Museum
Freedom Center
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center A new copper and stone building rises in downtown Cincinnati, an icon in its own right in the midst of other grand architectural works such as Libeskind’s Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge and Zaha Hadid’s Rosenthal Center. The Freedom Center features copper flat seam wall panels and associated flashings. The material...
Festival of Arts
Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters, Laguna Beach Combining both natural and built elements from the surrounding environment, the Festival of Arts renovations link both the City of Laguna Beach with its surrounding canyon landscape. Zahner’s scope consisted of fabricating a series of five stand-alone wall sections, the tallest of which rises to...
MOPOP Museum
Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP) Jimi Hendrix inspired the name, Frank Gehry designed the project, and Zahner produced the stunning curvilinear forms and structure. Residing in the shadow of the Seattle Space Needle, the Experience Music Project (now the Museum of Pop Culture, or MOPOP) was completed in 2000. Gehry’s unique design required a creative approach to engineering...
de Young Museum
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum Named for San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young, this building is a completely reworked redesign from the original museum, which opened in 1895 as an outgrowth of the California International Exposition of 1894. After the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 which completely ravaged the original building’s structure, the...
Daeyang Gallery
WRNS Studio is an architecture and planning firm that provides sustainable design for education, healthcare, transportation, civic and urban mixed-use. The award-winning firm is recognized nationally, and is based in San Francisco with offices in New York City and Honolulu. The firm has developed a growing number of works with Zahner, starting with the the...
