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A unique opportunity for glass department heads, faculty members, instructors, and students to discuss with their peers the changing fine-art landscape in academia, best practices in the lecture hall and studio, as well as practical issues.

After four years, ift Rosenheim had to terminate the cooperation with the OTI test laboratory in Istanbul.

Ecological, close to nature and cost-saving: on Hamburg's Elbinsel Wilhelmsburg, the International Building Exhibition 2013 is showing how we will live in the future.

The Torre de Cristal at Madrid is an office building with the architecture design intended to look like a cut crystal. At 249 m and 52 floors, the glass tower is the second highest building in Spain.      It features a photovoltaic dome and the…

Bill Blazek joins the market team at Technoform Bautec North America, Inc. He will provide manufacturers of aluminum windows, doors and façades with high-precision polyamide insulation profiles that deliver energy efficiency, structural performance…

As the trend for greener buildings is growing, the need to design building facades aimed at preventing bird collisions is increasing.     Numerous studies have been made relating to bird collisions in cities around the world.

The First Plaza is a commercial complex located in the quaint, historic town of Metz in France. The Lazard Group Real Estate has developed this sustainable building, based on design by Unanime Architects.

The City University of New York's (CUNY's) Borough of Manhattan Community College's opened the Miles and Shirley Fiterman Hall at the beginning of the 2012-13 academic year.

A new police headquarters in Madrid is the latest architectural landmark in the city. With its transparent design created from extensive use of Technal’s GEODE-MX curtain walling system, the building aims to change the relationship between this…

Wausau Window and Wall Systems teamed with long-time customer, J.R. Butler, Inc., to create the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) new inpatient tower’s high-performance, serpentine curtainwall with sun shades.

Balcony Systems celebrated another successful Grand Designs Live 2013 at London’s Excel by presenting the winners of its annual Photo Competition, Rob and Jane Hollingworth, with their top £1,000 cash prize.

The wide range of modern functional glazing now available has opened up remarkable scope for creative design in today’s architecture.

A new residential building is rising at the upper end of New York's skyline. Located on the corner of 56th Park Avenues, this slender building, which almost looks fragile, will be 420 meters high (approx. 1,377 feet).

With the “Zoofenster” building, opened in January 2013 in Berlin City West, the capital has a new urban landmark.

In her last month as head of state, Her Majesty the Queen has opened the new Philips Museum in Eindhoven.

Panoramic ocean views are dished up every day for diners at this new South Devon restaurant-thanks to a show-stopping curved sliding patio door from Balcony Systems.

The Grenzebach Group will be presenting its complete portfolio at the 2013 Hanover fair. Topics like innovative technology, continuous automation, efficient cross linking of all components all represent parts of the lead topic “Integrated Industry”.

The Glassman Europe 2013 conference programme has been announced, including presentations from Stölzle Glass, FEVE, Glass Global, British Glass and the Polish Institute of Ceramics and Building Materials.

At Grand Designs Live 2013, Balcony Systems will once again be exciting visitors with its show-stopping range of stunning curved patio doors, elegant glass and aluminium balustrades and affordable Juliet balconies on stand B124 at Excel from May 4…

Curved glass and curved elements can be an essential aspect for a design or project; they can provide a feel of openness to a space, providing natural organic shapes to a space or room.

Glass provides building designers with fascinating creative options, and the popularity of the material has increased dramatically over the last decade.

Saint-Gobain Glass India recently supplied Nano and COOL-LITE, two advanced high performance glass to the world’s tallest hotel JW Marriott Marquis, in Dubai.     These two glasses were suggested as a double glazing solution for the hotel’s facade…