The George is a luxury apartment complex in downtown Atlanta with an adjacent parking garage. To provide residents – and downtown visitors – with visual interest, Structurflex designed, fabricated, and installed a coated PES mesh tensile facade. The tensile mesh provides an economic alternative to traditional screening, as well as reducing solar gain while allowing […]
The four-story podium parking garage of luxury apartment building Miami Midtown 5 features a FlexFacade screening system made up of a tensile mesh, custom structural steel/standoffs, and aluminum extrusions. The flexibility of the tensile mesh allows for freedom of form and shapes in the design and made it possible for both flat and custom curved […]
The five-story, 60’s era West Hills Medical Office Building in Los Angeles was due for an exterior facelift. A complete exterior renovation by Michael W. Folonis Architects revealed that water infiltration had caused structural damage to the existing horizontal plaster awnings; removing them was a costly process that consumed much of the project budget. This […]
An architectural façade screening system on all four sides of the seven-story Ponce City Market parking structure transforms it from an eyesore to a point of visual interest. The tensile mesh façade is composed of a metallic silver coated PES mesh that costs a fraction of metal mesh or perforated metal, but has the look, […]
THE CHALLENGE – CREATE A PARKING GARAGE FACADE WITH A SAILING THEME Chicago’s Northwestern University was constructing a $35 million lakeside sailing and visitor center, topped with a two-story car parking facility. To conceal the vehicles within the elevated garage, two of the walls were tinted glass. For the remaining sides, the design brief called […]
The SoBro Tower Garage adds 500 parking spaces to the increasingly more populated Lower Broadway entertainment district of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The garage wraps around the base of SoBro Tower, a 313-unit luxury residential building. To ensure the garage was as visually interesting as the surrounding neighborhood buildings, Structurflex designed, engineered, fabricated, and installed a […]
Crocker Park is a mixed-use development that includes American Greeting Cards’ headquarters and two large parking garages in Westlake, Ohio. Structurflex engineered, fabricated, and installed a permanent architectural façade screening system that reduces light pollution from car and garage lights and eliminated the need for mechanical ventilation. A tensile mesh was fabricated and printed with […]
The Crossing at Denargo Market is a multifamily housing facility in downtown Denver. Five stories of residential units are wrapped around a parking structure that has a public-facing facade. The parking garage’s tensile mesh facade is composed of multiple welded panels, creating visual interest and carrying through the architect’s vision. The coated PES mesh is […]
The Iowa Utilities Board and Office of Consumer Advocate is a two-wing infill development on the State of Iowa Capitol Complex in downtown Des Moines. Designed by BNIM, the award-winning, LEED-certified building is 81% more energy efficient than the average office building. Structurflex engineered, fabricated and installed vertical tensile mesh fins that reduce heat and […]
A custom-printed tensile mesh facade on the Rice University parking garage in Houston, Texas transforms the structure into something iconic. To achieve the architect’s vision of appearing to be an extension of the local oak grove, the PES tensile mesh screening was custom printed at four-times scale using a special UV ink and printing process […]
