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160 W SANTA CLARA
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA
TYSONS, VIRGINIA, USA
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, USA
ONE WORKPLACE SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, USA
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RAINSCREENS & SUNSHADES 1313 SUNSET
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TESLA
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COCKERHAM
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UNLV
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, USA
SILVERLAKE, CALIFORNIA, USA
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
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SANTA MONICA BEACH FACILITIES SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, USA
SECTA
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LULULEMON
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CANOPIES GREAT PARK
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AMAZON BLOCK 21
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AT&T
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TISHMAN 160 SPEAR
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ELMER KNOPF LEARNING CENTER
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25 KENT
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ART & LANDSCAPES CULVER CITY GARAGE
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HENDERSON, NEVADA, USA
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, USA
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA
DALLAS, TEXAS, USA
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
FLINT, MICHIGAN, USA
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, USA
CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA, USA
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
UCLA FENCE
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WORD BENCHES
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SPRING STREET
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
BNA SIGNATURE TERMINAL
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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, USA
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA
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EPIPHANY
STEINBERG PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, USA
EPIPHANY
Steinberg Hart partnered with Arktura to develop a backlit perforated facade as a feature design element of the Epiphany Hotel’s renovation. The design of the hotel focuses on sustainability through the application of all materials. As a result, Arktura manufactured powder-coated aluminum Graphic Perf® Photoreal Exterior panels and frosted polycarbonate backers to diffuse the arboreal image’s glowing illumination. The combination of materiality and its expression aids in capturing the spirit of Palo Alto - curious, optimistic, vital, and entrepreneurial.
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ENVIRONMENTALLY CALCULATED FACADES
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PARKDALE COMMUNITY CENTER
CARPENTER SELLERS DEL GATTO ARCHITECTS LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA
PARKDALE COMMUNITY CENTER The new Parkdale Recreation Center opened, featuring custom rain screens, designed by Carpenter Sellers Del Gatto, as a beacon for the neighborhood and was honored as an AIA Design Award Winner. Arktura’s Graphic Perf® exterior system was used to provide a warm welcome and homage to the surrounding community. The aluminum panels were designed and fabricated - down to each individual hole size and placement - to combine striking text within the facade’s artistic expressive character. The panel cladding combines beautifully with the salvaged wood and metal components reused in the new structure from the previous community center that was demolished for this project. The new center serves as a beacon and symbol for the community’s culture and recreational resources it provides.
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CUSTOM RAIN SCREENS
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LIGHT & INVITING ENTRANCE
PERKINS + WILL TYSONS, VIRGINIA, USA
TYSONS
The renovation of 1676 International, Tysons Drive involved the transformation of the entrance from a heavy canopy to something that would be light and inviting. This was accomplished with a large tapered form that draws people inside. The form is also further emphasized and highlighted by a custom scripted gradient pattern of backlit perforations that transition to a solid relief pattern further in. The combination of the backlighting and the champagne color create a glowing entrance, particularly at night.
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ESI DESIGN SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, USA
160 W SANTA CLARA
ESI Design reimagined interior lobby of 160 W Santa Clara, extends to the grand exterior entry with a Vapor® Graphic Perf® hybrid interior and exterior installation featuring RGB Backlighting that is programmed to cycle through illumination shows, both day and night. In a nod to both its location in Silicon Valley and the Santa Clara Valley, the custom perforations developed in concert with the Arktura Design team mimic the ones and zeroes of digital code and meander into organic patterns creating a coded map of the area’s waterways. The backlighting fades in and out of different gradients, providing movement and soothing spectral shifts that establish a welcoming, dynamic, and coveted character to visitors and tenants alike.
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DESIGN BLITZ SF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, USA
ONE WORKPLACE
One Workplace in Santa Clara, California, garnered a collection of awards and nominations for their innovative new space for a new era of manufacturing headquarters and showrooms. A former paper-plant warehouse was transformed to meet the needs of their new space. An exterior cladding feature wall was requested to meld with the reclaimed and reworked industrial aesthetic carried through from the former warehouse. Arktura collaborated with Design Blitz SF to develop a custom perforated pattern in raw steel sheets to patina and leverage the environmental graphic’s relationship to the prevailing industrial structure. The result is an impressive entry facade sure to inspire those who walk through it.
