forms part of Manchester’s rich industrial heritage. The five-story, red-brick building was once part of the city’s thriving textile industry and sits within Little Ireland, the earliest area of Irish settlement within Manchester. Sheppard Robson’s sensitive restoration plans make a feature of the historic building fabric, exposing the original brickwork and beams internally, whilst incorporating more contemporary elements such as building services and modern windows.
The recently renovated Koll Airport Professional Center in Irvine, CA received a LEED Silver Certificate in 2009 from the U.S. Green Building Council for Core and Shell. In fact, the building is considered one of the nation’s very first LEED-certified office condominiums. The remarkable transformation of a run-down, two-story, 63,225 square-foot office and warehouse into an eye-catching, single story, energy-efficient, 40,000 square foot office building is the subject of much admiration in Southern California. After removing the second story from the original building, the architects split the lower level into two almost completely separated buildings, added more windows for better daylighting and created two new inviting entryways that provide access to a wide variety of office spaces.