This new building on the public utilities site by the harbour in Eckernförde is a real eye-catcher: a façade comprising ceramic baguettes in warm natural shades, vertically arranged and reminiscent of an accessible picket fence surrounds the car park inside it. The arrangement of the bars varies from level to level, giving a pleasing and […]
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, structurally renovated in parts 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 the enclosed areas.
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The realisation 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 polychromatic 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 courthouse with its postmodernist style features terracotta cladding in a special white colour. 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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