Lyric Opera House, Baltimore Baltimore’s Lyric Opera House opened in 1895 as a concert hall with a traditional gable roof. After undergoing a four-phase renovation and major expansion, the opera house now features a 95-foot-tall stage house de- signed to accommodate full-scale grand opera and today’s touring Broad- way productions. Also known as a fl y tower, the stage house is clad with 20,000 square feet of RHEINZINK America Inc.’s RHEINZINK Horizontal Reveal Panels with a Pre-Weathered Blue Gray. RHEINZINK was also used to clad a “crossover bridge” close to street level that allows actors to move from one side of the stage to the other. Metal Sales & Service Inc. fabricated and installed the RHEINZINK
panels. According to sales representative Steve Scharr: “The greatest challenge was working within existing conditions of a very old building. With a renovation like this, you can’t lay out the building in advance. You have to build to fi t. But reforming an historic old building into a new struc- ture was really fascinating.” Cladding the crossover bridge slightly above street level required a dif-
ferent product application of the RHEINZINK. “The crossover was clad with custom formed soffi ts, fascia and column covers,” Scharr says. “We love working with zinc. It’s really a beautiful material that’s easy to fabricate.” “For structural reasons, we needed to keep down the weight of the fa-
çade material,” according to Jonathan Fishman, principal-in-charge with RCG Architects. “We didn’t want to use traditional metal panels. We selected the RHEINZINK for two reasons. First, the owner liked the idea of a durable mate- rial that would effectively last forever, at least hundreds of years. Second, we also wanted a natural material, not a painted metal. The color of the RHEIN- ZINK was appealing because we wanted the fl y tower to blend into the sky. The gray seems to recede instead of coming forward. And the RHEINZINK works nicely with the brick. The palette is very pleasing.”
Architect: RCG Architects, Baltimore Fabricator/installer: Metal Sales & Service Inc., Kennett Square, Pa. Distributor: MetalTech–USA, Peachtree City, Ga. Metal wall panels: RHEINZINK America Inc., Woburn, Mass.,
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