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Modern Architecture: Façade with Hexagonal Apertures (8 pics)

This façade by Australian firm Lyons is incredibly eye-catching. The new campus building for Warrnambool College in Australia has a glazed exterior made up of hexagonal apertures tilted down towards the street. The glazed apertures have a steel structure finished with zinc, and provide solar shading along with natural ventilation.



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Added by Eugene on July 20, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Modern Architecture: Rippling Water Facade (3 pics)



Created for bottled water brand H2O, New York-based architecture group Axis Mundi designed this retrofit facade on an office building in Barcelona that replicates rippled water. The facade, which mimics the undulating pattern found in waves, will be made of a polymer composite and suspended on a steel truss attached to the existing building.



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Added by Eugene on June 23, 2010 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

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