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With our Rockpanel Stones range, the possibilities are virtually infinite. Bending, shaping, curving, engraving, perforating: you can do it all! Get inspired by our range of 13 designs and colours or talk to us about a customised design. Our panels are light-weight, durable, fire-resilient and easy to clean and handle. The Tower of Babel was a structure built in the lan...

At Rockpanel, we feel everyone deserves to be in a safe environment. No matter where you live, work, play or learn: safety comes first. To ensure fire safety in high-risk and high-rise buildings, we should all work together. Each and every one of us should take responsibility and do their part. We’re building the future together. Let’s do it the right way. Fire-proof, fu...

We’ve been renewing our entire portfolio of products to offer more choice and deliver a solution for every facade you can imagine. Our new expansive portfolio ranges from Basic Applications all the way through to our Premium Facades. Combine your creativity with our FS-Xtra boards (A2-s1, d0) and there is absolutely no compromise on fire safety. Within Basic Applicati...

Easy, low-maintenance and attractive – these were the requirements for the façade of the extension to a special needs school in Pfarrkirchen, Bavaria. The solution was a rear-ventilated façade with Rockpanel Colours façade boards. Three different shades of green and the irregular layout with slanting joints create varied and vivid cladding. As a school that focuses on...

Located in the Hippocrate Commercial Area to the east of Montpellier, the Fahrenheit building accommodates several businesses and medical offices. This refined and HQE-certified architectural design blends elegantly into its environment.

In addition to providing a sense of community and proximity to green space through their design, 2by4-architects also aimed to achieve an expressive contemporary architecture with strong identity and warm, natural finishes. As part of this objective, the architects initially proposed an exterior finish of smooth white render in combination with natural wood cladding. In ...

Energy optimisation and a natural match with the surroundings are among the key benefits of a new school building in Copenhagen, Denmark. The school, Skolen i Sydhavnen, is designed by JJW Architects, and is built according to the Danish low-energy class 2015. The artist, Peter Holst Henkel, has made the artistic decoration and the façade has become like a canvas, beauti...

Designed by Architectenbureau Coppen, the symbolism of a tree is used to organize new uses and new ways of teaching within an existing traditional corridor-style school. “Teaching is no longer about telling children facts. It is about sharing ideas to foster enthusiasm for a new world, not the world we think we know,” says architect Hans Coppen. “People gather around a t...

A new office building with attractive workspace and a new 4,500 m2 heating technology building were designed. It accommodates training rooms for employees and customers, engineering and testing laboratories and a warehouse and shipping section. The key role of wood in fuelling BRUNNER products is reflected in the natural design and feel of both buildings, clad in ROCKPAN...

“Chameleon” façade panels in the new Light Purple/Light Brown design display a subtle play of colour in pastel shades. Façade panels in the new Red/Gold/Purple design are stronger in tone, but again in the warm earthy red range. A façade bearing panels in the new Purple/Green/Blue colour combination creates a cool, very classic impression. “They evoke reflections in dark...

Natural shapes with a nod to the past The themes explored in the artwork by Artist Christopher Tipping are conveyed through dynamic mark making and linear drawing, routed into the ROCKPANEL surface. The work evokes the history of cutlery & silverware manufacture in the city via techniques associated with it such as engraving & chasing, suggesting the role of an individu...

BIM data files can be used to create a realistic visual display of buildings and improve the reliability of communication on planning and among the various trades involved, including architects, engineers, and contractors during construction. This has the potential to reduce waste, inform logistics and improve efficiencies through collaborative working. It can also provi...

Architects Vyvey & Partners won a design competition for an apartment complex in the Belgian town of Ypres with their striking submission for social housing company, Ons Onderdak. The project uses a restrained palette of three tones of grey brick, together with white, partially curved, ROCKPANEL boards. Despite the ultra modern look, the building fits well amongst t...

BRE Global officially handed over the European Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certificate to ROCKPANEL at a conference in Watford. The verification is based on product data collection and a Life Cycle Assessment at ROCKPANEL by BRE Global. “When BRE Global launched the European EPD program we immediately confirmed our participation. Since we have a proven tra...

“Our design pays homage to the history of Leusden. Not only to the collection of small towns and villages that it has evolved from but also to the fabulous landscape. Almost every apartment is different and offers an unspoilt view of both the city and the land”, says Architect Lars Zwart. Natural shapes with a nod to the past “Our immediate instinct for this unique s...