The idea of function over form tends to rule the day when it comes to the design of observatories. The Gemma Observatory, however, decided to forgo the typical domed structure and opted instead for a ...

Zinc panels provide natural-looking, durable cladding for an administrative building and toll canopies at the newly expanded Queenstown Plaza U.S.-Canada border crossing at the Niagara Gorge.

Zinc helps create distinctive designThe zinc cladding selected for the building’s exterior is rarely used in this country, making it a logical choice for creating a distinctive design. Since it also ...

College dormitories are sometimes drab affairs, utilitarian in their design and timid in their expression. But Deborah Berke Partners’s (DBP) Dickinson College High Street Residence, completed in ...

The webinar is aimed at architects, designers and specifiers who wish to get a better understanding on how zinc can be used on the roofs and walls of a wide range of building typologies. The extensive ...

In nature, zinc is mainly found as zinc sulphide ore or zinc carbonate, which is mined to obtain the metal. Once refined, it is used in a variety of applications, including metal alloys, battery ...

Designed by Chilean architecture firm Ortuzar Gebauer Arquitectos, the Coo Lodge is a seaside getaway that is tied into the surrounding landscape history with its weathered zinc cladding. The ...

Located in a Rockhampton suburb in Queensland, Australia, OURHOUSEWANDAL by Design+Architecture and N.Veenstra is a 1,615 square foot sustainable family home designed on a low budget. The clients, who ...

This pre-weathered zinc is well suited to facade cladding systems, among other applications. RHEINZINK has harnessed wind and hydropower to use 50% less carbon dioxide during manufacture. Available in ...

Nature is always to be found in things and architecture - and it is exciting, aesthetic, and astonishing. This is especially apparent in the exhibition of Gerhard Schönnenbeck's photographs of ...