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SWISSPACER UK Sales Manager Vic De Costa is retiring in May. Vic is a well-liked, familiar face in the glass and glazing industry. He’s worked with Saint-Gobain for 29 years! His last five have been spent helping to grow SWISSPACER, the market…
Developed by the same company as the Burj Khalifa, the Fountain Views Towers are scheduled to be completed in 2017.
The Okraglak department store in Poznan, the Plac Unii City Shopping Centre and Q22 office building in Warsaw, are historical structures that successfully blend into the surrounding modern architecture.
GLASSOLUTIONS’ VS-1 mullion-only curtain walling system has been selected as one of the top innovations to be displayed at the Retail Design Expo 2016, where it has been shortlisted as a finalist for the event’s Innovation Trail and Awards.
The FacadeXS solution for the Marina Towers in Melbourne, our biggest project in Australia yet, is beginning to take shape. The two towers, 43 and 36 storeys high, will have floor-to-ceiling glass facades on all four sides, offering stunning views…
The uniquely wide choice offered by the Schueco ADS HD range of thermally insulated aluminium doors means that whatever the project, there will be a door that fulfills both the aesthetic and performance specification perfectly.
Curtain walls using the system EFEKT are a state-of-the-art solution with POLFLAM fire-resistant glass and still another construction technology product to let the designers spread their wings.
Entering a hospital can be one of the most stressful and agonizing times for anyone. A positive mindset and a sense of hope can be critical to the outcome of any stay in the hospital for patients and family members.
SWISSPACER, a Saint Gobain company, has two new videos that explain the origin and global reach of its business.
The Facade XS solution for a new court complex in Kuwait City is nearing completion. The two court buildings each contain 80 courthouses for the Farwaniya governate and the Al Jahra governate.
A wall of glued glass bricks that is ten times as strong as a regular brick facade. Experiments conducted by the Glass & Transparency research group proved this could be true. Their test results are being used to make Chanel’s historic…
In partnership with 3.0 University Place, SageGlass® is supplying 4,600m² of the façade of a huge commercial office building that will be under construction in Philadelphia’s University district (USA) in 2016.
Located on the banks of the Schuylkill River, the FMC tower in Philadelphia will be the new global headquarters of the FMC Corporation.
Depending on whom you talk to about the newest crown jewel building of New York City’s “NoMad” neighborhood, the label is either “The Prism Tower” or sometimes “the fortress of glassitude”.
Aluminium façade systems from Technal have been specified for a third project at Chelsea Football Club’s Training Academy Campus at Cobham in Surrey – a seamless below-ground extension to an existing pavilion.
Following the success of the first two FiT shows, SWISSPACER will be exhibiting for the third year in April. A main focus of SWISSPACER’s stand this year will be its new free Marketing Toolkit.
Want proof that good things come to those who wait? Just look at the new Westin Hotel and Conference Center at Denver’s International Airport (www.westindenverairport.com).
Transparent, as well as grey and white facade elements, determine the appearance of the new Hilton Hotel at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The seemingly randomly arranged facade elements allow the striking building with the rounded corners, to…
As we welcome in the New Year, we can’t help but reflect on an exciting and fruitful 2015!
Wall claddings made of glass were used in the new operating theatre at St. Josef's Hospital in Dortmund. The choice fell on the highly transparent, extra-white EUROWHITE®NG from Euroglas, which was mounted directly on the walls as 10 mm-thick…
The Stadttor raises the bar when it comes to energy-saving construction, thanks to its intelligent combination of new technologies. The building’s facade is made of an external shell made entirely of glass, and an inner facade that uses beech-wood…
Large-area fluidic windows use a fluid contained in microchannels to harvest ambient heat and solar energy and manage heat exchange, thereby boosting energy efficiency. Compared to predecessor technologies, triple glazed windows have greatly…
Pilkington Planar™ systems remain the world’s market leader for structural glazing systems, with a proven track record in the most demanding applications.
The Bauhaus Fachcentrum in Berlin-Halensee scooped one of the four coveted awards at the German Façade Awards for Rear-Ventilated façades on 1 October. In addition to the three-dimensional aluminium cladding, the all-glass façade facing the road…