Façades


The Broadgate Tower, London (United Kingdom)

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, Chicago; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Inc, London

The 161 m high Broadgate Tower, within the City of London is bord-ered by 201 Bishopsgate to the East, Primrose Street to the South, Worship Street to the North and Broadwalk House and Network Rail Signal Box to the West. The Broadgate Tower is one of two buildings to be developed on the previously constructed “raft” slab, which spans over the railway leading into Liverpool Street Station. The Broadgate Tower consists of a 34-storey tower plus a further 2 levels of small plantroom areas. The main entrance area at ground floor leads, via escalators, to lift lobbies at levels 1 and 2 serving double deck lifts. The main office floors are located at levels 1 and levels 3-33. Level 2 comprises both lift lobbies and plantrooms. Level 34 comprises plantrooms. The final function of the building is office space.

Completion in 2008

Photograph: Holger Knauf, Düsseldorf


201 Bishopsgate London (United Kingdom)

Architekt: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, Chicago: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Inc, London

The 60 m high 201 Bishopsgate, within the City of London is bordered by Norton Folgate to the East, Primrose Street to the South, Worship Street to the North and Broadgate Tower to the west. 201 Bishopsgate low-rise building is one of two buildings to be developed on the previously constructed Raft slab, which spans over the railway leading into Liverpool Street Station.

Completion in 2008

Photograph: Holger Knauf, Düsseldorf



Chiswick Park London (United Kingdom)

Architekt / Architect: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, London

In the western London district Chiswick at Chiswick High Road, a business park has been developement comprising twelve office and administration buildings.

Building 9 has a total façade area of approx. 5,200 m2. The external façade mainly consists of glazed curtain wall units, sizes 3.0 m x 3.95 m.

Completion in 2008

Photograph: Holger Knauf, Düsseldorf


Cooper Square Hotel, New York (USA)

Design Architect: Perkins Eastman, New York

Consulting Architect: Carlos Zapata Studio, New York

The Cooper Square Hotel is a new luxury hotel in the Bowery in the heart of Manhattan/New York. The Building consists of a 70 m high tower with 21 floors and a 3 floor high townhouse. The two buildings are linked by a bridge.

Completion in 2008

Photograph: Chuck Choi Architectural Photography, Brooklyn, NY


20 Gresham Street London (United Kingdom)

Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates International, London

20 Gresham Street with its elegant façade opens out to the attractive vicinity of the historic London Guildhall. The building project, used by the client Hermes Real Estates is located between St. Pauls Cathedral and the Bank of England in the city centre of London and consists of 22,000 m2 office area
This building has been clad with nine different curtain wall types in total.

 Completion in 2008

Photograph: Holger Knauf, Düsseldorf


InHaus2 Duisburg (Germany)

Architect: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Markus Scheben, München und Hochtief Consult, Klaus Sabranski, Essen

The research building „inHaus2“ in Duisburg is situated in close vicinity to the University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Micro-Electric Switching Systems. Managed by the Fraunhofer Company notable German firms have united to develop and test intelligent façades, room and building systems in the inHaus2-research facility. Apart from Gartner 40 other companies are participating in this long-term project, which is sponsored by the state, the federal government and the European Union.

The research building is furnished with five different curtain wall types, total area approx. 1,800 m2. All façades have a glazing with antifall guard, requiring individual approval.

Completion in 2008

Photograph: © Guido Erbring Architekturfotografie


MAM Médiathèque André Malraux, Béziers (France)

Architect: Wilmotte & Associés, Paris, Pierre-François MOGET

Stick Façade:
Aluminium stick façades cover the whole building from the ground floor to the third floor. Total area of the supplied stick façade is approximately 2,000 m2. A fixed glazed double glazing and openable windows and doors are partly installed in the stick façade. The façades are usually storey-high. A 10 m high aluminium façade is installed in an area without mezzanine floor. All façades are provided with double glazing. Smoke vents are integrated in staircase area. The façades in front of the concrete cores are provided with glass panels. A façade with sliding doors is built into on the top floor.

