When Time Warner’s Home to the Future exhibit in New York City proved a smashing success, the company asked the project’s designers, NYC’s ESI Design, to find a way to take the 4,000-square foot installation on the road. ESI came up with the Time Warner Home to the Future Mobile, which traveled to 12 of [...]
[ Coastal Canvas Products Co. ] Savannah, Ga., U.S.A. The glass elevator shaft in this upscale residence was visible from all four floors, allowing a clear view of the elevator’s mechanics. Coastal Canvas was enlisted to design curtains to conceal the mechanical apparatus, and move up and down with the elevator car without inhibiting the [...]
[ Hi Plains Canvas Products Inc. ] Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A. In order to provide city employees with protection from the elements while operating the city’s Steiner plow tractor, city officials from Amarillo, Texas, retained Hi Plains Canvas to manufacture a complete enclosure for the vehicle. The removable cover, with the exception of the front windshield, [...]
[ Lethbridge Custom Canvas Ltd. ] Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada A local Toyota forklift dealer required a completely enclosed area in which they could pressure-wash equipment being serviced without affecting equipment being worked on in the next bay. Lethbridge fabricated two 35-foot-by-12-foot curtains using 18-ounce Sampson FR; the top hem of each curtain is reinforced with [...]
This closely fitting cover for some complex and irregularly shaped military equipment is designed to be robust enough to survive military conditions and be easy for soldiers to remove and replace. After consultation with the customer, Valley Canvas fabricated a prototype, which was later patterned for repetitive use. The cover has a close fit with [...]
Tradition is important at Victoria Park Racecourse, where sporting events, from equestrian competitions to the Clipsal 500 Adelaide V-8 Supercar race, attract South Australian enthusiasts. Full sun-exposure detracts from patrons’ enjoyment, and while permanent solutions are debated, Shadework International, Stirling, Australia, installed the largest temporary shade structure in Australia in Victoria Park. Roger Cook, chair [...]
The heroic Theseus of Greek mythology followed a thread through a mysterious maze to battle the half-man, half-bull Minotaur. German artist Alexander Huemer saw parallels between the Minotaur and fears about integrating new Eastern European countries into the European Union. His art project, the Ariadne thread, symbolizes a bright red pathway to unity. Artist [...]
Custom Covers, Southampton, England, makes temporary membrane or tensile structures for many cool venues, but one of the company’s recent projects was ice cold: covers for the British Antarctic Survey’s new Halley VI Research Station in Antarctica. “We aim to make covers for absolutely anything,” says Custom Covers chief executive Robert Sanders, “and this project [...]
Two engineering students competing in a British Cement Association competition to find new uses for cement based their entry, an inflatable concrete shelter for refugee relief, on meditations about the compressive strength of an eggshell. “We came up with the two critical components of concrete canvas,” say Peter Brewin and Will Crawford, who met at [...]
This project entailed developing a flame-retardant pad for a glass tube extrusion facility in order to eliminate a safety concern in the facility’s environmental, health and safety engineering department. The pad is able to withstand a 60-pound hot molten tube of glass falling from 12 to 18 inches during a complete production run, [...]
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