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Wander through the pages of this new issue of Focus on Zinc, where you will discover pertinent, meaningful architecture illustrating the wide range of applications for zinc. Whether a museum, a church, commercial buildings, collective or private housing: all the projects published in this issue demonstrate the firm intentions of designers who are increasingly choosing our material for its extraordinary adaptability. At the same time, the wide diversity of programmes also demonstrates how VMZINC® solutions and surface aspects contribute to shaping the identity of the buildings. In some contexts,...

PUBLIC BUILDINGS From several to a single one In the port of Odense, culture is gradually replacing industry. The closure of the shipyards in Denmark's third largest city is counterbalanced by the growth of the commercial sector and the creation of focal points such as North Atlantic House. This cultural centre is intended to be an open door to the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland, three island nations which were formerly part of the kingdom of Denmark and which are depicted here by three separate buildings making up a virtual Nordic village. Each entity is presented like a rock, evoking...

COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS Shed 2.0 The Vitoria-Gasteiz tram network maintenance centre The architects genuinely wanted to place natural light shares the same architectural quality as the lines it at the centre of the project and developed a highly serves. Located in a residential area, this industrial sophisticated version of this system. The north-facing facility was designed to blend harmoniously with its roof windows, which are aligned with the naves of the surroundings. The architects chose zinc because they main hall, continue down onto the facade, blending considered it to be more prestigious...

INDIVIDUAL HOUSING Secret garden The Myamyn house has two faces: on the street side The chief Historic Monuments architect approved it is a Victorian house built in 1880 that is perfectly the project with its strong zinc component – or integrated into this late 19th-century residential thanks to it! Although the house combines several neighbourhood in the Melbourne suburbs. On the materials – stone, cement panel, zinc – the dominant garden side, it is a highly contemporary house element is without doubt metal. The sombre colour featuring all the codes of modernist architecture: of the dark grey...

COLLECTIVE HOUSING A village in a building Just a stone's throw from the historic centre of Saint-Malo, a leading tourist destination in France's Brittany region, an apartment building has just been built on land that had formerly been the site of a printing shop. The innovative nature of the building is invisible from the main street: in accordance with urban planning rules, Philippe Loyer's architecture firm built a 6-storey building aligned with the road. Expert observers will notice the broad terraces and houses on the roof, which on the rear facade look like a series of huts in a terrace-like...