The new Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Based Outpatient Clinic in San Antonio, Texas, offers patients, medical professionals, staff and visitors an environment promoting health, life-safety and well-being. Representing these principles, Hoefer Wysocki Architecture designed the building's main entry with sweeping curved exterior as a "healing embrace."
EFCO Corporation and Armoured One have signed an agreement to partner on the development of the industry's first complete fenestration assemblies to successfully pass the Shooter Attack Certification Testing method.
New coiling fire protective provides 3 hour listed fire and smoke protection with a small footprint that offers specifiers and fire planning professionals expanded flexibility.
For the landmark residential tower recently completed near the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the texture and finish of the prominent metallic surfaces needed to be just right.
The use of standard framing systems in the glazing business is quite common, but when designers use those systems in unconventional ways to create visual interest in their buildings, it can also provide some installation challenges.
Adding a seven-story curtainwall to three 1900s-era bank buildings in downtown Boston, local architect Arrowstreet sought a lightweight material to contrast the structures’ original granite and limestone facades.
In the building enclosure industry, a structural glass wall is mostly transparent and can be designed with minimal structural elements, except for the glass.
Missouri's Loews Kansas City Hotel is the first full-service luxury hotel to open downtown in more than 30 years. Rising 24 stories and encompassing 800 rooms, its crisp, modern, minimalist look was designed by Cooper Carry and brought to life with curtainwall, window wall, entrance and interior aluminum framing systems.
Tubelite Inc. has expanded its ForceFront Blast product family to include a full range of high-security curtainwall, storefront, entrance door systems for low- and mid-rise government, health care, educational and commercial building projects.