If ever less was truly more, there’s no better example than the radically austere Church of the Sacred Heart in Munich Germany. The exterior walls of this near cube are clad, floor to ceiling, in glass. The interior walls are clad in enormous sheaths of custom mesh, shielding the interior from the sun while at the same time promoting a sense of inner serenity. Designed by Allmann and Sattler and Wappner.
Dimension, color, shape: the architects at the ENTRESITIOS agency pulled out all the stops to make a social housing building a strong signal that contrasts with the banality of one of Madrid’s suburbs. This is a radical apartment building: dark, vertical and streamlined. The ENTRESITIOS architects opted for the spectacular rather than the discreet, with the aim of providing some architectural diversity to the cityscape. Photos: Roland Halbe
Kennedy Town Pool is “Framous!”:
The Kennedy Town Pool, which we have featured on the ZINCsense blog before, has been featured in the Frame newsletter. Check it out at the link provided (click on the title above.) Enjoy -VM
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Because of its beautiful finishes, many contemporary interior projects lend themselves to use zinc as an accent feature. Some of our projects carry the façade panel from the outside through the glass into the lobby or living room. Other projects use natural zinc in the kitchen, around the exhaust or as a countertop.
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More pictures from the the Illumesh installation at the former Bayer HQ in Leverkusen Germany.
“Complexe Paroissial Bienheureuse Enrichema Dominici” by Guido Micchiardi
Bruxelles (Belgium)
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“We know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use” Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, recently said this sentence during the speech regarding the new Apple Headquarters in Cupertino (California, USA).
Facade units get bigger and bigger every year. Some colleagues engineers have thought that cladding world has gone mad, but it is not true. Innovations are moving ahead. The market demands it.
Architecture is demanding larger pieces, such as Apple Store in Shanghai, where the height of every glass facade is approximately 12 meters.
The main benefits (among others) can be noticed immediately:
-Reduction of glass joints, improving watertightness and increasing light transmission.
-Reduction of supporting claddings.
-Improved load carriage behaviour.
Certainly, Apple has innovated using largest glass panes in their own worldwide stores.
Apple Store in Sydney, glass panes height goes from the floor to the facade hill
Recently, it has been published that Apple is going to renovate the Cube store on Fifth Avenue in New York, removing the 90 glass panes by using just 15 larger ones.
Apple has revealed its plans for the cube with a new informational sign posted on the barrier surrounding the plaza
Another clue concerning this architectural trend was found in the last Glasstech Düsseldorf in October 2010, you could see a huge insulated glass panel of 18 meters x 3,3 meters, manufactured by Henze-Glas from Hörden, Germany.
Henze-Glas DGU in the factory, before shipping to Glasstec 2010. Employers are sitting on top of the 18m long glass unit.
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The European Court of Justice (officially the Court of Justice), is the highest court in the European Union in matters of European Union law. This project is located in Luxembourg. The extraordinary aesthetics of the metal meshes gave the first impulse for their use on this project. The three dimensional ceiling is made from a special gold colored aluminum mesh called Escale. The design architect is Dominique Perrault Architecte, Paris