Swisspearl

Located near Riga in Latvia, Ozola and Bula Architects’ new Music and Art School consists of three distinct volumes that step down in response to the slope of the terrain. An outdoor stepped walkway and an indoor corridor link the three colourful volumes to one another.Architect: Ozola & Bula, Riga, LatviaPartner: Ostas celtnieks, Riga, LatviaYear: 2018Photographer: Meraner & Hauser OHG/SNC, Bozen, Italy

The oldest street in Coventry features a newly built housing development that remains in keeping with the area’s historic background, thanks to the installation of Cembrit’s Jutland fibre cement slates. Far Gosford Street is setting of many historic stories. Now, it features a new gated community, comprising 30 three and four bedroom mews style houses. Kilby Mews forms part of a wider multi million pound private and public sector regeneration project to develop Far Gosford Street.

Westerland and Moorland, BBA certified fibre cement slates from Cembrit, have helped achieve a Code for Sustainable Homes and a BREEAM ‘Very Good’ rating for a newly built £30 million retirement village in Oxfordshire.Built by BAM Construct UK and due for completion in December 2016, the project is built in an attractive, traditional style which is complemented by Cembrit’s Westerland and Moorland slates. Based in Hertfordshire, BAM Construct UK worked with roofing specialist Attleys Roofing Ltd on the project.

A newly built student accommodation block in Liverpool features an attractive, colourful external finish, thanks to Cembrit’s Cembonit cladding boards.Plato House is a purpose built student development comprising 86 spacious student rooms complete with a kitchen, en-suite bathrooms and high speed Wi-Fi throughout. Supplied via Vivalda of Manchester, Pemberton-based cladding contractor, Bak Cladding Solutions installed approximately 1000m2 of Cembonit cladding in a combination of Tufa, Pearl and Sand colours.

Cembrit, leading cladding and building board specialist has launched Unipan, a versatile tile backing board which is ideally suited for internal ‘wet’ applications. Unipan is lightweight, tough, and stable, and offers a solid base for tiling through its excellent adhesion properties. The boards are manufactured from a material that is a mix of cement and aggregate, which also contains polystyrene beading to reduce the weight of the board allowing for easy on-site manoeuvrability and quick installation. Unipan features flat, reinforced tapered edges that are specifically designed for a good join, which is critical in wet applications such as bathrooms.

Bicester Village, one of the UK’s major outlet shopping villages, has recently undergone a major extension. The work has added additional shopping space and car parking, and Cembrit PB has been used as a render-backer on the exterior facades of the extension. Stockford, the contractor, installed 800m² of Cembrit PB to the steel frame structure and encapsulated it with the stunning MonoTherm TXF system manufactured and supplied by Monocouche Render Systems Ltd to achieve the decorative weather proof finish you see today at the premises.

Located in a remote part of Ontario in Canada, this single-family house is built on a site that gently slopes down toward Haliburton Lake. By designing the house as a long, narrow volume facing south, all the principal spaces enjoy copious amounts of natural light and views through the trees down to the lake.In contrast to the timber roof structure and the stone-clad walls on the lower level, the exterior upper facades orientated north, east, and west are clad in matte black Swisspearl panels of varying dimensions, some attached horizontally, some attached vertically. The design dissolves the boundaries between interior and exterior by extending the exterior façade materials in the interior. The southern facade facing the lake has been dematerialised with great expanses of glazing to soak in light and views.Architect: +VG Architects, Toronto, CanadaPartner: Cedar Winds, Haliburton, CanadaYear: 2019Photographer: David Whittaker photographer lnc., Toronto, CanadaProduct: Avera AV020

Located in a remote part of Ontario in Canada, this single-family house is built on a site that gently slopes down toward Haliburton Lake. By designing the house as a long, narrow volume facing south, all the principal spaces enjoy copious amounts of natural light and views through the trees down to the lake.In contrast to the timber roof structure and the stone-clad walls on the lower level, the exterior upper facades orientated north, east, and west are clad in matte black Swisspearl panels of varying dimensions, some attached horizontally, some attached vertically. The design dissolves the boundaries between interior and exterior by extending the exterior façade materials in the interior. The southern facade facing the lake has been dematerialised with great expanses of glazing to soak in light and viewsArchitect: +VG Architects, Toronto, CanadaPartner: Cedar Winds, Haliburton, CanadaYear: 2019Photographer: David Whittaker photographer lnc., Toronto,Product: Avera AV020

Comfort and light in daily routines were emphasized in the planning of Sumner House in Christchurch. The house is situated on a flood plain and therefore needed to be raised above the ground. The connection with the street front allows interaction with neighbours and passersby while still maintaining a sense of security. The external materials were chosen for their low-maintenance and durability in the coastal environment, which weathers materials quickly. These materials include prefabricated Swisspearl panels in a silvery grey colour, a thermally modified timber rainscreen, cedar weatherboards, and pre-finished steel roof cladding. Since the Swisspearl panels are prefabricated and the timber floor cassettes and wall and roof panels were built off-site in the builder’s warehouse, the total construction time was minimized to a mere six months.Architect: AW Architects, Christchurch, New ZealandPartner: Avon Dickie Construction Ltd., Christchurch, New ZealandYear: 2020Photographer: Lumo Photography, Christchurch, New Zealand

The students of the professional school in Langenlois can look forward to a new dining hall in the student residence. The facade of the dining hall was realized with Largo facade panels in Vintago. These panels feature a ground surface texture, giving the building a lively and dynamic appearance.Architect: Architekt Strixner ZT GmbH, Wiener Neudorf, AustriaBuilder: Land Niederösterreich / p.A. Landesberufsschule LangenloisPartner: Pasteiner GmbH, St. Pölten-Unterradlberg, AustriaPhotographer: imageindustry.at

Torre Estronci 91 is located in an affluent area in Barcelona, l’Hospitalet de LLobregat. The apartments offer the ideal combination of modernity, quality, comfort, and energy efficiency. Aesthetically speaking, the characteristic feature of the block is the ribbons of horizontal Swisspearl panels alternating in white and black that encircle the building, making a strong graphic impression. The black areas incorporate the black-framed fenestration while the white strips clad the projecting balconies. This projecting and recessing of the facades creates a sense of relief on the elevations and prevents the block from being perceived as a monolithic volume.Architect: T+R Arquitectos, Madrid, SpainBuilder: Aedas Home, Madrid, SpainPartner: Sistema Masa, Barcelona, SpainYear: 2020 – 2021Photographer: Meraner & Hauser, Bolzano, ItalyProducts: Gravial Amber 723 and Zenor