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Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center transforms former temple with EXTECH’s translucent LIGHTWALL system

Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center transforms former temple with EXTECH’s translucent LIGHTWALL system

Posted by | Sep 13, 2021 | 0 |

Completed in May 2021, the new Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center (GKPAC) at the Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services campus in Los Angeles presents a warm, inviting welcome to students of all abilities. Designed by AUX Architecture, this adaptive reuse project repurposed a 1965 temple renovating the original building and its congregational space into a 300-seat theater. Achieving the transformative, architectural vision, EXTECH/Exterior Technologies, Inc. custom designed, engineered and fabricated its LIGHTWALL 3440® interlocking polycarbonate translucent wall system to meet the Center’s multiple aesthetic and performance requirements.

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New York’s Crotona Park’s historic clock tower lanterns revitalized with EXTECH’s custom glass block assembly

New York’s Crotona Park’s historic clock tower lanterns revitalized with EXTECH’s custom glass block assembly

Posted by | Aug 30, 2021 | 0 |

New York City’s Crotona Park’s arched entry to the pool building and play center in the Bronx features a newly reconstructed pair of 80-foot-tall clock towers capped with four-sided glass block “lanterns.” Completed in March 2021, the new lanterns were designed, engineered and fabricated by EXTECH/Exterior Technologies, Inc., and installed by Sandhu Contracting, Inc.

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SOLARBAN® 67 glass adds sustainability, views to new Portland civic center devoted to social equity

SOLARBAN® 67 glass adds sustainability, views to new Portland civic center devoted to social equity

Posted by | Aug 19, 2021 | 0 |

As Oregon’s first project to pursue LEED® certification at the Platinum level, the Meyer Memorial Trust in the heart of Portland’s urban community combines investments in social equity and sustainability through building elements that include a saw-toothed photovoltaic (PV) roof, textured metal cladding and large, inviting windows fabricated with Solarban® 67 glass by Vitro Architectural Glass.

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Make the Road New York in Queens, New York

Make the Road New York in Queens, New York

Posted by | May 21, 2021 | 0 |

Make the Road New York designed by TEN Arquitectos/Enrique Norten with ASA/Andrea Steele, is a new 20,000-square-foot member community center designed for the 23,000-member organization which seeks to empower underserved individuals by offering leadership in education, immigration, and health, environmental, and housing justice.

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Historic Newark Symphony Hall unveils new façade, streetscape design

Historic Newark Symphony Hall unveils new façade, streetscape design

Posted by | May 10, 2021 | 0 |

Newark Symphony Hall (NSH), New Jersey’s largest Black-led arts and entertainment venue, today unveiled designs for its exterior renovation – part of a five-year, three-phase $50 million project set to wrap on the venue’s 100th birthday in 2025. The design, from Trenton, N.J.-based architectural firm Clarke Caton Hintz (CCH), includes a new marquee and streetscape.

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Minnesota Landscape Arboretum gets new look

Minnesota Landscape Arboretum gets new look

Posted by | Apr 23, 2021 | 0 |

Central Roofing Company helped build the new McQuinn Horticulture and Operations Headquarters in Minnesota. They also rebuilt the metal roofs on the historic Red Barn and silo within the arboretum. Designed by DLR Group of Minneapolis, the new 11,000+ square foot headquarters structure on Three-Mile Drive houses the horticulture, curatorial and gardening staffs, plus a drive-through maintenance shop.

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Silicon Valley landmark competition winner announced

Silicon Valley landmark competition winner announced

Posted by | Mar 25, 2021 | 0 |

Urban Confluence Silicon Valley announced that Breeze of Innovation, designed by Fernando Jerez and Belén Pérez de Juan of SMAR Architecture Studio, has been named winner of the worldwide open ideas competition for an iconic landmark in Silicon Valley. The competition jury, comprised of local, national, and international design and place-making experts, selected the winner from an impressive 963 submissions from 72 countries on six continents. Located at Arena Green at Guadalupe Park and Gardens in San José, the project is slated to go before the San José City Council in May 2021 for approval of the winning design.

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Clark Construction breaks ground on Savannah Convention Center expansion

Clark Construction breaks ground on Savannah Convention Center expansion

Posted by | Mar 22, 2021 | 0 |

Clark Construction Group joined Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, representatives from the Savannah-Georgia Convention Center Authority (SGCCA), and city and state leaders last week to celebrate the start of construction on the much-anticipated Savannah Convention Center Expansion project. The groundbreaking marks a pivotal milestone in the project’s history, which began in 2017, when the Georgia General Assembly first approved the initial funding to begin design efforts in concert with Atlanta-based Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates (tvsdesign) and Savannah-based Hanson Architects –  the two firms that designed the original Convention Center. 

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Cradle to Cradle Certified products

The Cradle to Cradle program certifies products based on five quality categories—material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. Click here to see a list of building supply & materials, as well as other products, that are Cradle to Cradle certified.

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