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...
The training farm operated by the Birkeneck Youth Support Organization belongs to heritage-protected Birkeneck Manor. It is situated directly across from the manor's 1706 structure. The Missionaries...
Material efficiency has now become as much a buzz phrase as energy efficiency, which has long been a focal point in process technology. The analogy is logical, because the efforts of the raw materials...
When an architect designs his own home, his criteria for style and building material are particularly stringent. Architect Karl Michael Krach decided - for ecological and physicostructural reasons -...
Snoehetta is a leading team of architects in Norway with offices in Oslo and New York. This first-ever publication to document their work presents and illustrates the most important current and...