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| Durable Dome |
A new type of resin-coated stainless steel, that employs fluororesin as a coating, is being used to cover the Nagoya Dome, an indoor baseball stadium in Nagoya, Japan. The dome is home to the Nagoya Dragons baseball team, of Japan's central league. Built to seat up to 40,500, the Dome, which is also used for concerts and other events, has a total roof area of about 120,000 square metres. |
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| Technical Guide to Stainless Steel in Roofing |
In architectural applications, stainless steel is often used because of its attractive appearance. Facades, interior cladding, lifts and escalators, handrails and parapets are some of the most typical areas of stainless steel use. The family of stainless steels, however, has more to offer than just good looks. Its technical properties make it an ideal choice for many other building applications, in which additional durability requirements are essential. |
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| Stainless Steel Service Centre in Gavà |
As a result of the emergence and application of new technologies and Spain's full integration into the European Union, growth has become a truly revolutionary factor of economic, political and social development. It is also the result of our globalised economy. It is within this context that the Spanish stainless steel producer decided to build its new Service Centre in Catalonia. In order to reflect the horizon of the new economy, the owner wanted the project to be an example of the latest industrial architecture. |
| Source: Euro Inox |
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| Stainless Steel Facades |
For more than 70 years, stainless steel has provided the external weatherproof component of many of the world's tallest buildings from the Chrysler Building in 1930 to the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur in the 1990s. Advances in materials processing and finishing technology, particularly during the past decade, provide the architect today with an increased range of stainless steels of higher quality, strenght and with a wide selection of surface finishes available for the interior and exterior of buildings. |
| Source: Euro Inox |
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| Sony Centre in Berlin |
The Sony Centre at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin is a complex of seven individual buidlings with a total florr space of 132,500 square metres. This lively urban ensemble comprises Sony's new European headquarters on Kemper Platz, a high-rise office on Potsdamer Platz, other buildings for offices, apartments, shops and restaurants, the historic Esplanade hotel, a film centre, which also houses the Marlene Dietrich Collection and, and entertainments precinct with an IMAX 3D cinema. |
| Source: Euro Inox |
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