GRAPHIC PERF®
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT GRAPHICS
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GENSLER LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
KILROY
The Sunset Media Center in Los Angeles is a mixed-use development combining multiple levels of program. It acts as destination in the busy Sunset Corridor but also a familiar hub in the daily lives of the people who work there. As part of the building’s recent renovation, Arktura created a custom louvered facade that transitions down three levels of parking and melds with exterior ceiling system baffles from our Atmosphera® family of products.
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1313 SUNSET
WARREN TECHENTIN ARCHITECTURE INC LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
1313 SUNSET
Los Angeles-based firm Warren Techentin Architecture enlisted Arktura to design and manufacture its Elysian Fields exterior feature facade. The cladding comprised of Exterior Graphic Perf® designed in tandem with Arktura’s Solution Studio® to pay homage to nearby automotive body shops. The eprforated and formed aluminum panels gently curve along Sunset Boulevard providing protection against the harsh sun. It supports flared voids to allow the inclusion of expansive sliding windows for the residences within. In keeping up with the ever-changing eclectic character of Los Angeles, this project provides a parametric poem of perforations to the neighborhood it graciously nests within.
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It’s about understanding the city at a larger scale and seeing a way for that urban logic to fit into a building. I’ve lived in this neighborhood for 20 years. Maybe it just seeped in. - WARREN TECHENTIN (METROPOLIS)
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ROLLED CURVE PERFORATED PANELING FOLONIS ARCHITECTURE SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, USA
TESLA
At the crossroad of the Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Place, with Michael W. Folonis Architects and Arktura’s Solution Studio®’s guidance, Tesla developed a facade inspired by the namesake of the company, Nikola Tesla, and magnetic flux diagrams to wrap the exterior facade of their flagship auto showroom. Translating the inspired brief, Arktura utilized proprietary software to develop the complex curved custom exterior Graphic Perf® system into a synergetic graphic form to capture the relationship between magnetic flux and electron decay. The resulting facade is visually impactful and filters heat, sunlight, and serves as a rain shield while representing the electric propulsion’s linear energy release. 25
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PRESERVATION THROUGH PERFORATION
STUDIO PALI FEKETE ARCHITECTS SILVERLAKE, CALIFORNIA, USA
COCKERHAM
In 1926, oil tycoon Edward Petitfils, in true “California Style” commissioned Wallace Neff, iconic early 20th Century Architect, to design what would become the historical Ptetfils Residence. Almost a century later, the legacy renews as its new owners request a renovation by Studio Pali Fekete Architects to modernize the home. SPFA worked with the Secretary of the Interior to preserve the historic homes’ distinctive character and maintained its landmark designation while uniting the house with modern advances, technologies, materials, and insight. Arktura manufactured the Exterior Graphic Perf® screen facade that was part of the new additions in the preservation efforts. In support of the preservation, the perforation pattern mimics the “original home’s precast concrete window grilles.” The perforated bronze anodized aluminum panels open and close on hinges, providing the homeworner with clear views, intimate privacy, and sun-shielding options. Now named the Morgan Phoa Library & Residence, the project has garnered awards in preservation, restoration, and adaptive reuse for SPFA. 27
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UNLV
It has been the honor of my career to lead a talented team of people in designing a flagship building for my alma mater, I spent my formative years as an aspiring architect at UNLV studying the buildings on campus and never anticipated that I would have the opportunity to contribute to the campus. - MICHAEL DEL GATTO
CARPENTER SELLERS DEL GATTO ARCHITECTS LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA
UNLV Carpenter Sellers Del Gatto Architects designed the new Hospitality Hall of UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration. Arktura worked with Del Gatto to develop the Secare® facade, to add texture that is visible from both outside and inside the structure, creating an impressive visual feature. Del Gatto strived to mirror the experience the students would have entering the hospitality industry as part of the UNLV’s premier program in the building’s architecture by creating a space that reflects the industry’s finest resorts. The LEED Silver Certified Hall’s glass entranec is cloaked in a Secare® facade of jagged steel tubes by Arktura. This facade contributes to the campus’s eclectic presence. Still, it exudes a visually dynamic and permanent presence while simultaneously reducing the harsh desert sun’s western exposure by up to 60% for its occupants.
