Tensile mesh streamlines Dublin airport

May 1, 2011  |  Features, Interiors

Each year, 15 million passengers will traverse Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2 (T2), visiting Ireland’s capitol for tourism or business, and the Dublin Airport Authority wanted a striking modern statement in the T2 design. Architects Pascall + Watson of Dublin created an airy, modern space w…
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Interior fabric

January 1, 2011  |  Features, Interiors

Space articulation with fabric adds design flair with practical appeal By Carla Waldemar Heard a lot of hammering lately? Not likely. The construction industry is among the hardest hit in this bleak economy. Few housing subdivisions, office parks, megamalls or public institutions are breaking ground…
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Membrane microclimate in squid capsule

January 1, 2011  |  Features, Interiors

Visitors to the outdoor courtyard of Materials & Applications, a Los Angeles nonprofit research and exhibition center for public space, encountered fair weather in the cloudlike apparition called Squid Capsule. Created by L.A. design firm Layer, the Squid Capsule consisted of 40 transparent viny…
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Eventscape wins 2010 IAA Award of Excellence

November 7, 2010  |  Interiors

Eventscape won an Award of Excellence in the commercial interiors category of the 2010 International Achievement Awards for this project involving the renovation of an existing retail store in Regina, SK, Canada. The store specializes in the sales and marketing of wireless devices, cable television …
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Case Study 3: Dedmon Center

November 1, 2010  |  Case Studies, Features, Interiors

The Dedmon Center at Radford University, Radford, Va., recently replaced its fabric roof with a much improved and thermally efficient roof cladding of Tensotherm™ with Nanogel®, a sandwich of two layers of translucent, structural PTFE fiberglass membrane separated by a core of Nanogel aero…
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Case Study 2: Sun responsive shading

November 1, 2010  |  Case Studies, Features, Interiors

This interactive shading system—designed originally by recent architecture graduate Brent Vander Werf for the University of Arizona’s entry into the 2010 Solar Decathlon House competition—utilizes a bi-metal element in combination with shade fabric to create a self-regulating syste…
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A sound ceiling

November 1, 2010  |  Interiors

Threshold Acoustics practices what it preaches in their new Chicago offices. By Joanna Baymiller Carl Giegold, principal in the Chicago-based Threshold Acoustics LLC, used the knowledge of his discipline to soothe his landlord’s lament of “Why do you need that?” The landlord had as…
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Moving wall panels customize classrooms

July 1, 2010  |  Features, Interiors

A historic, three-story brick carriage house at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, Va., needed updating, repair and an image makeover to attract graduate students in advertising and media. Instead of breaking down the old, VCU integrated the new—an open space with noise-damping,…
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SOM’s Hajj Terminal wins AIA 25-Year Award

May 1, 2010  |  Interiors

The Hajj Terminal at King Abjul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, design by the Chicago and New York offices of SOM, received the 2010 AIA 25-Year Award. A fusion of vernacular architecture and contemporary structural innovation, the Hajj Terminal is a vast field of PTFE-coated fib…
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Designing for people

November 1, 2009  |  Features, Interiors

Eberhard Zeidler strives to include community and environment in his buildings By Jean M. Cook In downtown Toronto, the tiers of offices inside the Zeidler Roberts Partnership (now called Zeidler Partnership) building overlook a small oasis. At the center of the building, sun streams into an atrium …
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