Intelligentfacade

High-rise office buildings from the 1950s to 70s which show their age and attrition are ordinarily viewed as “sorespots” nowadays, i.e. something which ought to be torn down. But demolition and subsequent new construction are not a  sustainable solution, since they demand an enormous wastage of resources. Willi Bruckbauer didn’t just invent the well known BORA ceramic glass cooktop flue himself, complete with imperceptible ventilation of cooking fumes, but also  acquired this office complex destined for demolition and sponsored a competition which Lorenzateliers then won. Criteria for this distinction were: substantiality, sustainability and feasibility. And above all else, the new architecture needed to correspo... More