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Lakes Edge, Queenstown, Neuseeland
Lakes Edge | Queenstown, New Zealand
Lakes Edge | Queenstown, New Zealand

Perched on a narrow, sloping site above Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, New Zealand, Lakes Edge House enjoys superb views of the lake and the surrounding mountainous landscape. With its timber-clad base and dark Swisspearl-clad upper level, the house seems to hover precariously above the site.

Childrens Museum, New Orleans, LA, USA
Childrens Museum | New Orleans, LA, USA
Childrens Museum | New Orleans, LA, USA

Louisiana Children’s Museum presents a transformative model for children’s museums that weaves together indoor and outdoor learning opportunities. Its facade’s colour palette was chosen to provide a subtle reference to traditional limestone façades of public buildings within the park, and to create an optimal backdrop for the rich, changing light over the nearby lagoon. The lightness of the panels provides a projection surface for the ever-changing shadow patterns from the building louvres and water reflections from the lagoon. A combination of smooth panels and panels with a subtle pixelated pattern embossed on the surface creates a playful dance across the long elevations.

Herba House, Torun, Polen
Herba House | Torun, Poland
Herba House | Torun, Poland

Herba House has two distinct faces, closed to the street and open to the river. The “house” to the street facing northward is clad in black Swisspearl panels, while the southern part of the house consists of terraces that open out onto the riverside and cascade down the slope.

Collin College Technical Campus, Allen, TX, US
Collin College | Allen, TX, USA
Collin College | Allen, TX, USA

How a US technical campus is successfully inspiring a future generation, meeting ecological challenges, and supporting equality in the trades through practical planning.

This bar is more than 182 metres long but only about 24 metres wide on the north and south ends. The combination of berms at the lowest level and sizeable top-floor cantilevers sheltering generous terraces on the ends means the academic bar, when seen from the highway or the nearby houses, appears as a one-storey volume clad in Swisspearl panels.

University of Limerick Climbing Wall, Limerick, Irland
University of Limerick Climbing Wall | Limerick, Northern Ireland
University of Limerick Climbing Wall | Limerick, Northern Ireland

The University of Limerick Climbing Centre is the premier indoor climbing facility in Ireland and caters for Ireland’s fastest growing sport. Through engaging workshops with the clients and end users, Hugh Kelly Architects developed the project brief and concept design, pushing the boundaries of the project.

L15, Lillesand, Norwegen
L15 | Lillesand, Norway
L15 | Lillesand, Norway

One of the aims for the expansion of this single-family house, which dates back to the 1980s, was to create a harmonious ensemble of old and new while respecting the building‘s natural surroundings. To achieve this, the architect chose a reduced, box-shaped wooden structure clad in large, dark grey Swisspearl panels and floor-to-ceiling glass openings, creating a strong contrast without dominating or competing. While the extension opens up to the existing building and garden in the south, it is closed towards the gravel road in the north. By perforating this closed facade of Swisspearl panels in the form of an abstracted tree branch, the extension is reminiscent of the old orchard.

Carbona Apartment House, Heviz, Ungarn
Carbona Apartment House | Heviz, Hungary
Carbona Apartment House | Heviz, Hungary

This apartment block in Hévíz, Hungary is an excellent example of how Swisspearl panels can be implemented in diverse ways to adorn facades. Custom-made patterns have been cut into the panels to create lively patterns. The curve of the primary body of the apartment building is emphasised by a projecting entry structure that has been clad in such perforated Swisspearl panels. The delicate round perforations in varying sizes form an organic pattern and allow rays of light to shine through the panels. Swisspearl panels have also been employed as vertical sliding shutters on the balconies of the upper floors.

National Museum Restoration and Storage Center, Budapest, Ungarn
National Museum Restoration and Storage Center | Budapest, Hungary
National Museum Restoration and Storage Center | Budapest, Hungary

The National Museum Restoration and Storage Centre, OMRRK, is a new institution that provides an outstanding technological building for the preservation of the collections of the Museum of Ethnography, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Hungarian National Gallery.

The complex was completed in May 2019 as part of the Liget Budapest Project. Within the framework of the development, unique in Central Europe, world-class art storage warehouses and conservation-restoration workshops will be housed in five adjacent buildings on four underground and three above-ground levels, covering a total area of nearly 37,000 square metres.

Green Line House, Warmia, Polen
Green Line House | Warmia, Poland
Green Line House | Warmia, Poland

The Green Line House in Warmia, designed by Przemek Olczyk from Mobius Architekci Warsaw, won the Grand Prix in the European Property Awards 2019 -2020. We are proud that our Swisspearl roof panels are part of this seminal building. This solitary house remains lonely in a landscape, without adjacent buildings, away from roads. Harsh landscape prompted Przemek Olczyk, an architect and the author of the project, to use transparent and legible tectonics, thus embedding the building in the morphology of the plot.

Skilful adaptation of the architecture to the structure of the plot ensures that the scale of the 500 sqm house does not overwhelm it. Due to the strong winds in this part of the Warmian Lake District, the design employs an atrial layout. The screen of glass walls of the building provides a transparent shield while maintaining important viewing axes for the users.

Amnis Student Accommodation, Cork, Irland
Amnis Student Accommodation | Cork, Northern Ireland
Amnis Student Accommodation | Cork, Northern Ireland

Located on a prominent site between Western Road and the River Lee in Cork, DTA Architects’ new student accommodation provides 190 student bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms in 28 cluster apartments, with reception and communal amenity facilities on the ground floor.

RTVS, Kosice, Slowakei
RTVS | Kosice, Slovakia
RTVS | Kosice, Slovakia

The Radio and Television Studios of Slovakia (RTVS) are located near the historic centre of Košice. Like many older buildings in the city, the building has recently been renovated. The project’s goal was to renovate the central administration building and improve its energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Thus, one of the main aspects was the renovation of the building envelope.

The curtain wall was upgraded by combining a weatherproofing system and aerated façade system with a cladding of russet-coloured Swisspearl panels assembled vertically. Projecting grey-plastered pilasters at intervals and vertical strips of windows enhance the vertical rhythm. The facades of the broadcasting room, which projects above the surrounding control rooms and office spaces, is clad in Swisspearl panels cut at angles to create a dynamic, unconventional effect.

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Villa Void | Saltnes, Norway
Villa Void | Saltnes, Norway

Villa Void is situated in Saltnes, a village south of Norway’s capital Oslo, on a lush, west-facing site with views towards the outskirts of Oslofjorden. Tall pine trees and a gentle slope towards the northwest characterise the site. From the onset, the architects Resell + Nicca decided that the 29 pine trees would be preserved, that the design of the house would correspond to the various levels on the plot, and the trees would be visible from the key areas within the house.

With its clear lines, Villa Void is inspired by the forms of existing houses in the neighbourhood. The combination of materials—dark-grey Swisspearl panels on the outer skin, and a warm wooden interior, also used on the recessed exterior areas—underline the sculptural character of the house.

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