A Clean Sweep in Fabric
Published: July 09, 2014
Gambling is a game of chance, and when the Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway in New York planned a $50 million expansion, project managers bet on a knock-your-socks-off entryway design to invite and excite the playing customer. Studio V Architecture PLLC, New York, developed a sweeping transparent tensioned fabric porte-cochere sculptured to emerge organically from the surrounding hills. The Studio V porte-cochere roof design featured 11,000 square feet of ETFE film manufactured by Birdair Inc., Amherst, N.Y., experts in custom tensile membrane structures.
Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway
Location: Yonkers, New York
Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York welcomes guests with a newly constructed porte-cochere with a pneumatic ETFE film roofing system.
About Birdair: Birdair, Inc. is the leading specialty contractor of custom tensile structures throughout the world. In addition to pre-construction services such as design assistance, budgeting, construction methodologies and project scheduling, Birdair provides design-build solutions in all aspects of project design, engineering, installation and maintenance. The company offers a selection of architectural fabric membranes, including PTFE fiberglass, ETFE film, PVC and Tensotherm™. Birdair, based in Buffalo, NY, is a member of the Taiyo Kogyo Group, with operations serving North and South America and other international locations. For more information about Birdair, like us on Facebook, call 1-800-622-2246 or visit www.birdair.com.
