Anodized aluminium
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about anodized aluminium
Project • By ALPOLIC™ | Metal Composites Materials • Offices
Altria Group Headquarters
With its workforce scattered across multiple campuses, Richmond-based Altria Group, Inc. wanted to create a central hub for its team to promote collaboration and an improved employee experience. After a careful search, they selected a greenfield site, home to a protected historic building from 1958.
The problem: Creating a 21st-century campus fit for a Fortune 200 company that respects the history of the original design. The solution: A fresh yet complimentary expansion that almost doubled the building’s capacity with a focus on sustainability and innovative materials like ALPOLIC MCM.
Chris Cunningham
The Richmond, Virginia campus of Altria Group, Inc. has roots dating back to the late 1950s, when it served as home to the form... More
Product • By Interpon Powder Coatings by AkzoNobel • Interpon Anodic III Collection - AAMA 2604 & AAMA 2605 - North America
Interpon Anodic III Collection - AAMA 2604 & AAMA 2605 - North America
The Interpon D Anodic Collection of metallic-effect powder coatings helps architects and designers imagine designs that have the stunning look of anodized aluminum, but with a lowered environmental impact to leave a lasting legacy and protect the world around us. Available in an amazing range of matt and metallic-effect finishes, the innovative Interpon D Anodic powder coatings comprise a beautiful collection of colors, from shiny blacks to soft silvers, steely blues to earthy bronzes, to match every mood and style. The ideal alternative to anodized aluminum for windows and facades, an Interpon D2525 & D3000 Anodic finish delivers superior color and gloss retention and better color consistency. Surfaces are also much easier to repair sh... More
Product • By ALPOLIC™ | Metal Composites Materials • ALPOLIC® Anodized Series
ALPOLIC® Anodized Series
ALPOLIC® Anodized MCM can transform your next design into a legacy showpiece. Anodized aluminum is an exceptionally strong surface that brings a smooth sheen to your next project, be it a high-end residence, boutique hotel or stylish automotive dealership. Our anodized aluminum panels are available in a choice of six colors that are easy to fabricate, deeply lustrous and tough as nails. These anodized panels reveal the natural beauty of aluminum while enhancing its toughness and aesthetic possibilities.
Courtesy of Dynamic Metal
About Anodized PanelsAluminum oxide is an extremely hard substance – the molecular basis of rubies and sapphires. Aluminum alloys naturally form a surface layer of aluminum oxide that’s... More
Product • By Luceplan • Fienile - Table Lamp
Fienile - Table Lamp
Fienile, a table lamp inspired by the image of simple rural haylofts in Norway, featuring a low pitched roof and central/lateral walls in satin-finish anodized aluminium. A work of micro-architecture that projects soft, warm light from above onto a lower surface, giving rise to unusual compositions of brightness and shadow. The light slides along the lateral walls with a wall-washer effect, created by the LED sources with dimmers, by means of a touch function. More
News • News • 18 Feb 2021
Ateliers Jean Nouvel wraps a continuous spiral ramp with convex glass in between four granite pillars for Dolce & Gabbana’s new Seoul flagship store
Ateliers Jean Nouvel sets a cylinder of convex glass between four black granite pillars for the new Dolce & Gabbana Seoul flagship store. Located in Seoul’s main luxury retail street, the building is characterized by a continuous marble ramp that goes all the way to the roof terrace.
©Dolce&Gabbana. Ateliers Jean Nouvel. Jean Nouvel Design
Shoppers are invited up the spiral to discover the Dolce & Gabbana Collections in an interior dominated by black. Glossy black glass, gray concrete and black anodized aluminium contrast with warm mango wood shelves.
©Dolce&Gabbana. Ateliers Jean Nouvel. Jean Nouvel Design
The display made of a modular interplay of shelves and rods at different... More
News • News • 30 Jul 2020
Diller Scofidio + Renfro wraps warped US Olympic and Paralympic Museum in 9,000 uniquely shaped anodized aluminum panels
Diller Scofidio + Renfro shape the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum as a tribute to the athlete’s movements. At the foot of the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado Springs, the 60,000 sf building includes 20,000 sf of galleries, a state-of-the-art theater, event space and cafe.
Jason O'Rear
Accessibility was a key factor from the start. The design team consulted Paralympic athletes and persons with disabilities that lead to a route of ramps that guide visitors downhill a gentle-grade. 6 feet wide ramps can accommodate side-by-side movement of two visitors including a wheelchair.
Jason O'Rear
The structure consists of a steel frame superstructure anchored by cast-in-place concrete lateral cores. The architects wrapped... More
Project • By L&L Luce&Light • Offices
Plastic Stratosfera
In 2018, the headquarters of Plastic Stratosfera – a company that specialises in speciality media for the graphics and paper industries – were renovated under the direction of architect Patrik Spreafico. The renovations included work on the external facade and the square in front of it.
