Structural glass
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about structural glass
Product • By Fluid Glass • Fluid Glass Floor
Fluid Glass Floor
The Fluid Glass Floor is a high-performance structural glazing system designed to introduce light, drama, and a contemporary dimension to any interior. By opening up vertical sightlines between levels, it creates a unique sense of openness and turns ordinary circulation spaces into architectural highlights. Engineered to meet rigorous safety and load-bearing standards, each floor is meticulously calculated using multi-layered laminated glass to ensure total durability. Whether used to showcase a feature cellar or simply to invite daylight deeper into a building, it offers a sophisticated, "weightless" aesthetic that integrates seamlessly with modern or heritage structures More
Product • By Fluid Glass • Fluid Glass Balustrade
Fluid Glass Balustrade
Fluid Glass Balustrades provide a clean and contemporary approach to safety and spatial definition, offering protection without visual compromise. Engineered for both internal and external use, the system utilizes frameless detailing to preserve open views and maximize natural light. Whether on staircases, landings, or terraces, it adds security with subtlety, allowing architecture to speak while providing structural integrity through high-quality toughened or laminated safety glass tailored to the project’s specific needs More
Product • By Fluid Glass • Fluid Glass Link
Fluid Glass Link
The Fluid Glass Link is a refined architectural element designed to create a seamless, light-filled connection between traditional structures and contemporary additions. Utilizing frameless detailing and high-performance structural glazing, it dissolves visual barriers to allow natural light to flow uninterrupted between different building volumes. Engineered for both heritage and modern contexts, the system offers a "weightless" aesthetic while maintaining exceptional thermal insulation and structural strength. It serves as a purposeful transitional space that articulates the dialogue between different architectural eras with quiet precision. More
Product • By IQ Glass UK • Corner Windows
Corner Windows
Bespoke Corner Windows
The team at IQ are experts in creating bespoke window designs to suit all types of architectural design and buildings. Corner windows are an interesting and versatile window option for renovations and new build properties alike.
Our range of design options for corner windows allow flexibility in both design and performance, ensuring architects and specifiers achieve the finish and requirements needed for compliance.
Frameless Corner Windows
For a fully frameless corner window, structural glass is used, connected at the corners with structural silicone. This option is perfect for achieving an uninterrupted, minimalist appearance with maximum light ingress.... More
Project • By IQ Glass UK • Private Houses
Dormers
A new-build property in Henley-on-Thames allows maximum natural light to flood the internal living spaces with the use of oversized structural glazing.
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Bespoke large glazing units form a key part of this project with modern glazing technology inviting indoor-outdoor living.
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The main feature of this project was the design and installation of a double height minimal guillotine window system. This vertical sliding sash window is designed to be counterweighted; this allows the homeowner to lift the lower pane which draws down the top pane aligning all panes with the fixed centre pane.
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Project • By IQ Glass UK • Private Houses
Water End House
IQ Glass installed two sets of the minimal windows external sliding doors system onto this new build in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
Quintin Lake
Both sets of doors were installed with one fixed glazing unit on either side with an ultra-slim frame. One set of these doors were installed to provide access to the living area and patio on the ground floor with the other set providing access to the garden.
Quintin Lake
These doors were installed with a slim 21mm sight line to provide the homeowners with stunning views of their surroundings. More
Project • By Studio Eigen • Showrooms
Essentia
In the pedestrian heart of Padua, Essentia redefines the concept of a showroom through an intervention that works on spatial continuity and the expressive power of surfaces. The project moves beyond simple commercial display to create a unified organism, where cement resin, stone, and wood become architectural matter that guides the visitor from the public dimension of the ground floor toward the immersive and intimate dimension of the basement.
The entrance welcomes the client into a space that becomes an urban scenography. The reception stands out as a monolithic volume in travertine: a tectonic presence that organizes flows and acts as the first material manifesto, directing the gaze toward the hall. Here, the environment is rhythmicall... More
Amazon Headquarters
The ideal vision of technology brings brightness, airiness, and simplicity to mind. And that’s exactly what has become of Amazon’s new company headquarters in Via Monte Grappa in Milan, Italy. The original complex—two, 8-story buildings with connecting bridges on all floors—was built in the 1970s and considered an architectural icon among Milan’s commercial buildings.
For its renovation, Milan-based GBPA Architects refurbished the dark, heavy cladding with a glass façade using 10,000 sq m of Isolar Solarlux® solar control glass, anodized aluminum, and various Saflex® PVB interlayers.
The interiors of both buildings were completely gutted and the connecting bridges removed to make ro... More
Product • By IQ Glass UK • Invisio® Structural Glazing System
Invisio® Structural Glazing System
The first fully thermally broken structural glazing system, Invisio, was designed to offer architects unrivalled possibilities with flexible glazing design. The thermally broken fixings are designed to be hidden by the building finishes and multiple glass units can be silicone jointed together for a frameless design.
Invisio can reach large sizes and accomodate triple glazed units simply by using a deeper profile. The flexible nature of architectural glazing means the system can be used for a wide variety of applications including structural glass roofs, frameless glass walls, glass balustrades and much more.
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A frameless finish The beauty of structural glazing is its frameless... More