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SANTA MONICA BEACH FACILITIES
ADRIAN GAUS ARCHITECTS SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, USA
SANTA MONICA BEACH FACILITIES Adrian Gaus and Arktura collaborated within Arktura’s Solutions Studio® to develop a series of Exterior Graphic Perf® Photorealistic perforated raw finished metal screens with powder-coated backers to provide both privacy and protection to visitors of Santa Monica Beach’s restroom facilities. This vibrant wayfinding art installation provides distinct imagery at each facility, representing various scenes, and is identified with corresponding street names to help seaside visitors navigate the area.
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SECTA
GRAPHIC PERF®
CUSTOM SHADE SCREEN SIMPSON COULTER STUDIO HENDERSON, NEVADA, USA
SECTA
Southeast Career Technical Academy, a magnet public high school in Nevada, required a facade to protect its students and its building from the Las Vegas heat. Simpson Coulter Studio sought out Arktura to design an exterior system that would provide sun-shielding and evoke pride by incorporating the school mascot’s image - the roadrunner - and signage for SECTA’s campus. The stunning rendition of the imagery was made possible by Arktura’s Graphic Perf®, which uses proprietary software to render tonal variations in perforated panels. The resulting exterior mimics higher-educational campuses and provides ample natural light within its learning spaces.
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LULULEMON ATHLETICA + QUADRANGLE ARCHITECTS LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
LULULEMON
This Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood Lululemon location prominently features a Solutions Studio® custom exterior facade, designed and manufactured by Arktura, in collaboration with Lululemon. This unique shell wraps aroun the storefront and incorporates both hard geometric lines and a subtle organic mountainscape silhouette. Entering the store’s 2,700-squarefoot Quadrangle Architects’ designed shopping space, you’ll find Arktura’s Atmosphera® Pulse ceiling modules suspended above areas, including the cashier counter, which are seamlessly integrated with lighting elements of the space. The realized design affords a clear exterior brand identity and acoustic attenuation of the interior.
SOLUTIONS STUDIO® | ATMOSPHERA® PULSE
CREATING A BRAND IDENTITY
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GREAT PARK
SOLUTIONS STUDIO®
UNIQUE CANOPIES
NBBJ IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, USA
GREAT PARK
Together with NBBJ Los Angeles and Plas-Tal, Arktura designed and fabricated multiple expansive canopies for the 688 acre parkland’s championship sports stadiums and support buildings, delivering shade to spectators, while providing a high level of design sophistication to the public development, one of the largest of its kind in the country.
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AMAZON BLOCK 21
SOLUTIONS STUDIO®
DIGITIZED MURMURATIONS GRAPHITE DESIGN GROUP SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA
AMAZON BLOCK 21
Arktura, in collaboration with Graphite Design and Tbar Construction, employed innovative, thoughtful approaches to design, manufacturing, and installation to make this unique custom ceiling system in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington a reality. The feature ceiling serves as the key welcoming attraction to a massive new two-story-high tech company campus finalized in 2019. Extending approximately 8,600 square feet of interior and exterior areas, this custom ceiling takes its cues from nature, with a design directly inpired by the swarming flight patterns of birds. These murmurations were translated into nearly 3,500 “Pixels,” elegant powder-coated aluminum subpanels that use only bent angles and underlying color gradations to evoke a dynamic feeling of movement through a static system. Pixels modularly connect to larger torsion panels, some hoisted several stories high. Enhancing both the visual richness and complexity of execution of the ceiling are the system’s integrated lights. These add to the ceiling’s dynamic feelings of movement in the nighttime, accentuating the angles of Pixels and colors of their underlying panels, and adding a layer of depth to the entire system, through their interplay of light and shadow. the end result is a unique experience that reinterprets Pacific Northwestern fondness of nature through an innovative, tech inspired lens.
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GENSLER DALLAS, TEXAS, USA
AT&T
AT&T’s transformation of their campus in Dallas, Texas was intended to create a place of community, both for its employees and the community at large. Gensler designed a dynamic entrance to the office with a backlit canopy that extends over the sidewalk. A custom Delta Drop® with subtler faceting and custom perofrations bring a sense of movement to the canopy, leading people inside.
