Special Colours
The purpose of the Miyako Ecology Center in Japan is to inform the population about topics relating to environmental protection. As a result of this programme, the building itself is constructed in line with environmental considerations. Terracotta was used as a natural building component. The east and west sides support a roof-shaped structure made of grey ceramic, thus harmonising with the cityscape of old Kyoto and […]
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This library in Fukui City, Japan, will be surrounded by garden landscape. The fluted surface of the façade and the warm shade of vermilion give the building a gentle character, despite the stark design, and make for harmonious integration into the planned environment.
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The facade made from TERRARTR-Mid and TERRARTR-Solid panels dominates the entire residential and office building. The special grey colour of the ceramic was achieved through a sintering process. A total of 1,200 square metres of terracotta elements were built into the structure – on the sides of the building as closed surfaces and on the
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The imposing bank building consists of three separate, two to three-storey parts which are arranged in a U-shaped configuration on a generously sized plot. The facades are clad in smooth TERRART® panels that were manufactured in a dark red custom colour. Arranged uniformly both horizontally and vertically, the panels fill the solid surrounds of the
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What’s exciting about this façade design is not only its colour – a warm red that was mixed specially for the project –, but above all the arrangement of the nonuniform TERRART® elements that enclose the individual structures with the exception of the ground floors. At first sight, the building conjures up a resemblance to
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The residential and commercial block located on the site of the former St. Botolph’s Hall is as unostentatious as it is impressive. Rectilineal and completely bare of adornment, it fits in perfectly in an area dominated by steel and glass buildings.The designers, Matthew Lloyd Architects, chose a terracotta panelling made from TERRART® large elements, which
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A lively, carefree and cordial atmosphere: the student residence at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, testifies to the vibrancy that can be generated by a terracotta façade. The variety of colour – here in mixed yellow/red chromatic shades – embraces the entire light/dark spectrum and also includes flamed effects.
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