The new Dinosaur museum housing footprints and fossils in SW Korea was created to preserve this national treasure for future generations. The architects HongSik Kim & SangSik Kim have chosen VM Zinc to create the three distinctive shaped buildings evoking the different creatures that roamed the area in prehistoric times.

Cricursa Glass’s booth at the Construmat 2009 in Barcelona, Spain was designed by Cesar Ruiz-Larrea and uses Cridecor Sentry Glass Expressions. Isn’t it amazing how you can create a waved pattern with glass?

In Hamburg, this 5-story office building project designed by LHD Architects has opted for dark ANTHRA-ZINC® with interlocking panel cladding as its style statement. The second (tall) picture tells an interesting story. If you look closely you will see a lot of graffiti on the neighboring brick building and the zinc building is not tagged. Zinc is a noble building product, even graffiti artists seem to respect it. This project was built  in 2006/07. It would be interesting to find out if this has changed over the years.

Did you know that the chrysler building was the world’s tallest building for 11 months? Designed by Brooklyn born architect, William Van Alen it stands at 1,046 feet tall. Iy was overtaken in height by the Empire State Building (1,250 feet tall) in 1931. Located in East Manhattan, NY it is a distinctive landmark that  youcannot miss.

Figueras Seating is the leader in public seating including Planetarium and IMAX theater seating. This project her is the Sheila M. Clarke Planetarium in Salt Lake City, UT. It was designed by Edwards & Daniels and uses the 5080 Kasandra.

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.

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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