Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Hydro's Wicona
brand is going to deliver energy-saving aluminium building systems
for Spiegel Group's new headquarters in Hamburg. This is a
prestigious project that will change the look of the city and its
harbor area.
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| Spiegel wants its Hamburg buildings
"green." |
"Technology for ideas" is Wicona's new brand slogan. The brand
intends to prove, with the Spiegel deliveries, that the slogan is
right on target, and that this particular architectural design can
become reality.
Wicona will deliver a range of special solutions for the
"Ericusspitze" project, as it is being called, to fulfill all the
project's technical, visual and ecological requirements.
Indeed, a wide range of specific system constructions and
profiles had to be designed in order to meet all requirements, and
Wicona's project department accomplished what it set out to
achieve.
The Spiegel buildings will receive a combination of double-skin
facades with wood compound windows and triple glazing, a
stick-system curtain wall in structural glazing technology, and a
number of aluminium windows.
The energy and services technology concept of the building will
integrate aspects like ecology, economy and social integrity.
Sustainability was the key word for the integrative planning of the
project.
All curtain walls are energy optimized. The façade units
with a width of 1.35 meters comprise a transparent fixed glazing
and an opaque sash of 40 centimeters, and provide the buildings
with an overall transparent surface of 50 percent.
The aluminium frame constructions will be prefabricated in units
by the metal building company Schindler GmbH, and then installed on
site.
This production process guarantees short production and assembly
times as well as high manufacturing quality in the company
workshop.The entire building is planned to be finished by the end
of 2010.
Since 1952, the Spiegel Group has been headquartered in its own
building in the old town part of Hamburg.
Der Spiegel is Germany's best-known weekly magazine, similar to
Time and Newsweek in the United States and The Economist in the UK.
Its weekly circulation is above one million.
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