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Energy-producing glass façade for municipal utilities

As an energy supplier, renewable energy plays an everyday role for Stadtwerke Gronau.

The sports hall as a place for good resolutions

The triple gymnasium at Luxembourg's Edward Steichen High School by Jonas Architectes Associés is a particularly fun place to do sports.

Cool without ice: Former Ice Factory, Berlin

Another industrial monument in Berlin is getting a second life: after many years of vacancy, the former ice factory - when there were no refrigerators, artificial ice in the form of sticks was produced here to cool food - is once again gracing the banks of the Spree thanks to conversion and refurbishment by architects ROBERTNEUN.

For a positive energy balance with insulating glass

As an internationally active family business, we bear a great responsibility not only towards our customers and employees, but also towards the environment. Our goal is to harmonise social benefits, ecology and economy in the best possible way.

Daylight for essential research

For the Agora cancer research center in Lausanne, Behnisch Architekten developed a sculptural building with a unique façade structure.

Summer heat protection

As wonderful as the summer and the sunny weather are, it can also become uncomfortably hot indoors due to high room temperatures. Since glass façades can now insulate just as well as solid façade elements, the amount of beneficial daylight can be increased while also reducing the consumption of cooling energy.

State-of-the-art use of daylight

The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital David H. Koch Center, designed by HOK, Ballinger and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, is an impressive example of modern healthcare architecture on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Its inviting façade reflects a progressive standard of outpatient care based on transparency and warmth.

On your own at the highest altitudes

Above Zermatt – at an altitude of 2,883 metres – thrones the New Monte Rosa Hut, which was designed by ETH Studio Monte Rosa / Bearth & Deplazes Architekten AG, Chur/Zurich (Valentin Bearth, Andrea Deplazes, Daniel Ladner) in order to test exemplary new technologies with regard to the design, calculation and production of buildings under extreme conditions in the high mountains.