107 Forbes is a new, single-tenant office building facing Rowe Boulevard, a prominent location at the gateway to the city’s historic center and West Annapolis neighborhood. The new building replaces a group of commercial buildings along Rowe Boulevard. In order to get permission for the building, it had to fit within the existing footprint and maintain a similar volume, height, and floor area. The ground floor facade is constructed from timber cladding and glass, while the upper floor is clad in thin horizontal strips of overlapping grey Swisspearl panels. Large windows bring ample light into the interior. The upper floor cantilevers over the lower level longitudinally creating the impression of a floating box.

This project elevates its neighborhood’s existing design paradigm by implanting a modern canon that bridges the residential and commercial scales of the West Annapolis neighborhood. The structure’s linear planks quite literally reflect the scale of residential siding and – perhaps a bit more abstractly – what one would find on the hull of a ship, tying the neighborhood to the overall spirit of Annapolis as a maritime city.

With its distinctive red and gray clad high-rise towers, Cepa Housing İncek forms part of the Çayyolu-Alacaatlı residential area within the wider development of western Ankara. This is a high-end district introducing innovative, distinguished, and bold projects.

Although the district where Cepa housing is located has high-quality buildings, there are also mediocre, undefined buildings dispersed in the neighborhood. Architect Ali Osman Öztürk chose Swisspearl panels in strong color tones to give this housing development its own identity.

Tartu University Hospital Extension includes three new expandable units for the hospital complex, which was built over a number of decades. Two new units, the children’s hospital and outpatient surgery, are accommodated in the extension of this clinic.

The various buildings designed and built in their time, showcase a variety of architectural styles and materials. This project is a continuation of the previous attempt to combine existing architectural elements and create a harmonious whole. The extension is designed with a lofty, triple-volume atrium between the two so-called “towers.” One of the main concepts was to create a long gallery to the rear of the building to ease the logistics of the entire hospital complex. The linear accelerators for the radiotherapy department are situated beneath the atrium on the basement floor. All personnel circulation, as well as material flow for the hospital has been placed in a new “internal street” between two, eight-story wings.

Situated near Tosen Fjord in a remote part of Norway, Storelva hydropower plant was designed by Stein Hamre arkitektkontor, not only as a power plant, but also as a hiking destination and tourist attraction.

The power plant is situated beneath a waterfall on open solid bedrock. To echo this, Stein Hamre has conceived the building as a massive rock. In order to emphasize its mass, the building is completely clad in horizontal layers of Swisspearl panels in different shades of dark gray, with thin fissures of horizontal strips of glass dispersed across the facades. The glass in the fissures has a high reflection quotient, thus mirroring the natural surroundings, which change throughout the day depending on the natural light.

Colorado College’s expanded and transformed Tutt Library is America’s largest carbon-neutral academic library. The library has been transformed into a colorful, dynamic facility, accommodating the requirements of a contemporary library and the college’s unique academic program. Designed during an era when libraries were primarily containers for books, the original building was intentionally introverted. Pfeiffer’s design of the new center turns this introversion inside-out, to better reflect the changing use of the library and the values of Colorado College.

Stantec designed this bold auditorium/theater addition to the existing Round Rock ISD high school to help offset the high frequency use of the district’s performing arts center. The project has become a prototype for other school auditoriums in the district.

Two shades of gray Swisspearl panels provide a high quality, low maintenance choice for the facade cladding, emphasizing the stepped heights of the rectilinear volumes and contrasting with the light ochre, rustic stonewall cladding of the lower sections.

Iowa-based Neumann Monson Architects were commissioned by Iowa University to design a new boathouse to accommodate the women’s rowing team. Positioned strategically on the curve of the Iowa River, the siting gives the boathouse a vantage point from where boats can be viewed gliding at speed through the water left and right up the sweep of the river.

