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Pielmeier Architects planned the general renovation of the Straubing-Alburg secondary school. The challenge was to convert and renovate the building while it was in use and in construction phases.

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INTERVIEWS

The big picture

11/18/2025

Rieder provides customised facade panels with its wide range of fibreglass concrete elements. The publishers of Stylepark visited the team in Maishofen: To what extent do the products actively contribute to the energy transition, and what are the family-owned company's next goals? Find out in the interview.

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Heritage and progress

8/25/2025

Facade specialist Rieder has custom-designed the building facade for the new prevention centre of the BGW and VBG professional associations in Hamburg. The outer shell, made of glass fibre reinforced concrete, features six shades of red that blend harmoniously with the historic clinker brick buildings of the Hanseatic city.

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Flexibility for Great Ideas

9/19/2024

Thanks to a broad selection of different colors, textures, and surfaces available for the glass-fiber reinforced panels by Rieder the extension to the town hall in Zell blends harmoniously into its historical setting.

AWARD NOMINATION

Rieder: LUCE SILVER

6/26/2024

At just thirteen millimetres, Rieder's glass fibre concrete façade elements impress with their ecological, visual and technical properties. Over 28,500 design options are possible with the wide range of colours, shapes and textures – such as "luce silver".

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A Lively Look

4/18/2024

Rieder’s "concrete skin" panels form a distinctive shell for the new Heimeran office complex on Munich’s Mittlerer Ring ("Middle Ring Road"). The dynamism of this busy location is reflected in the high-rise designed by OSA Ochs Schmidhuber Architekten and the geometrical structure of the three-dimensional façade.

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A Leafy Learning Environment

10/11/2023

The "Schulen am SteinPark Freising" schools are embedded in spacious parkland. Structured on the upper floors by Rieder’s "formparts" their facades jell well with the outdoor world.

AWARD NOMINATION

Rieder 2023: PIXEL

5/11/2023

"pixel" is the name of the small concrete shingle that is the result of a smart development by Rieder: it can be used to realise individual building skins that protect the environment at the same time.

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Sustainable in New York

2/27/2023

Cosmopolitan living can hardly get any better: in the middle of Manhattan, a throw away from the Empire State Building and Madison Square Park, rises the skyscraper "277 Fifth Avenue" by Rafael Viñoly Architects. The Austrian manufacturer Rieder realised the impressive façade design with glass fibre concrete panels.

AWARD

Stylepark Selected Award 2022

11/28/2022

With the Stylepark Selected Award 2022, Stylepark honours the best new products of the year. These are the award winners.

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

9/28/2022

With a new CO2-reduced fiberglass concrete, the facade manufacturer Rieder wants to contribute to ecological change. The new building material also characterizes the facade of the new glemm21 headquarters.

ARCHITECTURE

Rieder 2022: CO2-reduced Fiberglass Concrete

9/12/2022

With its new glass fiber concrete, Rieder aims to gradually substitute cement completely in its products in order to become climate-positive by 2030.

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Light, air and sustainability

3/8/2022

The renovation of the Walter Höllerer secondary school by Coplan AG convinces with its sustainable concept. For the façade, the architects opted for "öko skin" by Rieder, a cladding made of glass fiber concrete in lath format.

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Place of exchange

10/28/2021

The Blue Bottle Café in Palo Alto convinces with its interlocking of interior and exterior space, for which the façade cladding "öko skin" by Rieder is also used.

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Sustainable fun with façades

3/16/2021

In Bochum, ACMS Architekten have designed a student residence based on the “Variowohnen” flexible housing concept. For the façade, they made use of “öko skin” courtesy of Rieder, a form of cladding comprising slatted wall panels made of fiberglass-reinforced concrete.

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A clear edge

9/7/2020

In a major project for technology and research currently under construction in Paris’ Saclay suburb, developers are making use of sustainable concrete skin façade panels as well as Rieder’s new molded components – the formparts.fab.

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A dynamic façade for a historical campus

7/17/2020

For the new datacenter at the University of Osnabrück, TTSP-HWP Architekten opted for a concrete outer skin made of glassfiber-reinforced concrete panels from Rieder. The result scores points not only for its look, but also in terms of sustainability.

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London for Everybody

9/30/2019

New and affordable living space in the East of London – Fletcher Priest’s prize-winning architecture uses glass-fiber reinforced concrete façade elements by Rieder for the purpose.

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Great curves

5/28/2019

Architecture for breathtaking views: Foster+Partners has designed an exciting high-rise complex in London. Rieder, the experts for fiberglass-reinforced concrete, helped realize it.

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Touchdown in the snow

1/10/2019

In Wisconsin, Rossetti has built a pavilion with a sledging hill. They used glassfiber-reinforced concrete panels by Rieder for the façade cladding.

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Two Alpine views with concrete

10/11/2018

Façade solutions by Rieder cut quite a dash in combination with wood, too.

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Unique and strong contrasts

11/28/2017

The “rr55” residential complex in Tyrol boasts an exciting façade thanks to the use of Rieder’s fiberglass concrete “vintage” panels.

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A concrete treasure chest

10/23/2017

South Tyrol’s greatest treasures are hidden behind the dark-gray façade made from “Fibre C” glass-fiber-reinforced concrete elements by Rieder.

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A fine gent in a lace coat

12/12/2016

Rieder’s facade of thin fiberglass-reinforced concrete provides an elegant canvas for the historic part of the Mount Stephen Hotel in Montréal.

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Flexible Concrete

10/10/2016

Rieder Smart Elements has produced fiberglass reinforced concrete elements for the University of Boston, which now adorn the facade of the new Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering.

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Slender concrete featherweights

1/12/2016

Rieder’s “fibreC 3D” molded sections give the façade of the new “Life Sciences Building” at the Vilnius University campus in Lithuania a clear and exciting structure.

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Sharp contours in the Wiesenviertel

11/26/2015

Andreas Ferstl (with Muck Petzet and Partner Architekten) modernized a residential and administrative building on Munich’s Bavariaring, imbuing the façade with lightness and a sense of depth using concrete elements of “FibreC 3D”.