The Austin Training Pavilion canopy was installed in an hour by the landscape crew (no steel erection subs necessary!).  A wide load left Houston at 9am and met the crane on site.  Lifting lugs included in the pre-fabricated assembly were used to hoist the entire assembly into place on its four 9' columns.  The beautiful Texas sun animated the waterjet cut suspended panels immediately.  Showers, fans and site work are all that remain.

The Austin Training Pavilion canopy is complete and ready to ship as one integral assembly to the site.  It will need an escort from Houston to Austin, look for it on I-10 next Friday.  It will be installed on its four columns by four-point lift.  Chris Doyle, Artist; Metalab, Digital Fabrication and CM.

The Radiant Fountains are underway at IAH.  Dennis Oppenheim, Artist.  Metalab, Construction Management.  One up, two to go...

Matthew Geller, Artist, shared these images of the fog emitting tree called Woozy Blossom (Platanus nebulosus) that we designed and built here in Houston.  It will be exhibited at Katonah Museum of Art until Oct 2010. "Matthew Geller’s sixteen-foot-high perforated steel tree produces a continuous fog, inviting visitors to be engulfed in its mist and revel in its cool, moist air. The fog is in a constant state of flux, sensitive to the slightest changes in wind, temperature, and humidity. Woozy Blossom is simultaneously eerie, unexpected, and playful, transforming the Sculpture Garden into an ever-changing, other-worldly environment.  Woozy Blossom is a project of Creative Capital."

The Austin Training Pavilion canopy frame is complete with tube lattice that will receive the water jet cut corrugated panel system.  The entire assembly will ship from Houston in one piece (with escort) and be installed on 4 columns.

The Grotto project comes to substantial completion two years after it was designed...

The Woozy Blossom sculpture is up and emitting cool fog...

New York sculptor Dennis Oppenheim received a one million dollar commission by the Houston Arts Alliance to realize his design for Radiant Fountains, a work of art welcoming visitors flying in and out of Houston at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Metalab is coordinating the fabrication and installation. 

This pavilion will be built at the Austin Police Training Academy.  Chris Doyle is the commissioned artist and METALAB is fabrication consultants and construction managers on the project.  The canopy contains waterjet cut profiles held within a 16'x48' cantilevered frame.  The frame is being galvanized in the largest hot dip facility in the region and will be shipped to the site as one complete assembly to be installed on the four columns.  Campo Sheet Metal is fabricating and dry fitting the project here in Houston.