Latest News in Fabrication Glass
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June 22, 2012Designers of the Ettley home in Manhattan Beach, Calif., looked to glass to create a striking exterior and interior, according to a June 21 feature from Easy Reader News. The exterior façade features cubes of blue tinted glass, and the interior includes glass partitions and a glass central staircase."I wanted to really stretch the limits of utilizing glass on a residential scale...in a way that...
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June 15, 20121 World Trade Center, now a year and a half from its scheduled completion, will look significantly changed from the original 2006 design, according to a June 12 article from the New York Times. One of the most notable changes is the podium, which was initially designed to feature prismatic glass cladding. Glass fabrication problems, first reported in Glass Magazine, led to a major redesign of the...
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June 13, 2012The Shard glass skyscraper from Renzo Piano has faced criticism since its announcement 11 years ago, according to a June 13 feature from The Guardian. See images and read more about the controversial tower, which has reach its full height and made a change to the London skyline.
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May 29, 2012The $38 million Morgan Street "L" station in Chicago opened May 24, according to a May 29 article in the Chicago Tribune. The station features glass-clad stair towers and a glass-enclosed transfer bridge.
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May 17, 2012The glass-enclosed Dale Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum at the Seattle Center opens to the public on May 21, according to a May 17 article from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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May 11, 2012Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture unveiled design plans for the "Dancing Dragons," a supertall pair of towers in the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul, South Korea. The buildings consist of slender, sharply angled mini-towers cantilevered around a central core, and feature a dramatic series of diagonal cuts that create living spaces that float beyond the...
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May 3, 2012Image by MIR.BIG Design's Cross # Towers in the Yongsan International Business District in Seoul will help to revitalize the Han riverfront, and will make a notable mark on the city's developing skyline. BIG's design includes two towers connected by bridges at the upper and lower levels, according to a release from the firm.
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April 24, 2012Photo by Jeff Armam PhotographyOfficials from Guardian Industries announced that its SunGuard SuperNeutral 68 is part of an advanced, energy-efficient curtain wall system on the Mercy Corps headquarters. The project has been designated a 2012 Top Ten Green Projects by the Committee on the Environment of the American Institute of Architects, according to an April 24 company release.The global...
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March 27, 2012A piece of glass fell from the 16th story of an office tower in Toronto on March 26, according to a same-day article from CTV News. No one was injured during the incident, which came on the heels of a similar glass breakage occurrence March 24 at the Trump International Hotel Tower in Toronto, according to the article.
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March 23, 2012Apple is planning a 165-foot-wide glass storefront for its new Portland store that will consist of 22 glass panels, according to a March 22 article from 9to5Mac. Pending approval by the city's design commission, the store would be made almost entirely of glass apart from the "thin membrane roof edged with metal" that is "hovering over the space," according to the article.
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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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