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    Old brickwork and modern sheet metal creates new opportunities and expressions

    Old brickwork and modern metal give Trikåfabriken a grand elegant design without compromising the new buildings characteristics with an evolution of the design. There’s a fine balance between conservation and development, but this project is a brilliant example of how old and new material integrate naturally and elegant. Photo: Felix Gerlach   To preserve the characteristics of a building and simultaneously evolve it, a great deal of focus was put on harmonizing material and colors. In this case, corten metal was combined with grand glass sections. The contrast is a perfect

    WICTEC EL evo – Element facade with patented joint gasket and drainage system

    Hydro Building Systems presents a patented technical innovation: the new joint gasket for integrating relative slab deflections and the new drainage system for controlled water run-off.Hydro Building Systems presents a patented technical innovation: the new joint gasket for integrating relative slab deflections and the new drainage system for controlled water run-off.   Joint gasket absorbs slab edge deflections The use of lighter and weaker primary building structures, together with increased building heights in recent times, means that the issue of relative slab

    Mercator One - Pioneering Sustainability

    The Mercator One, in the heart of Duisburg, is the first building in Germany with a façade created from End-of-Life Hydro CIRCAL aluminium. The office and commercial property designed by Hamburg-based Hadi Teherani Architects is not only impressive in terms of sustainability, but its façade is also architecturally stunning. Photo: © 2021 by Joerg Hempel    Situated directly on the centrally located Portsmouthplatz in Duisburg – between the pedestrian zone and the main railway station – this construction project is, quite literally, “trailblazing”. With its distinctive fan-

    Widok Towers – designed to be the most leading-edge building in Poland

    Form and function are both equally important in modern architecture, and the use of material is far more appreciated than unnecessary frills – the beauty of enhancing the actual material rather than covering it with design details. Widok Towers is a beautiful example of a building not compromising on either form or function, and the actual construction itself is the ornament for the building. Would you like a view towards the future? The building is created for tenants who’d like to be on the forefront. The architecture has considered all aspects for unlimited development for

    Diagonale – top modern student housing with a clear vision of a green future

    The line between work, study and leisure is about to be much more blurred. Due to Covid19 the landscape has changed, working and studying from distance is now a normality. Our office, or study room, will probably be much more mobile, which brings us to the question of how student housing will look like in the future. Diagonale in Oslo consists both out of offices and student housing, and the building is described as a part of the modern Oslo – let’s find out why. Photo: bygg.no v/ Arve Brekkhus What will be important for future student housing? Being close by to great lecture

    Green Hall 3 – Brings sustainability and modern technology together

    This unique technology building, located in the thriving business district of Vilnius, brings the nature in with its architectural huge glass facades at the same time as it provides a large city view. An outstanding geothermal heating system is used which meets 100% of the building's thermal energy demand. As a result, this eco-friendly building stands for green productivity which minimizes the CO\2\ impact on the environment as well as it demonstrates the future of green solutions. WICONA has supplied facades, windows and doors.   The 2 800 sq. m. office building with Neris

    KAUNO DOKAS – Eco-friendly business center using unitized glass facades

    Green building philosophy and eco-friendly working area, this is what Kauno Dokas symbolize with its spectacular view in front of the river bank of Neris. The building covered by glazed bespoke facades is Kaunas first and, so far, only Class A+ business center.  WICONA has supplied both facades, windows and doors.   Kauno Dokas is located close to the old town in Kaunas by the river bank of Neris. This location, with lower intensity traffic, is the area of the protected EU ecological network “Nature 2000”. For the first time in the country, just renewable geothermal energy is

    One of the largest development projects in Norway, the Økern Portal, is using a WICONA curtain wall solution made of Hydro’s CIRCAL 75R aluminium.

    Økern Portal, an innovative office building with WICONA façades using Hydro CIRCAL 75R end-of-life recycled aluminium, one of the most sustainable aluminium alloys which is currently available on the market. Hydro CIRCAL 75R is a prime quality aluminium with a certified content of more than 75% recycled post-consumer scrap. The project, designed by DARK Arkitekter, has an area of 80,000 sqm - including office spaces, aRadisson RED hotel, common areas and food court - and has been developed under the highest energy efficiency standards. The entire outer layer is made of WICONA

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