Skin of Architecture: Gold Cladding

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The Wohl Centre, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 2005 designed by Daniel Libeskind

The concept for the Wohl Centre, "Voices and Echoes", symbolizes the two essential components of the Bar-Ilan University: the secular and the sacred. Apparent in the form of the building is the interrelation between the dynamics of knowledge and the unifying role of faith.  -- architect's web site

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Arche Nebra, Wangen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, 2007 designed by Holzer Kobler Architekturen

Visible from far away, the body of the building is covered with yellow anodized aluminium and appears to float above the glass-encased entry level, in which the admission desk and café are located. The 60-metre-long abstracted ship houses two exhibition rooms and the planetarium.  -- ArchDaily

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Bibliothek Luckenwalde, Luckenwalde, Germany, 2009 designed by FF Architekten and Martina Wronna

The project involved the conversion of a former railway station into a public library and includes an extension to the existing building that houses the children’s library. The inclined walls of this annex are clad in shingles made of a copper-aluminium alloy. -- dezeen

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Tour des Artes, Les Herbiers, France, 2010 designed by Forma 6 and Martina Wronna

.... the building houses music and dance schools. The facade is clad in golden copper-aluminium alloy panels. -- dezeen

Source: Filippo Poli archdaily.com

Atlantida Auditorium, Vic, Barcelona, Spain, 2010 designed by UTE Llinàs-Llobet-Ayesta-Vives

.... a metallic revetment, a cupper-aluminium alloy, that leads the eye to the skyline of the complex and from there to the city of Vic’s one. -- ArchDaily

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Hans Klotz, Linkes Etschufer 12, 39100 Bozen (BZ), Italy, 2011 designed by monovolume architecture + design

The new administrative building will be wrapped by a gleaming skin, which at the same time quotes the old roof and underlines the new building’s independence. -- ArchDaily

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Firstsite Arts Center, Colchester, UK, 2011 designed by Rafael Viñoly

its horn-shaped golden curve contrasts with the Roman town’s orthogonal urban grain, and its stepped section, reminiscent of Wright’s Taliesin West, allows daylight deep into the galleries.  -- Architectural Record

Is Rafael Viñoly’s $44.3 Million Firstsite Arts Center Green?

Although RVA made an effort to achieve a BREEAM rating for the arts center, because the new 2010 requirements are more stringent than the earlier standards they were aiming for, they were not successful. However, ... -- Inhabitat

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Tidemill Academy and Deptford Lounge, Beirut, Lebanon, 2011 designed by Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects

Major shared facilities between the Lounge and Tidemill Academy include a suite of school/ community halls, a rooftop ball court, and kitchen/refectory. These have separate access points from within the school and from the public realm. -- ArchDaily

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Museum of Historical Markmenship, Berlin, Germany, 2011 designed by Gnädinger Architekten

The facade is clad with golden copper metal panels of various sizes, set in a uneven pattern; this has been executed by a tinsmith, in accordance to high craftsmanship standards. The result reveals a completely foreign body, an exciting new quality, both partly rigid and partly organic among the other houses in this idyllic neighborhood.  -- ArchDaily

Auditorium Atlantida, Vic, Spain, 2012 designed by Josep Llinas

.... the building is an extension to an existing music school and will include a theatre, an auditorium and restaurant. The façade features copper-aluminium alloy panels. -- dezeen

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Theatre 95, Cergy-Pontoise, France, 2012 designed by gpaa

The new extension will house a “flexible” 400 seat auditorium: the volume, which includes stage and technical areas, is blind, and covered with golden scales which bring light to a fairly colourless urban environment. -- ArchDaily

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Maidstone Museum, Maidstone, UK, 2012 designed by Hugh Broughton Architects

Clad with ‘gold’ shingles which hint at the museum’s collection of ‘treasures’ on display inside, the new East Wing provides the museum with a reinvigorated look making it the cultural focus for the town centre. Housing a collection of over 600,000 artifacts and specimens that are outstanding in their diversity and quality, Maidstone Museum forms the largest mixed collection in Kent and one of the largest in the South-East of England. -- ArchDaily

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The Hive, Worcester , UK, 2012 designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

.... the flamboyant gold-coloured TECU copper alloy cladding was requested by the client, who wanted the building to be populist.  -- Architecture Today

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Tower of Love, Blackpool, UK designed by de Rijke Marsh Morgan (dRMM)

The seafront chapel’s golden exterior is composed of stainless steel shingles, which cover the upper facade of the three-storey building. Nicknamed the Tower of Love, the chapel hosts ceremonies on the top floor, where a long vertical window frames a view of the iconic Blackpool tower. -- dezeen