“You have to make your projects visible!” On this principle, the architect realised the commission to give the exclusive residence on Bezymyanny, St. Petersburg’s largest island, a distinct presence. For this purpose, the balcony parapets of the old brick yacht club were accentuated with turquoise-coloured ceramics and aesthetically enhanced. The large-format TERRART®-Shingle elements were custom-made …
The successful combination of glass and ceramics creates interesting effects at the building complex of the Amsterdam City Utilities. In addition, the TERRART®-SHINGLE façade, with its scale-like overlapping of the units, ensures significant shadow formations, which emphasise the horizontal partitioning of the building.
With the exception of the ground floor, this overall very plain and unostentatious school building is entirely clad in sand-coloured TERRART®-Shingle elements, which create a scale-like structure. The overall impression is enlivened with architectural details such as the over-high wall aperture at the front and the frugal, box-shaped, drawn-out windows of varying shapes and sizes …
The sheer size of the new hospital building is cause for admiration: the developed area covers 51,000 square metres! At first glance, the building complex does not seem like a typical hospital; integrated in a vast expanse of green and enlivened with expansive roof gardens, the connection to nature is undeniable. The manually applied brownish …
Objectivity and great transparency: the building’s exterior expresses, what is also important where technical developments – the speciality of the FraunhoferInstitut in Duisburg – are concerned. The clear façade structure is striking for its dichotomy of glass and terracotta. The reddish TERRART® elements consist of profiled panels, which were also used as ceiling lining for …
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