The scheme involved a careful restoration of the dilapidated historical building, which now accommodates the traditional functions of the parsonage, such as the parson’s quarters, a classroom for religious education, the library, the banquet hall, and a visitor’s apartment. In addition, architects 4 plusz designed a new and decidedly modern structure that connects the two lateral wings of the existing U-shaped building and divides the garden space into two distinct courtyards. Fully glazed to either side, the transparent ground floor of the extension provides space for social events and opens a vista from the reception area to the rear garden.

The Commons at Stanton Square, so called Martha’s Table, is a 55,000 square foot campus for community programs that supports the healthy development of children and their families in a welcoming and safe environment. Designed by Washington, DC firm Cox Graae Spack Architects, the Commons was completed in May of 2018 for Martha’s Table. The building features the use of four colors of Swisspearl fiber cement panels in a vertical orientation.

Uppsala Science Park is ranked as one of the world’s best corporate incubators and is known far beyond the borders of Sweden. Innovative ideas about life science, biotechnology, medicine, and IT are researched and developed here.

With 182,986 square feet (17,000 square meters) distributed across five floors, the rectilinear building expresses its prominent status by its scale, proportioning, and materialization. A broad façade clad in light grey horizontal and vertical panels is offset by a patchwork collage of diamond-shaped Swisspearl panels in shades of russet reds, oranges, and ochers. The autumnal color palette and the intense rhythm of window openings is a reference to the adjacent historical buildings.

The building’s exterior design exuberantly expresses the project’s three uses through its stacking of rectangular masses and changes in material, colors and window patterns. Although the design can appear at first glance to consist of three boxes, a closer look shows that the fire station is a combination of two rectangular masses and that the apartment block sits on a pedestal that separates it from the squash court section, making for a total of five major rectangular forms. The interplay between all these boxes creates a variety of setbacks and projections.

The building of the Moxy Hotel in Chicago meets the ground as a friendly, lively, and at the same time transparent component of its vibrant neighborhood. An incorporated floor-to-ceiling glass wall in the guestroom corridor frames a dramatic view of the skyline, inviting guests to experience Chicago’s charm. From the exterior perspective, the dominating glass is perfectly framed by grey Swisspearl fiber cement panels providing a simple and plain appearance that implies itself into the context of the neighborhood.

Kean University’s new College of Business and Public Management features large, student-focused communal spaces with dramatic multi-level connections to each floor. The school provides the several thousand students with a variety of spaces to interact, collaborate, study, and relax throughout the day.

Early conceptual visions for the exterior window pattern and corresponding facade design were translated to Swisspearl modular cladding for a clean exterior facade. The dark, slightly recessed facade in the base area lets the bright building volume hover above. Linear grooving reinforces the impression, lending the anthracite-colored panels a matte restraint.

This 1980s office campus needed revitalization to become a desirable, contemporary working environment. Opting to keep the revision cost effective yet creative, the original form of the building was retained, but refreshed with new materials and colors on the facades. New cladding was constructed with Swisspearl panels cut into complex patterns. Each panel was carefully cut to prevent any waste. The exterior materials were specifically chosen to be long-lasting and efficient during the construction and installation processes, thus reducing waste and labor costs.

Completing the “E” is what the team at Perkins Eastman DC calls their addition. In the late 1920s and early 1930s as a nurse’s dormitory, the building was planned to get three wings but it ended up with only two. Due to this reason the building sat as an “F” rather than an “E”. So “completing the “E” doesn’t mean replicating the existing building’s style, footprint, or materials. It means making the old building work in its new life as a school. The addition of the brick facade shows continuation with the old, while the contemporary elevations covered in Swisspearl signal change: of function, of users, and of attitude.

École Enfants du Monde (International School) in Montréal was initially designed in 1961. Clad in Swisspearl panels, the new facades of the two-story, rectilinear school are mainly white, but are also peppered with black and red to give the school a sense of fun. The local borough experienced an annual increase in the number of primary school pupils, which prompted the School Board to expand several of its schools, most notably the Enfants du Monde school. Due to the design versatility of Swisspearl panels, Birtz Bastien Beaudoin Laforest Architectes decided to clad the École Enfants du Monde with the fiber cement material to add some color and a light-hearted atmosphere to the newly renovated building.