Completion in 2008

Photograph: JEAN-PAUL Planchon


One Island East, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (China)

Architect: Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong

One Island East is the latest building added to the Taikoo Place Development of Swire Properties Limited. With a total height of 308 m it is the highest building in this particular area of Hong Kong.
The project is split the Tower and the Podium.

Tower Curtain Wall: The curtain wall of the tower is a single skin façade with outwards inclined recessed corner panels at West/East Corners from 2nd - 21st Floor, vertical recessed corner panels at North/South Corners and Dome vaulted geometry from 52nd - 67/F resp. Roof at the North/South Corners.
The total tower façade area is 54,000 m2.

 Completion in 2008

Foto: Stuart Woods


60 Threadneedle Street, London (United Kingdom)

Architekt: Eric Parry Architects, London

The new stunning office Building is in the heart of the City, in close proximity to the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange. The Building provides more than 18,000 m2 of office space.

The challenging designed 9 storey building consists of 8 office floors with main entrance reception and retail on ground floor whilst plant and services are provided in the basement and on the roof within a louvered enclosure.
The retail units to the east elevation on ground floor are 6 m in length up to 6 m high and 0.8 m in width.
The Threadneedle Street main entrance consists of 2 No 4 m high Bi-Parting sliding doors with 2 x 2 motorised inner and outer curved sliding leaves. Total external cladding area 8,130 m2.

Completion in 2008

Photograph: Holger Knauf, Düsseldorf


Novartis Pharma AG, Basel (Switzerland)

Architekt / Architect: Gehry Partners, LLP Los Angeles

Novartis Pharma AG in Basel has redeveloped the factory premises along the banks of Rhine. The new „campus“ will incorporate the research and development centre of the enterprise. The building WSJ 242/243 designed by Gehry, is an eye-catcher with a library and an underground auditorium with 600 seats. The Gehry building, with its geometrical form and openness in the inside of the building, reflect the concept of free thinking.

 Completion: 2009

Photograph: Thomas Mayer


Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, Washington DC (USA)

The historic building complex of the former Patent Office Building in the heart of Washington is nowadays used as a museum. In the course of refurbishment the inner court was provided with a roof.
The scope of delivery included the whole roof construction with steel columns, glazing and acoustic cladding.

Competion in 2007

Photographs: Chuck Choi Architectural Photography, Brooklyn, NY


Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Gartside Street, Manchester, M3-3EL (United Kingdom)

Architect: Denton Corker Marshall, Melbourne, Australia

The 16-storey courthouse building is situated in the centre of Manchester in area of the „Spinningsfields“. The building is approximately 80 m high, 30 m wide and 130 m long.

The curtain wall area covers 31,824 m2. The building shell consists of five different curtain wall types.

The Atrium wall is designed as a suspended, double-skin wall-glass façade with a glass bead blast surface.

The Spine-Wall-Façade is partly provided as unitesed façade and partly as cold façade. It has got an external cladding with so-called „ALPOLIC“-panels (aluminium-compound material).

The Finger-Wall is partly provided as unitised façade. The inner skin consists of aluminium units with sheet of or glass infills and intermediate, structural steel units.

The East wall is a unitised façade with curttain type perforated sheet units.

The ground floor façade (ground floor east) is a reccessed unitised façade with powder coated aluminium sheets.

Completion in 2006

Photographs: Gardin&Mazzoli




The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City (USA)

Design Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Paris

Executive Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle Architects, New York

The Pierpont Morgan Library in the heart of Manhattan was built early last century as the private library of financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Since 1924, the complex has served as a public research library and museum for exceptionally rare books, manuscripts and drawings.
Apart from the extension and preservation of the historical buildings, the architects created a new internal courtyard with contemporary steel and glass pavilions of the following scope:

4,400 m2 steel cladding, curtain wall and skylight systems. Steel framed glass doors for the main entrance and staircases.

