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Opened in 2017 the Elbe Philharmonic Hall has become an
architectural icon – boasting a host of unique façade solutions.
Photo/Copyright: Cordelia Ewerth

glass elements inserted are of the two concert rooms six The exhibit provided by with the glass was realised
spherically bent. Another inside terraces were built. 5 Define Engineers, Carpen- with Dow’s transparent
1,700 units were inserted metres high and 6.45 me- ter/Lowings and seele was TSSA silicone structural
flat but all elements are tres wide so-called tuning about gravitation in the adhesive. Another superla-
made of low-iron oxide forks made of glass fibre broadest sense of the word. tive was the world’s big-
glass to ensure particularly reinforced plastic accept It demonstrated techno- gest bent glass sheet with
clear views. Both element three spherically bent panes logical progress in glass a curve length of 8,000
sizes were produced with each and open the façade processing, adhesive de- millimetres and a height of
an outside curvature and to the loggia located behind velopment, high-precision 3,200 millimetres in ther-
with an inside curvature it like an inside balcony. In technology and manufac- mally pre-stressed glass
offset by 350 millimetres the flat wing of the building turing. A car turned upside presented by Northglass. A
towards the inside. Oval these tuning fork elements down was suspended from specially developed furnace
pivot windows allow the are 5 metres wide and 3.33 just two thin glass panes technology allows heat-
rooms to be naturally ven- metres high and accept two between a steel tripod. The ing and cooling the glass
tilated. Each pane of the spherically bent laminated laminated panes measured on transport rollers all the
façade features a chrome security glass panes printed 1 x 2.20 metres and con- way. With this process the
dot screen print and a sec- with dot screens. The lat- sist of two 2-millimetre, best optical quality of the
ond coloured dot screen ter were on show as sam- partially pre-stressed glass bent glass can be ensured.
print. The small reflecting ple elements from the Elbe sheets provided by Glas-
chrome dots vary, thereby Philarmonic Hall alongside ton that were laminated NIEMEYER SPHERE
making each window ele- other Gartner exhibits at with SentryGlas by sedak. In the listed brick buildings
ment a one-off. In the area glass technology live. The primary connection of the Kirow-Werke in Leip-

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