Trespa Launches Architectural Design Challenge
Trespa International B.V., with head office in Weert, The Netherlands, has been manufacturing high quality panels for exterior cladding, interior surfaces and other applications since 1960. This year, Trespa celebrates its 50th anniversary. Over the years, Trespa has become the leading producer of innovative and inspirational façade solutions. To mark the occasion, Trespa International has launched a competition for Architects.
Trespa 50 years Trespa Meteon has developed from an architectural exterior panel to an
impressive and inspirational design oriented range of façade cladding solutions. Today, Trespa panels are the material of choice for the creation of some of the world’s most outstanding façades. Frank Smolenaers, Market Manager Façade Systems for Trespa said:
“In the world of architecture and design, 50 years is a long time. The urban landscape is changing at a tremendous speed. Therefore it is reassuring to know that many of the façades that were created with Trespa panels in the past still look as good today as on the day they were first completed.”
Trespa Architects Challenge 2010 Introducing the Trespa Architects Challenge 2010, Mr. Smolenaers said: “This 50th anniversary is a significant milestone for our company and we certainly want to mark it in style. However, instead of looking back, we prefer to look forward. It is for this reason that we have decided to launch this competition. We invite architects to step 50 years into the future, design a façade, and win a trip to New York or Amsterdam.” All entries will be judged by a professional jury, which will include key
architects, Designers and Trespa representatives. The 3 winners will each receive a 3 day trip to New York or Amsterdam
for two persons. For more information about the Trespa Architects Challenge 2010 and details on the prizes, terms and conditions please visit
www.thinktrespa.com/architectschallenge.
Trespa Meteon for almost unlimited design possibilities Trespa Meteon panels are classified as high-pressure decorative
laminates (HPL). These panels are used to create highly individual decorative skins that enhance buildings around the world. Thanks to their unique characteristics, Trespa Meteon panels offer almost limitless
Denne wins £17 million in Extra Care Construction Contracts
Denne, which is part of the Leadbitter Group, has won two major contracts to build extra care retirement homes on behalf of Saxon Weald in the south east coastal towns of Rustington and Eastbourne. Both schemes, valued at £8.5 million each, have started on site and are due for completion in 2011 and 2012. The schemes will offer dedicated facilities for older people who need help and support with everyday living, including a full range of day care services and amenities such as treatment rooms, a restaurant, residents’ lounge and communal gardens. The first of the projects, in Rustington, is a three-storey scheme offering 62 one and two bedroom apartments available for rent and shared ownership, with access to on-site care 24 hours a day. Arun District Council, West Sussex County Council and Saxon Weald are working in partnership on the project.
Denne has been involved in the scheme from the start, assisting with the planning process and helping Saxon Weald to achieve funding for the project. Now construction has begun in earnest, with completion of this project due in autumn 2011. Further east along the coast, Eastbourne Borough Council and East
Sussex County Council are working in partnership with Saxon Weald to produce the second scheme in Eastbourne. This strikingly-designed four- storey building offering 62 flats for rent is due for completion in early 2012. This is Denne’s third extra care project with Saxon Weald in East Sussex. The build programme has already started, with enabling works to include the scheduled demolition of an old day centre and flats currently on the site. Graham Brown, Managing Director of Denne, said: “We are delighted to
be working again with Saxon Weald on two such important projects. The team at Denne has tremendous experience in delivering extra care developments of the highest quality, and we will bring all this experience to bear to deliver the best possible outcome for Saxon Weald and the future residents of these superb retirement schemes.” David Standfast, Chief Executive of Saxon Weald, said: “We know from
experience that Denne will build these much needed extra care homes to a very high standard, with excellent customer service.” The largest provider of social housing in the Horsham area, Saxon
Weald owns and manages more than 5,000 properties across Sussex and Hampshire, including general needs, retirement and shared ownership homes.
design possibilities. They are very durable in terms of appearance, also in combination with prolonged weather exposure, thanks to their weather resistance and colour stability. These panels are tough, easy to maintain and safe, as well as
environmentally sound. And because they are installed as a ventilated façade, they can help to create healthier buildings. Trespa Meteon panels are available in a wide choice of standard colours, textures and finishes – or colours can be custom-made.
Brick is the ‘Background’ to our Lives
RIBA presidential hopeful Angela Brady addressed architects, students and designers from across the UK at the latest Wienerberger lecture. Entitled Brick: As Safe as Houses, the talk covered innovative uses of brick, its aesthetic appeal and the performance credentials of this enduring building material. “Brick provides the ‘background’ to our lives,” said Angela, the director of London-based Brady Mallalieu Architects who has announced her intention to run for the RIBA presidency this summer. “I was born in a brick hospital, was taken back to a brick house, went to a brick school, studied at a brick university, lived all my life in a brick-built street.
“This is a building material that has been around for thousands of years and has remained popular because it is not only durable and beautiful, but also because it can be understood on a human scale – you can hold a brick in one hand and lay the mortar with the other. There is a great loyalty to it among architects and clients who are very fond of a brick finish.” A straw poll of attendees at the lecture, held at RIBA headquarters in
Portland Place in London, showed that more than two-thirds were currently working in brick with only a handful using more modern methods such as prefabricated timber panels or hi-tech stainless steel panels, Angela then introduced the 80-or-so invited guests to the inventive use of brick in the façade of several of the recent Wienerberger Brick Award winners and demonstrated a number of brick-based Brady Mallalieu Designs, including the eye-catching rotunda of the St Catherine’s Foyer and the splendid Highbury Crescent which used Wieneberger’s distinctive Smeed Dean London stock brick. Angela showed how the use of colour, texture and design can bring buildings to life and argued that the use of brick was not simply the ‘default option’ of the unimaginative social housing contractor, but instead offers an unrivalled pallet of aesthetic options, with inbuilt safety credentials.
She said: “Brick is an extremely adaptable material and can be used to
create some exciting contemporary designs or recreate the heritage finish of an historic building. It allows architects to express modern concepts while retaining a link to the historic British vernacular. Its additional safety credentials – as a fire retardant material with inherent strength – allows architects to focus on the designs without having to worry that they are compromising on safety.” Her talk was the fourth in a series of lectures sponsored by Wienerberger, the world’s largest brick manufacturer, and follows previous events headed by former RIBA presidents Maxwell Hutchinson and George Ferguson, and architect, historian and academic Dr James Campbell.
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