I’m not a major fan of Google’s new Blog Search as it just chucks spam blogs at you like confetti

But, it’s not bad for finding quirky little blog posts relating to your specific search term.

Obviously, the search term I’m referring to is sheet metal. (Just click on the sheet metal link to see what I’m talking about on both fronts.)

I happened to find this little post talking about the EMP building in Seattle.

Emplive Seattle

If ever there was a multi-million pound project the boys would be happy to sink their grinding discs into, it might just be this one.

The Frank Gehry designed building is explained wonderfully, but it’s obviously the exterior panelling that interests us:

The exterior consists of stainless steel and painted aluminum shingles, each individually cut and shaped. The stainless steel has three finishes: mirrored purple, lightly brushed silver, and bead-blasted gold. The red and blue sections are painted aluminum. Each finish takes on an exciting and unique shade when viewed from different angles around the building. The red will fade with time, altering the appearance of the building’s exterior and reflecting how music is ever changing. There are over 3,000 panels covering the exterior skin of EMP, each panel holding about seven shingles. Each shingle is a unique shape and size, cut and bent to fit exactly in its designed location. A total of 21,000 shingles cover the EMP exterior.

It’s well worth taking a look at some of the photos during construction to see the thing being realised and it’s also well worth taking a look at some pictures as it is now.

It’s one delightful lump of bashed tin.



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