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.

The main cladding is a 1.5 m module width with a storey height of 4.15 m, comprising regular sized standard unit modules combined with over-sized triangular units, and spandrel units forming the diagrid of the building. The triangle units are both point-up and point-down; some units in excess of 3 m wide. The spandrel / grid panels are stainless steel clad units, installed in the horizontal, vertical and diagonal planes; some in excess of 9 m long. Level 2 includes purpose made stainless steel louvres for the plantroom.

Total façade area: 33,780 m2.

Glazing: Double glazing with low-iron glass and high performance coating 70/39.
Glazing to the lift shafts with silver metallic screen printing RAL 9006 dot pattern, but still to allow the feature lighting on the lift cars to be 'seen' through the glass at night.

Finish: Aluminium - natural anodised, stainless steel - wet polished.

Additionally supplied: Blinds, doors, revolving doors, speed gates, aluminium soffit panels, interior and exterior stainless steel column claddings.

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.

The main cladding is a 1.5 m module width with a storey height of 4.00 m, comprising regular sized standard unit modules combined with over-sized triangular units, and spandrel units forming the diagrid of the building. The main elevations are formed with horizontal and vertical grid with the stainless steel channel units. The north and southwest elevations have triangle units that are both point-up and point-down; some units in excess of 3 m wide. The spandrel / grid panels are stainless steel clad units, installed in the horizontal, vertical and diagonal planes; some in excess of 9 m long.

Total façade area: 17,820 m2.

Glazing: Double glazing with low iron glass and high performance coating 70/39.

Finish: Aluminium - natural anodised. Stainless steel - wet polished.

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.

Along the lenght of the building, escape stairs are fixed in spandrel area and escape doors are integrated in the curtain wall units.

The inner atrium has large room-high laminated safety glass units, supported on two sides without vertical mullions.
The entrance façade is 9.0 m x 7.0 m and has point fixed laminated safety glass units. It is fixed to 7.0 m high filigree steel arches.

Glazing: Visual area of main façade = anti-sun glazing 67/34 (high performance coating), all glass panes heat strengthened, double glazed units filled with argon. Heat strengthened spandrel glazing with an all-over meta coating.

Finish: Aluminium extrusions and sheets natural anodised.

Additionally supplied: ventilated sheet cladding with doors and soffit sheets to the car park area.

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.

The 4.500 m2 inclined main curtain wall of the building is designed as a unitized CW-system with storey-high units. The shape of the floor plan is a polygon, changing from floor to floor. This causes the edges to be twisted. The CW-panels are designed in various widths from 0.95 m to 2.54 m and in various heights from 3.10 m to 4.80 m to transmit the challenging 3D shape from the design-idea into the real building. Double glazing with Low Iron Glass and high performance coating 73/39 and enamelled solid fritted glass (RAL 9010, white) was used to realize the idea of a “white arcing shape”.

On the 7th floor part of the building protudes from the façade. That “Shelf” consists of projecting double glazed CW-units (green-tinted glass with high performance coating 73/39) and is completed with a glass soffit made of point fixed green-tinted glass. Further several metal soffits (RAL 9010, white) are part of the façade package of the building.

Glazing: Double glazing with Low Iron Glass and high performance coating 73/39.

Finish: Aluminium cladding, anodized A6 C32 bronze, in the lower floors and colour powder coated RAL 9010 white, between 9th and 19th floor.

Additionally supplied: Further several metal soffits, powder coated RAL 9010, white.

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.

Glazing: Ipasol Neutral 50/25 laminated double glazing.

Glazing of curtain wall units: Double glazing external 10 mm annealed glass, 16 mm cavity, 10 mm laminated safety glass; inner panes with additional annealed glass. HP (high performance) laminated double glazing 50/25.

Glazing of bonding system: double glazing external 12 mm annealed glass, 16 mm thickness, 12 mm laminated safety glass; internal panes with additional annealed glass. Thermal permeability Ug = 1.3 W/(m2.K).