The new community center lies at the heart of a redeveloped regional sports and recreation campus. The primary functions are arranged as an arced series of nesting units that open to the landscaped surroundings and offer views of nearby Mount Rainier. The red Swisspearl clad facade features a unique fish-scale pattern and forms an integral part of an overarching sustainability strategy.

The ventilated Swisspearl facade is one of multiple energy-saving measures through which the STAR Center achieved LEED Gold accreditation. The facility benefits from natural ventilation and lighting, with all windows shaded by exterior blinds to minimize heat absorption. Fifty 300-foot deep geothermal wells supply tempered water to a central heat pump system, which distributes zoned heating and passive cooling throughout the
building.

An integral part of a comprehensive sustainability strategy aimed at LEED Gold certification, the architects devised a rainscreen facade clad in Swisspearl panels, which will boost the building’s energy performance and help keep long-term maintenance costs to a minimum.

A seven-story, U-shaped apartment block elevated on concrete pilotis accommodates 112, two-to-five-room apartments and encloses an inner courtyard with sports and recreation facilities including a large swimming pool and tennis court.

The modular facade is articulated at each level with subtle offsets that create a curved geometry, a set of concave and convex movements that follow the streets bordering the site. Swisspearl fiber cement panels are key to expressing this volumetric strategy. A lightweight material that allows for large-scale panels has proven to be the ideal material to articulate the facade shapes. A dark shade was chosen for the ground floor and penthouses, contrasting with the main body of the building, for which white was chosen.

The Vision of a Wooden City – Kvarteret Arken in Växjö
Kvarteret Arken, located by Lake Trummen in Växjö, consists of three buildings with a total of 85 apartments and was nominated for Sweden’s Best New Production Award in 2020. The project is certified according to Miljöbyggnad Silver, with Växjöbostäder as the developer, Värends Entreprenad as the contractor, and Sajt Arkitektstudio as the responsible architect.

Växjö has long been committed to promoting wooden construction and has developed its own wood-building strategy. This made the choice of a timber frame an obvious decision from the outset. The timber structure represents a shift in Swedish building tradition, where multi-family housing of five to eight stories is now built in wood—something previously mostly used in one- and two-story homes. For the contractor, Värends Entreprenad, this marks an important development that shows how wood can be used in larger and more complex projects.

The facade – a combination of wood and fiber cement
The facade design combines a robust timber cladding in a traditional “lockläkt” profile with fiber cement panels from Swisspearl Patina NXT. The panels are used in three different colors and formats, while the timber cladding is mounted slightly in front of the panels to hide the edges and create a clear, well-defined expression. The distribution is roughly one quarter wood and three quarters fiber cement.

The architecture uses contrasts to create dynamism. The public-facing sides, oriented toward the lake and the main road, incorporate darker panels and the heavier timber cladding, giving the buildings a strong outer “shell” character. Toward the courtyard, the expression becomes lighter and more intimate through brighter panels, providing the area with a softer atmosphere.

The combination of wood and fiber cement makes it possible to play with the materials’ opposing qualities: heaviness and lightness, roughness and smoothness, dark and light. This creates variation and gives the facades both depth and rhythm.

The Choice of Swisspearl Patina Original NXT
Patina Original NXT was chosen for its through-colored and homogeneous composition, which makes scratches and marks less noticeable over time. The panels’ matte, subtly varied surface contributes to a natural and calm expression that harmonizes with the more robust character of the timber cladding. Together, the materials aimed to create a facade that will age beautifully and retain its aesthetic quality for many years.

A New Part of Växjö
Kvarteret Arken has become a key addition to Växjö’s vision of a modern wooden city. It brings together influences from traditional Bohuslän architecture and industrial harbor structures in a contemporary interpretation, where both material choices and design language are rooted in the area’s history and future ambitions.

