Creating a warm aesthetic and comfortable atmosphere, OKAWOOD Insulating Glass with a Wooden Grid encapsulates natural wood grilles between the panes of glass which provide solar protection for the interior and preserve the natural raw material and its inherent color tones.
MoreTriple-paned insulated glazing with SunGuard SuperNeutral 70/37 and a slatted wood screen reduces solar glare, building heat gain and the need for solar and privacy shading. Designed with integrated sustainable features, it is LEED Gold certified. A hospital must carefully monitor light penetration as well as solar heat gain to protect its visitors, and therefore needs high-performing glazing such as SunGuard SuperNeutral 70/37. The multifunctional coating offers strong solar protection and thermal insulation.
MoreTaking part in a unique project, Guardian Glass supplied UltraMirror glass for Saudi Arabia’s new Maraya Concert Hall, carrying the unique distinction of being the world’s largest mirror-clad building by the Guinness World Records. Reflecting the surrounding mountains of the Al-Hijr Archeological Site in all their glory, the unusual building is expected to boost tourism and interest in the country’s first UNESCO heritage site. Challenged to develop this unique application in a short time frame, Guardian’s innovative efforts have produced a new value-added product.
MoreLocated in Seattle’s thriving and diverse South Lake Union neighborhood, 9th and Thomas provides a welcoming presence for the growing population of downtown Seattle and serves as a model for sustainable building design.The 12-story, 230,000-sq.-ft. office-retail complex, certified as LEED Gold, features an ultra-low-energy HVAC design, chilled beams that heat and cool with minimal airflow, a heat-recovery chiller that “pumps” heat from hot to cold spaces, and a dedicated outdoor air system that provides increased fresh air ventilation to all spaces. Designed by Olson Kundig Architects, the building also includes 12,000 sq. ft. of flexible, interconnected retail sp
MoreArt Deco Complex Revitalized. Located in downtown Minneapolis, which averages 53-in. of snowfall per year— double the snowfall of the rest of the country—–the historic Baker Center offers more than a million sq. ft. of mixed retail and office space. The historic structure is actually a composite of four Art Deco buildings, and the challenge was pulling them all together with a single façade that would not only look sleek, but be thermally efficient against tough northern winters. Three of center’s the original buildings—the Baker Building, the Roanoke building and the Investors Building—were built in the 1920s. The fourth piece of the complex—the 730
MoreAn all-glass entryway and curtainwall system combine to deliver a striking façade at 9001 Cypress Waters in North Dallas, Texas. Unique T-shaped mullions and extended face caps support the thermally broken curtainwall’s clean, streamlined spans of glass. GFF Architects’ design also features a four-story trellis made from layered aluminum tubing.
MoreFeaturing three outward-flaring sides and expansive windows glazed with Vitro’s Solarban 60, Bumgardner Architects-designed Kinects Tower is a residential skyscraper in Seattle. Large expanses of low-E glazing feature spandrels with ICD High Performance Coatings’ Starbright Silver Opaci-Coat-300 coatings.
MoreThe AA 3200M Thermal Sliding Door, complete with its IsoPour Thermal Break Technology, merges the pour and debridge thermal break with polymer isolator technologies. Features include interior and exterior dual finish capabilities, low and standard threshold options, stainless-steel casters, tracks and fasteners, and an insect screen.
MoreTubelite has introduced its 400SS Series thermal, screw spline, aluminum-framed curtainwall. While the system can be pre-assembled, pre-sealed and pre-glazed under factory conditions, it can also be stick-fabricated in the field. With expanded thermal break and thick gasketing, the system delivers high-thermal performance.
MoreSeamlessly combining glossy and satin finishes, AGC Glass North America introduces Lacobel T glass painted float glass and Matelac T acid-etched float glass painted to create a satin finish. Available in a number of colors, the Cradle to Cradle Certified Silver float glass is well suited for a variety of interior and exterior applications from façades to glass partitions—essentially anywhere tempered glazing is required for durability, resiliency to impacts and scratching, and the ability to withstand thermal shock.
MoreAt the new, 25-story, luxury 3Eleven high-rise in downtown Chicago, Vitro’s Solarban 60 has contributed LEED credits toward energy optimization. The glass blocks 62% of total solar energy while allowing 70% of visible light to pass through, which is considered an ideal mix of energy savings and visibility. FitzGerald Architects specified the glazing for the tower’s floor-to-ceiling vision glass. Meanwhile, laminated Solarban 60 Optigray glass, which is a light-bodied gray tint, was used on lower floors for noise insulation andto provide visual privacy from the train tracks that run next to the building.
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