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Multi-purpose hall in Cesbron
An unusually shaped and striking element of the Cesbron company’s new headquarters, near Angers, in western France, reveals both the beauty and versatility of 3A Composites’ Alucobond Spectra aluminium composite panels.
Architect Agence Bodreau Architecture (Géraldine Jean) Location Angers - France Company involved 3A Composites (ALUCOBOND®) Website http://www.alucobond.com -
Stoas Vilentum University
Stoas Vilentum University is a small research-based institute in Wageningen, in the central Netherlands providing training for students wanting to teach agriculture, horticulture, food technology or animal husbandry.
Architect BDG Architecten Ingenieurs Zwolle Location Wageningen - The Netherlands Company involved Jack Muller & ArcelorMittal Website http://http://www.jackmuller.nl -
China Pavilion - Shanghai Expo
One of the most striking pavilions at last year’s Shanghai Expo came, appropriately, from the home country. It was obvious immediately that it was Chinese, through both the inverted pyramid of its shape, with strong horizontals, and the bright red that is immediately reminiscent of monuments such as Beijing’s Forbidden City. The horizontals, with ends cantilevering a short distance beyond the supporting elements below, pay homage to one of the most typical forms in traditional Chinese architecture, interlocking ‘dougong’ brackets. These were always realised in timber but here, in this modern interpretation, are clad in aluminium.
Architect South China University of Technology Institute of Architectural Design (He Jingtang) Location Shanghai - China Company involved Hunter Douglas China Website http://www.hunterdouglasgroup.com