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Philippe Willareth is Partner at Lüchinger+Meyer Bauingenieure AG heading the façade engineering team. He graduated as façade engineer at Lucerne University 2004. He is in charge of various key projects and is on the board of the Swiss Façade Association linking the consultancy to the façade industry.
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The Swiss watch manufacturer’s museum twists up in a spiral that emerges from the ground. The architects from BIG and the structural engineers from Lüchinger+Meyer have created a sculptural building with an ambitiously demanding structure and facade.
With two NHL-sized rinks, a pro shop, concessions and 10 locker rooms, plus additional meeting space, the new city-run ice arena on Church Road represents a marked upgrade over the current one-rink facility, which is showing its age.
Starphire® glasses. The glazing contactor was National Glass & Metal Company, Horsham, Pennsylvania.
Starphire glass was also specified to maximize the color fidelity of the spandrels, which were placed along the south tower to maintain visual lightness and counter large areas of brick.
“For the podium and stair tower where the experience of the glass is more intimate, we specified a triple-silver coating (
Solarban® 72 glass) on low-iron glass (
Starphire® glass) because of its enhanced solar performance and color neutral aesthetics,” states EYP senior building performance analyst Brandon Andow, Ph.D., RA. “For the tower, which is experienced at a greater distance, we chose a triple-silver coating on clear glass to align the glazing color with the rest of the campus while not compromising solar performance.”
The United States and United Kingdom’s Top Albums charts could not be more opposite. While Americans continue to fall in love with a new generation of hip-hop, country and pop acts, Brits prefer both classic and modern rock bands, and the proof is in the No. 1’s.
In the U.S., the latest rock album to hit No. 1 was AC/DC’s electric comeback,
Power Up. It remained at the top of the Billboard 200 for just one week, quickly being knocked off by BTS’
Be. The previous month, Machine Gun Kelly occupied the No. 1 spot for one week for his pop-punk debut,