Project Of Note - Staples Center

Staples Center
Los Angeles, California

Architect
NBBJ Architects

Services
Facade construction management

Description
This multi-purpose facility is comprised of approximately one million square feet of public and private space. The 20,000 seat arena has an adjoining office tower, retail, and restaurant complex. The exterior facade features high span lobbies with a suspended inverted slopped truss wall providing for unobstructed volumes of spaces. The crown of the building features a unique segmented radius modular cladding system with a metallic finish. Other features of the facade include a 3 story inverted slopped curved glass prow, large aluminum fin feature bands. Services provided in conjunction with The Edifice Group.

Stone & Earth Used by Axis Facades

Natural beauty and visual stimulation and the tactile quality of stone cannot be matched. We have engineered stone reconstruction for Angkor Wat in Cambodia and designed the sleek glazed green brick facade of the University of Pennsylvania, /Skirkanich Hall. The range of stone is so vast that we have created a large library of stone material around the world. From Indian sandstone, Chinese ash stone, European marbles, Brazilian slate and American granite and many points in between stone is an exciting and enduring material. The use of traditional terra cotta and is now complimented by the application of extruded terra cotta. New material evolution involving cements have created amazing opportunities for self cleaning and polished pigmented surfaces.

• Brick Veneer
• Cast Terra Cotta
• Ceramic Tile
• Earthen Brick
• Extruded Terra Cotta
• Glass Fiber Concrete
• Glazed Brick
• LimestoneMarble
• Precast Concrete
• Sandstone
• Terra Cotta Composite
• Thin Shell Cement
• Travertine

Project Of Note - University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania
Skirkanich Hall

Architect
Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates

Services
Material application, schematic and design development, construction documents and construction administration of all facade and waterproofing elements.

Description

Skirkanich Hall is sited between two buildings and acts as the gateway for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as well as serving the needs of the Department of Bioengineering. The facade features a glazed green brick created for the project, cantilevered and layered glass curtain wall, zinc metal cladding, and black granite at the ground level. The entire facade is based on a rain screen design which allows for a cleaner more maintenance free building enclosure and crisper architectural sightlines.

Axis Facades Giving Back

Champaner
Baroda, India
Heritage Trust

Our firm is the official facade restoration consultant for this 6 kilometer x 6 kilometer city known as “The Forgotten City”. Many of the buildings and monuments within this City were constructed between 800 and 1300 AD and were presumed to be lost. The Heritage Trust has endeavored to reclaim the City and has received designation as a World Heritage Site. Axis Group Limited, LLC has provided grants and technical expertise for the preservation of facade elements on the site.ChampanerBaroda, IndiaHeritage TrustOur firm is the official facade restoration consultant for this 6 kilometer x 6 kilometer city known as “The Forgotten City”. Many of the buildings and monuments within this City were constructed between 800 and 1300 AD and were presumed to be lost. The Heritage Trust has endeavored to reclaim the City and has received designation as a World Heritage Site. Axis Group Limited, LLC has provided grants and technical expertise for the preservation of facade elements on the site.

Angkor Wat

Cambodia

World Monument Fund

Many of the galleries of this World Heritage Site have collapsed rendering adjacent structures prone to additional damage. Our firm designed and engineered a conveyance system and methodology for reconstruction of the stone galleries around the perimeter of this sacred temple site. Our firm provides underwriting support as well as professional services to be used at the discretion of the World Monument Fund for sites around the world.

Glass Used by Axis Facades

The absolute beauty of glass in its raw form inspires great design. We have applied the use of molten cast glass to create a distinctive facade for Kate Spade in New York and engineered applications for the use of rolled glass for the Gucci Landmark facade in Hong Kong. With new technology of embedded glass with LEDs, organic materials and printed interlayers the glass applications are ever expanding. The evolution of slump forming glass using computer generated forms and jigs now brings two dimensional glass into a new realm of possibilities.

• Embedded Interlayer within Glass
• Extruded Rolled Glass
• Glass Billet
• Heavy Laminated Glass
• Insulated High Performance Glass
• Molten Cast Glass
• Printed Interlayer within Glass
• Rolled Profile Glass
• Silk Screened Fitted Glass
• Slump Cast Glass
• Structural Glass