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Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo 2025

What will the facades of the future look like?

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At the Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo in Bern on November 3 and 4, 2025, over 100 international architects, engineers, scientists, and representatives of the construction industry will present new projects and developments in building envelope design. Here you will find details and the registration link.

Qubica Light for the veranda creates modular shaded spaces with natural ventilation.
Sun shading

These KE solutions meet all demands for comfortable outdoor living

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The owner of the charming country house La Quercetta sought the advice of PMO KE to find a solution that combined functionality and aesthetics, blended perfectly with the rustic style of the building and offered guests a new atmosphere of conviviality during their stay. Thanks to the collaboration with the KE Store Arredocasa, a tailor-made project was realised that transformed the various terraces of the building.

Buildings with solar facades are getting more and more popular.
Topic of the Week: Solar facades:

Lithuania: BIPV for building designed by Daniel Libeskind

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ML System supplies photovoltaic glass to the prestigious 20-storey Artery business centre, located in Vilnius, designed by the world-famous architect Daniel Libeskind.

Vitrealspecchi

Introducing Fluido: An innovative satinised glass with elegant 3D structure

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Glass supplier Vitrealspecchi presents Fluido, a new, specially satinised glass with an elegant linear 3D structure. The special Madras satin finish enhances the embossed wave shape and - depending on the variant - creates a matt or opalescent surface. Here are the details.

Rafael Nacimento (right) will be the new Managing Director – here pictured with technician Vibhath Senanayake at AusFenEx2023.
Australia and New Zealand

Klaes now has a subsidiary in Australia

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In the past few years, Klaes has been able to continuously win new customers in Australia and New Zealand - which is why business there will be handled by its own subsidiary in the future.

With Schüco Carbon Control, the complex topic of decarbonisation and the extensive Schüco range can be precisely coordinated.
Decarbonisation

Schüco Carbon Control – What is it all about?

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With Carbon Control, Schüco offers a modular range with which the decarbonisation of windows, doors and facades can be controlled on a project-specific basis. One specific value is becoming increasingly important: the Global Warming Potential (GWP).

Johannes Driessen, Product Manager Facade at Hueck
Interview with Johannes Driessen of Hueck

"International markets want SG facades"

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With the new Hueck Trigon FS 050/060 SG, the system house, which is now part of the Hydro Group, has added a structural glazing system to the Trigon range. Like the entire Trigon modular system, the new SG facade is compatible with the other Hueck systems. Johannes Driessen explains the details.

Warm edge

Innovative glazing solutions for museums and art galleries

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Super Spacer can lay claim to some world premieres in facade technology solutions. Here are some very spectacular examples in museum spaces.

Sales campaign for windows

Tennis legend Boris Becker to advertise Fensterversand.com on German TV

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Coming soon on German TV: Boris Becker recommends "Don't throw your money out the window". With this, he draws attention to new windows that save a lot of money through high energy efficiency. Behind the advertising deal is the online platform fensterversand.com or Neuffer Fenster, which also wants to score points in the offline world.

The parametric 3D modelling software Apollon and the CAD software Athena work together like a perfect team.
Facade planning

Athena and Apollon: Facade planning at its best

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Changes are part of everyday planning. This is precisely where parametric solutions for metal construction and facade technology such as Apollon from CAD-Plan come into their own compared to conventional CAD programs.

The 43 Argos eyes of different sizes and orientated in different directions are distributed over five storeys. The whole is supported by a two-storey glazed plinth.
Isolar

Futuristic glass windows for impossible architecture in Austria

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The architect Zaha Hadid set new standards in design and form with her futuristic architecture. For a long time, her dynamic buildings were considered unfeasible in terms of construction technology, but then came the breakthrough. One of her last works is the Argos design house in Graz. Facade glass from Isolar is installed there.

Next Studio / Wicona

Sign up now for the NEXT Facade Summit livestream

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Next week, on November 15, 2022, Wicona and Next Studio will be holding the 6th edition of its International NEXT Facade Summit. The event will take place as a livestream, and you can sign up and find out more details here:

The translucent material changes with the weather during the day and is illuminated when it gets dark.
Messe Düsseldorf:

New entrance spanned by glass fibre membrane

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formTL engineers will be realising the entrance Neue Messe Süd trade fair grounds in Düsseldorf with a canopy covered in a membrane made of glass fibre.

The "Highline" folding wall opens the living space wide to the garden.
Solarlux:

Window elements that transcend spatial boundaries

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With the invention of the first folding glass door over thirty years ago, Solarlux became the world market leader in this segment. In the meantime, the family-run company realises solutions with a diverse product range that have one thing in common: They fulfil the demand for more space, more light and more transparency.

Glass partition walls are often used in offices.
Interior glass:

6 ideas for great uses of glass in indoor spaces

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Thanks to state-of-the-art finishing technologies, the possible uses of individual glass products are almost limitless today. The German Federal Flat Glass Association (BF) has put together six popular solutions for interior spaces.

The online event will be moderated by Werner Jager of Wicona.
International Next Facade Summit:

Think globally, build locally

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The second International Next Facade Summit will happen later this month. The focus will be on the international aspects of the facade markets.

The new MicroShade Film has a passive microstructure that is applied to a thin foil. This is then bonded to a (carrier) glass. The incoming solar rays are blocked both by the glazing and the microstructure.
GLASS + MICROSHADE FILM = SUN SHADING FOR GLASS FACADES

How MicroShade revolutionises solar shading

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Danish solar shading manufacturer, MicroShade A/S, is now launching a groundbreaking solar shading solution. Find out how this invention is redefining the function of solar shading in buildings.