Brookfield Place just designed by César Pelli (Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects) is located downtown Manhattan and west of the Freedom Tower. The shopping mall has quickly established itself as a linch-pin for fashion, culture, and cuisine. The complex stands out for its high transparency. For the two main entrances at the north and south side, all-glass façades have been designed. The highlight: even the supporting construction is made of glass.
Not only can sedak produce oversize glass units; sedak also moves mountains. For the HT Group, a supplier of room solutions in the sector of medical engineering, the fabricator has produced a 9m x 3m digital printed glass pane.
A glacier in the middle of a city? That’s something you can only find in Sweden – in Gothenburg. Here, in 2014, “Glasiären”, a six-storey, blue-shimmering office building was built in the trendy quarter of Kvilbäcka/Kvillebäcken. So that this “glacier” – which is exactly what Glasiären means – does not get too warm, the owners decided to use dimmable solar control glass from EControl-Glas (Plauen, Germany).
During the jury session under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Cook (Crab Studio, London, UK) on 8 May in Berlin, two first prizes and three special mentions were awarded.
They are hardly ever seen, but are used almost every day: garage door drives. They make door control comfortable and they increase break-in protection. Now Teckentrup is introducing a further developed generation to the market. The drives 12.2, 20.2 and 40.2 use “Rolling Codes” so that the radio signal cannot be seized by thieves. Performance features have also been improved and the programming simplified.
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Installation simplified, technology improved, configuration scope extended: Teckentrup (Verl) demonstrated innovations on several levels at BAU. The trade fair innovations include garage door drives, a new wicket door model for sectional doors and very large roller shutters as well as a new, particularly heat-insulating exterior door.
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Sto’s mission is “Building with conscience.”: As a manufacturer of products and systems for building coatings, the company places great value on energy efficiency and aesthetic appeal. Sto not only implements this demand for sustainable construction and restoration on a daily basis with its partners, the architects, tradesmen, and investors around the globe, but also when it comes to designing its own buildings.
StoVentec systems allow us to work confidently with three-dimensional facade surfaces, which can be rendered seamlessly or covered with natural stone or ceramics. Planners are supported in their projects by experts from the Sto Group as part of a digital process chain, from planning right through to installation.
Just as new shapes and methods were developed in build-ing design during the transition from wooden construction to solid construction at the beginning of the 17th century, insulation construction techniques are also gradually developing their own aesthetic appeal. In their now-completed research project, Faraneh Farnoudi and Andreas Hild focused on the subject of design possibilities, giving significant momentum to the debate.
Founded in 2007, sedak, the glass fabricator in Gersthofen, Germany, is the world’s leading manufacturer of oversize insulating and safety glass. sedak supplies glass units in dimensions up to 3.2m x 16m: processed, tempered, laminated, printed, coated and cold bent.