CIVIC PRIDE The replacement building for a sports center that had seen better days marks the entry to a sweeping park in Derry/Londonderry. The architects arranged three decisive functions along a central axis and subtly differentiated them in their architectural expression: the façade skin combines zinc, wood, and light-permeable panels with Swisspearl panels in three…
Month: May 2017
3daysofdesign, Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen’s yearly design event Visit over 70 showrooms to see cutting-edge concepts in furniture and interior design during Copenhagen’s yearly design event. Since established in 2012, 3daysofdesign has with Signe Byrdal Terenziani as director, distinguished itself as Copenhagens’s leading annual design event. Attracting journalists, buyers and design enthusiasts from around the globe to Copenhagen…
Top Ten Awards 2017, Singapore
TOP TEN 2017 ARCHITECTS The BCI Asia Top 10 Awards provides an overview of the regional building and construction industry by recognizing the top architectural firms and developers that had the greatest impact on the built environment in Southeast Asia. Winners ADDP Architects LLP 59A Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore 088480 | Website Projects Images …
Drumlin with polyhedron, Hirzel, Switzerland
SINGLE FAMILY HOME Various factors affected the design of this single family home: The clients submitted their ideas for living and residing. The building authorities set guidelines for protection of the local architectural heritage. The architects thus shaped a multiply folded structure with a unique character, which does justice to both the surroundings and inner…
Urban Gardening with "Stelz"
Living areas are becoming increasingly smaller and the yearning for garden space is ever increasing. As a consequence of this trend, Swisspearl® is bringing in a whole new system of shelf framing. It is called “Stelz” and in the report in the magazin “Florist” was planted by gardener and florist Severin Stadler. Simone Gumpp The…
Swisspearl Training, Niederurnen, Switzerland
Twice a year, we invite our new distributors to our headquarters in Niederurnen, Switzerland in order to show them the world of Swisspearl. It is important to have partners who know the company philosophy to bring the company’s own ideologies to the market. On May 8, 2017, visitors from around the world travelled to the…
House Hindås, Gothenburg, Sweden
NESTLED BETWEEN LAKE & FOREST Anna Roos Set between deep green pine forests and the Västra Nedsjön Lake inland from Gothenburg, this double-storey, single-family house sits comfortably in its rural setting. The building is perched above a rock bed, elevating it above the landscape and optimising the surrounding vistas. The rich backdrop of verdant nature…
Davis-Harrington Welcome Center, Springfield, USA
Missouri State University entrusted local practice Dake Wells Architecture with the design of this new welcome center, which serves as a front gate to its Springfield campus. Conceived as a signature building for the institution as a whole, the five million dollar, 13,000-square-foot facility doubles as a multi-purpose venue for special events and a gathering…
Seamus Heaney Home Place, Bellaghy, Ireland
Home of an Irish poet The new state of the art centre “Seamus Heaney Home Place” in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland has recently been completed. The façade of the building has been finished in various materials that blend harmoniously with the Swisspearl® fibre cement cladding panels. The building designed by Architects WM Given located in Coleraine,…
Patio Building, Rheinfelden, Switzerland
The residents of the Patio Building Project in Rheinfelden, Switzerland live compactly, and with an inward orientation. The building density in the neighborhood and lack of distant views inspired the architects to design a several-story patio house. Perforated cement composite panels serve to break up the façade. Michael Hanak When Hansruedi Mergenthaler sold his…