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The unusual ground plan of the apartment complex, which is divided into one 6-storey building and one 13-storey building, is down to the triangular layout of the site – and the resulting external view gives the appearance of being nested or folded. The ceramic cladding made of vertically fitted TERRART® panels plays with graduated terracotta […]
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The grand Paradise Street development in Liverpool is a shopper’s paradise – full of vibrant colour, with a wide range of different shops and constantly growing. The main entrance is a true multi-coloured eye-catcher featuring ceramic facades made from a mixture of different terracotta hues that frame the huge glass fronts of the lower ground
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The ceramic façades of this department store in Liverpool have a mosaic-like structure, which is created through the use of several closely-related colours that are generated by firing at different core temperatures. The TERRART®-Solid elements were cast into concrete panels, so no support system is required.
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The four-storey office building is the centrepiece of a large-scale urban planning project to renew and revitalise the city of Wakefield; it also houses the city administration and authority offices. Efficiency and a good range of people-friendly services are combined with an attractive public space in the form of a spacious atrium and café on
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Although the footprint of the corner apartment building is kept to a minimum, its size is increased on the upper floors with balconies and cube-shaped extensions. With wavy terracotta panels and horizontal black aluminium bands that run around the building at each fl oor level, the unusual building shell makes a bold statement among the
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The largest shopping and recreation centre in all of Central Eastern Europe – in terms of area – is located in the Upper Silesian city of Katowice. The 235,000-square-metre complex houses 250 commercial units including the supermarket chain Tesco and the electronics retailer Saturn. It was expressly designed to be more than just a shopping
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This spectacular tower is divided into three quite different buildings: the lower part featuring dark natural stone forms the basis for the striking and vividly coloured central part and the dramatic steel/glass structure at the apex. Considerable attention is drawn here particularly to the terracotta cladding in the middle. The large black and white building
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The new building for the Waterbury High School, an establishment focusing on technical disciplines, needs to offer space for 800 students. The result is a fivestorey building featuring a striking silhouette and impressive facades. Slim, ceiling-high windows alternate with closed surfaces of identical format and adorned with ceramic tiles. Natural shades provide the perfect complement
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For the new NBC Broadcast Center, two twin buildings situated in a row of heterogeneous buildings of different heights, proportions, sizes and distance from one another, but sharing common exterior materials and colours, became the subject of a redesign programme. Complementing this, the Broadcast Center was adorned with a facade of glass, metal and light,
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One of the biggest construction projects on the East Coast of the U.S.A., City Center DC is an almost 10-hectare “city within a city” consisting of office complexes, retail space, rented and owner-occupied apartments as well as green space and public plazas. Shalom Baranes Associates, which is responsible for the apartment buildings, has focused on
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