When renovating New York City Center, a former Shriners hall built in 1923, Ennead Architects wanted to preserve its Moorish Revival architecture while adding a wall of video screens to promote events in a manner congruent with the building's elaborate polychrome tile finish and murals. With A/V consultant Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, Ennead created a bank of six plasma screens covered with a stainless steel veil etched in a Moorish pattern. Manufactured by Den Mar Corp., the veil is less than an 1/8 inch thick, "which is why we went to steel," says Ennead partner Duncan Hazard, AIA. "It's strong enough to span, almost like a spider web. It's very lacey but you look right through it."
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