Cascade Coil at Barclays Center

Brooklyn's Barclays Center—home to the Nets basketball team as well as a venue for music and other events—presents a face to the neighborhood of predominantly one material: rusted steel. But against the urban grit can be found LED screens that extend inside where they are accompanied by metal coils—Cascade Coil's bronze "architectural drapery"—to give the project some sheen.

The blue hue of the lobby draws people inside from the large plaza on the west side of the arena. This effect is a mix of digital and light—computerized read-outs on an LED display and uplights casting a glow across the rippling bronze coils, respectively. Cascade Coil provided the coils—1/4″ – 19 ga. – Satin Bronze, to be precise.

Behind the coils that wrap three sides of the lobby is the 40/40 Club & Restaurant. From here the porosity of what Cascade calls the "architectural drapery" (other categories for their products include "phantom mesh," "firescreens," and "safety & blast mitigation"), as views back down to the lobby can be had.

The bronze drapery is also found in the common club space for The Vault, the "exclusive, ultra-luxurious suites inspired by cultural icon JAY Z," a minority owner of the Nets. Here the coils are overhead, adding dynamic diagonals to the slick space. Anchoring the club is the Armand de Brignac Champagne Bar and its gold-plated bottles, which exist at the other end of the spectrum of the rust outside, but which work well with the rippling bronze fabric.