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Work is due to start in the next couple of months on a new tower block in Harlem, New York. The 21-storey glass tower, designed by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (SHCA), will be the first major office building to be built in the northern Manhattan…
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The flexibility and style of the Pilkington Planar™ structural glazing system, and the practicality of Pilkington Activ™ self cleaning glass, have been combined for the first time in the refurbishment of superior office blocks at 54 Hagley Road,…
Glass towers are rising outside Manhattan, as big-name developers reappropriate the design sensibility that reshaped the New York skyline in order to take advantage of the panorama they created.
Glass Polish of US on Tuesday announced its entry into India. It is the world’s largest glass, windscreen, plastic and acrylic repair company.
The “four-cylinder” building located inside Munich’s Olympiapark has helped create public awareness of BMW for many years now.
Lifts in The Shires shopping centre in Leicester have been created using 400 metres square of Pilkington Planar™/Sentry Glas Plus with Pilkington OptiWhite™ .
Glassex-GP&T 2008 will be promoted by CIB, the current Construction Marketing Awards “Agency of the Year”.
Ten years after the Asian crisis, booming markets are attracting capital back to the region. Along with strengthening financial systems, efforts to build modern roads, airports, power networks and skyscrapers are paying off.
This week crews poured the 60th and last residential floor at One Rincon, the condominium atop San Francisco's Rincon Hill.
Britain is now home to two of the world’s most advanced plaster and plasterboard manufacturing plants following a £120-million investment in production capacity by British Gypsum.
Top brands, bottle manufacturers, retailers and technology experts have teamed up under a UK-government programme to cut 20,000 tonnes of glass from beer, cider and spirit packaging.
Winemakers and retailers will learn this week how to reduce their impact on climate change by bottling imported wines within the UK – and boost recycling as they do so.
The luxury tower to be built on the longtime site of the Park Lane restaurant at Gates Circle will be a sleek 23-story glass building with 68 upscale condos, the developer’s newly unveiled plans show.
It has been called "the world's longest bridge", not because of the distance it should cover -- 94 meters, but because of the time it has taken to build -- 11 years and counting.
Glaziers in Yorkshire will be able to recycle their waste glass, wood and plastics, across a network of depots in the region - believed to be one of the first networks of its kind.
Thrillseekers can now take in a unique view of Melbourne from a glass-floored cube hanging from the side of the city's tallest building.
More than 600 years after the city's most famous monument was built, construction starts in June of a modern glass and steel building that will simulate a tilt with a trick of lighting.
North East glassmakers are heading out to the United Arab Emirates as they look to break into the Gulf’s lucrative glass market.
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In conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Arab World Institute, construction has begun in New York City on Jean Nouvel's latest glass and steel landmark, a direct material and conceptual descendant of his Paris tour de…
Following the search for strategic partners for its specialty bottles business, the Saint-Gobain Group has selected the project of a consortium of two investment funds, Sagard and Cognetas.
Pilkington Planar™ structural glazing system has been used to stunning effect at a new library in the southwest seaport town of Turku, Finland.