Contemporary minimalist architecture is simple shapes and uniform colours. The glass wall and metal accents complement and decorate the simple façade. More and more often these cool arrangements are complemented by natural accents such as wood and stone, in the form of formwork or gabion walls.

4000m2 of glass was used in total across the façade. The £90m, nine-storey mixed-use project has created over 65,000 sq ft of category-A office space as well as eight restaurant and retail units on the lower-ground, ground and first floors.

These new regulations will have a significant impact on the type, location and quantity of glass architects specify, increasing the need for solar control glazing, which allows daylight to pass through a window or façade, while reflecting away the sun’s heat to help prevent overheating.

Façade: the face of a building, or the cladding covering it. Façade element: a part of the façade, such as a window or spandrel panel. Face clearance: the distance between the glass and the rebate upstand.

The models help Revit users to design glazed facades in the programme with the same ease of a standard integrated curtain wall system. It also enables specifiers to easily upgrade curtain walling to a Pilkington Planar™ façade.

Travellers enter the new station though a welcoming entrance lobby with a double-height glazed entrance façade which includes both flat and elegantly curved glass. To maximise sight-lines and minimise framing – which would break up the view of the impressive roof-line – the designers specified the Pilkington Planar™ structural glazing ...

Standards & Regulations. Standards & Regulations A quick guide to some of the Standards & Building Regulations used in construction that have implications for the choice of glass

To achieve this, Atkins worked closely with specialist façade contractor Charles Henshaw & Son and the Pilkington design team. This resulted in the highly engineered Pilkington Planar™ system being used innovatively creating a striking glass atrium.

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Balustrades Glass barriers are used in buildings for a number of purposes and allow the maximum flow of light and view both inside and outside the structure.