In facade construction, joints are a proven design device. They not only partition, but also emphasize and structure. At the building of the Nestlé Lebensmittelforschung GmbH in Singen, the joint...
As practice shows, effective thermal insulation can only be achieved with professionally fitted building facade insulation. The possibilities for facade insulation are wide-ranging and call for...
Sport architecture is booming: in the year of the Football European Cup in Austria and the Olympic Games in China, attention was also focussed on to the sports facilities themselves. But how can...
For a number of years, the Roider family lived within eyeshot of where their since-erected new house would eventually be built. They dreamed of living in their own home on this somewhat wild and...
Building a home tailored to one's own personal tastes calls for an individual approach. Realizing that, the builder/owners of this one in Ludwigsburg commissioned local architect Kai Dongus - instead...
In view of the steadily increasing number of elderly people, special importance must be attached to the construction of appropriate residential accommodations. Now, a senior citizens' residential...
The training farm operated by the Birkeneck Youth Support Organization belongs to heritage-protected Birkeneck Manor. It is situated directly across from the manor's 1706 structure. The Missionaries...
Largest in Asia and the second largest one in the world, The 23rd China International Ceramics Industry Exhibition (Ceramics China 2009) has concluded successfully on June 4, 2009 in China Import &...
Kiln systems are at the very heart of ceramics manufacture, as it is the process of firing that transforms the delicate 'green products' into ones with special and even outstanding characteristics....
E. L.J. van Hal, Director KNB
2008 was a year of historical events: an unprecedented high oil price in the spring and in the autumn the financial crisis which spread from North America to Europe....