The Centre del Mon –Perpignan Train Station was under construction in 2010 and was designed by L35 Architects. The project uses several different colored glass elements from Circursa.
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The Columbia St. Mary’s project is a significant piece of architectures in Milwaukee due to its size and prominent location along the upper shores of Lake Michigan. HOK ST Louis has chosen more than 136,000 sq. ft. of Dri-Design bone white and champagne finished panels for the state’s largest hospital construction project.
Westminster Academy is a secondary school west of London. It is a simple building with very bold glazed and vibrantly colored terracotta tiles on the facades. The Architect Allford Hall from Monaghan Morris Architects has chosen NBK Terracotta to create this dramatic building
IKEA Cardiff was opened 38 weeks after starting on site, beating all IKEA construction records worldwide and is now being used as a benchmark for future stores. Protecting the glazed entrance area from overheating, Levolux and Stubbs Rich Architects developed a combination of horizontal and vertical shading to protect the double height glazed entrance area from overheating and showing us what could have been…
Tradition meets modernity at the flagship store of one of Germany’s oldest coffee roasting companies: Heimbs Café in the Schloss-Arkaden shopping center in Braunschweig, Germany. Heimbs processes more than 2,500 tons of the…
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Second in the series: Check out the new Frank Harmon video on You-Tube. This is the second in the “Interviews with Architects” series. The link is:
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There is a very specific architectural use for Cymat’s aluminum foam, quite unique from typical aesthetic applicationsas you can see. The foam can also be modified in densities and thicknesses, tailored to the customer’s needs, to mitigate the energy from a bomb blast. Please check out this video on the manufacturers website (How Stuff Works)http://bit.ly/emCqGf
Think outside the box! Perforations do not always have to be in line. You can create images with different perforations and patterns and still be able to keep the acoustical value. Look at the images provided by RPG Diffusor Systems, Inc. and Topakustik .
Culture has no limits and neither does the auditorium of the Rafael del Pino Foundation in Madrid Spain. Inspired by the surrounding plant life, a treelike structure rises up, supporting and embracing the Rafael del Pino Foundation’s new building. The new auditorium is located on the building’s ground floor. The architect behind the project Rafael de La-Hoz, chose the Flex 6036 model, a chair that features geometric lines and fits with the concept of the building.
Hunter Douglas Façade just released a new façade system approved to be used in the North American Market. The first project is the Casino Talca in Chile, and is designed by the Architect Rodrigo Duque and Rafael Hevia from RDM Architecture. Please let me know if you are interestested to learn more about it. I don’t have much information yet but for once I wanted to say. You saw it here first…