Videos - Produkte, Technik, Projekte
Product - Waterstruck D-bricks
Petersen Tegl's waterstruck bricks are made on machines that reproduce the way in which bricks are made by hand. This gives a lively play of colour and a distinctive, irregular expression in the brick – available in 40 shades.
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Product - Kolumba™
Kolumba™ is a series of handmade architectural ceramics in an elongated format, developed with architect Peter Zumthor. Since 2010 Kolumba has been part of Petersen Tegl’s standard range and is now available in 34 rich shades with varied textures.
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Product - Cover™
A handmade brick product for both roof and façade. The bricks are fixed to a supporting structure, creating a continuous brick cladding. Developed in collaboration with Min2 bouw-kunst, the product has been part of Petersen Tegl’s standard range since 2011.
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Product - Special bricks
Petersen Tegl’s special bricks department was founded in 1990 during the restoration of Tivoli’s entrance in Copenhagen. Since then, it has created handmade special bricks for global construction and restoration. The video shows how they are made and used.
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Prefabricated lintels - production and building method
Modern buildings have an increasing need for prefabricated lintels for openings in masonry such as doors and windows.
The film explains how our lintels are produced and applied.
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Petersen Tegl - since 1791
Petersen Tegl was founded in 1791 in Skodsbøl.
Today, more than 235 years later, the brickworks is located in the same place and is owned and operated by the same family for 7, 8 and 9 generations...
Project - Boutique Hotel Badhaus
Boutique Hotel Badhaus is located in the historic centre of Brixen in Italy. It consists of two irregular volumes clad with vertical Kolumba™ bricks. The video presents the project designed by architects bergmeisterwolf.
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Project - Bellport House
Toshihiro Oki is the architect behind Bellport House on Long Island near New York. Its understated architectural language is supported by the light façade brick, which both reflects and blends into the rugged landscape along the Atlantic coast.
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Project - Z33 House for Contemporary Art
Behind a massive wall clad in handmade, diamond-shaped bricks lies Z33, House for Contemporary Art, in the Belgian city of Hasselt. The video presents architect Francesca Torzo’s reflections behind the refined museum.
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Project - Kannikegaarden Parish House for Ribe Cathedral
Kannikegaarden by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects both reinforces the Danish city of Ribe’s medieval qualities and represents a contemporary addition. For the project, a special version of Cover™ for roof and façades was developed.
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Project - Pillows Boutique Hotel
Office Winhov is the architect behind the transformation of a 150-year-old dissection laboratory in Amsterdam, which since 2023 has housed a five-star hotel. The video describes the project and the new guest wing with façades in special bricks.
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Project - Stadtteilschule Kirchwerder
Two organically shaped buildings, designed by ARGE Thomas Kröger / ZRS Architekten, form striking additions to the flat landscape south of Hamburg. A portrait of a remarkable project and its use of Cover™ bricks for facade cladding.
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Project - The Richard Cairns Building
Sweeping brick curves rise towards the sky and seem to challenge gravity in the Richard Cairns Building. KRFT and Nicholas Hare Architects designed this addition to Brighton College using Kolumba™ and Cover™ for façades and roof.
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Project - The Royal Playhouse
In 2008, the Royal Playhouse in Copenhagen was inaugurated, designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg after an open, international architectural competition.
A portrait of the building and its creation, narrated by the architect.
Danish with English subtitles.
Project - The European Hansemuseum, Lübeck
Piercy&Company developed three special versions of Kolumba for this building, whose subtle tones respond to the surrounding architecture. The video presents the ideas behind the building, completed in 2015.
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Project - Turnmill Office Building
Piercy&Company developed three special versions of Kolumba for the building, whose subtle tones respond to the surrounding architecture. The video presents the ideas behind the building, completed in 2015.
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Project - 180 East 88th Street
By choosing brick for a 160-metre residential building on the Upper East Side, DDG places the project within the distinguished tradition of twentieth-century skyscrapers in New York. The façades combine Kolumba™ and D-bricks in grey tones.
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Project - Museum De Lakenhal
Nearly 400 years of architecture come together in the restored and expanded Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden, the Netherlands. The project by Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven features grey-yellow bricks in special formats, arranged in refined, textile-inspired façade patterns.
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