I am finishing up the text for the next issue, September/October, of the Architects’ Guide to Glass and Metal, and our lead article reports on innovative glass designs. I am amazed when working on all the issues of the magazine at how much innovative design is being done with architectural glass and metal. In the [...]

I love to travel and I have been fortunate enough to take tours offered by Smithsonian Journeys, the travel operation branch of the Washington, D.C. based museum. These tours have been the finest and most interesting I’ve taken in my nearly 40 years of traveling. Even the tour I took with the Smithsonian to China, [...]

A recent issue of New York magazine commemorated its 40th anniversary and included best-of-the-best lists for various categories in the four decades it has been published. Lists like these are one of our great secret guilty pleasures even though most people make fun of them. We all read them to see who/what got included and [...]

Within the last month, I’ve been to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) convention and show in Boston and the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) convention and the new Construct show in Las Vegas, which took place last week. I’ve been going to the AIA show for a number of years, and had gone to the [...]

I saw Ted Hathaway, president and chief executive officer of Oldcastle Glass, recently at his midtown Manhattan offices. Those spacious, light-filled offices at Columbus Circle overlook Central Park and the new home of the Museum of Arts and Design. Ted has a special attachment to this structure because he joined the museum’s board of trustees [...]

I’ll be off next week to Boston for the AIA Convention and Show. I hope to see you there. If you are attending the show, please stop by our booth, 14165. As we have for the past couple of years, we will be right next to the Glass Association of North America (GANA) booth, so [...]

Two recent articles in The New York Times caught my attention because of their focus on architecture and the glass used in it. The “Then” article subject was the sale of the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs corporate complex in Holmdel, N.J., which occupies a 473-acre site. The article explains, “A decade ago, as many as 6,500 [...]

The George Washington Bridge in New York City, along with the Golden Gate on the other coast, is recognized as a great engineering achievement and example of good design. As I mentioned previously, I can set in my apartment and look at this marvel, which is indeed beautiful, but contains no glass. Originally, that was [...]

After 25 years in the same house, I recently moved. The old place, a farm house that was built circa 1900, was full of charm. It still had many of its wonderful old windows, and a supplement of a block of nine-on-nine true-divided lite units that were installed to open up the living room and [...]

Welcome to the new Architects’ Guide to Glass and Metal e-newsletter and my first blog. We live in an interactive age, and this e-newsletter and my blog will be interactive too. Please feel free to contact me on any relevant subject or to ask any questions concerning this blog, the e-newsletter or the industry. The [...]