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A large gothic window of the Grade One listed Rochdale Town Hall has been given a 21st century fire protection upgrade using Promat Systemglas as part of a multi-million pound restoration project. The window is a key feature of the newly created Bright Hall, a new community space on the second floor of the 19th century building. It features the Promat Systemglas Ligna fire...
Pyroguard Protect fire safety glass and the minimalistic Jansen steel framing profile have been specified for a new office development on Dublin’s iconic Fitzwilliam Street Lower. KCC Group worked closely with the architects, design teams, contractors and client to deliver a range of glazing solutions for the project. One of those was the design and installation of fire-rated internal doors...
Merck, a German science and technology company, has opened a new biotech development centre in Switzerland featuring an Eyrise dynamic glazing facade. Located in Corsier-sur-Vevey on the shores of Lake Geneva, the Eyrise engineering team worked alongside Swiss architect firm Patriarche Architekten from the inception of the project to ensure requirements for sustainability, energy efficiency and optimum use of daylight were achieved. The building features...
Award-winning conservatory refurbishment specialist, Apple & Oak, has replaced a tired, 13-year orangery at a 300-year-old oak framed country house in Cranbrook, Kent. Suffering from leaks and a lack of maintenance, the 30ft orangery, constructed in 2010 on the south-facing elevation of the house, was in need of a full renovation. Apple & Oak completed a full external preparation and...
Promat UK’s Systemglas Ligna fire resistant glazing system has been specified for the internal doors and arched glazing feature for one of the entrances to the newly refurbished Victorian Market in Inverness. The £1.7m refurbishment project by Highland Council has involved an internal strip out of the market hall, which first opened its doors in 1870, to create new shop...
Pyroguard’s fire safety glass was recently specified for The Netherlands’ Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, the world’s first publicly accessible art storage facility. An ovoid shaped building standing 40m tall, with reflective mirrors covering its surface, the depot reportedly receives anywhere from 150,000 to 250,000 visitors a year. Based in Rotterdam, the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is designed to complement its...
Specialist glass from Pilkington UK has been used at a new creative hub for CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s national public broadcaster. With a footprint of over 6,100m2 across both glass buildings the new creative hub for media and digital production is spread across seven floors, designed with the studio and production teams in mind. The building boasts a giant atrium, open-plan TV and...
Sleek, contemporary design, bold geometric architecture and a mixture of modern and traditional build materials are said to be the key components of a residential property in Exeter which was recently completed with specialist glass from TuffX. TuffX supplied a total of 10m2 21.5mm toughened and laminated glass for the prominent first-floor balustrade, made up of six rectangular units each...
Howells Patent Glazing has designed and manufactured roof lights for Barkers family department store in Northallerton. The store dates back to 1882 and recently embarked on planned maintenance to replace the rooflights in all four atriums positioned in the centre of the store. Using its HG57 medium duty self-supporting glazing bar powder coated in RAL 7024 matt, the new rooflights...
Premium glazing solutions from IQ Projects have helped to transform a five-storey office project in Clerkenwell, London. IQ Projects designed a bespoke glazing package for the commercial building, using modern glazing technologies to enhance productivity in an office environment. The frameless glazing systems have been designed to create large amounts of light infill and IQ Projects worked closely with the...
Pyroguard’s technical expertise is said to have been ‘vital’ to the regeneration of the Capuchino Convent de San Antonio de Padua in Spain; a project which required a careful balance between renovating the historic building, ensuring modern fire safety regulations were met and being respectful of the convent’s heritage. Located in the Spanish city of Zaragoza, the convent forms part...
TuffX has highlighted how the use of glass can transform dark and narrow staircases into ‘bright and welcoming’ focal points which dramatically improve the quality of a living space. The company was chosen to supply 15mm toughened safety glass with dubbed corners, in a mixture of rectangle and CNC-shaped panels, along with 33mm laminated walk-on floors with sandblasted corners to...
A multi-million pound redevelopment project to convert a Victorian church into six luxury apartments has been completed using assured fire resistant glazing solutions from Promat. The scheme to convert the Christ Church in Teddington, Middlesex, by Renaissance Design & Build, is said to have secured the future of the 150-year-old building after it had fallen into disrepair over recent years....
Pyroguard fire safety glass has been specified for Quantock House, an eight-storey residential development, in Taunton Somerset. Quantock House is also one of the first UK projects to have an NHBC accepted A2-S1 glass balustrade system installed on its apartment balconies – the result of a close working partnership between Pyroguard and Architectural Metalwork Installations (AMI), an architectural metalwork specialist....
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...