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Steel Innovation Centre
From the outset, the intention of Voestalpine’s 5,400 square-metre Steel Innovation Centre at Linz, Austria, was "to reflect the company’s values and the originality and quality of its products in its outer layered steel envelope".
Architect pbr Planungsbüro Rohling AG Architects and Engineers Location Linz - Austria Company involved Voestalpine Website http://www.voestalpine.com -
HiLASE
The futuristic HiLASE Centre in the Czech village of Dolní Brežany, to the west of Prague, has been built to house the DiPOLE, a diode-pumped solid state laser (DPSSL) developed to help scientists expand the use of laser technology, and which its Anglo-Czech owners hope will justify a €33m (£24m) investment from the European Commission.
Architect Len + a Architects (David Leníček) Location Dolní Břežany - Czech Republic Company involved Façade systems: Dekmetal / Coil Coater: Euramax Website http://www.euramax.eu -
ROC Carolus School
The first impression of the ROC Carolus building is deceptive, and deliberately so. Passers-by and visitors see a ‘crazy’ building, a fractured and playful facade, with irregularly polygonal windows breaking up the variety of shades of grey in the prepainted metal cladding that floats above a glazed ground floor. This cladding in turn has ‘fault lines’ along it, as if the whole could shatter in an instant. It takes a moment to realise that this is disguising the fact that the building in fact consists of relatively regular blocks joined by glazing. The overall assembly is largely rectilinear, but with one end curving to a point like the prow of a ship. Far from this being an example of unexplained exuberance, careful consideration has gone into making the facade, like the rest of the building, hard working and affordable.
Architect AGS Architekten & Planners Location Nijmegen - The Netherlands Company involved Euramax Coated Products Website http://www.euramax.nl