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Testing

Last week had been eventful with performance testing. The real size mock up sample was probed for air tightness, water tightness, wind resistance, seismic behavior, among other specified crucial checks, simulating extreme conditions that may only happen o...

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A clear difference

Agnes Koltay and other facade engineering experts have been recently interviewed by Building Design + Construction magazine. Read the full article here.

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GRC mock-up

The first full size sample for a project with about 6500 m2 of patterned Glass Reinforced Concrete (GRC) panels has been fabricated in Abu Dhabi. Panels like this will clad the spherical core of the development, 100 meters in diameter, surrounded by glaze...

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Padidah Shandiz

Two towers, curved in plan, bending at the top to merge together. A strong architectural statement, clad in glass and aluminium. The base contains a large entrance lobby, with point fixed and structural glass beam supported glass roof, highly transparent...

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End of the year

It will not be as quiet as the photo of our office suggests! Last week we got appointed on two big projects, both with quite intense start. One of them is a Zaha Hadid project in KSA, complex and challenging. The other project consists of two elegantly tw...

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Shopping mall, convention center and hotel

Koltay Façades was awarded to assist Atkins with the design of a large multipurpose development in a Middle-East country. The complex is consisting of a large shopping mall with 5 glazed central courts, GRC clad large complex shaped convention center w...

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