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The Opus is a 21-storey tower – designed by Zaha Hadid, and which pushes physical and technological boundaries to achieve its melting ice-cube shape – used Edgetech’s Super Spacer TriSeal, in its construction. Edgetech’s managing director Chris Alderson said: “The Opus is quite simply one of the most staggering and ambitious architectural projects attempted this decade. “It’s got a 6,000m2...
Indeglas is set to undertake supply work to the value of £half-a-million for purpose-built offices on Belfast’s riverside of Allstate NI, the IT support arm of Allstate Corporation, a US insurance company. Indeglas has been contracted to provide all interior glass solutions, including meeting rooms, boardrooms and individual offices. In addition, it is providing freestanding writable screens. These high-tech screens...
Indeglas has supplied internal glass partitioning for the Scottish War Blinded Charity’s new Hawkhead Centre in Paisley. This is the second successful project Indeglas has undertaken for the charity, having worked on its Linburn Centre in West Lothian, seven years ago. Jeanette MacIntyre, managing director of Indeglas, said: “This building is primarily for veterans who have visual impairments, so the...
Amscreen has agreed a new deal with Romag to optimise viewability and durability of their outdoor screen products. The new product will initially feature across Amscreen’s latest portfolio of 75” outdoor displays. The anti-reflective glass has been optimised to maximise light transmission while minimising glare. The low-iron display is also toughened, heat strengthened and includes a solar interlayer to help...
When architectural practice Scott Brownrigg designed a new building at the headquarters of FTSE 100-listed wealth management business St James’s Place, it wanted to give the building a suitably impressive centrepiece to welcome employees, clients and partners. This was achieved in the form of a three-storey atrium, created using the Pilkington Planar structural glazing system. The space sits between the...
Proto Studios has completed a high-profile commission for Toronto Transit Commission, drawing on specialist IGU expertise from Cornwall Glass. Sitting within the Toronto commuter-belt, Highway 407 is its new subway station and bus terminal. The contemporary transport hub was commissioned by the Toronto Transit Commission and opened at the end of 2017. The intermodal transport gateway features a subway, an...
London Fire Brigade has completed a PFI project to renovate and update nine fire stations across the city with new facilities that deliver excellent energy performance – thanks in part to glazing from Pilkington UK. Under a £51.5 million PFI project, the consortium Blue 3 worked with architect BDP to design the stations, to provide the quality and flexibility of...
Museum glass displays protect precious artefacts from damage or distress, while presenting them in their best light. But sometimes glass – through unwanted glare or reflections – can create unfortunate obstructions to the view. Guardian Clarity anti-reflective coated glass helps by allowing visitors to focus on the exhibits. Guardian Clarity glass enables a light transmission of 98% and a reflection...
When St John’s church in Egham decided to add a new community centre to its landmark Georgian building, originally built in 1817, it needed a sensitive way to link the new with the existing. In contrast to the historic church, the new community centre is designed in a contemporary style, using natural stonework and curtain walling. The architect has opted...
Wrightstyle has added to its transport portfolio by supplying a range of systems for five new Crossrail stations across London. The company is supplying to Bond Street, Farringdon, Liverpool Street, Whitechapel and Woolwich stations on what will become the Elizabeth Line. The systems include blast-rated curtain walling, structurally glazed screens, and fire-rated and ballistic screens. The line is expected to...
Q-railing, an official Platinum Club partner of Stoke City FC, has supplied 250m of its Easy Glass Pro glass railing system for a redevelopment of the bet365 Stadium. The frameless balustrades give supporters in the newly constructed disabled bays an unobstructed view of the pitch, and improves the match-day experience for disabled fans. The railings were installed by local metal...
When architect dhp was asked to design the new accommodation for St Richard Reynolds Catholic College in Twickenham, its brief was to turn an historic Edwardian school building into a cutting-edge education facility. Led by main contractor Graham Construction, work is now underway on a three-storey building at the centre of the site, which will wrap around the rear of...
AGC decorative glass has recently been specified as part of the extensive internal refurbishment of Block 5, a four-storey office building at the Irish Life Centre complex in Abbey Road, one of Dublin’s prime business locations. The 37,000ft2 open plan accommodation has been finished to a high standard, which included the specification of AGC decorative glass wall cladding for the...
While large, timber-framed sash windows are one of the most recognisable and desirable features of Georgian architecture, they can offer poor energy performance. This was the challenge facing St Gerard’s school, a Catholic co-educational school in Bray, County Wicklow, near Dublin, which was founded in 1918 and still uses its original building. The building pre-dates the school itself and is...
Located on the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany, the Elbphilharmonie is one of the largest and most acoustically advanced concert halls in the world and an outstanding example of modern architecture. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the building is a residential and cultural complex. The 108m-high building, which officially opened in January 2017, accommodates a philharmonic hall, a chamber...
The former and future home of the Financial Times newspaper is being renovated to provide 270,000ft2 of office space, complete with a walkable large-span glass roof designed and supplied by Wrightstyle. Bracken House is a Grade 2 Listed office building, originally built between 1955 and 1958, and lies adjacent to the St Paul’s Cathedral Conservation Area of the City of...
A state-of-the-art office space was the brief for Isle of Man-based architect Savage and Chadwick when asked to design a new building at the Douglas headquarters of online gaming software business, Microgaming. The new building sits adjacent to the company’s existing office, and both sites connect via a glazed ‘sky bridge’ across the road in between the two. Providing office...
For a conference centre based in north eastern France, a smoke control system was required that would ensure the safe evacuation of visitors in the event of a fire without compromising the visual attributes of the building. Pyroguard was approached by the architect to offer a suitable solution. Located in the city of Nancy, the Centre Prouvé offers a flexible...
Rudding Park near Harrogate, which offers luxurious accommodation in a Grade One listed regency house, set in 300 acres of landscaped gardens and woodland, recently added a new luxury spa complex. Architectural practice Enjoy Design was appointed to design the spa, and the result is a three-storey complex that includes 11 treatment rooms, a 17m swimming pool, a juniper log...
The fundamental role of glass in the built environment is to allow light into spaces while keeping the elements out. But it often also plays a defining aesthetic role too, giving buildings their form and setting them apart as a piece of design work, according to Pilkington UK. That was the case with the glazing installation at the newly refurbished...