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SEFAR® VISION Laminated in Expansive Glass Louver Façade on New Research Facility

Almost 8,000 Glass Louvers Elegantly Adorn and Shade Building Exterior

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

DEPEW, NY… SEFAR® VISION fabric, laminated between 7,800 glass louvers, impressively graces the façade of a new biomedical research facility at 22 Windsor Street in Cambridge, MA.

Architect Toshiko Mori and her team specified a custom Copper color version of Pulp Studio’s Chromavision™, which uses SEFAR VISION fabric as its substrate. Pulp Studio was the glass laminator, using SentryGlas® from Kuraray America Inc. – amounting to more than 19,000 total square feet of glass.

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SEFAR® TENARA® Fabric Meets California Title 19 Flame Resistant Regulations

Product Configured to Provide Safer Design and Stronger Performance

Wednesday, November 02, 2016

DEPEW, NY… SEFAR® Architecture’s TENARA® Fabric is now a registered flame resistant product under California Title 19, established by the California State Fire Marshal.

As a Title 19 registered product, TENARA Fabric expands the applications for large-scale exterior fixed and retractable canopy and tensile fabric applications – most notably in hospitality, education and retail settings.

SEFAR® Architecture TENARA Fabric Provides the Ultimate in Luxury and Light at Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel

Retractable Fabric Canopy Makes Efficient and Profitable Use of Space Possible

Thursday, July 07, 2016

DEPEW, NY… In the heart of Surrey, England, the 185-room Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel exudes luxury, and with its newest addition — a covered rooftop terrace — the hotel is set to impress guests in all types of weather. The retractable cover to the hotel’s rooftop terrace provides form and function with the help of TENARA Fabric from SEFAR Architecture.

SEFAR LIGHTFRAME® Now Configured to Meet .90 NRC Value

New and Improved Fabric Ceiling System Provides Supreme Translucency and Sound Absorption

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

DEPEW, NY… SEFAR® Architecture introduces a new configuration of its SEFAR LIGHTFRAME® illuminated modular fabric ceiling system that allows the system to produce an industry-leading NRC value up to .90.

After extensive product testing, the standard configuration of SEFAR LIGHTFRAME was modified to meet the highest levels of sound absorption and noise reduction without sacrificing the product’s supreme translucency and quality of light.

SEFAR® TENARA® Fabric Provides Elegant and Enduring Retractable Canopy for Buchs Town Center in Switzerland

Foldable Roof Membrane Transforms Space in the Heart of the City

Friday, November 13, 2015

DEPEW, NY…SEFAR® Architecture’s TENARA® Fabric has completely transformed the “Metzgergasse,” an exterior urban pedestrian area and meeting place in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Nikolai Kugel (Stuttgart) architectural firm jumped on the opportunity to improve the space with an original masterpiece featuring a retractable fabric structure.

Looking for a chance to revive and enhance the neighborhood, Nikolai Kugel designed an elegant, yet enduring solution that would survive Switzerland’s unpredictable weather patterns, using SEFAR Architecture TENARA Fabric 4T40HF.

Google HQ Chooses SEFAR® Architecture’s TENARA Fabric to Outfit New Plaza

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

DEPEW, NY… Google’s headquarters, referred to as the Googleplex, in Sunnyvale, CA, uses SEFAR® Architecture’s TENARA Fabric to shade the central plaza of a recent campus expansion – and the fabric has completely transformed the newly-outfitted space.

SEFAR® Architecture Adds New Fabric Offering to Vision Collection

260/50 Fabric Joins Family of Metal-Coated Interlayers

Thursday, January 29, 2015

DEPEW, NY… SEFAR® Architecture introduces the new 260/50 series for Vision metal-coated fabric interlayer for glass. This new combination of material thickness and open aperture is ideal for interior glass walls and paneling, as well as facades and second skins.

The addition of 260 microns of material thickness with 50% mesh aperture offers a wider range of options for innovative design in both interior and exterior architectural glass applications, while reducing solar heat gain and glare.

Translucent TENARA® Fabric Retrofits Light Canopies at St. George Staten Island Ferry Terminal

Multiple Layers of Fabric Offer Flexible, Elegant Light Diffusion

Monday, November 10, 2014

DEPEW, NY…SEFAR® Architecture’s TENARA® Fabric has completely transformed light canopies at the St. George Staten Island Ferry Terminal. Paired with a new lighting system, the fabric provides an elegant, yet enduring solution for the once-obsolete canopies.

SEFAR® VISION Creates “Moving Image” for SBB Railway Headquarters

Movable Glass Slats Create Colorful, Modern Facade

Monday, September 29, 2014

DEPEW, NY… SBB Railway’s newly-minted headquarters outside of Wankdorf, Bern, has a striking visual feature — SEFAR® Architecture VISION fabric, laminated between moveable glass louvers. Five different variations of the VISION fabric interlayer absorb and disperse sunlight. The 6,258 individually moveable slats, which cover the 98,318 square-foot façade, allow occupants to open and angle the panels for fresh air and lighting control.

SEFAR® VISION Wins 2014 Glass Magazine Award

Metal-Coated Glass Interlayer Earns “Most Innovative Decorative Glass Product”

Thursday, July 10, 2014

DEPEW, NY… SEFAR® Architecture’s VISION fabric interlayer for glass has won the 2014 Glass Magazine award for ‘Most Innovative Decorative Glass Product.’

Weitra Castle Relies on TENARA® Fabric for Courtyard Renovations

Retractable Fabric Umbrellas Create an All-Weather Event Space

Thursday, May 08, 2014

DEPEW, NY…Tucked into the Austrian-Czech border just north of Vienna sits Weitra Castle, a beautiful venue now able to accommodate outdoor events – rain or shine –thanks to SEFAR® Architecture’s TENARA® Fabric.

TENARA Fabric 4T40HF in the form of four 15m x15m all-weather, inverted-style umbrellas gives the castle flexibility and function in its rectangular Renaissance-style courtyard. The umbrellas elegantly open and close – the attached fabric folding and flexing along with them.

Hotel Riva Chooses TENARA® Fabric to Enhance Atmosphere and Ensure Guest Comfort

Fabric Canopy Offers Aesthetic Consistency and High Performance

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

DEPEW, NY…Efforts to align water and land underpin all aspects of the design of Constance, Germany’s Hotel Riva, from its logo to its architecture. SEFAR® Architecture’s TENARA® Fabric ensures that the hotel remains consistent in its theme — all the way up to its shading canopies.