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.

4.1.jpg

4.2.jpg

4.3.jpg

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

3.1.jpg

3.2.jpg

3.3.jpg

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…

1..3.jpg

1.1.jpg

1.2.jpg

1.4.jpg

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

8.1.jpg

8.2.jpg

8.3.jpg

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.

6.1.jpg

6.2.jpg

6.3.jpg

6.4.jpg

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…

5.1.jpg

5.2.jpg

5.3.jpg

5.4.jpg

5.5.jpg