INSPIRATION
Project photos from professionals within the commercial construction and design industry.
Through innovative and creative thinking, the Independence mixed-used building stands firmly as a colorful landmark found in Chicago’s North Side. Photography Credits: James Florio Architect & Interior Photography
Go big or go home. That’s what the City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Eskimos Football Club decided in their joint project to revitalize the former Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In an effort to build up the area, the project transformed a vacant stadium ground into a vibran… Read More
The school’s “whole student / whole body” pedagogy features learning opportunities both indoors and outdoors, keeping a sustainable connection to the natural and built environments. At full build-out, the campus and its structures will support as many as 600 students, although the size of each instr… Read More
Applied to meet the most stringent industry specification, AAMA 2605, the finished metal panels added a specialty metallic clear topcoat to maximize sparkle and enhance color intensity. The solar-reflective pigments in Fluropon SR help to resist heat absorption, contributing to the buildings’ energy… Read More
In the new building – that matches the scale of the neighboring stadium – four stories of space and a cascading promenade connect a gymnasium, aquatics hall and field house. The 220,000 square-foot Commonwealth Community Recreation Centre includes space for stadium activities, football operations, a… Read More
Finished by Linetec in a Snow White color, Winco Windows’ products provide a neutral contrast to the multicolored, modern exterior. Along with defining Vida’s rhythmic appearance, the window systems assist the building in surpassing California Green Building Standards (CALGreen) code’s modern perfor… Read More
“Early in the project’s design, we determined that this would be a modern take on the former industrial warehouses in the West Loop – kind of a warehouse for people. The gray color on the curtainwall framing and mullions mimics that sense of steel I-beams,” said Gensler’s principal, Brett Taylor.
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When President Obama gives the groundbreaking speech for a new project, it’s bound to be an important building. The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is located on Constitution Avenue, adjacent to the National Museum of American History and the Washin… Read More
In total, Dri-Design manufactured 10,800 square feet of aluminum into 785 standard flat panels, custom trapezoid flat panels, and custom radius corner panels for 4220 Duncan. Finished by Metal Coater in Valflon Prismatic, Dri-Design fabricated the panels into a rain-screen system, which was fully te… Read More
Juan Campos, Account Manager, had worked with Texas Finishing on a multitude of projects, training their lab technician on the Sherwin-Williams mix and match system. This system has over 16 Fluropon color bases and 4 mica bases, which allows customers to match standard Fluropon two-coat systems to h… Read More
In the new building – that matches the scale of the neighboring stadium – four stories of space and a cascading promenade connect a gymnasium, aquatics hall, and field house. The 220,000 square-foot Commonwealth Community Recreation Centre includes space for stadium activities, football operations, … Read More
Along with providing tremendous resistant to the enduring weather conditions of New York, Sherwin-Williams’ Fluropon coating was chosen based on the difficulty of providing and perfectly matching several dozen colors to create the gradient transformation of each apex. The Fluropon finish will uphold… Read More
