Since 2018, the Betonoase in 📍 Berlin Lichtenberg, Germany, provides a place for children and adolescents to come together, play, move, and exchange.
What makes the project, developed in collaboration with Gruber Popp Architects, so special are the monolithically constructed concrete walls. This was realized through the use of infra-light weight concrete, which is not only load-bearing, but also has a thermal insulating effect and thus makes an additional insulation layer unnecessary.
More about how this high-performance concrete is driving decarbonization in concrete construction will be explained by Managing Director Boris Reyher at the symposium "The Future of Building with Concrete" on March 29 in Hamburg. Find out more about the symposium via the link in our bio.

architecture: @gruberpopp
engineering: #schlaichbergermannpartner

photo credit 📷: Alexander-Blumhoff.com | TU Berlin/Alexander Hückler

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The 'Centre of the Unknown', a biomedical research facility in 📍Lisbon, Portugal, consists of two building complexes that provide space for research laboratories, exhibition areas, an auditorium and offices. To connect the two buildings and ensure an easy transition, the architects created a link between the two structures. As a result, a filigree structure made of steel and glass was developed. A glass cover surrounds the footbridge and in this way protects pedestrians from the elements. The railings and the bridge deck are also made of glass, thus ensuring maximum transparency of the approx. 21 m long bridge structure.

architecture: Charles Correa Associates, Mumbai
structural engineering: #schlaichbergermannpartner

photo credit 📷: Bellarpart

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The Monumento 11M in 📍Madrid, Spain, is a memorial to the victims of the terrorist attack on the Madrid Atocha train station on March 11, 2004.
The 11-m-tall glass cylinder is made of approximately 15,600 solid glass blocks. Directly underneath the glass structure lies a 500-square-meter room of contemplation painted cobalt blue. Accessed by an underground passage, it is lit by the sun during the day, while at night it is illuminated reverently by an internal spotlight. The inside reveals the "soap bubble," a transparent ETFE membrane imprinted with expressions of grief from people who passed by the site after the terrorist incident.

architecture: Estudio FAM
structural engineering: #schlaichbergermannpartner

photo credit 📷: Jens Meyer / SCHOTT

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Media Port Bridge spans the six-lane Lonteng Avenue in the newly developing 'Media Port' district at West Bund in 📍Shanghai, China. It serves as an important link for pedestrian and bicycle traffic across the district's main street. Designed to create a bridge that blends in with the modern architecture of the surrounding media and advertising buildings.
The wave-like structure of the beam bridge weakens the stiffness of the individual girders. As a result, the girders have been arranged offset from each other to overcome this design issue.
Due to the large width of the bridge, it was essential to design a varied view from below. So the undulating girders were coated in shades of yellow and orange to give the bridge a bright and friendly look for the traffic passing underneath.

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After completion, the Grand Opera House in 📍Shanghai, China will be one of the most important cultural landmarks in the city. The design concept of @snohetta is characterized by its curved shape, which visualizes motion and, with its stair-like ascending roof surface, is reminiscent of an open, traditional Chinese fan. The fan-like roof structure spiraling around the large central supporting column can already be seen on the construction site. This supporting column will later also carry a cantilevered staircase that leads to the rooftop - accessible to the public - creating a connection between the surrounding park and the new complex.
The opera house is expected to welcome visitors by the beginning of 2025.

architecture: @snohetta
structural engineering: #schlaichbergermannpartner

photo credit 📷: @studiosz_phozo / Justin Szeremeta

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The Terminal 3 at 📍Stuttgart Airport, Germany has been welcoming passengers for almost 20 years. A shed roof spans the entire hall, where passengers are directly connected to the corresponding gangways as well as to public transport. Structural highlights of the building are the tree columns. These columns are made of hollow steel pipes. Elegant shaped cast nodes connect the various branches with each other.

architecture: @gmp.architects
facade engineering: #schlaichbergermannpartner

photo credit 📷: Jürgen Schmidt

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The Brunner Innovation Factory in 📍Rheinau, Germany unites areas for assembly, development, office and cafeteria facilities under one roof. Like the furniture the company manufactures, the concept of the building reflects lightness and sophistication.
Modular timber trusses form the roof of the production hall. Their arrangement in the supporting structure is also indicated by the number of their respective lamellae. Thus, the main girders consist of three lamellae, the cross girders of two lamellae and the tertiary girders of one lamella. The trapezoidal sheet metal covering of the roof serves as a bracing element for the whole structure.
Brunner Innovation Factory was finished in 2018.


photo credit 📷: HGEsch Photography

architecture: @hennarchitecture
structural engineering: #schlaichbergermannpartner

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A new research center has been built for the pharmaceutical company Servier on the 📍 Paris-Saclay science and technology campus in France.
The main element of the new complex is a circular central building, around which six building wings are arranged. The types of facade, which were developed specially for this building, include a closed-cavity facade with an integrated mashrabiya in aluminum and a double curtain wall facade extending over three stories manufactured out of thermally formed, laminated safety glass units. The corrugated glass facade envelops the circular structure like a curtain, while the facades with mashrabiyya provide shading in the building's wings, giving them an unique appearance.

architecture: @wilmotteassociesofficial
facade engineering: #schlaichbergermannpartner

photo credit 📷: @javiercallejas_

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Europe's largest cultural institution, the #Gasteig in Munich, is undergoing extensive renovation measures as a result of its age. To ensure that events still take place during the five-year construction period, an interim complex has been set up on the premises of Stadtwerke München. For an efficient erection and dismantling of the temporary 'HP8 Isarphilharmonie', the supporting structure was designed as a steel framework with attached trusses. The outer building envelope is complemented by a glass facade and a roof covering. Whereas the interior concert hall was constructed as a cross-laminated timber structure. An old trafo hall, situated next to the new building, is now used as the foyer.

architecture: @gmp.architects
engineering: #schlaichbergermannpartner

photo credit 📷: HGEsch

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