Architectural glass
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about architectural glass
Prodotto • By Bendheim • Ultra-White Laminated Fade® & Low-Iron Fade® Glass
Ultra-White Laminated Fade® & Low-Iron Fade® Glass
Bendheim's Ultra-White Laminated Fade® and Low-Iron Etched Fade® glass designs present an elegant, timeless aesthetic, defining interior spaces when used in partitions, doors and windows, atriums, and staircases. The superior fade effect of Bendheim’s Ultra-White Laminated Fade® glass is produced through a unique ink technology. Ultra-dense and brilliant white at the bottom, the glass smoothly fades to clear at the top. The durable, maintenance-friendly laminated safety glass is available in sizes up to 60”W x 120”H and thicknesses up to ¾”. Bendheim’s new Low-Iron (ultra-clear) Etched Fade® glass is fully etched up to approx. 52” from the bottom of the sheet, then gently fades to clear as it approaches the top. The durable, stain... Altro
Prodotto • By Bendheim • VintageWire™ Glass Collection
VintageWire™ Glass Collection
VintageWire™ Glass by Bendheim is decorative laminated architectural glass featuring true chicken wire. VintageWire Glass is available in translucent form for partitions and enclosures, as well as mirror-backed for wall cladding, elevator interiors, and lobbies. The collection can be specified in combination with a great number of privacy or less obscuring patterns from Bendheim’s hundreds of varieties, including our post-consumer recycled EcoGlass™. An opaque version of the glass emphasizes the nostalgic appeal of chicken wire by embedding it in antique bronze or antique silver mirrors. Altro
Prodotto • By Bendheim • SatinTech® Etched Glass
SatinTech® Etched Glass
Bendheim SatinTech® etched glass offers elegance, a sense of privacy, and exceptional ease of maintenance. The permanent, chemically etched glass surfaces are superior to sandblasted and particle-etched glass, and are naturally resistant to fingerprints and staining over the product’s lifetime. The glass provides a comfortable sense of privacy, gently diffuses light, reduces glare, and minimizes reflections. It is available in a variety of colors, surface options, and patterns, ranging from double-sided full etch to colored pattern-etched wall cladding, etched mirrors, and more. Altro
Prodotto • By Bendheim • Projectable Magnetic Glass Marker Boards
Projectable Magnetic Glass Marker Boards
Bendheim's award-winning Magnetic Glass Marker Boards have gotten even better, now featuring high-performance, maintenance-friendly projectable writing surfaces. The exceptionally strong magnetic action of Bendheim’s magnetic glass marker boards sets us apart from all the rest. The boards reliably hold a variety of materials from notes and fabric swatches to color chip samples. The new projection-friendly glass version accommodates digital multi-media presentations while allowing for writing and organizing ideas. The maintenance-friendly glass surfaces resist ghosting and staining, even when permanent markers are used. The laminated glass boards also allow for two distinct aesthetics (i.e., one side of the glass can be white, the oppos... Altro
Prodotto • By Bendheim • +2 Acoustic Laminated Glass Collection
+2 Acoustic Laminated Glass Collection
Inspired by the needs of today’s office worker, Bendheim launches an industry first – decorative sound-control glass featuring a delicate brushed aesthetic. The +2 Collection is named for its ability to provide combined acoustic and visual privacy. The +2 laminated safety glass enables A&D professionals to provide an alternative to the “fish bowl” effect – clear glass office fronts and conference rooms that make employees feel on display – by allowing architects to:Create peaceful, quiet spaces – visually and acousticallyProvide a sense of openness as light passes through the translucent glass wallsProduce a stunning lantern effect at night as the +2 glass walls disperse light from within the spaces The light-diffusing +2 glass mai... Altro
Prodotto • By Bendheim • Jelly Bean Collection
Jelly Bean Collection
Bendheim's “Jelly Bean” Collection of safety-laminated architectural glasses features bright colors bringing a sense of optimism and comfort to hospitality, retail, healthcare, educational, and corporate interiors and exteriors. It responds to current design trends favoring combinations of bright colors and daylight to create soothing, uplifting and stimulating environments. The fire-polished “Jelly Bean” laminated glasses meet building safety codes, are stable, fade-resistant, and easy to maintain. The colored interlayers reduce solar energy transmittance, preventing heat build-up. They screen out up to 99% of damaging UV rays, helping minimize color fading of fabrics and furnishings. Installed in facades, the “Jelly Bean” Glass Collection... Altro
Prodotto • By Bendheim • Houdini™ Privacy Glass
Houdini™ Privacy Glass
The low-iron, ultra-clear Houdini™ glass lets in maximum daylight, while its fine, micro-ribbed surface reduces glare and obscures the shapes of people and objects behind it. Houdini’s outstanding daylighting properties make it an ideal solution for any environment where privacy and natural light are vital, including healthcare and educational facilities, laboratories, corporate offices, and retail applications. The glass offers a budget-friendly alternative to expensive or cumbersome mechanical daylight and privacy controls, such as louvers and laminated privacy films, as well as dust-collecting curtains and blinds. Its contemporary linear pattern and durability make it a timeless, versatile design element. Additionally, the Houdini™... Altro
Prodotto • By Bendheim • KOVA for Bendheim Collection
KOVA for Bendheim Collection
The KOVA for Bendheim Collection of safety laminated decorative architectural glass creates new possibilities for dividing interior spaces. Inspired by the sparkling beauty of hand-cut crystalware, the Collection features five woven textiles, ranging from contemporary deco lace to wispy tulle, with touches of soft white, black, and bronze hues. The laminated glass provides varying degrees of privacy, depending on the textile design, and offers daylighting benefits allowing for energy savings and enhanced occupant comfort. To further benefit the space, the specialty glass can improve sound attenuation performance by four points, to an STC of 35 or better, when compared to similar monolithic glass, contributing to quieter environments and a g... Altro
Prodotto • By Bendheim • Bendheim Channel Glass Wall Systems for translucent facades and interior glazed partitions
Bendheim Channel Glass Wall Systems for translucent facades and interior glazed partitions
Channel glass is an outstanding alternative to solid partition walls, with comparable acoustic privacy properties and superior aesthetic and daylight benefits. Oriented horizontally, channel glass can create seamless walls that are virtually unlimited in height. Oriented vertically, it can create serpentine curves and glass-to-glass corners up to 23-feet tall.