Finish: All internal and external aluminium surfaces polyester powder coated.

Additionally supplied: double revolving doors in entrance area, roller shutter at the car park entrance, single and double-leaf glass doors.

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.

Structural Glazing Façade
The entrance area, 370 m2, on the South side of the building was executed as structural glazing façade. In subareas the glass bonding is carried out with VHB adhesive tape. An individual approval for this bonding method was applied for and granted by the building authorities in charge. Associated tests help to prove the durability.

Finish: Structural glazing façade in entrance area natural anodised E6-C0.

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.

Special features of the tower curtain wall are cantilevered glass panels at both ends of each straight curtain wall area, vertically expressed aluminium features for the straight curtain wall in variable distribution of the building elevation and vertical laminated glass fins at all split mullions for the facetted corner areas.

Glass: Typical - IGU with 10 mm, heat strengthened, Reflective Coating at #2 + 12 mm cavity + 10 mm, heat strengthened, Low-E coating at #3.

Higher wind load areas: IGU with 10 mm, heat strengthened, Reflective Coating at #2 + 12 mm cavity + 12 mm, tempered, Low-E coating at #3.

Cantilevered corner area: IGU with laminated glass, 10 mm, tempered, Reflective coating at #2 /1.52 mm SGP Interlayer / 10 mm, tempered + 12 mm cavity + 10 mm, heat strengthened, Low-E coating at #3.

Finish: PVF 2 bright silver 4 coating for all external aluminium surfaces, PVF 2 bright silver 3 coating for all internal aluminium surfaces.

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.

Within the building there are two atria. The north atrium from levels 3 to 9; and the south atrium from lower ground floor to 9. This vertical cladding is unitised 1.5 m wide units by storey height with radiuses corners and timber spandrel panels.

The atria's roofs are prefabricated powder coated steel, rafter length up to 13.5 m with sloping roof. Walls and roof are site glazed, glass size 1.5 x 3 m approximately

Finish: cladding outside PVDF2 blue black, polyester powder coated to the internal faces, timber spandrel panels to atria and bronze panels to external cladding on ground floor.

Additionally supplied: ground floor louver cladding with integrated roller shutter door, ground floor column encasement between shop front units, ground floor entrance ceiling, external and internal doors, pavement lights to east elevation, rainscreen cladding to party wall, glazed balustrades with vitreous enamel handrails to south atrium.

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.


The Ground Floor façade, approximate size 1,000 m2, consists of a stick construction in steel, made of welded sharp-edged T-profiles with external gaskets and pressure beads partly type WK2.

The steel façades, approx. 1,300 m2, complete the vertical walls between the individual components that are fixed to the primary steel construction and consist of prefabricated units with gaskets and screw fitted pressure beads.

The roof areas, approximate size 1,500 m2, have been developed as rhomb- and triangular shaped “scaled” aluminium panel façades. The glass has been developed with integrated photovoltaic modules whereby the photovoltaic cells are directly cast into in the glass build-ups.

Photovoltaic cells: Grey cell 100 x 100 mm with 2 mm drillings within the cell and a total of 306 drillings per cell.
The cabling of the photovoltaic modules was integrated in the curtain wall units.

Glazing Main Facades: High performance triple glazing with krypton filling and
Ug-value 0,6 W/(m2.K), external laminated glass - 2 x HS 6 mm, internal laminated glass 2 x HS 6 mm, centre pane toughened glass 6 mm, congruent bicoloured screen printing.

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.

The curved roof construction with an area of approximately 39 x 84 m consists of welded and distorted steel columns, up to one meter high. Delivery was made of prefabricated units of different sizes, approximately 4.0 x 10.0 m glazing as SG glazing in separately supplied aluminium frames. The butt joints of the individual glass units were sealed on the spot. The inner area of the steel construction was provided with an acoustic cladding made of aluminium tubes.