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The Bydgoszcz Fair & Exhibition Centre stands as a beacon of commerce, innovation and community in northern Poland. Renowned as one of the largest exhibition and conference facilities in the region, it serves as a dynamic hub for businesses, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders to convene, collaborate, and showcase their latest innovations. The Centre exemplifies a harmonious blend of functionality and aesthetic appeal with its innovative use of Swisspearl facade panels assembled in a horizontal format.

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The student accommodation at the University of Essex exemplifies a thoughtful approach to campus architecture, with facades adorned in Swisspearl Patina Original NXT panels in the shades P020 and P050. The use of these colors provides a dynamic yet cohesive visual appeal across the buildings.

The large-format panels are meticulously fixed with color-matching rivets, ensuring a seamless integration of materials. The design balances functionality with aesthetics, creating a welcoming environment for students while enhancing the overall landscape of the campus. The buildings are arranged to foster community interaction while offering private, serene spaces for study and relaxation.

Please note that this reference project contains earlier Patina products. Since the color palette of Patina NXT is largely identical to the original Patina version, this reference project provides a good impression of both the appearance and the atmosphere of a Patina NXT project.

Frigg apartment development in Skellefteå, north-east Sweden, is centrally located in the town and features both residential units and commercial spaces arranged around a lush green courtyard that provides plenty of space for relaxation and social activities.

Frigg development consists of eight buildings housing 198 rental apartments ranging in size from compact 291-square-foot (27-square-meter), one-bedroom apartments to 980-square-foot (91-square-meter), four-bedroom apartments. The buildings range in height, from ten floors along Kanalgatan in the north to four floors along the pedestrian street in the south, designed to harmonize with the site’s scale and pedestrian flow along the street. The tallest structure serves as a prominent landmark, marking the western gateway to Skellefteå’s neighboring town. Flat roofs on all the volumes create a modern, abstract aesthetic.

The matte finish of the facade panels, with subtle color variations, adds a soft, tactile quality to the buildings. The slender, gold-toned aluminum profiles cast dynamic shadows and reflections, allowing the facades to shift character depending on the play of light and the observer’s perspective. The overall effect is a golden ensemble of buildings, aptly reflecting Skellefteå’s identity as the “golden city.”

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In September 2022, Långsjö School was inaugurated – a new school in Segeltorp outside of Stockholm, featuring an exciting architectural design in a scenic setting.

The new Långsjö School is located right next to the Gömmaren Nature Reserve, and with the forest as its closest neighbor, there are great opportunities to use the environment for both learning and leisure. The school, which is certified according to Miljöbyggnad Silver, accommodates 360 students from preschool class to grade 3.

Tyréns’ architects designed the school in its early stages, after which Arkitema Architects took over the later project planning. During this phase, the facade pattern was further developed to better harmonize with the shape of the building.

“We think that the form of the school building resembles a mountain, and we wanted to reflect that in the facade design. We chose three colors of Swisspearl’s lined facade panels to create a sense of three-dimensional depth when viewing the facade from a distance,” says Jenny Eldrot, architect at Arkitema.

Below is an illustration showing Arkitema’s approach to the joints, which are intended to be visibly expressed between the different color fields. To conceal joints between panels in the same color, an aluminum trim was used and coated in that specific colors.

The facade panels used in the project are:
Swisspearl Patina Inline NXT P 070, Patina Inline NXT P 222 and Patina Inline NXT P 545.

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The apartment building, located in Vejle close to the city center, stands out among the surrounding row houses. Situated on a hill, the apartments enjoy a unique view over the city of Vejle, the iconic Bølgen (The Wave) building, and the fjord. The residential complex towers above the neighboring houses and distinguishes itself in both style and form. The neighborhood is characterized by classic brick houses, which makes the fiber cement-clad tower stand out in the landscape. The complex is clad with black Zenor panels and sand-colored Patina Original facade panels, creating an elegant and contrasting appearance.

Please note: this reference project features products from the Patina range. As the color range for Patina NXT is the same, this project also provides a good general impression of the look and feel of a Patina NXT project.