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Students at the University of Derby are enjoying the benefits of a multi-million pound refurbishment. In a major regeneration project, Pilkington Planar™ has been specified to provide a colourful multi-storey link stairwell.

Pilkington noise-control glass has been revealed as the secret behind a good night’s sleep for customers of the new, award-winning, Sleeperz Hotel in the heart of Newcastle. And, while the noise-reduction performance helps ensure guests sleep easy in the 98-bedroom hotel, it also plays a key role in creating a stunning visual impact for the glass-fronted building.

Rising from the quayside of Midtermolen to the north of Copenhagen, the headquarters of Danish financial services company ALM Brand looks every inch a new build. In actuality, the building was constructed in 1994, undergoing a recent renovation with Pilkington Planar™ at the heart of the project, used in combination with the most modern of technologies.

Pilkington Planar™ has been used in an award winning refurbishment of the historic St Thomas' Hospital in London. St Thomas’ Hospital is a renowned teaching hospital located in central London, opposite the Houses of Parliament on the south bank of the River Thames. Given its prominent location and out-dated building, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust felt that its Gassiot House outpatients centre was in need of a serious refurbishment.

Durham University Business School’s new £16 million fit-for-purpose building utilises NSG Group’s world class Pilkington Planar™ to create an inspiring space for students to learn.

The design concept at the heart of the new Stonehenge visitor centre which opened at the end of last year, was a building that would blend unobtrusively into the wide-open Wiltshire landscape by evoking a copse of trees.

The exhibition of Bernardino Luini works of art – one of the leading artists of the Italian Renaissance – was ceremonially opened in April at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, where various Renaissance art will be displayed until mid-July.

The Egyptian Museum in Turin, second in the world only to Cairo for the historical and artistic value of its content, has chosen Pilkington OptiView™ Protect OW to safeguard its ancient Egyptian artefacts.

Stoke on Trent City Council have created a new landmark for the city in the form of a new headquarters building, which will also incorporate public spaces.

New pavilion of McDonald's restaurant in Rotterdam wins Iconic Awards 2015.

A new terminal building serving Mexico’s Tijuana Airport needed a glass that would provide plenty of light while at the same time being kind to terminal users.

QBIG two in Heilbronn, Germany is an impressive innovative office building. The building with a glass façade is surrounded by an extravagant white steel skeleton.

As one of the most modern working environments in Germany, the new Microsoft headquarters in Munich-Schwabing stands for the idea of a networked working environment: optimal possibilities for teamwork, more self-determination and personal productivity as well as a high degree of flexibility, made possible by modern technologies. Open spaces, which are geared to different work requirements and can be flexibly used at any time, are available to the employees with the new office structures.

The shimmering art glass screen, which lines the new connector building between California’s Oakland International Airport and the adjacent BART train terminus, is a marriage between art, science and industry.

Imperial Tobacco’s new HQ has achieved a sustainability certification of Excellent from the world’s leading assessment method for sustainable buildings, BREEAM, with a helping hand from Pilkington Suncool™ 70/40.