The facade was clad in dark grey, rippling metal panels that contrast with the orange shade used for its central band. In between the panels, Updown 3.6 single-beam outdoor wall-mounted fixtures were installed. The architect chose 15° narrow optics for these 3000K white-light fixtures and an anodized aluminium finish, so that they blend in with the cladding. The regularly spaced vertical light beams produced by the... More
Product • By Alumet • Alugreen
Alugreen
As a specialist in anodizing aluminium, Alumet also knows how to colour it in different matt and glossy colours. If, for example, you want green anodized aluminium, you’re at the right place at Alumet. With an electrochemically proces and metal salts, we turn plain aluminium into colour anodized aluminium.Always the bestGreen anodized aluminium is created using metal salts which are poured in the pores of the product during an electrochemically proces. This process results in a coloured layer that is fully integrated in the aluminium and cannot peel or chip. All green anodized aluminium products meet high quality standards, such as QUALANOD and BS, and are very durable. Thanks to the use of metal salts the green adonized products are... More
ALUBLUE
Will blue anodized aluminium make your project look better? Then you’re at the right place at Alumet. We’re experts in anodizing and offer a lot of different colour possibilities. The colours aren’t applied as a layer, but are fully integrated with the aluminium.How do we do itAt Alumet whe have a very modern and specialized machine park. Here we can anodize, colour, brush, polish and grind aluminium in no time. For colouring anodized aluminium, for example blue, we use a electrochemical process to make the top layer into an decorative, wear-resistant, sustainable and corrosion-resistant oxide layer. To give the anodized aluminium the blue colour Alumet uses metal salts. They are deposited in the pores and modified electro... More
ALURED
Who’s looking for red anodized aluminium, is at the right place at Alumet. We anodize aluminum in different colours by using metal salts and an electrochemical process. Our machinepark is modern and well equipped. Therefore our possibilities in anodizing are huge.About anodizingAlumet is both experienced and knowledgeable in anodizing aluminium. During our electrochemical process aluminium is converted into a durable, decorative, wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant oxide layer. This layer is fully integrated in the aluminium which makes colouring still possible. Colouring anodized aluminium red is done by the use of metal salts instead of colour pigments. All anodized aluminium meets high quality standards and is extremely durable.... More
Project • By Denkkamer Architectuur & Onderzoek • Offices
VDG Head office
Located at a roundabout, near the village of Gemert, the new VDG headquarters building marks the gateway to the local business parks Wolfsveld and Smartpark.
Rene de Wit
VDG consists of several construction-related companies. The office building accommodates among others, space to VDG De La Roy, specialised in custom free form products out of insulation material, contractor VDG Unibouw, VDG Real estate and VDG Solar. In the design process the functional distribution is driven by specific requirements of the diverse companies. VDG De La Roy is located at the ground floor adjacent to the production facility in the hall. The first floor has been enlarged to give VDG Unibouw the desired extra space in order to be able to operate from one... More
Project • By Denkkamer Architectuur & Onderzoek • Offices
Head office KeenSystems
KeenSystems headquarters is situated along the ring road around the village of Gemert. The decision to not establish their new office building for their rapidly expanding hi-tech company in the city of Eindhoven comes from the desire to operate from a very much green and inspiring environment. The technology developed by KeenSystems does not necessarily needs a physical relation with a city or a high-tech campus. The software is developed, tested and maintained from Gemert. The hardware is located in Amsterdam on top of world’s most relevant internet hubs.The noise barrier that follows the ring road and protects the residential area behind it from the traffic noise is continued and completed. In this way we aspire to strengthen the pr... More
Product • By KLEIN • Slid door system with noiseless sliding for minimalist interiors
Slid door system with noiseless sliding for minimalist interiors
Slid is a sliding wood door system designed to create minimalist environments with one or two wood or metal panels. The system provides more clearance without compromising its clean and innovative design. The new version of the system is enriched with KSC (KLEIN Soft Closing) braking system, which ensures a smooth and noiseless sliding experience.
The sliding wood door system features a silver anodized aluminum profile (AA10 ISO 7599, 10 microns), which can be either exposed or concealed. It can support doors up to 150 Kg and provides easy door installation and disassembly. The system also features vertical height adjustment, making it highly customizable.
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Types of applicationsSlid offers three applications: LATERAL,... More
Project • By Cut Architectures • Private Houses
House Extension For A Cellist PART II
2 years after the first construction stage completion (a rehearsal room for a cellist, a parking space and the interior restructuration of the existing house), CUT architectures is commissioned for the a new phase of extension.
The construction is a concrete volume inserted between the western façade of the existing house and the neighbor’s house, offering an entrance and a desk to the whole house. Aligned with the bedrock of the existing house clad with anodized expanded aluminum panels hiding the glazed entrance door the extension is based on the same design principle as the previous one.
A concrete frame echoes the previous project and the painted frames of the windows of the existing house above the expand... More
Product • By iGuzzini • Light Up Earth flush frame
Light Up Earth flush frame
The Light Up collection is specifically designed to be versatile. Designers do not have to ask themselves whether an effect can be created, as anything is possible, in any dimension, application or environment, from residential to urban. Ceiling, wall, floor and ground installations. Concentrated and open distributions with super spot, spot, medium, flood and elliptical optics. Vertical excellence with wall washer optics. Ultimate visual comfort in versions with diffused light or graphic effects with light blade lenses. Beam adjustability and accessories to construct personalised light scenarios. No limits, only an infinite degree of freedom.• Floor/ground-mounted recessed luminaire intended for use with LED light sources.• Compri... More