Herzog & DeMeuron - Fünf Höfe, a mixed use cultural and commercial development, Munich 2003. Photos (C) Margerita Spiluttini.
This house has interesting adjustable vertical sun shades.
(via Bold Exterior Beach House with minimalist interiors | Modern House Designs)
Glass brick wall, very beautiful affect, and somehow none of the cliche of glass block that became a tired treatment.
Shutters in same material as wall cladding. See a lot of this recently - a new high-design meme.
With all the struggling we see to create higher performance windows, this strategy seems to make tremendous sense. No new tech is going on here, no triple glazed panes. Everything is off the shelf, and the frames have no new tech either - just aluminum clad wood. Yet they can out-perform all of the crazy expensive “Passive House” windows. Hmmm.
(via Skaala Alfa - marknadens energismartaste fönster - Fastighet och Bostadsrätt)
Another eastern EU window manufacturer with a claimed Passive House window.
The construction of the window looks interesting. There is an exterior cork cladding for an effective thermal break. This is backed by what I am guessing is a weather durable wood species, and then a different wood species for the interior frame and sash. The exterior is also clad in Aluminum, but it looks to be only a sill cladding - the location that benefits most from the durability of metal.
I like these un-equal sized sliders, door sized, with interior rail to become an instant balcony.
(via FRES architectes - Paris - Architects | world-architects.com)
Intus also offers this triple glazed vinyl frame, but as I’ve said before there is a lot available in the US in that combo.
