Benefits: Aesthetic

Griffiths Drive Bridge

Stainless steel mesh offers safety and protection while ensuring visual transparency. The design includes a single arch that stretches diagonally across the bridge and connects to the supporting structure. Mesh panels curving toward the center provide fall guard protection and shield pedestrians from wind gusts.

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Eperon D’Or

Compagnie-O Architects was tasked with renovating this museum, once home to a historic shoe and brush factory. Covering the original brick facade and protecting visitors inside from the sun, a curtain of Omega 1520 adds a modern touch bringing the building into the 21st century.

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Emilio Balthus

A curved ceiling made of Lamelle metal mesh adorns the Emilio Balthus restaurant in Santiago de Chile. Rodríguez & Rufin Arquitectos designed the interior of the restaurant so the ceiling would become the central element.

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Elemento Colombia SAS

The unique design of this business center in Bogotá unites a series of buildings through a continuous facade of GKD metal mesh. Wrapped around a frame, the metal mesh provides a connected design flow and necessary sun shading from Columbia’s intense solar rays.

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Ecole d’Art Calais

This art school constructed in the center of Calais was part of a large-scale revitalization effort. Its curved facade is clad in three large swaths of golden Escale metal fabric from GKD, adding a contemporary flourish to this historic city.

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Cleveland Institute of Art

To showcase the work of the institute’s students, architect Stantec installed GKD Mediamesh on the facade of the George Gund Building. The product’s long-term durability and sustainability were key to the specification in addition to the many creative uses of the large-format media facade.

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Audi Forum Neckersulm

Guests to this multi-functional center can experience the automobile brand in all its facets in an open-space concept gallery. To keep site lines open yet protect visitors, the elevator and surrounding stairwell were clad in Tigris to provide a transparent fall guard that also emphasizes the architecture.

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Amgen Helix Pedestrian Bridge

The location of biotech firm Amgen warranted the construction of a walkway bridge for pedestrians. Designed as an access point but also intended to visibly point the way for visitors, Johnson Architecture cladded the sides of the bridge with trapezoidal panels made of Tigris and Lago stainless steel mesh.

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United Cycling Lab & Store

Visitors to the Argon 18 Lab and Store can test drive bikes from this high-end cycling brand in the facility’s indoor track or on the surrounding country roads. GKD Mandarin metal fabric creates a shimmering, high performance backdrop to underscore the highly technical nature of the product.

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Tonhalle Düsseldorf Concert Hall

Metal mesh is sound-transparent, which allows it to be combined with a variety of insulating materials and structures to create optimal acoustic solutions. In this custom acoustic solution, GKD metal fabric is incorporated in a ceiling system that provides acoustic properties and brilliant aesthetics.

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