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News • Detail • 16 Nov 2023
Detail: Harry Gugger Studio clads Medisuisse Headquarters in fluted GFRC panels
Basel-based Harry Gugger Studio has completed the Medisuisse Headquarters, a seven-story office building of 2730 square meters located in the city of St. Gallen in northeastern Switzerland. The facade is clad in fluted panels of glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC), light green in color to recall the granite historically extracted from local rivers and used in nearby buildings.
Daisuke Hirabayashi
Old St. Gallen's medieval streets radiate outwards from the UNESCO-designated Abbey of Saint Gall which dates from the mid-eighteenth century. The city's newer buildings tend to be understated, falling into context with the staid fabric of the eastern Swiss capital. The Medisuisse Headquarters is a fitting new building for this h... More
News • Specification • 12 Sep 2023
10 public buildings showcasing the range and elegance of GFRC rainscreens
Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC or GRC) is a lightweight, durable composite of cement reinforced with glass fibers. It can be hand- or machine-cast into strong yet thin panels using molds with an increasing diversity of curved and flat shapes and sizes, colors, textures and finishes. GFRC cladding can help buildings to achieve a monolithic character, while individual panels can be detailed to offer rich textures and forms that give a level of visual and technical intricacy to building envelopes.
Powder pigments may be used within GFRC mixes to achieve specific color effects. Paints and sealers can also be applied to GFRC for either increased protection or a wider range of color choices. Clear coatings may be applied to panels to redu... More
News • News • 23 Jun 2023
M2 Art Centre by SpActrum reveals an impressively otherworldly space based on the concept of an inverted valley
Designed by architect Yan Pan (founder and director of SpActrum), the M2 Art Centre in Hangzhou is a multi-functional project that accommodates a variety of photo shoots, fashion shows, art exhibitions, and other live events. The impressively ethereal, otherworldly space is based on the concept of an inverted valley where gravity has been partially suspended. Inspired by the metaphor of an individual’s life journey and looking back on it with spiritual understanding, the designers have achieved a sophisticated complexity of curved geometries using GRC and GRC-created freeform surfaces.
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The original M2 space is located on the plinth of a high-rise office building that previously contained a gym space with a swimmin... More
Project • By TARIK ZOUBDI ARCHITECTE • Secondary Schools
concrete phrontistery
“ This space is about knowledge forever engraved in concrete ” Tarik ZOUBDI
The OCP institut for socio-educationnel promotion is a high school project, emerged from a desire to provide a new teaching building, fit for the 21st century education, for the children of OCP group workers in El Jadida , Following a growing number of primary and middle school students last few years.
With a vision to encourage learning, sharing and interaction, the newly built high school was designed to link the old middle school built in 2017 and the OCP residential developments nearby.
To ensure the safety of students and reduce traffic flow, the car park was designed... More
Project • By WIZJA architectural office • Shopping Centres
Serenada Shopping Centre
Usually, shopping galleries are large structures, in the majority of cases located in urban and central urban areas. These are typically introvertive concepts, where shops are located along interior promenades. Such functional solutions cause the massive facades of these structures to be “dead” in general, they do not provide a field for interacting with the public space, which is so important for the human dimension of the urban space.The design of the SERENADA gallery, which is located in the area of Olsza, at Dobrego Pasterza Street, is an attempt to surmount the statically neutral façade by employing means of artistic expression stemming from contextual cultural and meaning-related grounds in relation to the structure’s own name.There a... More
Project • By LANDÍNEZ+REY | equipo L2G arquitectos [ eL2Gaa ] • Secondary Schools
GYM PAVILION IN MALPARTIDA
Enabling the improvement of the existing "Quercus" State Secondary School facilities, the scheme organizes the exterior area of the School, providing play spaces and a new gym pavilion. Located at the highest level of the north border of the town of Malpartida de Plasencia, the site has is a significant level change of 17 m across it.
Landscaping: the brief includes a new vehicular access from the Town Center as well as a new external playground area and a 22 x 44m sport court. The aim has been to create a high quality landscape by enabling better connections between the town, the existing school building and the new gym pavilion, making the area more pleasant and accessible for the students.
The design creates a geometrical layout of... More