Transparent music hall uses triple-pane glass

Helsinki is located at the same latitude as the southern tip of Greenland, on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. Here, temperatures below minus 15 degrees Celsius are nothing unusual, and the average annual temperature of 5 degrees does not pamper the city's 600,000 residents with a lot of heat.

This is the climate in which the new Helsinki Music Hall is currently being built,as a highly transparent glass cube. From the point of view of heat insulation this may seem daring, but LPR Architects and the fa?ade construction specialist Normek Oy are making it possible - using triple-pane heat insulation glass from Interpane, according to a Jan. 27 report in The A to Z of Materials.

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