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A giant museum with a glowing alabaster facade and a roof in alignment with the nearby pyramids will house King Tut’s mummy and treasures along with thousands of other artifacts, according to a ...
The “Wow” comes from the vast scale. A translucent alabaster façade patterned with light and dark triangles changes hue as the sun moves. A Hanging Obelisk suspended over a base stands ...
Light permeates this civic hall designed by Magén Arquitectos in southern Spain through blocks of alabaster in the facade. The building is constructed from translucent alabaster and opaque ...
Some specific translucent facade systems include an air gap that provides natural ventilation. With this inclusion, the insulation stays dry, the building stays moisture-free, and polycarbonate ...
The translucent facade consists of large, rectangular slabs made out of recycled glass. The silky matt, structured surface gives the facade an alabaster-like appearance and its colour shifts with the ...
When the cathedral’s first rank-and-file visitors step in on Sept. 3, they’ll find alabaster cut into translucent panes left, right and center, 27,600 square feet of it, designed by architect ...
The translucent concrete used in the facade system works thanks to fiber optics, included as part of the aggregate within the concrete. In this project, LUCEM were able to position these ...
Lighting is installed under the glass, on the main steel structure, to lend it a softly glowing appearance from outside at night, while its translucent facade allows daylight to filter inside.
The resulting effect is a translucent hazy skin that allows diffuse ... installed a steel subframe to the existing building facade and connected individual baskets to this frame using steel ...
Think alabaster, the creamy, translucent rock that is ideal for carving into decorative objects. Exposed deposits of the delicate form of calcium sulfate happened to be found among the 900,000 ...