Some business owners think of commercial spaces as one-dimensional, sterile places where business is conducted with minimal backdrops and zero personality. However, many world-savvy entrepreneurs have started to recognize that by embracing artistry, they can establish an interior aesthetic that sets their business apart.
Don’t let your commercial space fall victim to one-dimensional corporate monotony. Instead, adopt something unique and exciting. Here are nine pristine examples of canopy art designs to inspire your creative vision.
“Starbucks LAX” Los Angeles, CA, FLEX Designs Starbucks (Architect), Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
Inspired by the patterns in latte foam art, this unique canopy art design creates a sense of wonder that both provides a visual cue for customers and informs the structural system. This structure utilizes customized planar surfaces with 10,200 points of alignment.
“Starbucks LAX” Los Angeles, CA, FLEX Designs Starbucks (Architect), Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
This design required creating a groundbreaking new design software and manufacturing strategy. Our design team prioritized precision and sophistication when crafting this unique display, which allowed the self-supported canopy to be fabricated off-site and assembled on-site in a matter of days.
Entry Portal – Microsoft, Redmond, WA, Bora Architects, Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
Collaboratively designed with Portland, Oregon’s Bora Architects, this canopy was designed to mimic the look and feel of the rest of the commercial space. It fits perfectly into the entryway and creates an eye-catching aesthetic that carries through the rest of the building.
Entry Portal – Microsoft, Redmond, WA, Bora Architects, Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
Our teams were inspired by the 313,790 square foot space to create something unique and to mimic the intricate circuitry Microsoft is known for, along with the complex dichotomy between intricately spaced lines and large, delicate waves.
Private Interactive Art Canopy, Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
This gorgeous art canopy display was designed to represent the topographical nature of its home city where the landscape has been shaped by ever-changing waterways and population density.
The undulating shape of this masterwork aluminum fabrication was formed by adopting the overlays and intersections from the mapped geological features in the city’s harbor region over time. The result is a breathtaking display that hangs overhead and invites visitors to gaze upward and reflect upon the connection between a shifting geological structure and the human landscape.
Pinkberry LAX, Los Angeles, CA, Rittiluechai Architecture PC, Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
The Pinkberry Canopy in LAX is a world-renown art canopy display that utilizes the organic cellular structure and bright, eye-catching color to create a distinct commercial space to attract and wow customers. The canopy creates visual awe that pulls people in and compels them to stay.
Pinkberry LAX, Los Angeles, CA, Rittiluechai Architecture PC, Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
Constructed from uniquely crafted planar surfaces with over 4,200 points of alignment, this structure demanded the creation of groundbreaking design software and highly specialized algorithms.
Pixel Swarm, Seattle, WA, Graphite Design (Architect), Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
Winner of the Gold Award at the CISCA Construction Excellence Awards Virtual Gala, the Pixel Swarm ceiling was designed to create the intricate movement of flight and reinterpret the Pacific Northwestern’s love of nature through a tech-inspired lens.
This beautiful ceiling was designed in collaboration with Graphite Design and T-Bar Construction in the heart of downtown Seattle. The design teams involved in this project made thoughtful and innovative design choices to create an intimate and complex ceiling system.
Great Park Canopies, Orange County, CA, NBBJ Los Angeles (Architect), Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
Partnering with the NBBJ Los Angeles Plas-Tal, our design team custom-designed and fabricated multiple breathtaking canopies for the 688-acre parkland’s championship stadiums and buildings.
Great Park Canopies, Orange County, CA, NBBJ Los Angeles (Architect), Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
The design was meant to be both a functional feature and a groundbreaking contribution to public development. As a result, it provides shade for visitors to the stadiums and shows the parks’ commitment to innovation and artistry.
Seaview Outdoor Amenities, San Diego, CA, Ware Malcomb – SD (Architect), Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
When renovating Seaview Amenities’ outdoor seating and lounge areas, Ware Malcomb understood that they needed to work with a design firm that understands what it takes to design outdoor canopies in a coastal location with wind load considerations.
Seaview Outdoor Amenities, San Diego, CA, Ware Malcomb – SD (Architect) Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
That’s why they approached the design team at Arktura. Together, our teams created customized canopy structures that perfectly fit their design vision and added shade and visual intrigue for all Seaview Amenities’ guests.
Scoreboard LAX, Los Angeles, CA, iD Group (Architect), Featuring: Solutions Studio by Arktura
Located in the Tom Bradley International Terminal in LAX, Scoreboard’s perforated panel system was designed “in the round” as a graphic, sculptural object. Because the canopy was meant for a sports bar, our design team based the structure on hexagonal cutouts as an artistic reference to a soccer ball in midair.
Additionally, there are lights installed within the double-layered panels, creating intricate levels of contrast and light variation that catch the eye of everyone walking by.
Elmer Knopf Learning Center, Flint, MI, Stantec (Architect), Featuring: Vapor® Pixel by Arktura
This visually striking entrance to the Elmer Knopf Learning Center was designed with Vapor® Pixel and backlit for extreme dramatic effect, visible both day and night. Working in tandem with Stantec, our design team endeavored to create something remarkable by the awe-inspiring work done within the walls of the Elmer Knopf Learning Center.
The final design features Arktura’s groundbreaking Vapor Pixel technology, which creates a stunning glimmering effect to inspire and empower students as they enter the center.
Whether your design aesthetic fuses modern artistry with deeper meanings or pairs functionality with classic sensibilities, we have a geometric canopy design to fit your commercial space. No matter what you’re looking for, our design team would love to help you bring your artistic vision to life.
Contact our team today to learn more about art canopy designs and how we’ve transformed commercial spaces worldwide!
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