Wrightstyle, the UK steel glazing company, has significantly extended its system range by becoming a network partner for global building envelope giant Schueco. The Schueco accredited scheme gives customers the assurance that its ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Covering a roof or a facade with standard solar cells to generate electricity will change a building’s original appearance—and not always for the better (this idea to coat buildings with graphene kicks the problem up another ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Facade Design
China has built glittering metropolises in the span of roughly three decades of reform and opening. But in an equal span of time, shiny urban centers risk losing their shining façades or even descending into slums thanks to poor ...
Tags: City Centers, toxic combination
Glass for Europe, the association of Europe’s manufacturers of building, automotive and solar-energy glass, welcomes the initiation by the European Commission of both an anti-dumping and an anti-subsidy investigation concerning solar ...
The wide range of modern functional glazing now available has opened up remarkable scope for creative design in today’s architecture. Transparent designs facilitated through the replacement of solid roofs and introduction of entire ...
Tags: Resistant Glazing, toughened glass
Glass plays a key role in modern façades and structural solutions in buildings. The use of glass has expanded from mere window solutions to a whole new level. At its best, glass is a building material that offers high-tech solutions ...
Tags: Glass Industry, Glass Architecture
This ambitious slogan will be the strapline, from 2013, for architectural aluminium glazing systems specialist, Technal. For the very first time since the business was established 50 years ago, Technal has introduced a global communications ...
Tags: aluminium windows, façades, Construction
Never before has the façade industry been as challenged to innovate as it is now. Aurecon’s Steve Daniels, Global Façade Leader, and Greg Borman, Façade Engineer, discuss the changing face of façade design, ...
Tags: buildings, building practices, building skin
Pilkington Planar™ has been used to transform a Grade II Listed building into a state of the art youth centre in Middlesbrough. Prior to renovation the Georgian building, last used in 2001, was in a virtually derelict state. ...
Tags: Pilkington glazing, building, Glass
Deep overhangs and awkward soffits on buildings can cause a dilemma when trying to install glass, but these troublesome areas pose no problem for GGR and our arsenal of lifting gear, as was expertly demonstrated on this glazing job at a ...
Four new elegant and comfortable rooms. A refined taste solution, where simple and unique handcrafted items are carefully matched and integrated even in the smallest detail. This is Marioni Home Collection concept, a Made in Tuscany offer, ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, sofa, dinningroom furniture
Latvia - Commissioned by the municipality of Rezekne, a small town of just 30,000 inhabitants in Latvia's easternmost region of Latgale, the new youth recreational centre Zeimuls, also known as Caran D'Ache, has rapidly become an unmissable ...
Tags: LEDs, Caran D'Ache, panache
The European Commission is currently reviewing the existing regulatory framework on food contact materials, in particular Directive 84/500/EEC for ceramic articles. Among the discussed features of this revision are: the extension of the ...
Tags: Glass, ceramic articles, glass materials
Architects have unprecedented opportunities to bring their design visions to life with the launch of Pilkington Planar Crystal Connect. The latest addition to the world’s leading structural glazing system, Pilkington Planar Crystal ...
The international technology group SCHOTT will be presenting solutions in the areas of security and fire protection, as well as architecture and design, at BAU 2013. One particularly spectacular highlight at the exhibition will be the ...
Tags: SCHOTT, BAU, 2013, security and fire protection