Glazing: insulated and laminated low-iron glass units with solar gain Low E coating

Additionally supplied: sunshading devices at designated areas, i.e. aluminium grating panels above skylights, vertical roller shades for internal and external use and motorized louver systems for roof light control.

Completion in 2006

Photographs: Michel Denance


80 and 100 Victoria Street, London (United Kingdom)

Architekt: EPR Architects Ltd., London

The City of Westminster, at the very heart of London, is the site of the new Cardinal Place office scheme, a highly intriguing and innovative building. Some 46 m tall, the ten-storey structure stands opposite Westminster Cathedral on Victoria Street and Palace Street. The ground floor houses retail and restaurant facilities, while the upper storeys provide office accommodation.

The 38,500 m2 envelope boasts a variety of different façade types, each a function of the building's shape and layout:

Completion in 2006

Photograph: Gardin&Mazzoli

 

Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)

Design Architekt: Taniguchi and Associates, Tokyo, Japan

Executive Architekt: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC, New York

With its spectacular façade design, the new extension to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has provided Manhattan with a stunning new landmark.

The unique roof and façade composition features an unprecedented variety of 18 different cladding types covering some 16,500 m2. Most of the building envelope takes the form of a single-skin prefabricated panel façade with up to 2.30 m x 8.80 m aluminium frames to receive the infill panels. The infill materials include insulating glass units as structural glazing, natural stone, 3 and 5 mm aluminium sheet, INAX® ceramics and louvre sections.

Finish: natural (E6-C0/BS) and black (E6-C35/BS) anodizing.

Completion in 2005

Photograph: Daniele Domenicali


Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim (Germany)

Architekt: UN Studio van Berkel & Bos, Amsterdam, Niederlande

The new, almost 50 m tall, upward-spiralling Mercedes Benz Museum forms the centrepiece of the new Mercedes Benz World scheme that is taking shape just outside the gates of the automobile manufacturer's core plant in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim.

Completion in 2006

Photographs: Gardin&Mazzoli
Festo TechnologieCenter, Esslingen-Berkheim


CNOOC Building, Beijing (China)

Architect: China Architectural Design & Research Group

Design Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC

The slightly inverted cone shaped 19 floors high building in transparent green standing at the North East corner of the Chaoyangmen Bridge Interchange is the CNOOC Building - the latest property development of China National Offshore Oil Corporation. The building has a triangular shape floor plan with curved corners. It sounds like an approaching vessel if it is viewed at any of its corners. The green tinted glass with Low E coating of the curtain wall reflects the color of the “Offshore” deep sea.

Completion in  2005

Photographs: Beyond Architecture Cultural Development Co. Ltd, Mr. Zhou Li
 
 Erweiterung der Commerzbank Zentrale Frankfurt a. Main

Uptown München, Gebäude A - Hochhaus (Germany)

Architects: Ingenhoven und Partner Architekten, Düsseldorf
Directly on the Mittlerer Ring, a new, colossal landmark is being constructed in the form of Uptown München in the northwest region of the city. This high-rise building with its 38 storeys and a construction height of 146 m will be the highest office building in the city.

A façade area of approx. 22,000 m2, subdivided into a panellised metal/glass façade, entrance, sky garden and vertical building head façade with adjoining glass roof, in addition to a canopy construction on the ground floor.

Finish: Aluminium sections and sheets, natural shade E6-EV1, anodised. Façade access system.

Completion in 2005

Photographs: Gardin&Mazzoli


Skyper, Taunusanlage 1, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Architect: Design Architect Low Building - J.S.K. Dipl.-Ing. Architekten, Frankfurt/Main

The 39-storey office tower at Taunusanlage 1 stands at a central location in Frankfurt/Main.
The 153.80 m tall building occupies a 1,140 m2 footprint and has a façade area of around 22,000 m2.

Completion in  2005

Photographs: Gardin&Mazzoli