Profiles

Education

Education designs fabricated with Zahner engineering benefit from high-quality craft and attention to detail. Zahner engineers work with designers and contractors to develop integrated systems which meet a range of desired aesthetics. See below a range of inspirational projects and best practices for projects in the Education typology.

Completed Works

Featured ProjectHouston, Texas

University of Houston-Clear Lake Central Plant Expansion

FKP Architects, now a part of CannonDesign, engaged Zahner to create a perforated façade that provides required ventilation on the University of Houston-Clear Lake central power plant extension. The ImageWall landscape image depicting branches from a large oak tree, which is the predominate tree on the University of Houston-Clear Lake campus, is on the east elevation of the central plant expansion.

Stainless steel screens over the windows of the Pembroke Hill dining hall, designed by artist Jan Hendrix.

Pembroke Hill Dining Hall

Hayward Field Tower pays tribute to the University of Oregon legacy with graphics depicting five Oregon track and field icons

Hayward Field Tower

Barnard College Exterior Facade, with Baroque Zinc cladding.

Barnard College

ImageWall at Carver Elementary at sunset.

Santa Ana, California

Carver Elementary

Bloomberg Center

Los Angeles, California

Emerson LA

Cleveland, Ohio

Weatherhead School

Featured ProjectNew York City

Cooper Union

Cooper Union New Academic Building at 41 Cooper Square is a Morphosis designed educational facility which includes a custom-curving and perforated stainless steel facade, made by Zahner. The University's new building covers a full city block on Third Avenue from East 6th to East 7th in downtown Manhattan, bordering the East Village. The Morphosis design provides Cooper Union with a futuristic facade, strikingly different from its surrounding buildings.

Custom perforated Solanum screen engineered, fabricated, and installed by Zahner

Amherst, Massachusetts

Amherst College Science Center

Stanford, California

McMurtry Building

Ithaca, New York

Gates Hall at Cornell

Terre Haute, Indiana

White Chapel

$The Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU$

Richmond, Virginia

VCU Institute for Contemporary Art

Lawrence, Kansas

Capitol Federal Hall

Northeastern United States

Gehry Horse Head

Featured ProjectDallas, Texas

Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas

Overland Partners designed the exterior for the Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas to evoke the movement of a comet in homage to the school’s mascot. Zahner collaborated with the architect and contractor JE Dunn to develop a perforated system informed by orbital paths. Photo @ A. ZAHNER COMPANY “

Art Wall at Doha

Exploratory Hall at George Mason University

STAR BLUE™ COPPER PANELS AT SUNY NEW PALTZ STUDENT UNION BUILDING

New Paltz, New York

SUNY New Paltz

Recent Projects

London, England

Grand Foyer in the Ambassador Building at Embassy Gardens

Mount Sinai Medical Center Parking Garage

Washington D.C.

1700 Pennsylvania Avenue – The Mills Building

Pembroke Hill Dining Hall

50 Hudson Yards Terrace underneath the canopy.

© Fedora Hat Photography

50 Hudson Yards Terrace

DTE Central Energy Plant

Photo by Andre Sigur | ARKO

Dearborn, Michigan

DTE Dearborn Central Energy Plant

PHOTO © NAHO KUBOTA

Brooklyn, New York

The Bellslip Greenpoint Landing

University of Houston-Clear Lake Central Plant Expansion

Arnolds Park, Iowa

Preservation Plaza

San Francisco Bay

The Mexican Museum

London, England

Grand Foyer in the Ambassador Building at Embassy Gardens

Mount Sinai Medical Center Parking Garage

London, England

Grand Foyer in the Ambassador Building at Embassy Gardens

Mount Sinai Medical Center Parking Garage

Washington D.C.

1700 Pennsylvania Avenue – The Mills Building

Latest Updates

Exploring the Legendary Process and Projects of KPF

Taubman

EXTERIOR PATINATED ZINC SURFACE, ROANO ZINC.

Zinc Guide Part 3: Innovative Zinc Patinas & Finishes, And the World’s Most Interesting Architecture

$Custom patinated zinc and aluminum panels adorn the parking facade for Children's Hospital Richmond Pavilion.$

Open Area Calculations for Perforated Metal Panels & Why They’re Important

The Hunter Museum, clad in Zahner's preweathered Hunter Zinc.

Ɱ, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license, edited.

Zinc Guide Part 2: The Intriguing Attributes, Alloys & Finishes of Zinc

Exploring the Legendary Process and Projects of KPF

Taubman

EXTERIOR PATINATED ZINC SURFACE, ROANO ZINC.

Zinc Guide Part 3: Innovative Zinc Patinas & Finishes, And the World’s Most Interesting Architecture

$Custom patinated zinc and aluminum panels adorn the parking facade for Children's Hospital Richmond Pavilion.$

Open Area Calculations for Perforated Metal Panels & Why They’re Important

Exploring the Legendary Process and Projects of KPF

Taubman

EXTERIOR PATINATED ZINC SURFACE, ROANO ZINC.

Zinc Guide Part 3: Innovative Zinc Patinas & Finishes, And the World’s Most Interesting Architecture

$Custom patinated zinc and aluminum panels adorn the parking facade for Children's Hospital Richmond Pavilion.$

Open Area Calculations for Perforated Metal Panels & Why They’re Important

The Hunter Museum, clad in Zahner's preweathered Hunter Zinc.

Ɱ, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license, edited.

Zinc Guide Part 2: The Intriguing Attributes, Alloys & Finishes of Zinc

Exploring the Legendary Process and Projects of KPF

Taubman

EXTERIOR PATINATED ZINC SURFACE, ROANO ZINC.

Zinc Guide Part 3: Innovative Zinc Patinas & Finishes, And the World’s Most Interesting Architecture

$Custom patinated zinc and aluminum panels adorn the parking facade for Children's Hospital Richmond Pavilion.$

Open Area Calculations for Perforated Metal Panels & Why They’re Important

The Hunter Museum, clad in Zahner's preweathered Hunter Zinc.

Ɱ, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license, edited.

Zinc Guide Part 2: The Intriguing Attributes, Alloys & Finishes of Zinc

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