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.

In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Jeanne Gang. A skyscraper that set the record for the ‘tallest building designed by a woman’ certainly helped her. More important, however, is the stylistic breadth and self-assurance in her designs.

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.

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".

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.

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.

"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.

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.