Description
100 meters long, 17 meters wide and 26 meters high: This is the Mercator One office and commercial building in the middle of Duisburg city center. The award-winning wing of the building with around 11,000 m2 of usable space is “the new entrance to the city, a figurehead for Duisburg”, says Bernd Muley, project manager at Hadi Teherani Architects, who designed the impressive building right next to the main train station. The highly transparent solar control glass from SAINT-GOBAIN was processed at the Vandaglas Radeburg from the CLIMAplusSECURIT network.
The striking building received the BDA Rechter Niederrhein Architecture Prize 2020 and won the ICONIC AWARDS 2021: Best of Best in the Corporate Architecture category. Around 4,500 m2 of highly
transparent solar control glass from SAINT-GOBAIN was installed in Mercator One: COOL-LITE® XTREME
60/28, COOL-LITE® XTREME 70/33 on the 6th floor and COOL-LITE® SKN 176. While this brings a lot of
natural light into the building, the high-performance coating keeps the indoor climate pleasant. In comparison
to conventional glazing, the room temperature can be kept noticeably lower.
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