The complete roof construction is carried by 8 no. steel columns. It could not be supported by the existing buildings. The steel columns are made of steel tubes, diameter 850 mm. The roof construction is connected to the columns by means of a specially designed cast head. The roof drainage is realised by drain pipes inserted in the columns.

Glazing: double glazing with low iron glass, coating Ipasol 60/31, screen printing RAL 9016 BDG65%.

Finish: steel - wet paint RAL 9016, aluminium - powder coated RAL 9006, RAL 9016, anodised E6-C31.

Additionally supplied: column cladding made of curved and anodised aluminium sheet. Cooling Tower cladding with acoustic panels and stainless steel acoustic louvers. Fixing provision for antifall-guard and lightning protection.

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:

Main elevation as an unitized curtain walling total area 11,500 m2
External atrium façade, a steel façade, double-height in places, total area 4,800 m2
Internal atrium façade, total area 7,500 m2.
Four different bridge façades, total area 4,000 m2.
Internal cladding, total area 1,700 m2.

Glazing: Planilux COOL LITE SKN 175 high-performance coating and Planitherm Futur N low-E soft coating.

Finish: powder coating in RAL 9006 (TIGER DRYLAC)

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.

The 6,200 m2 window areas consist of steel stick system units of widely varying geometrical form. The units house panes, held by pressure bead, with continuous screen-printed dot matrix. Some overhead units are also incorporated.

The 8,000 m2 sheet cladding comprises mainly radially curved metal panels, with some spherically curved units.

The roof incorporates some 600 m2 of glazing. The structural frame features Vierendeel girders welded together from steel sections.

Glazing: vertical areas - solar-control insulation glazing, Interpane ipasol 67/34; inward sloping areas - 10 mm toughened glass, 16 mm cavity, laminated safety glass comprising 2 x 6 mm heat-strengthened glass; outward sloping areas - laminated safety glass comprising 10 mm and 6 mm heat-strengthened glass, 16 mm cavity, 6 mm toughened glass or heat-strengthened glass.
The roof glazing consists of solar-control insulating glass units with 10 mm toughened glass, 16 mm cavity, laminated safety glass comprising 2 x 6 mm heat-strengthened glass.

Finish: steel sections wet-coated in Sikkens R0.05.85 light blue, sheet metal wet-coated in Duraflon sapphire silver metallic.

Additionally supplied: revolving doors, glass doors, gate systems, rooflights, internal glare control, louvred façade, top-hung casements and smoke vents.

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.

The 16,000 m2 curtain wall of the building is a unitized system with offset mullions from floor to floor. Hung onto the external of the mullions are clear laminated glass fins with bravo edges which can effectively disperse the sun-light shining on them creating glares on the wall. The coating offering a low U-value of 0.31. The spandrel panels of the curtain wall units are built up by extruded aluminium cladding slats. The finish of the aluminium extrusions is achieved by environmentally friendly powder coatings.

Photographs: Beyond Architecture Cultural Development Co. Ltd, Mr. Zhou Li

Completion in  2001
 
 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.

The ground floor features a 8 m tall, double-height lobby façade surmounted by 38 office storeys each enclosed by 102 cladding units. The rooftop plantroom level with its shadow box façade is enclosed at the top by a grillage as the fifth façade. Every second window unit in the office façade is provided with a specially designed storey-height 1.40 x 2.90 m horizontal parallel moving out window, which, depending on wind velocity, can be continuously opened to a maximum travel of 175 mm. Moreover, heating strip incorporated in the openable windows allows warming of the inflowing air.

Glazing: high-rise façade with external toughened glass insulation glazing and internal float and heat-strengthened laminated glass.
A Luxguard 54/27 coating or, in some sections, a coating to meet radar requirements is provided.

Finish: façade interior and aluminium fins in external façade anodized in E6/EV1, external glazing bead powder-coated in RAL 7026.

Additionally supplied: linking hall with heated steel façade and overhead glazing, low-rise building with stick system curtain wall to ground floor, punched windows and natural stone.

Completion in  2005

Photographs: Gardin&Mazzoli