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March 2, 2010
The basics: The Tellepsen Family YMCA, Houston, a design-build project, partnered the architect, general contractor, glazier, glazing system manufacturer and glass fabricator. The building features YMCA lettering across the face of the curtain wall, spanning three floors. In addition, the design required a combination of vision glass, graphic dot patterned glass and spandrel glass. The glazing ...
March 2, 2010
The basics: Peddie School, Hightstown, N.J., completed in January, features a decorative glass façade spanning two sides of the building with the word Peddie on the glass. The glass features a custom SGX interlayer and custom 1/8-inch vertical white lines.The players: Architect, RMJM Architects, Princeton, N.J.; general contractor, Skanska USA Building Inc., Parsippany, N.J.; glass ...
March 2, 2010
The basics: Wellesley Square, part of the Croydon, United Kingdom, central area redevelopment, is a mix of residential and retail areas and a 44-story tower still in the planning stages. The tower, which will house luxury apartments, will be clad with colored glass, and is designed to represent an image of a crocus when viewed from a distance.The players: Owner, Berkeley Homes, Croydon; ...
Flow of Life >> Meltdown Glass Art & Design
September 28, 2009
Flow of Life is a colorful, wall-mounted glass art installation in the entrance lobby of the Health Sciences Building at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Williams Campus, Gilbert, Ariz. The 8.5-foot-high by 15-foot-wide cast glass mural is located on the interior main wall facing the glass curtain wall at the front of the building.“The artwork was created in steps,” says BJ Katz, ...
Vortex Mall of Arabia, APG International Inc.
September 27, 2009
Al Hokair Group, the largest owner of shopping malls in Saudi Arabia, appointed APG International Inc., Glassboro, N.J., to design, engineer, manufacture and install a large glass artwork element called the Vortex at the Vortex Mall of Arabia, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The concept design was to create a free-form glass structure suspended from the roof as a continuation of the ceiling, says Ed ...
Homeowners get creative with applications
April 20, 2009
Homeowners are getting increasingly creative with their decorative glass applications, as shown in this private residence stairway project completed by Goldray Industries. See other project ideas in our online photo gallery. Perhaps because it is viewed as a natural, green material, or perhaps because of its design flexibility, glass is popping up in homes across the country in traditional ...
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April 3, 2009
Glass tiles have crossed the Atlantic and made their way to the U.S. market in the form of gorgeous bathroom walls, kitchen backsplashes, countertops, mosaic floors and swimming pools. Made of float, cast, fused and recycled glass, they continue to increase in demand and popularity due to their aesthetic, water-resistant and low-maintenance characteristics.
April 1, 2009
Glass Magazine editors asked Beth Novitsky, senior associate of Brand Design at Gensler, the New York, N.Y., architectural firm that General Glass International hired to brand its new direct-to-glass printing capabilities, how the Brand Design division works. Gensler employs 2,500 architects, designers, planners and consultants in 31 offices around the world.
The process of introducing a new product is never linear
April 1, 2009
What comes first, the process or the product? For General Glass International, Secaucus, N.J., the impetus to buy one of the first direct-to-glass printing machines in the United States came at GlassBuild America in 2007.
November 26, 2008
In addition to solar technology and products, the 20th glasstec was a treasure house of gorgeous and innovative decorative glass. Other than decorative glass booths that looked like pieces of art, stunning decorative glass panels—painted, acid-etched, silk-screened, sandblasted and more--surrounded the glass technology symposium area. The eye-catcher of the show was a bent bridge of ...
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