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Ceramic Tile Facades: ...any favorites?

ff33º

I need to gather image and product samples for ceramic tile facades.

Whats your favorite?

 
Aug 20, 08 12:46 pm

does the terra cotta one by piano in paris count?

Aug 20, 08 12:54 pm  · 
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also majolicahaus and otto wagner haus by wagner:

Aug 20, 08 12:56 pm  · 
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j-turn

Contemporary example: FOA's spanish pavillion in aichi:



But anything and everything that can be done with tiles is in the alhambra:



Aug 20, 08 1:14 pm  · 
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cowgill

Otto Wagners majolica haus - wien



Aug 20, 08 2:44 pm  · 
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waterhouse

Maybe holz.box will know, but I remember a nice house/doctor's office somewhere in Japan by Jun Aoki.

Aug 20, 08 3:11 pm  · 
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sharkswithlasers

Steven, any idea what's the connection detail on the Piano terra cotta? that effect is stunning.

Aug 20, 08 3:18 pm  · 
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appears to have been set into a stainless frame to make a panel, kurt. maybe sorta like gehry's handling of the brick at the vontz center in cincinnati? but, no, i don't know any more about it.

Aug 20, 08 3:29 pm  · 
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j-turn

If memory serves, that project is actually bricks mounted in a frame, he used terra cotta on the Alexander Plaz project.

Tiling implies a grid or repetitive patterns. This tiled facade by auguste perret goes against the typology because he didn't predetermine a pattern. He gave his tilers some petal shaped tiles, and some circles and asked them to to something floral with them. The result is varied, looser and more tactile.

25bis rue Franklin:




Aug 20, 08 4:03 pm  · 
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waterhouse

Did Hardy Holzman do any ceramic tile facades way back?

Aug 20, 08 4:10 pm  · 
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j-turn

another FOA tiled facade project: http://www.f-o-a.net/#/projects/626

Aug 20, 08 4:17 pm  · 
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job job

the foa penrose tiling vis-a-vis perret's is really intriguing, thanks
Charles Walker has done something not-facade, but not structure
There is also this ceramiskin I found interesting

Aug 20, 08 5:10 pm  · 
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fine line

Enric Miralles' Santa Caterina market in Barca. http://www.thecityreview.com/spain2.jpg

Aug 20, 08 6:21 pm  · 
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brian buchalski

what?!...no mention of olafur eliasson's platinum glazed ceramic tiles for the house tadao ando designed for a tokyo businessman/art collector?...here*...here...and, of course, here

*yes, i just posted you a link to architectural digest...it's better than you think

Aug 20, 08 7:28 pm  · 
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ff33º

whoa. I'll have a hard time trying to spec those ...

Aug 20, 08 10:12 pm  · 
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a-f

Athos Bulcão + Oscar Niemeyer = awesome!


Aug 21, 08 3:06 am  · 
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j-turn

oooo - those olafur tiles are nice! platinum - r u serious? That is super-Lux!

i wish the windows played with the hex pattern of the tiles more.

Aug 21, 08 5:06 am  · 
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j-turn

A good company to look at is Heath Tiles in California. They do nice stuff, and they're the sort of company you can work with to develop bespoke sollutions for shape, size, finish ...etc.

Aug 21, 08 5:12 am  · 
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fays.panda

BIG used some ceramic tiles in the VM houses, Copenhagen. I don't really like it, but take a look at it

Aug 21, 08 5:20 pm  · 
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citizen


The Hollywood branch of the LA Public Library by Gehry, one of my favorites of his. The blue bulkhead in the foreground is good old 4x4 glazed ceramic tile.

Aug 22, 08 11:16 am  · 
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rira

This bad boy by cloud 9 is pretty great



the other side



It's not usually my kettle of fish but I love the tiles

Aug 22, 08 11:28 am  · 
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Derek Lindner

What, no mention of Sidney?


(photo Marinco Kojdanovski)

Aug 25, 08 6:01 pm  · 
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MADianito

Santa Catarina Market roof, designed by MAKOTO FUKUDA for EMBT

Aug 25, 08 6:47 pm  · 
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MADianito

oopppssss sorry "facades", well this was a fifth facade as Corbu would say...

Aug 25, 08 6:51 pm  · 
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s_11

ZIP complex (Vienna 2007).  The ventilated façade with its protruding volumes reminds of a zip fastener. Architect Semir Zubcevic.

Aug 25, 11 6:40 am  · 
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Medusa

Casa Batllo in Barcelona.

 

Aug 27, 11 1:12 pm  · 
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asroos

Another interesting option:

 

http://www.designerpages.com/products/405-Mirage-Porcelain-Stone-Rainscreen-Cladding-Panels

Aug 29, 11 2:04 pm  · 
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justavisual

westminster academy by ahmm:

central st giles by renzo piano

Aug 29, 11 4:29 pm  · 
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l0sts0ul

mmmm thats hot

Aug 30, 11 12:45 am  · 
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randomized

The now demolished Zwarte Madonna by Carel Weeber:

Dec 19, 16 7:36 am  · 
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