Over the years, the wrought-iron courtyard balconies of this late 19th-century block of flats had become so seriously dilapidated that a restoration of the existing construction was out of the question. The balconies had to be renewed, yet at the same time the character of the former structure was to be retained. Each of the new prefabricated balcony elements is suspended from the facade at only two points: via two-metre-long threaded anchor rods concreted into the external wall at the top of the balustrade.
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