Dynamic and Slanted Form Dynamic and Slanted Form – A primary architectural criterion for the San Bartolomeo Church in the northern Italian town of Andrate was to design a building clearly legible as Christian. To this end, a nine-meter-high inclined bell tower was incorporated as an instantly recognizable symbol of the Christian faith, which still…
Month: September 2020
Fibercement panels with milled engravings

Contemporary working environment Swisspearl offers fibercement panels with milled engravings tailored to the customer’s individual requests. In the entrance area of the visitor center at Swisspearl Group in Niederurnen, a sample landscape photo has been exemplarily re-worked as a relief-milled image—with a milled line grid. When the fiber cement factory in Switzerland’s Niederurnen did a…
Cedar Ridge High School Auditorium, USA

Rising Volumes in Gray Stantec designed this bold auditorium/theater addition to the existing Round Rock ISD high school to help offset the high frequency use of the district’s performing arts center. The project has become a prototype for other school auditoria in the district. This project is featured in the Swisspearl Architecture #28. Subscribe to…