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STANTEC FLINT, MICHIGAN, USA
ELMER KNOPF LEARNING CENTER
A striking entrance for the Elmer Knopf Learning Center in Flint, Michigan, was created with Vapor® Pixel, backlit for dramatic impact day and night. Arktura worked in tandem with Stantec to propose the illuminated entrance for the Genesee ISD - Elmer A. Knopf Learning Center, a center-based school for students from a collective of 21 districts in Genesee County identified as Moderately Cognitively Impaired and Autistic. The final design features Arktura’s cutting edge Vapor® Pixel in a glimmering effect and serves to inspire and empower students as they enter their community.
IWAMOTO SCOTT ARCHITECTURE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
TISHMAN 160 SPEAR Tishman Speyer commissioned Iwamoto Scott Architecture to redesign the main entrance, lobby, and plaza of 160 Spear. This intent included a geometric canopy that made an inviting plaza while also providing shelter from rain and sun. In addition, architects wanted to carry the hour-glassshaped faceted interior lobby to the exterior. They enlisted the help of Arktura’s Solution Studio Team to bring their intent to reality. The resulting combination of Fin, Cladding, and Faceted Panels combined to create a monolithic field uninterrupted. It breaks the exterior barrier and seamlessly flows into the dynamic lobby and plaza of 160 Spear. “ 45
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25 KENT
DELTA DROP® & VAPOR®
A SOOTHING HEALING ENVIRONMENT GENSLER BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, USA
25 KENT
25 Kent is a new office building that was developed through a partnership between Gensler and Hollwich Kushner as a hub of innovation and creativity. Designed as two volumes that are reflections of each other with a plaza cutting a void through the middle, Arktura provided a custom size and finish Delta Drop and custom finish of Vapor panels to clad the outdoor plaza, adding to the industrial feeling of the building.
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REFIK ANADOL CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA, USA
CULVER CITY GARAGE
Inspired by the punch cards of the 80s, Refik Anadol designed a facade that follows the patterns of those punch cards. He was also inspired by the project’s namesake, cirrostratus clouds and the colors of the light reflected off of them. The reflections and refractions of the facade mimic the Southern Californian sky.
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DYNAMIC DICHROIC GLASS SCULPTURAL WALL
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DYNAMIC VISUAL EXPERIENCE ATELIER MANFERDINI LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
HH SCULPTURE
Nembi (Italian for Clouds) is a permanent public art installation commissioned by Los Angeles County and produced in a collaboration between Solutions Studio® and Elena Manferdini. The installation’s playful composition and striking colors enter into dialog with the iconic green bands of the Hubert Humphrey Health Center’s facade. Made entirely of powder-coated aluminum, each panel is saturated in durable color that can withstand tactile interaction while providing a dynamic visual experience at the threshold of the building.
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LEHRER ARCHITECTS LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
UCLA FENCE
Arktura created the guardrail for this accessible path through UCLA’s La Kretz Garden Pavilion. The panels are made of faceted and perforated aluminum that create an interplay with light and shadow.
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LEHRER ARCHITECTS LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
WORD BENCHES
Perforated word benches at Westwood United Methodist church provide seatinf for visitors.
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LEHRER ARCHITECTS LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
SPRING STREET
Transforming two parking lots into a park, Lehrer Architects worked with city landscape architects. Lehrer Architects worked with Arktura to design the aluminum chairs with a perforated bamboo pattern that plays with light.
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BNA SIGNATURE TERMINAL
GRAPHIC PERF® PHOTOREAL
MARQUEE PRODUCTS SCHENKEL SHULTZ NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, USA
BNA SIGNATURE TERMINAL Signature FS unveiled their new FBO terminal at Nashville International Airport, featuring numerous systems and solutions by Arktura. Travelers and pilots are greeted upon arrival with an extensive Graphic Perf® Custom Photoreal Exterior treatment, paying homage to Nashville’s iconic music legacy. The vivid illumination used in the exterior application provides a preview of Signature’s thoughtfully presented artifacts by musicians and celebrities displayed within the terminal.
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A SOOTHING HEALING ENVIRONMENT WARE MALCOMB SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA
SEAVIEW
For the outdoor site renovation of Seaview Amenities, Ware Malcomb needed a firm with proven outdoor canopy experience who understood the site conditions of a coastal location with wind load considerations, had structural engineering experience, and could work in partnership with their design team. Ware Malcomb worked with Arktura’s Solutions Studio® to customize canopy structures that fit their specific design vision, inspired by Arktura’s Cora pattern.
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