Tag Archives: Glazing

Channel High Design: Specifying channel glass systems to enhance modern buildings

November 6, 2015

As design professionals have grown more familiar with channel glass, many now recognize its benefits extend beyond harnessing daylight. The linear channel glass segments provide a depth and profile not found in conventional glazing.

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Seeing the light of day through the floor

November 2, 2015

Students at New York University’s Stern School of Business can now enjoy natural light in their below-ground classrooms, thanks to a skylight system incorporated into a vast outdoor plaza above.

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Innovative glazing technologies are changing the future of buildings

October 16, 2015

It is no secret architects have an affinity for glass. The sheer number of full-glass buildings emerging all over the United States speaks to the material’s panoptic appeal and its ability to create openness and connectivity to the outdoors.

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Idaho’s tallest building replaces the Boise Hole

July 3, 2015

Rising above Boise’s skyline to become the tallest in Idaho, the Eighth and Main building prominently features a unitized glazed curtain wall and sunshades. The $76-million, 18-story mixed-use building opened last February.

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Solving window wall problems by eliminating causes

April 23, 2015

Window walls eventually fail under repeated occurrences of causes like loads, movement, stress fatigue, and the degradation of material properties due to aging. How can one simply anticipate the ‘causes’ and then design to eliminate them in the first place?

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