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Alley 24 Mixed-Use Building- Seattle, WA
Owner: Paul Allen's Vulcan Group
Architect: NBBJ Seattle
Manufacturer: Nysan Shading Systems
Dealer: Pacific Shading Systems

223 Yale at Alley24
Architectural Record, January 2007
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Seattle's first mixed-use project with certification for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) by the U.S. Green Building Council, which verifies high environmental performance. This achievement helps demonstrate the viability of green vision in the commercial sector.

"For the project, architects NBBJ incorporated a range of sustainable-design solutions to enhance indoor environmental quality, including a system of automated Nysan external Venetian blinds. According to solar control experts Pacific Shading Systems, who installed the blinds, 'the key to this external system is that it blocks solar energy before it enters the building. This results in significantly better performance than comparable internal systems.'"
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Terry Ave. Office Building- Seattle, WA
Owner/Architect: Weber Thompson
Manufacturer: Nysan Shading Systems
Dealer: Pacific Shading Systems

No AC? No problem for this new office space
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 2008
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Keep up with how the building is performing by reading
Weber Thompson's blog at http://weberthompson.typepad.com

California Academy of Sciences
Architect: Renzo Piano
Pacific Shading Systems fabricated and installed the skylight tension systems and also installed the rainscreen on the rolling roof.

California Academy of Sciences Aims to Be the
Greenest Museum on Earth
Wired Magazine: Issue 15.08
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Nestled into the fog and forest of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the California Academy of Sciences aims to be the world's largest eco-friendly public building when it reopens in 2008. (It's bucking for a platinum LEED green-building certification.) Architect Renzo Piano used a textbook's worth of enviro-engineering tricks for the seven-year effort, an almost total teardown and rebuild. At $484 million, it's one of the most expensive museum projects in a century. But if it all works as planned, the city will boast a natural history museum that enhances nature instead of just stockpiling it.
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California Academy of Sciences: About the Building