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HEY HONEY!

Is there a better role model for sustainable working than bees? Our Purchasing Manager Thomas Scholz asked himself this question and suggested company bees as part of the RAICO think tank - with great approval.

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Woolbeding Gardens Glasshouse — Jewel of Glass

It is quite literally an architectural jewel that crowns the Woolbeding Gardens in Sussex: When the diamond-shaped greenhouse opens like a gigantic bud, the Silk Road Garden of the venerable National Trust estate blooms…

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Calwer Passage

At the heart of Stuttgart's centre, the "Calwer Passage" passageway has now received a complete overhaul. In particular, the green façade sets an impressive sign of visionary ecological urban architecture.

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Sophisticated and reliable: just like a Swiss watch

The Swiss canton of Waadt is famed for its art of watchmaking. It perhaps therefore comes as no surprise that the EXPLORiT Edutainment centre in Yverdon-les-Bains will play host to an award-winning RAICO product: The THERM+ FS-I unites glass and steel…

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An experiment made of glass and steel

A building dedicated to science also calls for experimental architecture. The 18‚000 m² expansion of the ‘new’ experimenta Heilbronn already stands out due its futuristic silhouette: Behind the widely mirrored façade of spectacularly dimensioned…

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More space for organic products

Gesundheit und Natürlichkeit auf 55.000 Quadratmetern: Das verkörpern der Alnatura Campus und die Alnatura Arbeitswelt im hessischen Darmstadt. Das Projekt ist gleichzeitig ökologischer Vorreiter, nachhaltige Firmenzentrale und zukunftsweisender…

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ETFE - thought again

Boundless possibilities with “off the peg” profiles? With the world's first serially producible ETFE façade modular system, ETFE_THERM⁺ RAICO solves planning and design tasks in one go. And wins SILVER in the 2018 Architects' Darling Award…

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Modern style embraces Late Gothic

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Glaser is a contemporary witness, architect and former state conservator of the German federal state of Saxony. Over a period of decades, he fought for the preservation of the oldest Gothic church…

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Design is dictatorship

At BAU 2019 in Munich, many innovations will again be celebrating their launch. One of these is the RAICO trade fair stand created by designer Claus Neuleib, one of the managing directors of the company ARNO Design. We talked with this creative…

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Life in the Metropolis of 20 million

China is building its future – helped by technical expertise from the Allgäu. The air pollution in and around Beijing forces the government to take action. The solution: Saving energy with more eco-friendly construction methods – and not…

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Magic tool for dome professionals

Something complex can be so simple: Paul Rothe from Metallbau Windeck GmbH has developed a software solution for three-dimensional dome roofs that automatically recognises the neuralgic points during the planning process and digitally depicts…

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The animated building

Swinging Sixties, Beatles, Carnaby Street – and one of the first skyscrapers in Great Britain: When the 117 meter Centre Point in the middle of London was completed in the summer of 1966 it was the herald of a new age. Pop…

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Exquisite musical pearl of the Seine

Architect’s Darling, system developer’s masterpiece: La Seine Musicale is Paris’s new music culture centre.

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Working by hand

He’s the man they call the “master of the manual sketch”: Stefan Gauss from the company Freyler Metallbau draws technical details on paper even during consultations with architects…

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As unmistakable as it is unique

Customisation within the mass market is no longer just a trend, but a basic requirement. We all know about personalised mobile-phone tariffs and training shoes. Now it is the turn of enterprises that produce things like customised top-end…

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Kaiser Beckenbauer’s master builders

„Old Boys“ encounter with the champion record-holder: Architect Tom Ferster, site manager Christoph Eisenhut and RAICO founder Albert Inninger take a tour of the FC Bayern München ground and recall their joint construction…

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A Penfriend on Rügen

The CEO of steel erection firm FLZ held his breath as the new steel-and-glass domed roof was delicately lowered into place on the historic marine navigation tower on Cape Arkona.

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For safety's sake

Testing for wind load and air permeability – along with resistance to driving rain, fire and burglars – is part of their job. (From left) Tobias Sigg, Bernd Seemüller and Oliver Döring make up the RAICO test team. Their mission: to check…

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A day’s work in eternal Alpine ice

Office getting a bit cramped? Noisy workmates? Anyone complaining about their workplace might like to swap jobs with Martin Moser. He is a fitter working in Antarctic-like conditions on Germany’s highest building site, where…

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Guardian of the light

A glass roof is, for the people underneath it, more than just the decorative topping of a building. It supplies light, regulates heat, helps determine their mood and gives them something nice to look at, while also providing…

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The shape of things to come

Just like a proud new dad — at RAICO: the latest member of the company’s family of curtain wall systems is the THERM⁺ FS-I. Michael Kaufmann and his team have developed this steel curtain wall system using screw-in tubular profile sections.…