Journal Articles:

Building Design & Construction, July 2006
“Bring on the Rain” by Hannah Schroder

Designers turn to Europe for a durable rainscreen to cover Carnegie Mellon University’s new research facility and earn a LEED Core and Shell Gold rating.
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.
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.
New York Times
“Green Grows Up…and Up and Up and Up” by Deborah Snoolan, P.E.

When Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Fox & Fowle Architects were chosen as the winning team for the new headquarters of the New York Times, critics swooned over its façade of ultra-clear glass shaded by a scrim of white ceramic tubes.

With Lightweight Clay-Tile Cladding, New Station Seems to Float on Air”
Dating back to 1901, the old railway station in Amersfoort, Netherlands….was transformed…the architects, Bouw/Infra BV, of Amersfoort, used steel, clay-tile panels, and glass as the dominant materials in the distinctive new station.


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”
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.
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