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Hacking a Robot to make Louvered Facades

Update: Our friends at Virginia Tech reached out to Zahner to share some of the similar innovations for automated manufacture of shading systems. In 2010, Zahner worked with Virginia Tech on the Lumenhaus project whose laser-cut tabs were pushed by hand. In 2012, Nathan King and Jonathan Grinham published Automating Eclipsis, a research paper outlining a method for automation, as well as a proof of conceptvideo of their method using a robot to automate the tabbed panel system.

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Why competitions should be transparent

The glass and steel buildings that dominate contemporary skylines owe their silhouettes to a losing entry in a design competition that took place almost 100 years ago. How does a losing entry go on to influence an entire industry of artists and designers? What can we learn from this?

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Rem Koolhaas turns 70

2014 has been a big year for a big client of ours, and today marks an even bigger day. Help us celebrate an architectural great, Rem Koolhaas as he turns 70 and enters into his prime. Earlier this year, Rem Koolhaas made a big statement with his curatorial lead at the Venice Biennale entitled Fundamentals,…

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10 Zahner Projects in Chicago

On Thursday June 28, 2014 thousands of Architects from all over the United States will spend a few intense days learning about what’s new in architecture at the Chicago AIA Convention. Here’s a few projects that they might not know about in Chicago which were completed by Zahner.

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Making of the Memorial

Today at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, the Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial, designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind was dedicated. It is the second memorial of its kind in the United States. Iowa constructed the first Holocaust memorial on state-owned land on October 23, 2013.

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