Jim Olson, principal architect at Olson Kundig, opted for an eye-catching golden-colored terracotta exterior at Denver’s Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Arts. The museum, which is aptly located in the city’s Golden Triangle Creative District, features NBK’s terracotta, glazed vertical baguettes in an array of yellows that complement the colorful art housed inside. Meanwhile […]
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The new community and meeting centre in the small town of Zimmern is very inviting and open. Its large windows afford views into the interior. The TERRART®-MID elements delimit the functional areas, cleverly concealing the latter. The friendly, light colour of the terracotta panels can also be found in the ceiling area, which has a
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To create the new FIFA World Football Museum, the existing building dating back to the 1970s has been redeveloped, in parts structurally renovated and extended upwards. The redevelopment project focused primarily on state-of-the-art energy saving concepts and natural materials, hence the construction of a back-ventilated ceramic façade, that meets modern sustainability requirements. Relatively small-format, vertically arranged terracotta elements surround
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The realization of the Mainz Synagogue should be viewed as a structural sign of hope and optimism for the Jewish community. Architect Manuel Herz stresses that the foundation of the design is the writing, the word, the Tora. Viewed from the street, the silhouette of the building forms the Hebrew word (Qadushah) which can be
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While the architecture of the interiors has been designed to create ideal exhibition situations the external facade has been conceived to be explicit of the role of this museum as a place for living art. Thus a poly-chromatic building skin has been developed that acts almost like a large scale abstract painting. This skin plays
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The Museum of Arts and Design, a building once unpopular with New Yorkers, has received a new face thanks to the architect Brad Cloepfil from the Allied Works architects’ office. The new design features vertical and horizontal strip windows which break up the originally completely closed façade and allow passers-by to look into the building’s
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With 390 new parking spaces across four levels, the new parking garage serves to reduce stress in the centre of the Westphalian metropolis. Despite its size, the attractive white and brick-red building appears light, nearly delicate. This is especially due to the light-coloured, double rows of TERRARTR-Baguettes that are mounted like rungs. The offset arrangement
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The Berlaymont Building in Brussels houses the headquarters of the EU Commission. After the large-scale renovation, the building which resembles a hull now has been returned to its former glory. The old concrete façade has been replaced by a glass and steel façade construction that, despite its dimensions, seems surprisingly light and delicate. The front-mounted
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The courthouse with its postmodernist style features terracotta cladding in a special white color. The fine structure of the profiled panels on the closed parts of the facade finds a corresponding counterpart in the slim baguette elements that act as transparent parapets that skirt along the windows or as small sun roofs. Decorative details reveal
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