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Pilkington OptiView Protect OW anti-reflective glass has been specified for Knightsbridge Gate, a landmark mixed-use development that occupies an entire block of the central-London street. While most of the building has been newly constructed, the 120m long Edwardian street-facing facade has been retained, along with its 17 glazed shopfronts. The glazing for each of the frontages is held in place by...
When Mere Sands Wood, a nature reserve in West Lancashire, decided to create a new visitor centre and café, minimising its impact on the local wildlife was top of its list of priorities. Minimising the risk of bird strikes to the new building’s glazing was of particular concern. Birds in flight are unable to use visual signals such as window...
Pilkington Planar has been specified for a wall of structural glass along the outward facing side of a property overlooking a fjord in Norway. When the owner of the property was discussing designs for the building with their architect, maximising sight lines to make the most of its stunning setting was top of the list of priorities Architect, Per Oscar...
TuffX has supplied a total of 76 individual panels of 21.5mm toughened and laminated glass – each with polished edges and dubbed corners – for an office refurbishment in central London. Due to the nature of the project, the entire 95m2 order of glass was heat soaked for additional strength and quality, greatly reducing the possibility of unforced breakage and...
Morley Glass is starting 2022 on a high by re-introducing 10-12 day lead times on its full range of integrated blinds. The Morley Glass team has worked hard to get back to business as usual despite a challenging 2021 caused by an unprecedented combination of supply problems. These included the impact of a tornado flattening the ScreenLine blind systems factory...
La Samaritaine, one of Paris’s most famous department stores, worked closely with Pritzker prize-winning architecture practice SANAA to create a striking and sinuous modern facade that gives a new perspective on the historic Rue de Rivoli. Glass for the project was supplied by Pilkington Glass Service, part of the NSG Group. The facade is part of a wider 750 million-euro...
Howells patent glazing was recently used as part of a £38 million upgrade to the Foss Barrier in York. In December 2015 severe floods hit the City of York, and water entered the main control building of the Foss Barrier putting it out of action. Within three months work had begun on a £multi-million improvement scheme, upgrading the Foss Barrier...
A TuffX Infinity fixed rooflight was recently installed on a flat-roofed ground-floor extension of a property in Ruislip, by HomeWorks Windows. The 1,000mm x 2,500mm standard stock clear glass Infinity fixed rooflight required much less space than a roof lantern, while ensuring the benefits of natural light flooded into the footprint of the building, giving the whole area a well-lit,...
Pyroguard has helped to combine contemporary aesthetics with fire safety, while blending the old with the new on a regeneration project in Cork, Ireland. Horgan’s Quay is a six-acre mixed-use development located on the River Lee, next to the Port of Cork. Centred around the conservation of the site’s industrial heritage, Horgan’s Quay features three contemporary office buildings, apartments, a...
Owners of a property in Feniscowles, Blackburn, recently undertook a garden renovation with the help of north west-based installer Windoways who used CRL Spig-Lite Pro to create the dream outdoor space. The garden itself extends over two levels, with a seating area on the lower level and a hot tub above. The family wanted to create a windbreak around both...
By OnLevel’s Gary Dean. In June 2019 the UK government announced a legally binding target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Net zero carbon is reached when the amount of greenhouse gas produced balances with the amount removed from the atmosphere. The pursuit of a net zero carbon economy has imposed widespread implications on the built environment. As a...
Owners of a property in Feniscowles, Blackburn, recently undertook a garden renovation with the help of north west-based installer Windoways who used CRL Spig-Lite Pro to create the dream outdoor space. The garden itself extends over two levels, with a seating area on the lower level and a hot tub above. The family wanted to create a windbreak around both...
Eyrise has transformed a historic Berlin landmark with a dynamic glass facade, using liquid crystal technology to provide benefits during the day and at night. The dynamic glass specialist partnered with Avus Tribüne to glaze a new event centre that forms the centrepiece of a repurposed racetrack grandstand overlooking the A115 autobahn in Berlin, providing instant solar shading during the...
Framex recently chose TuffX to provide three bespoke rooflights, which were required for a ground-floor residential extension in Rossendale. The customer specifically requested blue-tinted solar glass to maximise the light, comfort and ambient feel of the space by reducing both glare and heat from the sun. “We are seeing more and more customers requesting these flat rooflights to zone up...
A frameless glass balustrade has given a modern residential building in Pontefract a perfect near-invisible finish, thanks to glass supplied by TuffX. The first floor of the gable-fronted property is set back slightly from the one below, leaving a full length but narrow roof terrace accessible from the upper storey. The customer brief was for a safe, secure yet completely...
Brownhills Glass, part of the United Glass Group, supplied a mixture of toughened, toughened/ laminated and processed glass panels to West Midland Safari Park to create a new enclosure enabling the Park to house its first ever red panda. Brownhills Glass provided more than 30 glass panels, ranging from 11.5mm to 17.5mm in thickness, to create external glass balustrades and...
A full-scale 3-D Davros design has been created by lifelong Doctor Who fan, Toby Bateson, using decorative glass products from RegaLead. Davros, the infamous Dalek leader, has seen multiple incarnations across the last 50 years on screen but nothing quite as creative or as unique as Toby’s stained glass creation, which is regularly seen hovering around the streets of Blackpool....
TuffX recently supplied 15m2 of toughened glass panels for a balustrade surrounding a large, raised terrace, to complete a high-end finish for a residential property in Essex. The home, which includes a sizeable conservatory, required an attractive balustrade to keep occupants on the raised terrace safe, without reducing the light that could reach through to the interior of the property....
Edgetech’s Super Spacer T-Spacer Premium was used on Norway’s Økern Portal, an 80,000m2 complex in Oslo, which contains office spaces, hotels, shops and restaurants. In 2016, the Norwegian parliament committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2030, and hydropower already accounts for 95% of the nation’s energy, which contributes to the fact that Norway is home to some of the world’s...
Eyrise liquid crystal glass will provide solar shading for Campus Germany at Expo 2020 in Dubai, which will take place from October 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022. The dynamic glass specialist was appointed a premium partner by the German Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai Consortium, and is responsible for the pavilion’s design, planning and implementation. Expo 2020 Dubai, which was postponed...