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Pplanet.gif (11640 bytes) Planet Pool Globe Sign
Client: Planet Pool

Designer: Victor Sypyrek

This 4' diameter globe sign for the exterior of Planet Pool is built of patinated copper and oxidized and clear-coated steel. The pool ball gnomon indicates the globe's location in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
PW5.gif (8790 bytes) CTV News W5 Globe
Client: CTV News
Design: Alisdair

A 3-dimensional logo and animation rig made for CTV's investigative journalism news program W5. The globe was constructed in copper and painted steel with built-in lighting.
PNikeball.gif (9172 bytes) World Cup Soccer Ball
Client: Nike
Design: Nike
This full scale hydraulic version of the 14' x 5 P20 soccer ball acts as a video display unit and is made of fibreglass and steel.
PNikeballcon.gif (11678 bytes) World Cup Soccer Ball
Client: Nike
Design: Nike

A work in progress shot exposes the internal structure of the 14' P20 soccer ball shown above.
PNikewire.gif (12634 bytes) World Cup Soccer Fountain
Client: Nike
Design: Nike

This 12' diameter animated globe fabricated by Geoff Ellis and fountain (created by others) resides in Paris, France at Nike Park and is made of fibreglass and aluminum.
PWireglo.gif (14632 bytes) World Cup Soccer Fountain
Client: Nike
Design: Nike
A construction photo of the 12' diameter animated globe shown above.
Ptaber.jpg (14532 bytes) Tabernacle
Client: Providence Mother House
Design: Kirkland Partnership
Detailing: John Bowron, Feature Factory

The hemispheric tabernacle cover was counter-balanced using a system of pulleys, cables and springs contained within the base. Acrylic highlights were fabricated by hot slumping. The structure is built of water-jet cut solid brass and features a mirror-polished brass hemispherical base.
PBap.gif (17087 bytes) Batismal Font
Client:
St. Michael the Archangel
Design: Kirkland Partnership Architects
As part of a package of solid oak and brass ecclesiastical furnishings for a 19th century stone church, Feature Factory produced this baptismal font with running water.
PBap2.gif (17946 bytes) Batismal Font
Client:
St. Michael the Archangel
Design: Kirkland Partnership Architects
This is another view of the above baptismal font.
PEgg.gif (13316 bytes) Elliptical Dome Skylight Frame
Client: Eve Guinan Glass
Designer: John Bowron, Feature Factory
The complete geometry of this structure was generated in Auto-Cad and produced by tracing paper templates onto three dimensionally formed steel plates.
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