Tension skylight system
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Product • By Skyshade daylighting • Lightpipe®
Lightpipe®
Lightpipe tubular daylighting system provides powerful natural illumination by channeling sunlight into indoor spaces, reducing reliance on artificial lighting. With high reflectivity, UV protection, and minimal heat transfer, it improves energy efficiency, lowers operational costs, and creates a brighter, healthier environment. Perfect for industrial, commercial, and institutional buildings. More
Product • By Solaris Architettura • Skylight blinds awnings
Skylight blinds awnings
Horizon and Top Horizon sun shading or blackout systems for skylight and conservatories More
Project • By Hunter Douglas Architectural USA • Museums
Art Institute of Chicago
Serving both as a museum and a school, the Art Institute of Chicago preserves and interprets a renowned collection. Built on the rubble of the Chicago fires in 1879, the Art Institute of Chicago now houses more than 5,000 years' worth of art. To enable further development, the museum undertook its biggest renovation ever, a 264,000-square-foot wing designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop architects made light control a central part of the project, creating what New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ourrossof says gives the views a "soft, ghostlike quality" coming from the white screens at each window (which were custom-built by Hunter Douglas Contract Window Coverings).
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