New Aluminum Product Apps Featured on Association Website: Jaguar's F-Type Sports Car and Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg Children's Center

New aluminum product application stories on the Association website this week include Jaguar's aluminum-bodied F-Type sports car, scheduled for introduction in 2013, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital's striking aluminum-paneled Bloomberg Children's Center, recently completed in Baltimore.

Aluminum-Bodied Jaguar F-Type on the Way for 2013
Jaguar has confirmed that it will produce an all-new sports car for 2013—the aluminum-bodied F-Type.

The F-Type will be the first launch of a two-seat sports car from Jaguar in over 50 years—and is spiritual successor to the iconic E-series, discontinued in 1975.

"We showed the C-X16 concept in September 2011, and the reaction to it has been so positive that we've accelerated our development of an all-new Jaguar sports car," Jaguar Global Brand Director Adrian Hallmark said at the New York Auto Show in April.

The C-X16 coupe concept was constructed with a lightweight aluminum chassis and aluminum body for maximum torsional rigidity. According to Jaguar's design director, Ian Callum, the F-Type will incorporate "95 percent" of the C-X16.

Aluminum 'Monet' Rises Above Baltimore Skyline
Johns Hopkins Hospital's new Bloomberg Children's Center incorporates aluminum panels to provide a colorful and visually arresting facade that looms above the Baltimore skyline.

The building's exterior curtainwall features aluminum panels of 26 colors encased within a "shadow box" construction of two layers of glass. Brooklyn artist Spencer Finch created the design for the facade, whose colors and texture were inspired by Claude Monet's Impressionist landscape paintings.

Finch opted for blue as the dominant color of the building's facade and green for that of the adjoining Sheik Zayed Tower, an adult-care facility.