Architectural Louvers

Los Angeles’ captivating lifestyle and endless opportunities are why people gravitate to this mecca of culture and tourism in California. Adding to its appeal, the city is now home to the tallest building west of the Mississippi – Wilshire Grand Center. Located in the heart of downtown LA, this 73-story structure stands 1,100 feet tall, and includes a 900-room InterContinental hotel, five restaurants, and multi-floor, Class A office space. It also features an alluring, glass skylight, which cascades like an elevated waterfall above the entrance.  

Storm-Resistant Louvers

In the heart of Manhattan, close to both Central Park and Times Square, 1717 Broadway houses within its 68 floors the tallest hotel in North America. As part of a project to re-design the building, a decorative stainless-steel grille system was selected to wrap around the exterior of the structure, adding a prominent and unique architectural element to the tower. The grille system, designed and manufactured in Japan, would significantly enhance the structure’s aesthetics. 

Each day, thousands of visitors walk through the doors of the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, noting the iconic shape of the building and its use of natural sunlight and multicolored lights to bring life to the center. CS Architectural Louvers complement the design and functionality, creating a LEED-certified space, which is a destination in itself.

Las Vegas is home to glitzy, spectacular buildings. When envisioning a new 650,000-square-foot arena for the Las Vegas Golden Knights, the Populous architectural design team set out to create an exquisite site, sporting an expansive glass façade intertwined with sweeping balconies and a 9,000-square-foot LED screen. Today, T-Mobile Arena is not only the city,s largest event space in Las Vegas, it is also the first sports and entertainment stadium in the area to achieve LEED® certification.

Custom Storm-Resistant Louvers

One World Trade Center stands stronger than ever as the sixth-tallest building in the world, complete with CS’ storm-resistant louvers, which meet the air performance and water resistance needs of the structure.

The shopping center’s design team selected a variety of CS louvers that would be resistant to heavy rain and wind while allowing optimal airflow throughout the complex. They also chose a seismic expansion joint cover system that would blend seamlessly into the building and shift effortlessly with the building’s natural movements. 

Our storm-resistant louvers and vision barriers achieved optimal airflow performance, weather protection, and uncompromised aesthetic at VIA 57 West, a residential masterpiece along the Hudson River.

Renovation of Madison Square Garden in 2013 brought the fifty-year-old arena into the 21st Century. The new arena had to fit within the existing structure, while offering all the amenities current sports fans expect. For the exterior, Construction Specialties provided custom curved Storm Resistant Vertical Louvers that needed to fit perfectly into the fluted alcoves. Due to the extremely tight radius, special shaped corner louvers were being mounted in pre-cast panels. This necessitated additional engineering and working in conjunction with the steel and precast people to insure a proper fit.

This project is the first air traffic control tower to earn LEED® Silver certification. Keeping with Chicago’s notable architectural heritage, the selected NATCT design is AECOM’s asymmetrical, cantilevered tower. A great addition to the city’s skyline, this tower prominently features C/S Louvers. C/S worked closely with the installer on the custom louver attachment. This unique attachment allows for lateral and rotational adjustment of the louvers giving them the appearance of seamlessly floating away from the structure.

The CS MW-7315 Louver was created as a solution to a problem that came up during the design of The William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital in Texas. The hospital has over 40,000 ft2 of total louver area. During the project design, CS learned that the area behind the 16,000 ft2 of inactive louver is conditioned occupied space. There are laboratories in this area; therefore true wall performance and high R-value are required, which traditional blank off cannot provide. The solution is CS Louver over CENTRIA’s MetalWrap back up insulated panel system. This provides true wall performance without compromising aesthetics. The result is another innovative product, MetalWrap Louvers and Wall System, from the coordinated partnership between CS and CENTRIA.

RS-7315 Storm-Resistant Louvers, VAC-7315 Vision Barriers