Windows/Skylights

With its undulating façade and pops of color, the DLR Group/Kwan Henmi-designed Vida 8-story mixed-use building in San Francisco blends style and sustainable design. To support the design’s large openings with deep wall cavities, the architects specified Winco Windows’ 1450 Series 4-in. unitized window wall. In addition, 3.25-in. zero sightline vents provide natural ventilation and clean sightlines. Taken together, the façade reflects the color and texture of the neighborhood’s Latin-influenced murals, craft and culture, and is scaled with respect to the adjacent buildings’ varied heights and setbacks.

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Replica Windows Steer Pier Renovation

As the urban cores of Silicon Valley’s technology hub cities become denser, start-ups and established high-tech developers alike have made it a habit to resurrect historically significant buildings, and add richness and a sense of place to the surrounding community.Along with several other tenants, Uber Advanced Technologies Group occupies San Francisco’s historic Pier 70, Buildings 115 and 116. According to Berkeley-based Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects, the buildings were all in urgent need of repair. The design team developed a building-within-a-building concept that preserved the historic perimeter brick walls, reduced the cost of temporary shoring and retained the open volu

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University Skylight 'Enlightens' Students

The decades old skylights on the roof of Sibley Hall had frosted over and faded with time, greatly reducing the amount of natural daylight coming into the building. The exterior steel frame of the building was in extremely poor condition and leaked. And, after many years of housing the weight of the Fine Arts Library, the top of the building had begun to spread apart and the exterior walls were cracking.

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A Sanctuary

Delivering a high level of acoustic performance—achieved by wide asymmetrical spacing between panes, sound absorbing lamination and thick glass panes—Sanctuary Glass from Zola Windows also features a tightly sealed and thermally broken window design. Creating a peaceful sanctuary, like its namesake, the windows do a great job of keeping outdoor noise, outside.

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“…The Window Job of the Year (If Not the Century)”

The historic 5,000-window replacement project at the Starrett-Lehigh Building was one of the largest and most challenging in New York City history. Aside from the sheer enormity of the project, there were a number of complicating factors. To earn the approval of the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission, the new window design had to match the original steel window profiles and sightlines using thermally-improved frames.This wasn’t easy. The windows wrap around the entire structure in bands, and each of the windows features an operable vent, the placement of which alternates vertically from window to window. This creates a “bouncing ball” effect (a.k.a., “flo

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Finish Panache

Pella offers anodized aluminum finishes on its latest line, Architect Series Reserve wood windows and patio doors. The new anodized finish comes in eight durable, matte-metallic colors, including black, dark bronze, light bronze, clear, champagne, medium bronze, copper and extra dark bronze.

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New Orleans Hotel Gets Modern-Day Performance

A historic retrofit gets modern-day performance with new steel replica windows that deliver hurricane resistance, while maintaining the warehouse’s original Art Deco style. In the trendy New Orleans’ Warehouse District, the transformation of the nine-story Barnett’s Furniture building, a 1928 Art Deco structure, into an Ace Hotel, featuring vintage-inspired interiors reflective of New Orleans’ unique culture and history, was no easy task. A total window replacement was necessary for the Ace Hotel’s renovation. The project required multiple window solutions, including hurricane resistance, historic replication, thermal performance and acoustic control from

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Canopy of Glass Connects

World-renowned artist Spencer Finch designed an architectural canopy to connect two new office buildings at the center of Amazon’s expanded headquarters campus in Seattle. A walk through local woods inspired Finch’s “There is Another Sky,” his recreation of the dynamic patterns of light and shapes that form when light filters through foliage. The stylized canopy addsa creative, artistic element to the classic canopy design and reflects the local culture, all while providing an open, welcoming feeling in an urban setting. Finch developed the pattern with five hues and five opacities to control and vary the amount of light that filters through the decorative canopy, whi

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Triple-Loaded Windows

Combining extruded aluminum, vinyl and solid wood, Sierra Pacific’s new H3 FeelSafe storm-protected windows delivers energy efficiency, high performance, enhanced aesthetics and a high quality seal. With its innovative snap-lock design, installation is simplified with no need for screws or fasteners.

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Hybrid Composition

Featuring a hybrid composition, TGI-Spacer M with Wire is a cold-bendable, warm-edge spacer bar comprised of a thin, low-conductivity stainless steel, a spring steel wire and an engineered thermoplastic. The bar improves overall thermal and structural performance, reduces the risk of condensation and enhances the appearance of window systems.

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An Authentic, Reliable Steel Replication Window

Graham Architectural Products’ innovative SR6700 Series window, designed for the Starrett Lehigh building, replicates big steel windows, which enjoyed widespread popularity from their debut in an American factory in 1907 through most of the 20th century. These windows were popular with mills and foundries since they combined durability with low flammability and rigidity against wind pressure. Thin sightlines provided maximum daylight, and the large ventilation area provided air circulation. The SR6700, with an available floating vent, large openings, minimal sight lines and applied grids, brings modern performance to this classic design with such authenticity, it has helped n

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Commercial Space

The Mikron C3-11300 AW-Rated Window System brings an optimal mix of strength, thermal performance and versatility to meet the demands of commercial spaces. The manufacturer states it is the only operable nonmetallic window and door system to meet all requirements for AW ratings per the North American Fenestration Standard (NAFS).