Rob Gregory reports on exciting new uses of glass.501 SOLUTIA INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS The Solutia International Design Awards promote and celebrate the creative use of laminated glass Noun 1. laminated glass - glass made with plates of plastic or resin or other material between two sheets of glass to prevent shattering safety glass, shatterproof glass glass - a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure . This year there were two winners, the Sundial sundial, instrument that indicates the time of day by the shadow, cast on a surface marked to show hours or fractions of hours, of an object on which the sun's rays fall. Bridge in California (501A) and the Woermann Tower in Gran Canaria Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean 210 km from the northwest coast of Africa and belonging to Spain. It is located southeast of Tenerife and west of Fuerteventura. (501B). Additional honours were also given to the Urasoe Cultural Centre in Japan, the Parkhaus Berlin in Germany (501C), and children's nurseries in Paris and Madrid (501D). Entries were judged on the following criteria: aesthetic and functional value of the laminated glazing: significance of the design in developing new applications for laminated glazing; the creative use of laminated glass; and the overall aesthetic appeal of the project. Santiago Calatrava's Sundial Bridge in Redding, California Redding (pop. 104,295) is the county seat of Shasta County, California, USA, located on the Sacramento River and on Interstate 5 south of Shasta Lake. It is the largest city north of Sacramento, as well as the northernmost designated metropolitan area and city with over 100,000 features a complex system of backlit An LCD screen that has its own light source from the back of the screen, making the background brighter and characters appear sharper. laminated glass panels incorporating translucent Vanceva Arctic Snow interlayers, while Abalos & Herreros' Woermann Tower uses hues of yellow, blue and green Vanceva interlayers to resonate with the beautiful natural surroundings. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 501 www.arplus.com/enq.html 502 SAINT GOBAIN For the company, see . Saint Gobain (died 670), also known as Goban, was an Irish Benedictine monk and spiritual student of Saint Fursey at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, England. Born in Ireland. At 61 x 20m, Frank Gehry's distinctive roof at the DZ bank in Berlin has a total area of 1856sqm. The support structure of this whale-shaped arched roof consists of a shell structure with triangular fields, 2490 rods and 826 joints. The joints were cut from stainless-steel plates and then milled. The glass is fixed with stainless-steel plates attached externally, and the 1500 different triangular units are made from two-pane thermal insulation The term thermal insulation can refer to materials used to reduce the rate of heat transfer, or the methods and processes used to reduce heat transfer. Heat is transferred from one material to another by conduction, convection and/or radiation. glass (white glass), installed with stainless-steel spacers. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 502 www.arplus.com/enq.html 503 SCHMIDLIN Schmidlin were responsible for the external envelope of the Forum 3 building in Basel designed by Swiss architects Diener & Diener. The coloured glass--suspended around the building in three layers--forms a highly composed envelope that exploits overlap and relief. Each pane is held in place by stainless-steel tension rods with each unique glass element being secured to the rods by clamps and spacers. The tension rods are supported by brackets at roof level. Schmidlin also produced the inner facade that comprises curtain wall curtain wall Nonbearing wall of glass, metal, or masonry attached to a building's exterior structural frame. After World War II, low energy costs gave impetus to the concept of the tall building as a glass prism, an idea originally put forth by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies units with triple-glazed aluminium frames, and the fixed glazing on the ground floor which incorporates large double-glazed sliding gates with stainless-steel frames. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 503 www.arplus.com/enq.html |
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