Wine producer Williams Selyem has announced the opening of a new 28,000-square-foot winery in Healdsburg, Calif. Created by the D’Arc Group, the new winery is designed to reflect Williams Selyem’s minimalist approach to winemaking and respect for the environment. The building is organic to the site, reflecting the natural resources of the area. It is [...]

Glass and glazing trends vary from country to country. In Europe, for example, double-glazed facades are quite common, while in Australia, glass railings and balustrades can be seen on many homes, condos and hotel projects. In addition to balcony and patio railings, glass walls surrounding pools are also growing in popularity in Australia. “[Large-scale], frameless, [...]

The historic quarter of Southwark in London is now the location of Great Britain’s first office building that has achieved the Breeam “Outstanding” rating for particularly sustainable technical building design. The ten-storey “7 More London” was planned by the architect group Foster & Partners and utilizes renewable energies, modern technical facilities and an energetically optimized [...]

CityCenter in Las Vegas, the 67-acre city-within-a-city, is celebrating the opening of Veer Towers and its model homes. Designed by internationally renowned architect Helmut Jahn, Veer Towers was created as an architectural and artistic landmark on the global scene and is CityCenter’s only completely residential development. Inclined at five-degree angles, its two 37-story glass towers [...]

Nature was the inspiration for architect David Serero of the French architectural firm Serero Architects, who designed the new cultural center of Meudon-la-Forêt. The building follows the orthogonal grid of the district while developing a close connection with the ground space. The project is organized around a central nucleus created by a theater of 300 [...]

JE Berkowitz (JEB) in Pedricktown, N.J., served as the glass supplier for the expansion project of the Philadelphia Convention Center. By completion of the project, JEB will have supplied more than 70,000 square feet of heat treated PPG 5/16-inch Solarban 60 insulating glass units with special light grey silicone. The $700 million convention center, due [...]

The new Segerstrom Science Center at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, Calif., features Lamberts channel glass provided by Bendheim Wall Systems, the exclusive North American importer of the channel glass. For the $42 million building at California’s first Bible college, A.C. Martin Partners Inc. took advantage of the unique structural properties of Lamberts channel glass. [...]

Visible at night to airplanes flying to the Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport, the aluminum, glass and concrete ellipse of the Cancer Center of Sacred Heart Hospital was designed as a symbol of the quality and compassion the Center brings to patients throughout Northwest Florida. The 95,430-square-foot Sacred Heart Cancer Center both consolidates and expands [...]