Glass walls
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about glass walls
Product • 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... More
Product • 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... More
Product • 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™... More
Product • 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... More
Project • By Whipple Russell Architects • Private Houses
Benedict Canyon
Our client, C.J. Wilson, who was a Major League Baseball pitcher, wanted an open-plan house for hosting guests, a large flat lawn for ballplay, and a photography studio along with a gallery space suitable for hanging his large art projects.
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The hilltop site required a 10-foot high retaining wall to create a sturdy level pad for building our client’s vision.
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A spiral driveway leads to the property, which then opens to the car park and entrance walkway.
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William MacCollum
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On the left, is the upstairs studio space, accessible via stairs that rise up over the first reflecting pool.
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Wide horizonta... More
Project • By Steven Holl Architects • Embassies
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... More
Product • By NanaWall • FoldFlat
FoldFlat
NanaWall Systems introduces the industry-first FoldFlat®, which allows glass wall panels to fold and then pivot all the way back to stack out of the way, parallel to the opening. Useful for patios, decks and balconies where space is a premium, the FoldFlat eliminates the issue of the panels sticking out into the outdoor space.
“Standard folding glass walls protrude onto the deck or patio because they can only stop halfway at 90 degrees,” said NanaWall Systems CEO Ebrahim Nana. "With NanaWall FoldFlat, we have invented a solution for builders and homeowners to gain back that living space by folding the panels a full 180 degrees, entirely against the wall.”
Available in both aluminum and wood-framed options, the NanaWall FoldFla... More
Product • By NanaWall • BEARricade
BEARricade
BEARricade Folding Glass Wall Offers Security and Defense From Bears
There’s nothing like a house in the woods, until it’s discovered by bears. A thrilling sight to see outside, a bear is less than charming when it’s trying to invade your home for a snack. The desire of builders and homeowners to bring the outdoors in, yet keep the bears out, can now be resolved with the NanaWall BEARricade™. It’s a folding glass wall that opens wide to erase indoor/outdoor boundaries when the coast is clear, yet provides unequalled security and defense from bears when closed.
“Bears learn how to enter homes by simply using their immense strength and weight to push open French doors, windows, and even pushing in or breaking the glass on typica... More
Product • By KLEIN • PANORAMIC glazed interior partition walls for flexibility and transparency in offices
PANORAMIC glazed interior partition walls for flexibility and transparency in offices
PANORAMIC glazed interior partition walls for flexibility and transparency in offices
Imagine a truly seamless sliding glass wall system, one without frames or visible tracks.
Ideal for office spaces, the PANORAMIC system creates both a series of glass-enclosed offices or a single central meeting space. It resolves all points of connection with drop ceilings and 90º joinings, allowing you to quickly create elegant glass spaces. If acoustic privacy is one of your priorities, choose the recessed, double glazed glass option.
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Klein’s Panoramic System utilizes the same sized compact tracks to create partitions with a beautiful polished finish and fluid tracks. The end result is a truly uniform design. With the Pa... More
Project • By Whipple Russell Architects • Private Houses
Summit House
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Our clients for this project were a family intent upon staying closely connected even while moving to a considerably larger home. This was accomplished with the use of energy efficient glass walls throughout, an open floor plan, and sight lines between floating levels and rooms allowing the family members to stay connected visually throughout the space.
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They also had a passion for modernism and had collected art pieces that we included in our 3D models to make sure scale and placement were considered.
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One of the owners is a well-known sports agent making the entertaining of adults as well as teenage children and their friends... More
Product • 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.... More
Product • 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... More
Product • 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... More
Project • By Dehullu Projekt bv • Offices
Innovation Centre Utrecht
Danone Nutricia Research has opened a new innovation centre in Utrecht. With this new building, Danone will gather together the research activities carried out in the Netherlands, Germany and Great Britain, and give them the space to grow.
The new innovation centre was designed by the architect’s office Cepezed and developed by OVG at the Utrecht Science Park. The building has received the BREEAM design certificate for excellence. Danone was assisted by AOS Studley in the development of the concept. The interior concept was shaped by interior architect Chris Pachen.
Inside the building is a pilot plant, laboratories, offices, storage areas, a conference centre, a coffee bar and a restaurant. The design is aimed at establishing open, d... More
Project • By Dehullu Projekt bv • Offices
Nuon Graphics Amsterdam
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On December 4th, 2013, NUON took over use of the existing 27,500m2 multi-storeyed building in Amsterdam South-East. This building which is called ‘New Amsterdam’ is now the headquarters of N.V. NUON Energy in the Netherlands.
The renovation of the building can be described as very significant and thorough: both the exterior and interior have been completely redone except for the concrete skeleton: open spaces have been arranged across several floors in the building, and a sixth floor has been added to the building. The building has been certified as BREEAM Very Good.
The new workplace
This major project was completed in exactly 15 months. The interior is completely focused on the new workplace: ‘The NU workplace’. The office... More