Museum Design Uses Limestone to Tell Story

As was the case with Edmonton’s Royal Alberta Museum, the choices of artwork and historical material featured represent and reflect the energy and culture of the communities they serve. The Royal Alberta Museum (RAM), which celebrates the natural history and the human heritage of the province, embarked on a multi-year journey to thoughtfully reshape every facet of the museum, from the inside out.Architectural firm DIALOG, as part of a design build team with Ledcor and Lundholm Assocs., brought this new vision of RAM to life. An integrated team of award-winning architects, interior designers, landscape architects and structural, mechanical and electrical engineers were tasked

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Solar Control/Sun Shading

Shady Situation

When architects with SmithGroup’s Phoenix office began planning the entry for the new Eloy City Hall in Eloy, Ariz., Corten metal was their first choice for the shade-providing canopy. When that material proved too costly, they turned to perforated 0.05-gauge aluminum PAC-CLAD 7.2 panels in an Aged Copper finish. The panels are installed on the underside of the canopy structure, with LEDs installed above. The lighting creates added visual interest once the sun goes down, and clearly identifies the entrance for residents.

PPG Duranar Powder Coating, PPG Duranar SUNSTORM Coating

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Coatings & Finishes

Lower Manhattan's Pier 17 Revitalized

Located in New York City’s South Street Seaport, Pier 17 anchors an extensive redevelopment project that is focused on transforming the historic Lower Manhattan neighborhood into a thriving cultural, retail and entertainment center. To apply powder coatings in a challenging marine environment. As the firm selected to rehabilitate Pier 17, a once-thriving festival pavilion that had devolved into a dreary indoor mall, SHoP Architects had four essential demands for the metal coatings supplier.The first was, due to its location, the coating had to include a long-term warranty covering film integrity, chalk and color fade. The second was that the metal coating must be solvent-free to h

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Lighting & Controls

Luminous Sound Control

Designed with Knoll’s FilzFelt fabric, Shaper Sense Acoustic Luminaires come in 62 wool design felt color choices. The Box and Trapezoid pendant—with a Noise Reduction Coefficient of 2.65 and 2.5 respectively—deliver efficacies of 120 lm/W with a lumen output of 4,500. The luminaires have 85% transmissivity, allowing natural daylight to pass through when turned off, and as electric light is needed, become a luminous source for ambient and task applications.

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Thermal & Moisture Control

Side-by-Side Comparison in Efficiency

Minnesota is hitting new heights when it comes to green energy standards. The state’s first-ever Passive House multifamily development, Hook & Ladder Apartments, opened October 2019 in northeast Minneapolis. It is set to prove just how much of a difference Passive House construction can make in operations cost and occupant comfort compared to buildings designed to conventional energy codes.To create a real-time project demo, lhb Architects designed the complex as a side-by-side experiment with two adjacent, nearly identical apartment buildings. One set of the look alike apartment buildings is built to state energy code specifications, the other to the Passive House Institute U.S. (

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Ceiling Systems

Making Waves

A redesigned HQ marries whimsical design with functionality, creating a one-of-a-kind gathering space. Capital One’s new Tyson’s Corner, VA headquarters is - by design - a multi-skyscraper campus that adds to the region’s skyline and includes infrastructure updates to the surrounding trafficways, multi-use residential and commercial spaces, and a 1.5 acre greenspace for public use. The primary goal of the project is to co-locate the company’s 7000 local employees to a single campus and enhance their work-life balance while reducing or eliminating commuting. A major part of the project includes comprehensive amenity additions and updates to communal areas of the origin

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July 28, 2021 by AP Staff

Impressive Public Space

In his blog post, "Developing Open Space as the Public's Living Room," Gensler's Michael Wagner writes, "Outdoor public gathering spaces fulfill a basic human need to be around people. Social distancing may be a sign of the times, but public space has a timeless value." To that, we at AP say, "Hear, hear!" and have created this issue of AP ProductWIre to share a few impressive outdoor public spaces and the products that make them distinct.

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Soft Illumination

The OMEGA Series illustrates a unique union between two pure forms, the round opal cylinder in parallel with the geometric extrusion that has led to the creation of a luminaire family that is both recognizable yet discrete. The opal lens cylinder softly illuminates the space in all dimensions and is available in a surface mount or pendant luminaire.OMEGA Suspension features the same cylindrical diffused opal lens luminaire in an 83-in. linear fixture that hangs from stainless steel suspension cables to provide functional, decorative lighting that softly illuminates the space. The light emitted appears soft and widespread, particularly suitable for reception areas in offices, hotels and commo

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Individual to Group Learning

After studying student behaviors, this framed the way in which Grand Valley State University (GVSU) went about renovating its Mary Idema Pew Library. In essence, the university identified a range of activities and the types of spaces students desired to support those tasks. “When they are really heads down on a project, or a test, or some other creative endeavor, they often expect and demand almost total silence and stillness,” relates Van Orsdel. On the other end of the spectrum, students seek group settings, whether it is comfortable lounge seating or a table with a whiteboard or a large screen for sharing digital images or data.Beyond having a space to support group inter

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Wall Coverings

Adding an Artistic Flair to Boston’s Logan Airport

Colorful wall panels and illuminated fixtures bring style, brighten path for passengers along concourse. As part of a multi-year project, Logan Airport remodeled the terminal. LIGHTBLOCKS needed to create a visual affect with color, light and open space to establish a feeling of vibrancy. LIGHTBLOCKS also developed products to help revitalize the JetBlue terminal and brand. Using a wide assortment of resin panels, light lenses of various heights and more than 30 custom colors, the LIGHTBLOCKS components significantly enlivened and brightened the space. The LIGHTBLOCKS products colorfully improved a vast area of square footage in the terminal. The revitalization project provides a more modern

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Museum Design Uses Limestone to Tell Story

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Shady Situation

Lower Manhattan's Pier 17 Revitalized

Luminous Sound Control

Side-by-Side Comparison in Efficiency

Making Waves

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Soft Illumination

Individual to Group Learning

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