case studies

In Riccione, Italy, a historic symbol of the social life of the Romagnola Riviera has been completely transformed by architect Antonio Scarponi from the Zurich-based studio Conceptual Devices. This is both a functional revolution, with the conversion of the original ‘Trampolines’ landmark into a hotel restaurant, and a technical-aesthetic revolution, with an architectural construction inspired by cruise ships and featuring an articulated facade made with DuPont™ Corian(r) high-tech (…)

The ultra-modern OVO Wroclaw complex comprises 50,000 square metres in Wroclaw, Poland’s fifth largest city. Designed by Gottesman-Szmelcman Architecture, with JSK Architekci as executive architects, this statement-making project is located near the historical market square and features an inspiring rounded façade made with DuPont™ Corian(r) high-tech surface in white colour. An astonishing 6,000 square metres of sophisticated Corian(r) wraps around corporate offices, 180 luxury (…)

Cuando el Hospital Chesterfield Royal del NHS encargó una instalación separada dedicada a pacientes externos de cáncer, las instrucciones para los arquitectos de The Manser Practice fueron las de crear un entorno clínico confortable, moderno y acogedor en el que el diseño contribuyera a crear el ambiente terapéutico del espacio. El entorno tranquilo y no clínico de las instalaciones ha sido reconocido por los Premios RIBA East Midlands, en los que el proyecto ha vencido a competidores de (…)

Montrouge, meaning "Red Mount," is a trendy neighborhood in the southern part of Paris. An office building named White Montrouge, was recently completed there, its name a reference to the 2,400 square meters of Corian(r) Glacier White cladding that make this building unique.
"We have designed the project like a landscape," explains Dominique Marrec, the architect. "We had to offer a workplace while providing gardens, terraces, and perspectives that would fit with (…)

Project developer HEJA, in cooperation with real estate agent and owner Laurentius (Breda, The Netherlands), realized the Stack project built by Van de Ven Bouw en Ontwikkeling, (Tilburg, The Netherlands) and designed by architectural bureau Marius van den Wildenberg.
At the top of the Loevensteinstraat and Valkenierslaan in Breda, twelve city villas rise: a transparent office building and two residential blocks with 56 apartments. ‘Stack’ refers to the stacking of geometric shapes from (…)

Superior functionality and aesthetical quality: a worldwide first for gasoline stations worldwide
High-tech, innovative architectural wall cladding made with DuPont™ Corian(r) solid surface was created for the entire network of SOCAR’s gasoline stations in Azerbaijan. This is a world first in architecture - all of the building structures for the national network of SOCAR gasoline stations are going to have external cladding made with DuPont™ Corian(r) solid surface, a high-tech (…)

A façade made from DuPont™ Corian(r) solid surface for the Seeko’o Hotel in Bordeaux, France
The sleek, icy white façade of the Seeko’o Hotel is making a statement in the dockland area of Bordeaux. Seeko'o means “iceberg” or “glacier” in Inuit, and from the start this was an unusual and adventurous concept.
Creating a designer hotel in downtown Bordeaux, on the left bank of the Garonne, was always going to make waves – this is a strategic landmark of a town, well known for (…)

DuPont™ Corian(r) is increasingly being used as a high-tech façade and exterior cladding material. For example, on an apartment building in Knokke, Belgium, which has been built with its façade and cornice work in Glacier White. The attractive surface is resistant to all the effects of the North Sea climate.
Sleekly designed façade
What do you do with a dated-looking building that is in a very visible location in a fashionable seaside resort? Well, developer DHR Projects from (…)

Unlike any other colour, white instills wideness, openness and friendly ambience. This output was used for the transformation of a dark and massive 1970s residential and commercial building at the central foodmarket square in the German town of Backnang. The result: a contemporary airy architecture with a shiny white cladding made of DuPont™ Corian(r).
The address Fruit Market (Am Obstmarkt) evokes images of the main square in an old market town. But unfortunately, this address in (…)

Health care professionals training area at the University of Barcelona (UB) Health Science Campus in Bellvitge enables study and research to be carried out with comfort thanks to the latticeworks conceived by the prestigious architecture company Pinearq. The latticeworks protect the spaces from the Mediterranean sun while allowing the light to pass through the facade’s design and the techno-surface DuPont™ Corian(r).
For the architecture company Pinearq, managed by Albert de Pineda, (…)