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Content of issue 7+8/2009 Glass Construction (also available as English Edition 5/2009)
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Glass is a fascinating building material with diverse, sometimes contrasting qualities: transparent, reflective or frosted, tough yet fragile. In recent decades tremendous advances have been made in glass technology. Bold architectural designs are now using glass to perform loadbearing functions and, thanks to the advent of sophisticated, largely invisible coatings, for climate control. Much innovative potential still remains to be tapped: engineers and architects, scientists at universities and in industry, and creative companies are coming up with astonishing new developments. Perhaps more so than with any other building material, advances in architectural applications for glass are emerging as a result of close cooperation between designers, experts from a range of scientific disciplines and the constructors.
Content in Issue 7+8/2009
Light installation for a railway underpass in Berlin
p. 718
documentation | architect: Dietz Joppien Architekten | 
Art Gallery and Arts Educational Centre in Waiblingen
p. 725
documentation | architect: Hartwig N. Schneider Architekten |
Entrance Building to Transportation Museum in Lucerne
p. 744
documentation | architect: Gigon/Guyer |
Experiments in transparency – Research and design projects
p. 762
technology | author: Andreas Fuchs | Stefan Behling | Stefan Peters | |
Additional Online-Content of Issue 7+8/2009Art Gallery and Arts Educational Centre in WaiblingenSerpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 Villa in Holland TranslationsFree of charge in pdf-format:Italian French Russian Japanese |
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