Top stories of the week

11/13/2021 | Print view

A 36-year-old IGU line in Switzerland, a sound refracting facade in Paris, a sustainable glass facade in the Netherlands and some towers featuring a warm edge system in Canada. These are our top stories of this week:

The front of the building is reminiscent of the bow of a ship. The sides also follow a sea and shipping metaphor. They serve as "breakwaters" for the sound.

An undulating zinc facade is one of the most striking and surprising features of an office building in the Pont de Flandre district of Paris. With its special shape, the undulating facade contributes to sound insulation.

In Canada's megacity Toronto, one of the city's most interesting and largest construction projects is currently under way: The new, sustainably planned CIBC Square.

Glas Müller AG from Switzerland is a classic family-owned glazing company. Today, around 30 employees are active there for the entire construction glass spectrum. And a vintage machine is also in use there: an IGU line from Lisec dating back to the last millennium.

The new offices of the Triodos Bank in the Netherlands set standards for circular construction as a completely demountable, energy-neutral building with a wooden structure and a glass facade.