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  • Great Glazing: Glass floor at Omni Dallas Convention Center Hotel
    February 20, 2012
    The basics: Interior designers for the Omni Dallas Convention Center Hotel strived to embody the city's rich history with the design. This design intent carried over to the entrance to the hotel sports bar, which features a back-lit glass floor depicting Dallas newspaper sports pages.The players: Interior designer, Vivian Nichols; glass manufacturer, Jockimo; glass installer, Trainor Glass;...

  • Great Glazing: Berrien Springs' Virtual Learning Academy
    January 13, 2012
    The basics: The Berrien Springs School District's Virtual Learning Academy features a striking, edgy design meant to echo the modern, advanced educational opportunities offered at the facility."We wanted the building's form to portray the modern style of learning that occurs within its walls," said Tony Leininger, president of CARMI Design Group, the project architect, in a release. The resulting...

  • Great Glazing: New York Middle School 114
    December 6, 2011
    "We had to create 20 individual panels of glass, each with two unique colors, with an abrupt change between the colors. We were using a spot color process so we had to create blended color palettes to achieve two tones of light and dark. Because all the layers of color are linked, if you pushed on one, it pushed on everything else."—Spencer Raymond, project manager, General Glass InternationalThe...

  • Great Glazing: Red Eye Brewing
    November 28, 2011
    The basics: With a focus on using local, sustainable and energy-efficient building products, architects transformed a Wausau, Wis., warehouse that once held an auto parts store into Red Eye Brewing Co. Expansive windows and doors, with low-emissivity glass, highlight the 6,000-square-foot brewery and restaurant.The players: Architect, River House Architects Ltd., Schofield, Wis.; general...

  • Great Glazing: Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine
    November 14, 2011
    The basics: The new $104 million Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine is a 144,000-square-foot facility and laboratory for stem cell research built adjacent to the University of California at San Diego campus in Torrey Pines, Calif. The facility features innovative architectural elements and mechanical systems designed to drive collaboration and scientific productivity, and also improve...

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    The ‘celebrity’ shower
    November 1, 2011
    When a celebrity asked Creative Mirror & Shower to create a shower enclosure that was "unique and made a statement," the company decided to incorporate an innovative backlit satin-etch glass into the design to illuminate the entire enclosure. "This large shower takes on its own ambience when the normal lights are off and the backlit satin etch glass stays illuminated," explains Mark Pritikin...

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    ‘King of the throne’
    November 1, 2011
    In the show's first-ever bathroom makeover, the DIY Network's "Man Caves" recently featureda shower enclosure using Trattini glass from Bendheim's Architect Series I collection.In the episode, the hosts—licensed contractor Jason Cameron and former NFL star Tony "The Goose" Siragusa—turn an outdated bathroom into a man cave with state-of-the-art design and entertainment features, as well as a...

  • Great Glazing: King of the Throne
    October 18, 2011
    In the show's first-ever bathroom makeover, the DIY Network's "Man Caves" recently featured a shower enclosure using Trattini glass from Bendheim's Architect Series I collection. 

  • GreatGlazing: Darlington fire company 9/11 memorial
    September 11, 2011
    The basics: On the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Darlington (Md.) Volunteer Fire Company dedicated a 9/11 memorial at its new Dublin Fire Station. The memorial features a piece of steel from one of the Twin Towers, enclosed in glass. According to a Sept. 8 article from Explore Hartford: The Aegis, the memorial would not have been possible without the support and services from...

  • Great Glazing: Where glass and metal fabrication meet
    July 25, 2011
    For this residence in Naples, Fla., Faour GlassTechnologies, www.faourglass.com, provided three sets of custom stainless steel and glass stairs, glass floors, a custom front-door system, and interior showers and mirrors. 
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