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December 21, 2011Year-long renovations are complete at Concourse A at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, according to a Dec. 20 article from the St. Louis Business Journal. The new improvements include art glass screens designed by nine local artists.
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December 19, 2011A new church in Canada's Saskatoon is using high-tech solar panels alongside traditional stained glass. Artist Sarah Hall said blending modern solar panels with more traditional stained glass builds on familiar Bible themes, according to a Dec. 17 CBC News article.The cathedral cost more than $28 million and is the first in the world, Hall said, to incorporate solar panels in the art glass,...
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December 16, 2011Custom Components Co. announced the award of a new project: Palazzo Apartments at Vitruvian Park in Addison, Texas. The company will supply more than $850,000 worth of its Series 525 and Series 650 aluminum railing, featuring 3/8-inch tempered and laminated glass infill with DuPont’s SGP interlayer. The project architect is Good, Fulton & Farrell Architects, and the general...
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December 9, 2011The last pieces of glass arrived at Lambert Airport in Bridgeton, Mo., this week to replace windows in the main terminal damaged by the Good Friday tornado last April. Each section of glass was individually fabricated to fit large glass windows that line four domes along the front of Terminal #1.
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December 7, 2011A vigilant Apple store enthusiast in Houston has learned that the future Highland Village Apple retail store will be a down-sized duplicate of the Upper West Side store in New York City, featuring a similarly arched glass roof, according to a Dec. 5 ifoAppleStore.com report. Like the UWS location, the store will feature an all-glass storefront and glass roof. Unlike UWS, the rear of the store...
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December 5, 2011President Obama announced Dec. 2 nearly $4 billion in combined federal and private sector energy upgrades to buildings over the next 2 years. The $4 billion investment includes a $2 billion commitment to energy upgrades of federal buildings using long-term energy savings to pay for up-front costs, at no cost to taxpayers.These investments will save billions in energy costs, promote energy...
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November 28, 2011The $137 million federal courthouse opened Nov. 28 in Buffalo, N.Y., according to a same-day article from the Associated Press. The building is encased in glass and features a curved pavilion featuring glass etched with the text of the U.S. Constitution, according to the article.Read a Glass Magazine GreatGlazing about the project.
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November 28, 2011The Porsche Design Group announced plans for a new 57-story residential tower in Miami that will feature all-glass car elevators, according to a Nov. 28 article from Media Bistro. The building will cost an estimated $650 million to build, according to the article.
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November 16, 2011The American Institute of Architects’ Committee on the Environment named its top 10 green building projects for 2011, and at least three of them featured environmentally advanced glass from PPG Industries:Step Up on 5th in Santa Monica, Calif., and The Lofts at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles both feature Solarban 80 glass, a high-performance architectural glass by PPG designed to maximize...
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November 11, 2011A 200-foot walkway with glass floors and railings has been built on the side of Tianmen Mountain in China, 4,700 feet above sea level, according to a Nov. 11 article from the Daily Mail. The bridge is 3 feet wide and features 2.5-inch-thick glass.
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Viracon, Inc. officials announced that the glass fabricator will make an investment of more than $30 million at its Owatonna, Minn., facility, to install a new coater. The company decided to install the new coating technology in Minnesota because the Owatonna facility is centrally located and has the most extensive product capabilities and technical talent, according to a release....
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Officials of PPG Industries announced several executive appointments, February 21, that are effective immediately.Michael McGarry, PPG executive vice president, has assumed leadership responsibility for the company’s flat glass businesses. He will also lead PPG's architectural coatings businesses in the Americas and Asia Pacific, as well as the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region....
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As the prognosis for the design and construction industry continues to improve, the Architecture Billings Index is reflecting its strongest growth since November 2007, according to the American Institute of Architects. The January ABI score was 54.2, up sharply from a mark of 51.2 in December.“We have been pointing in this direction for the last several months, but this is the strongest...
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