Journal Articles:

	San Francisco Chronicle "Shared spirit in 1 Kearny's styles from 3 eras" by John King The newest building of the 1 Kearny trio features terra cotta tiles and aluminum facade elements that give the building a sophisticated and current look.
	Iowa Architecture "Melrose Avenue Parking Facility Expansion, University of Iowa" by AIA Iowa The parking facility expansion receives a 2008 AIA Honor Award for Excellence in Design. The structure, designed by Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck Architecture, features Shildan's Terra Cotta Sunscreen and ALPHATON® Terra Cotta Rainscreen."
	May 2009 "New York Times building wins AIA National Honor Award" by Shildan The New York Times Building by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and FxFowle Architects was awarded a National Honor Award by the American Institute of Architects at the convention in San Francisco. The curtain wall was supplied by Benson Industries of Portland, Oregon and it included almost a million lineal feet of Alphatube ceramic sunscreens from Shildan.
	April 2009 "Fort Belvoir Army Hospital Moves toward Completion" by Shildan The Fort Belvoir Army Hospital, which is a state of the art Army Hospital containing 1.275 million square feet and intended to replace the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, is rapidly proceeding and will be completed by mid 2011.
	Ross School of Business "Our New Home" by University of Michigan In January 2009, the Ross School’s new 270,000-square-foot building opened for classes. This new facility is a 21st-century structure designed to help catalyze business education by supporting our unsurpassed commitment to action-based learning. It is a place built to nurture ideas that shape—and people who lead—complex, global organizations. FOR IMAGES GO HERE: www.bus.umich.edu/newhome/gallery.htm
	San Francisco Chronicle “European Tiles Take Hold in SoMa” by John King “It feels contemporary, but it also fits in alongside older structures” is how the San Francisco Chronicle described the Moeding terra cotta project in SoMa.
	Architectural Record "Atrium links two different masses" by Architectural Record The Biomedical Science Research Building, located at the northern edge of the University of Michigan’s central campus, becomes a new entrance to the university’s medical school. The building contains 250 research labs and various facilities for student socializing. Stainless-steel and terra cotta Rainscreen panels clad the laboratory wing, while a rainscreen curtainwall improves insulation and diminishes air filtration.
	Midwest Construction, July 2005 "Cook County's Originality: Courthouse Project Breaks New Ground" by Paula Widholm The renovation of a 19th Century warehouse into the Cook County Domestic Violence Courthouse pioneers the county's first Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design-certified "green" building and the area's first European rain-screen cladding system.
	PRWeb "Shildan's Green Terracotta Rainscreen Facade Improves LEED Ratings Up To 6 " by Shildan By utilizing unique terracotta rainscreen facades to decrease mold, improve air quality, decrease HVAC costs, and even improve outcomes for immune deficient patients, Shildan (www.shildan.com) is facilitating green development practices in many high-profile projects.
	ARCHITECT Magazine "Currier Museum of Art" by Vernon Mays Minimizing condensation was important in the selection of materials associated with the new climate-controlled galleries, and rainscreen construction promised the best performance. As the basis of the system, the architects selected Alphaton terra-cotta double-leaf tiles, manufactured in Germany by Moeding and represented in the U.S. by Shildan.

Books:

	August 2003 Tall Buildings by Terence Riley (Contributor), Guy Nordenson (Contributor) Tall Buildings explores how the genre is being redefined for the 21st century, presenting a critical review of the current state of tall buildings, discussing structural inventions, programmatic innovations, and social and urbanistic implications. Twenty-six skyscrapers and highrise structures designed in the last decade around the world exemplify these concepts. Each project, fully illustrated, is accompanied by an explanatory text. Included are Santiago Calatrava's Turning Torso in Malmo; Norman Foster and Ove Arup and Partners' Swiss Re Headquarters in London; Steven Holl and Robert Silman's 5th Avenue and 42nd Street Tower; Hans Hollein and Josef Janda's Monte Laa Towers; Arata Isozaki and Toshiko Kimura's JR Ueno Railway Station; Rem Koolhaas's CCTV Tower in Beijing; Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, Francisco Serrano and Alejandro Fierro's Los Arcos Bosques 1 in Mexico; Renzo Piano and Charles Thornton's New York Times Headquarters; Richard Rogers and Ove Arup and partners' HHR Tower in Korea; SOM's Jin Mao Tower; Dr. Kenneth Yeang and T.R. Hamzah's Elephant and Castle Eco-Tower; plus various World Trade Center proposals. There is a swelling of excitement about the tilting towers and broad swaths of unencumbered space made possible by new technology and the poetic visions of engineers.
	June 2005 Designing the Exterior Wall by Linda Brock This book presents the basics of building science along with a prescribed set of details with the goal of helping architects understand how to design buildings that are more durable. It features the details from real world projects in a variety of climates, successful and unsuccessful case studies, and checklists you can use on your own projects. The author of this book chose to recommend the terra-cotta rainscreen system as a superior envelope system and included the terra façade of the Glassworks Condominium Homes on its cover.
	March 2000 Sustainable Height by Deutsche Messe AG Hannover Administration Building by Thomas Herzog, Herzog & Partner BDA, Munchen This book demonstrates how the tower block building type can be constructed utilizing energy conscious construction and the conservation of natural resources. This is accomplished in part through the use of the Moeding back-ventilated and pressure equalized rainscreen system.
	Electronic Publications Rouch Houses by M. Rouch Notable rammed earth building Martin Rauch, with the assistance of architect Roger Boltshauser recently completed his own rammed earth home in Schlins, Austria. The house which was finished 2008 reacts in its position and in its character directly to the topographic gradient of the slim plot and its genuine landscape context: A monolithic structure becomes a sculptural bloc, an abstract and artificial nature pressed upward from the underlying earth.