From: Linda Briscoe Myers (briscoe@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: 01/29/03-07:26:13 PM Z
Herzog and de Meuron did a building in Switzerland for Ricola where
there were glass panels photo-etched with an early image of a leaf.
You can see images here
http://www.spiluttini.com/d/kontakt_2406.htm
But it's not concrete! It is cool though!
Linda
>Last night my partner and I went to a lecture about Swiss
>architecture. We saw a slide of a library in a small town in
>Switzerland that was decorated on the outside with photographs. The
>photographs were somehow embedded in or printed onto concrete!
>there was no question and answer period after the lecture so we
>couldn't find out how this was done. We thought it might be a
>relief sculpture, as it were, perhaps made by a process like
>photogravure where the forms of the concrete had been treated with a
>photopolymer emulsion like on Solarplate, so that the concrete
>retained the impression of the photograph. Also we thought it might
>have been done with Liquid Light, but would Liquid Light be able to
>withstand weathering outside?
>
>If anybody knows anything about this process or this building, we'd
>be interested.
>
>--shannon
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