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Silver Glass Curtainwall to Shine on New Trump® Hotel
Designed by Handel Architects, Trump SoHo™ New York is the Trump® Hotel Collection’s first hotel in Downtown New York, and is set to open its doors early this year. The dramatic, 46-story, 391-room tower is clad in a silver glass curtainwall.
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Glass and Glazing Details Featured in Plans for Museum Extension
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston recently revealed the final, detailed plans for an extension to its historic Museum building, which was designed by ...
Bank of America Tower at 450 B Street Receives TOBY Award
Downtown San Diego’s Bank of America Tower located at 450 B Street has been awarded The Office Building of the Year (TOBY) Award under the ...
Construction Underway on Caspi International’s New Oceanfront Condo Tower
The real estate development firm Caspi International Inc. is constructing a 14-story oceanfront condominium tower in Costa Rica that it says sets a new standard ...
San Pedro Waterfront Tower Designed to Maximize Views
A contemporary, new high-rise tower now stands where the 11-story Pacific Trade Center building in San Pedro, Calif., once stood. In 2006, the Pacific Trade ...
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Lite Notes
By Ellen Rogers
Looking Back Just because 2009 has been a slow year for commercial construction, doesn’t mean we’ve been short on innovative glass projects. In fact, if you take a look back through all of issues from the Architects’ Guide to Glass & Metal or scroll through the archived stories on our website, you’ll see quite a few that [...]
Day to Day in Architecture
By Denise Beneke
Cities Setting Good Examples of Reuse One of the top ways to really be sustainable is to find ways to reuse buildings instead of just building new ones. It is this reason that I get excited to see municipalities that are leading by example for building reuse. The biggest example in San Antonio is the Haven For Hope project that is [...]
Based on Experience
By Michael Bitterice
Size Does Matter The development of spectrally selective glass tints and coatings has enhanced the solar and thermal properties of glass tremendously. When used in insulating glass units, in combination with argon or krypton gas fill, r-values greater than 4 and solar heat gain coefficients less than 0.3 are possible. Combined with relatively high light transmittance that can [...]
As I See It
By Charles Cumpston
Welcome to the New Decade There is something about the dawn of a new decade, which seems to hold out the promise of good things. We have ushered in 2010, but prospects don’t look immediately bright for the architectural construction market.
According to the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) semi-annual Consensus Construction Forecast, a survey of the nation’s leading construction forecasters, [...]
Event News
Plans have been seen for this year’s Architects’ Educational Forum, taking place March 17 as part of Glass Expo Midwest, at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center in Schaumburg, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. Exclusive to architects, this seminar ...
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