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Natural daylight supports our circadian rhythm, keeps us alert and productive. This is why humans prefer living and working spaces that are flooded with natural light. However, in a changing climate, buildings need also more air-conditioning due to longer and more intense periods of heat.
With its three-dimensional facade, the Optinieo in Munich's Werksviertel district is a trendsetting office tower. Here you can find out how the quality of light in the rooms was optimised with solar control glass from Saint-Gobain Glass. The curved glass was manufactured by CSP partner Döring from the vandaglas Group, and Interpane was also involved.
When designing glass facades today, planners often face the challenge of having to equip parts of the facade with toughened glazing, while non-tempered glazing is preferred in the directly adjacent areas of the facade. AGC Interpane responds to this with its "Trinity" range. Find out what's behind it here.
Recently, two all-glass boxes have been rising 305 metres above the fourth tallest skyscraper in New York. Josef Gartner from the Permasteelisa Group was responsible for the construction.
Together with project partners, the Fraunhofer ISE are developing a system that is intended to simplify the use of facades for photovoltaics. Part of the solution will also be published as a VDI guideline.
The Ikeuchi Gate Building in the Japanese city of Sapporo combines technology and innovation at the highest level. Here you can find out how facade glass from Saint-Gobain Glass and the associated Ultimate insulating glass spacers from Swisspacer contribute to optimising the energy efficiency of the building envelope.
With the winning proposal, Henning Larsen's goes beyond what one would expect a laboratory building to look like. B777 is immersed in nature, with biogenic materials and features a low-carbon design.
The Boijmans Van Beuningen museum depot in Rotterdam is without question a special building that impresses not only with its reflective glass facades and well over a hundred thousand art objects. Find out what else makes it special here:
Today, 3300 square metres of eyrise s350 solar control glass are making an important contribution to sustainable building certification as part of a building renovation in Zurich. Here you can find out why eyerise glass was chosen.
The building envelope is that part of a building that separates the exterior of the building from the interior.
The European Facade Summit (EFS) will take place in Vienna from 29 February to 1 March 2024. The event location is the Hotel Meliá Vienna in the DC Tower. The congress will focus on intelligent and sustainable facade solutions in the context of climate change.
The SuperHub Meerstad on the outskirts of Groningen (NL) impresses with its transparent architecture - a construction of cross-shaped cross-laminated timber supports and a steel facade that make it look like a modern cathedral. The steel facade was designed by Forster. Here are the details.
The construction of the "Redmolen" building in Copenhagen harbour was preceded by a variety of daylight analyses. The result: a 12,000 m² unitised façade whose inclination filters the daylight as required in order to achieve optimum daylight utilisation. The facade glasses used were Cool-Lite SKN 176 and Eclaz from Saint-Gobain.
The former office building and assembly halls of General Motors Suisse are listed buildings. In the course of the energetic refurbishment, the historic glazing of the north and south facades on the 1st floor was replaced by the delicate profile system forster unico xs.
This new office building in Stuttgart, Germany, known as OWP 12 referring to its address, was created using the newest planning and building methods in accordance with the Cradle to Cradle principle and it shows what energy-plus architecture can do today thanks to the slimline, high performance facade with BIPV.
Weil am Rhein has a new shopping mall for visitors from Germany, France and Switzerland. The Dreiländergalerie was designed by Chapman Taylor. The Climaplus Cool-Lite Xtreme facade glass from Saint-Gobain Glass was supplied by vandaglas from the ClimaPlusSecurit partner network, and Lamparter Stahl und Glas from Kassel acted as the installer.
At least 1000 birds collided with a building in Chicago on 4 and 5 October and died while migrating south to their wintering grounds, according to articles in the Washington Post and the Guardian. Retrofitting with bird-screening glass should now be high on the agenda here.
With Wicline 75 Industrial Design (ID), Wicona presents an aesthetic and sustainable alternative to steel windows. According to the developer, this new product is ideally suited for the renovation of historical buildings as well as for new construction projects in industrial design.
Berlin's Alexanderplatz is also home to the "Haus des Berliner Verlages" - today's "Pressehaus am Alexanderplatz". It will be extensively renovated in 2021 and expanded with a new glass building. Solar control glass from AGC Interpane with Super Spacer spacers is installed there.
Schüco is expanding its range of services and acquiring 100,000 square metres of space at Gewerbepark Flugplatz Gütersloh GmbH. On the northern part of the site of the former British military airfield, the company intends to develop an additional location in East Westphalia-Lippe for product provision and distribution.
After refurbishment, the production hall of kama Maschinenbau GmbH in Schönwald now shines in new splendour. During the energy optimisation, great importance was also attached to the visual appearance of the facade, whereby insulating blinds and luminous products from Kuzman Invision GmbH, a member of the Flachglas MarkenKreis, were installed.
Swiss whisky lovers Rinaldo Willy and Pascal Mittner have chosen a very special place for their production: the mountain station of the Corvatsch cable car. Today, the highest distillery in the world is located there. Insulating glass with warm-edge spacers from Swisspacer also allow the best views into the distillery from the outside.
Matthias Seel from the University of Darmstadt in Germany explains the current developments in flat glass and why he is certain that glass for facades and the building industry will take on even more functions and become even thinner and stronger.
The small town of Carouge near Geneva in French-speaking Switzerland is home to a nationally renowned theatre, which has now been renovated and largely rebuilt. Here details of the glass and steel elements chosen:
For the new development centre at the German headquarters of gauge manufacturer WIKA, the architects attached great importance to a flexible and transparent office structure. Multifunctional triple IG units with the solar control glass Gewe-therm sun from Schollglas provide maximum daylight.
