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This year, the Eiffel Tower will mark its 130th birthday, and Edgetech is helping ensure it’ll still be delighting visitors for decades to come, the company said. When architects Moatti & Rivière produced highly complex designs for renovating the Tower’s 57.6m viewing platform, they designed a 130ft2 glass floor, offering views of the Champs de Mars below, fringed with a...
TuffX’s contemporary walk-on glass floor recently complemented the majesty of a stained-glass window centrepiece. The visual result is a beautiful pillar of light streaming throughout Chapel Cottage, an ex Methodist chapel in Brockdish, Norfolk, which has been converted into a home. TuffX’s 33mm laminated roof light allows for an increased flow of natural light and is supplied as a finished...
Tasked with replacing the tired timber windows of a traditional cottage, Essex-based Paxman Joineries recently specified the slimline heritage units of Slenderline Glass. “We’re absolutely delighted to complete this fantastic project and thank Andy and the team at Slenderline for its support,” Kevin Robinson, managing director of Paxman Joineries, said. The Kent-based glass specialists also supported Paxman Joineries on another...
Glass is being paired with natural materials in a diverse range of applications, according to Safeguard Glazing Supplies, which was recently involved in a pool and gym installation. “We’re seeing glass partitioning and sliding doors specified in more and more domestic as well as commercial applications,” project manager Richard Challinor said. “It’s an increasingly important part of our business and...
With its newly extended headquarters in Alfreton, Derbyshire, Slimming World wanted to create a landmark building for the brand that would both provide an ideal working and training space for its people and deliver excellent environmental performance. Glazing plays a key role in the £8.5 million scheme, both aesthetically and in terms of its use of energy. At the heart...
In hotel design, building aesthetics play a big role in creating luxurious accommodation for guests. That was the challenge facing the designers of a major refurbishment to the glamourous Park Hotel Imperial, located in Limone on the shore of Lake Garda, Italy. The hotel features glass elements extensively, inside and out, and the designer of the re-model chose to use...
Indeglas has completed its latest contract at the University of Edinburgh’s The Bayes Centre. The company has now completed projects totalling more than £840K for the university. Other contracts include complete glazed screen installations at the Joseph Black Building, James Clerk Maxwell Buildings, Charles Stewart House, Dalhousie Land, Chrystal MacMillan Building, Centre Building Easterbush, Minto Building, and New College. Jeanette...
TuffX, has supplied 235 panels of precision made, 10mm clear toughened glass for use as internal balustrades on a prestigious development located in central London. Located on Lower Thames Street near Tower Bridge, Landmark Place is a development of 165 suites, and one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments and penthouses. TuffX’s managing director Graham Price said: “Large, premium developments such as...
Solarlux has designed, delivered and installed a winter garden balcony glazing on a project at Geron Way London – a development of high-end apartments in a former Parcel Force depot in Cricklewood, north west London. The Geron Way development combines a warm brick fascia with clean contemporary glass lines, Solarlux said. The SL 45 fixed balcony glazing, combined with the...
ICW has won a contract to supply switchable windows to a defence company. The windows are part of an upgrade to the company’s research and development laboratories and to add a layer of confidentiality to its business. Operating in the security sensitive aviation defence field, the company wanted to be able to show international customers round its UK laboratories, while...
Pilkington UK has helped to create a three-storey structural glass cube as part of a makeover and extension at Aldi’s UK headquarters. Aldi’s £70 million investment in the site has added new architectural features to the building’s exterior and created 14,000m2 of new space. Pilkington, working with Stoas Architects and Bennett Architectural, delivered the ‘glass cube’ and an external glazed...
Glasstec Systems recently completed the design, supply and installation of a ‘floating’ staircase for a luxury residential refurbishment project. Situated in the heart of London at 43 Nottingham Place, Marylebone, the opulent property required a basement staircase with the dual purpose of creating a focal point to the room while maximising the feeling of space and light. Glasstec Systems were...
When the City of Tulsa set out to renovate its 50-year-old central library building, the brief was to modernise the building without losing its period character. From a glazing perspective, this meant bringing more light into the interior while enhancing the building’s exterior appearance and delivering high levels of efficiency. The most striking design addition is a series of glazed...
Morley Glass and Glazing has installed 84 sealed units with integral blinds into its own business premises. The company made the £1 million move to a new factory, showroom and office space in Leeds, West Yorkshire, two years ago and has made several improvements to the two-storey premises during that time, including the replacement of all the windows – 113m2...
When RTA Joinery recently used units from Slenderline Glass as part of a newbuild farmhouse project in Eastwood. Richard Allen of RTA Joinery, who needed 600 units for the job, said: “Despite the farmhouse being a newbuild property, it needed to be given a traditional look and we knew that Slenderline Glass’s heritage sealed units would be perfect to create...
Morley Glass and Glazing has won a £500,000 integral blinds contract with Belfast City Hospital, and saved the hospital thousands of pounds, the company said. Morley supplied the hospital with its SL20 MB system, which are motorised blinds inside sealed units that were developed with two operating mechanisms – one for the patient to control inside their room, and a...
G-Smatt Europe has been selected as the provider of what is thought will be the UK's largest structural, glass media facade for Axiom Yorkshire, the largest out-of-town retail, leisure and entertainment development in the UK since Bluewater. The announcement was made at Revo 2018 by Philip Lunn, chairman of Axiom, who said: "In a world where retail is evolving at...
Assured passive fire protection for a spectacular central atrium in Dublin city centre’s largest and most prestigious new commercial development has been provided by over 300m2 of Promat Systemglas Ferro. The fire resistant Systemglas Ferro glazing system has been used to create all the glass screens which encapsulate the atrium at the heart of No. 1 Dublin Landings. Part of...
G-Smatt Europe has been selected as the provider of what is thought will be the UK's largest structural, glass media facade for Axiom Yorkshire, the largest out-of-town retail, leisure and entertainment development in the UK since Bluewater. The announcement was made at Revo 2018 by Philip Lunn, chairman of Axiom, who said: "In a world where retail is evolving at...
Wrightstyle will be installing fire-rated screens and doors at the Woodside Care Village, a new care home in Warwick that will provide care for 72 older people and people living with a dementia, due to open in 2019. The new home is being built for Warwickshire-based charity WCS Care, and has been designed by local architects Robothams. Designing buildings for older...