I haven't seen any awnings like this anywhere before and I liked that it was a little different than your standard wood or aluminum awning.

Update:  This awning is terrible!  It broke after a few months when the plexi came out of the channel during a windstorm.  There was no way to get it back into the channel so I ended up having to take it down.  

I get full, blazing sun at my front door and while the material is tinted (I bought the gray), it doesn't do much in terms of shade.  I really only bought it to get something up there to replace the old out-dated aluminum one I had up there and needed something to block the rain and snow.

The metal arms are every heavy and you'll definitely need two people to do this installation.  I ended up having a carpenter install mine because I wanted to make sure it was up there securely given that I'm in an area that gets snow and wind.    I helped him with the assembly part of it which was really easy.

Pros: stylish