While Glass Wall appears unnervingly prone to disaster ... shelves sandwiched in an airtight space between two layers of facade glass, so it’s less of a house of cards than it looks.

From stairwell enclosures where glass walls help entice occupants to use the stairs ... new and remarkably subtle approaches are being used to create facades and interior glass assemblies that allow ...

meter Berlaymont building in Brussels, Belgium, into the future headquarters for the European Commissioners, the structure’s façade is being completely replaced with a “living” glass curtain wall. The ...

He said that while 77 Hudson in Jersey City, a building with a glass curtain wall, was able to obtain early price commitments, “materials have almost doubled in price” since the developers ...

The window wall is supported by brackets projecting ... It’s difficult to see Willis Polk’s uninterrupted, elegant glass facade through the eyes of someone in 1918. One has to imagine a ...

The firm also finished earlier this year the $16-million glass lobby facade installation at Two ... and last year completed a $75-million curtain wall project for the Columbia University Business ...

In the past, glazed surfaces tended to be small and almost opaque; but this began to change throughout the years due to the growing trend of increasingly larger glass panes in construction.

it is clad with a unitized curtain wall system of curved glass framed by ribbons of black granite spandrels. A principal goal of the project’s facade design was the elimination of unnecessary ...