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Pieces of timber lengths are fitted together on a external wall to create a athletically pleasing building but also is very weather resistant. Strong weather resistant envelope around the building
*Market Lane
Laugharne
Carmarthenshire
the aluminum foil allows slippage between firebox and cladding as a result of expansion during firing.
Built in 1928-1929, this eclectic Art Deco, Classical Revival, and Moorish Revival-style building was designed by Walter W. Ahlschlager for the Medinah Athletic Club, affiliated with the Shriners Organization of Chicago, which became insolvent during the Great Depression, declaring bankruptcy in 1934. The building was sold and renovated to become a hotel known as Hotel Continental, which opened in 1944, and was sold to Sheraton in 1947, becoming the Chicago Sheraton Hotel until 1978. During its time as the Sheraton Hotel, the hotel was expanded with the addition of the 26-story Modernist North Tower, built in 1961. The hotel then became the Raddison Hotel Chicago until 1983, before the hotel became an independent entity, known as the Hotel Continental, and underwent a renovation from 1986-1990, which restored some heavily altered sections of the interior and exterior, with the North Tower reopening as the Forum Hotel in 1989, and the Medinah Athletic Club Building opening as the Inter-Continental Hotel in 1990. In 1994, a more minor renovation was undertaken, and the two towers once again became part of the same hotel, the InterContinental Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile. The building is clad in Indiana limestone that features multiple setbacks as the tower rises, and is topped with an oversized Islamic-inspired dome and octagonal smokestack. The exterior features large carved reliefs in the Assyrian style at the eighth floor on the Michigan Avenue and Illinois Street facades, with large medallions at the corners. The building’s windows are mostly in unadorned openings, though some feature juliet balconies made of carved limestone, and windows in the center bays of the twelfth floor are separated by sculptures of people that form pilasters and pinnacles coming out of the walls. The corners of the building’s parapets feature stylized gargoyles, while additional ornate trim surrounds can be found at the seventh floor windows, which feature two levels of small columns, and at the fourth and fifth floor window bays in the center of the Michigan Avenue facade and at the western end of the Illinois Street facade, with other window bays on the fourth floor featuring decorative trim as well, including three arched openings on the Illinois Street facade. The base of the building features multiple storefront openings along both street frontages, with two-story entrance bays featuring decorative stone surrounds and paried arched bays at the second floor of the Illinois Street facade. Inside, the building houses many modernized hotel rooms, as well as intact historic common areas, most notably the pool on the fourteenth floor, which was the highest swimming pool inside a building at the time of its construction, and maintains its original Spanish trim details, including engaged columns, a fountain dedicated to the god Neptune, with a broken pediment with sculptural relief, a clock, and decorative engaged columns, decorative ceiling beams, blue Spanish majolica tiles, a tiered observation area, and decorative ceiling light fixtures. The pool is often referred to as the Johnny Weissmuller, after the olympic athlete whom trained in it during the early years of the building’s existence. The Grand Ballroom, which was restored during the 1980s renovation, features green marble columns, gold trim, a second-story balcony, domed ceiling, and massive central crystal chandelier. The Hall of Lions features a lot of carved lion reliefs, with marble wall panels, marble columns, a wrought iron balcony railing, and a coffered ceiling. Other notable features include elevator lobbies with hand-painted wall murals, some of which feature barrel vaulted ceilings, a lobby with a painted carved wooden beam ceiling and marble columns, and a historic meeting room with a painted beam ceiling and wooden panel-clad walls. The building is a contributing structure in the Michigan–Wacker Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The building continues to function as a hotel, and is one of the most upscale hotels along the Magnificent Mile in Downtown Chicago.
Dormer window with brown cladding as seen from front. If you use this image, can you please credit www.stormclad.co.uk.
Not sure of the age of this type of house on Prospect Heights but this one was clearly rendered useless simply by the horrid cladding.
using my old carrierbag collection to clad shed made from planks covered in hazard tape from an installation in an empty shop in Preston
Aside from the fact that this is a beautiful building, it's interesting because it was demolished in the 1930s on Stalin's orders but then replicated in the 1990s funded with public donations. The marble from the original building now clads the inside of one of Moscow's incredibly ornate subway stations.
Our neighbour has boarded along the side of his garage which adjoins our boundary. We are the only people who can see this from the narrow pathway that runs alongside it!
The Philharmonie de Paris made in 2015 by Jean Nouvel, client of THE FARM.
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© CLAD / THE FARM
Août 2018
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[Photo réalisée dans le cadre de la mission de communication digitale de THE FARM pour son client]
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CLIENT : www.jeannouvel.com
AGENCE : www.thefarmcom.io
The final part is the wooden cladding (This was a planning requirement as all existing openings had to look as if they were still openings!!!) We're very nearly finished almost 3 years after we started.