Façade & Fenestration Industry: Innovations, Challenge...
Façade and fenestration industry is a technology-driven industry and innovations keep on happening in this industry. In today’s time, making sustainable buildings is the topmost trend in the construction segment,…
Photovoltaic Glass: Solutions to Make the World a Greener Pl...
Photovoltaic Glass Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) are photovoltaic materials that are used to replace conventional building materials in parts of the building envelope such as the roof, skylights, or façades. They…
Webinar on Designing and Building High-Rise & Ventilate...
We at WFM Media organised our first webinar for the Middle East region on 7th July 2020 on “Designing and Building High-Rise & Ventilated Rainscreen Façades”. This webinar, powered by…
Coming up with the Best Solution at the Most Feasible Price ...
What are the key parameters you while designing a façade? Designing a façade starts at the concept stage where we study the project’s function, aesthetics, location and surroundings. Those aspects…
Benefits of Performance Glass in Modern Façades & Fene...
Performance glass is a glass that provides benefits to its end users (building occupants). The glass helps in achieving benefits for the structure like reduced HVAC loads and light comforts.…
Glass & Glazing Technologies Increasing Efficiency of B...
One of the most prominent trends in the last few years in real estate has been the usage of glass façades. Most of the iconic buildings in Indian metros today…
Glass has Revolutionised the Façade Industry
In an interesting conversation with WFM, Ar. Mitu Mathur talks about her practice, their latest projects, the evolution of façade and cladding technology and trends in India and many key…
Always Relate Buildings to the Context
In a candid conversation with WFM, Ar. Anand Sharma, one of the founding partners at DFI, gave an insight into DFI as a practice, its design approach and projects. He…
Façade Lighting Creating Distinct Landmarks
A building’s façade is an expressive feature. Perhaps the only visible design element to the non-inhabitants is the façade. Creatively illuminated building façades convey messages, communicate emotions, create attention and…
Glass facade – A boon for the fenestration industry
Glass is one of the oldest and most popular material in building construction. Over the years, it has emerged as one of the widely used facade materials around the world.…
Effective – Exterior Wall Cladding
Cladding is an exterior finishing system a skin to a skin or an additional non-load-bearing layer that serves a dual purpose. It not only helps protect the interiors of the…
Latest News of the Facade and Fenestration Industry
Japanese Architect Arata Isozaki Wins the 2019 Pritzker Arata Isozaki – a Japanese architect and planner has been awarded the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Born in 1931, Isozaki was deeply influenced by…
Our Mission is Defined In ” Live by Design “
Established in 1981, Sikka Associates Architects (SAA) is recognised as an important architectural practice in our country, not only for its rich and varied projects but for its rapid growth over recent…
The Glass Age
The production of window glass started in 1836 in a factory in Belgium. Since then, the product has come a long way. Glass has become an inevitable part of any…
Intelligent Glass Façades for Sustainable Buildings
Sustainable. That’s perhaps the most spoken buzzword in architectural circles today. With climate change trending all social media, an increasing world population, resulting in limited resources being shared by a…
Facades of The Future: Materials & Technologies Revolut...
No doubt, façades are the most important building element from both the user's and the architect’s point of view. They are the most difficult to design too since the perception…
Designing Trendy & Timeless Facades
Facade is the most striking feature in any structure. It gives us an instant impression of the design of that structure. One can sense the volume of space looking at…
Pragmatic Approach to Productive Facades
Zak World of Facades, 22nd April 2016, ITC Maratha Hotel, Mumbai After the stupendous success of the initial three seasons, the fourth season of the Zak World of Facades conference…
Facade Designs & Materials are Constantly Changing ...
WFM: Please give us a brief introduction of your fim and a few of your recently completed important projects. Jonas Upton-Hansen: UHA is an international architecture and design studio based…
Energy Considerations in Rear Ventilated Façades
With the advent of Global Warming, energy efficiency and conservation have become paramount factors when designing a building. A typical building contributes to 40 per cent of the total power…
Ventilated Clay Facades – Building It With A Differenc...
Façade is the Architect’s opportunity to make a statement. Modern architecture has witnessed fascinating examples of visually enterprising facade statements. The architect’s vision is exemplified through the use of design…
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