Bendheim's channel glass allows architects and designers to create virtually seamless glass walls, limitless in length, including corners. Each channel glass wall system is precision engineered and fully tested to support the needs of a specific application, and meets or exceeds strict US building requirements. Bendheim Wall Systems, Inc. is North America's leading channel glas... Altro
Progetto • By Steven Holl Architects • Ambasciate
Swiss Embassy in Washington DC
This scheme placed first in the competition of ten Swiss-American team’s designs for the replacement of the Washington D.C. residence of the Swiss Ambassador. It is not only to be a private house but also a cultural gathering place on which standards and self-image of a country are measured. Sited on a hill with a direct view through the trees to the Washington monument in the distance, a diagonal line of overlapping spaces drawn through a cruciform courtyard plan was the conceptual starting point. Official arrival spaces and ceremony spaces are connected along this diagonal line on the first level, while private living quarter functions are on the floor above. Materials are charcoal integral color concrete trimmed in local slate and sand-b... Altro
Prodotto • By Nathan Allan Glass Studios • Iceberg Textured Glass design by Garret Cord Werner Architects & Interior Designers
Iceberg Textured Glass design by Garret Cord Werner Architects & Interior Designers
Designed by GARRET CORD WERNER ARCHITECTS & INTERIOR DESIGNERS Iceberg invokes a fresh, watery, foatingcontext of glass islands streaming aim-lessly within an invisible boundary. Iceberg nuggets, with chiselled edges,are solidly formed then melted within asea of clear glass formations. The intri-cate production methods create pan-els of vivid glass features, where theIcebergs appear to move and foat as ifgently fowing with an ocean current. This unique, textured glass, is the lat-est product launch for NATHAN ALLANGLASS STUDIOS. Iceberg Glass can be produced in smallor large, 1.5” thick textured glass sheets,in Annealed or Safety Laminated ver-sions.
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Prodotto • By Bendheim • Hospitality Collection
Hospitality Collection
Bendheim has partnered with Bart Halpern to introduce a new exclusive collection of decorative architectural glass to the interior design market. The collection transforms Bart Halpern’s renowned Glitterati™ textiles into safety building glass, addressing the need for shimmering luxury materials that subtly dramatize interior spaces.
The Bendheim Hospitality Collection by Bart Halpern is a versatile and effective design material. Subtle at a distance, the combination of natural colors and metallic hues is dazzling and bold up-close. The collection features five Glitterati textile colors – champagne, gold, copper, silver, and black – laminated in Bendheim low-iron glass. Additional Glitterati options are available on request.... Altro
Prodotto • By Bendheim • Optichroic® Dichroic Glass
Optichroic® Dichroic Glass
Bendheim’s Optichroic® dichroic glass is said to be the first glass of its type suitable for architectural applications. Developed in the late 50s by NASA to protect against the potentially harmful effects of direct sunlight and cosmic radiation, dichroic glass, with its striking visual qualities, has been used in a variety of scientific and industrial applications.
Optichroic glass is created through specialized interlayer technologies. As the viewer’s angle to the glass changes, so does its color, giving Optichroic its refined iridescent characteristics. The glass offers an attractive aesthetic with the added durability of a scratch-resistant, easy-to-maintain glass. It has been rigorously tested by independent labs to ensure the... Altro
Prodotto • By Bendheim • Back-Painted Glass
Back-Painted Glass
Bendheim’s Back-Painted Glass line opens a world of endless design possibilities with an almost unlimited selection of colors, finishes, and textures. Bendheim colors can be bonded to practically any type of glass, and architects and designers can select from a vast range of glass patterns and textures in the entire spectrum of color – from Pantone® and paint manufacturer's color chips to specialty fabrics. Color Coated Glass is a VOC-free, environmentally friendly and safe product produced with stable and durable, isocyanate-free coatings, formulated to last for many years. It is available in thicknesses ranging from 1/8 to 3/4 inches and in large sheets up to 60 by 120 inches.Back-Painted Glass is well-suited for a variety of applications... Altro
Progetto • By Moore Ruble Yudell Architects • Parcheggi Auto
Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure
A Civic Gateway
A recently completed Master Plan for the Civic Center in Santa Monica, California designates a new civic gateway at Fourth Street and the new Olympic Drive to the new district that includes the renovated historic City Hall and Courthouse, and the new Public Safety Building. Intended as an integral part that completes a quadrant of civic buildings, the 300,000 square feet Civic Center Parking Structure provides 900 parking spaces on six levels above grade and two below grade while visually uniting the tableau of diverse buildings. The design team was additionally challenged to create a building that exemplified the city's commitment to sustainable design while strengthening the urban fabric and providing public amenities.... Altro