The Hannover Messe 2009 has clearly demonstrated the determination of the industrial community to overcome the challenges at hand.
Around 210 000 visitors – one in four of them from abroad –...
Just last year, Germany’s building construction sector expanded by 2.6 %. For the coming years, however, prospects are a lot dimmer: In their annual construction-sector forecast, the experts at OC&C...
The hillside plot is idyllically situated beside the renaturalised greenbelt that runs along Henning Creek - right at the centre of Markt Schwaben, a pretty little town near Munich.The diverging axes...
What you don’t see won’t make you curious – that’s the motto of the building client in this case. That’s why the new ArGeTon Tampa panel with concealed clips were used in the extension for a...
In facade construction, joints are a proven design device. They not only partition, but also emphasize and structure. At the building of the Nestlé Lebensmittelforschung GmbH in Singen, the joint...
As practice shows, effective thermal insulation can only be achieved with professionally fitted building facade insulation. The possibilities for facade insulation are wide-ranging and call for...
Sport architecture is booming: in the year of the Football European Cup in Austria and the Olympic Games in China, attention was also focussed on to the sports facilities themselves. But how can...
For a number of years, the Roider family lived within eyeshot of where their since-erected new house would eventually be built. They dreamed of living in their own home on this somewhat wild and...
Building a home tailored to one's own personal tastes calls for an individual approach. Realizing that, the builder/owners of this one in Ludwigsburg commissioned local architect Kai Dongus - instead...
In view of the steadily increasing number of elderly people, special importance must be attached to the construction of appropriate residential accommodations. Now, a senior citizens' residential...
