Commercial Building

The exclusive use of TERRART®-LARGE panels, whose length also dictated the window width, determines the character of this administrative building in Münster. The wholesale company rigorously defines its image with the terms „functionality and objectivity“.

A room for fast decisions: the flower auction hall in Straelen/Herongen. The design of the premises is correspondingly lively and open. Aluminium and terracotta interact both inside and outside the building – in the TERRART®-LARGE version here. Their interesting interplay creates a perfect background atmosphere for colourful movements.

The combination of a darker shade of red with a light terracotta colour brings the desired lightness of touch to the very closed-in façade of the computer centre of City-Bank, London. The interplay between smooth and profiled panels of the TERRART®-LARGE system increases the liveliness of this façade surface.

The City of Westminster is home to this commercial building whose mostly glazed façade was broken up using beige-coloured ceramic elements. These also appear below the window frames and as air-permeable substitutes for venetian blinds on the top floor, which features prominent rooftop structures.

Perfectly organised logistics guarantee prompt delivery of façade elements to the relevant building sites, regardless of distance. With its façade made from TERRART®-LARGE units, Repulse Bay, an office block in Hong Kong, is one of the most youthful properties to be built in Asia.

The Espace in Kirchberg constitutes the creation of a new district on the outskirts of the capital of Luxembourg, characterised by bank and administrative buildings. The list of planners who made this money market metropolis into one of the most appealing places in Luxembourg reads like a Who’s Who of the international architecture scene. Terracotta (TERRART®-LARGE version) is the defining material that characterises the atmosphere.

By combining TERRART®-LARGE and baguettes, this office and commercial block in Siegburg picks up the façade theme of the Potsdamer Platz. Even the shade is identical to the Berlin project. An architect’s building that sets extraordinary new trends in urban development in its surroundings, not least because of the perfect curvature of the façade, made possible by the use of rounded units.

  Even the prototype demonstrates the exhilarating design potential offered by the TERRART®-system. In developing his scheme, Piano was conscious of the fact that “a city draws on its past while addressing the present”. For the Genoese architect, this implied a simultaneous acknowledgement and demystification of the traditional Berlin stone façade and culminated in the