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The glass and glazing options featured
this month have a variety of attributes to help architects
achieve the aesthetic or technical goals of projects ranging
from medical centers to train stations. Energy-efficiency,
privacy, and products that maximize views and daylight are
common issues. —Rita F.
Catinella
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Photography: © Courtesy David Greusel/HOK Venue
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Solar-control glass helps
maximize the view of a riverside convention center
The Grand River Center is an 86,000-square-foot
meeting and convention center located on the Mississippi
River in Dubuque, Iowa. The building is a signature
element in the city’s larger America’s River
development, which also includes The National Mississippi
River Museum and Aquarium, the Mississippi Riverwalk,
and the Grand Harbor Resort and Waterpark. Designed
by David Greusel of HOK Venue, Kansas City, Missouri,
Grand River Center is designed to take advantage of
its exceptional river views.
The center includes a 2,200-square-foot, special-purpose
reception and meeting space that cantilevers dramatically
over the river levee; a 30,000-square-foot exhibit hall;
a 12,000-square-foot, multipurpose ballroom; and 12,000
square feet of divisible meeting-room space on two levels.
Dramatic glass walls, crafted from alternative bands
of Solarban 60 and Solarban 80 Solar Control Low-E Glass
from PPG, stretch from floor to ceiling. The two types
of glass were selected for their solar control characteristics,
which dramatically reduce heating and cooling costs
while allowing for the transparency demanded by the
building’s riverside setting. PPG Industries, Pittsburgh.
www.ppg.com
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Blue glass waterfalls bring
both light and serenity into a Brooklyn mausoleum
Artwork in Architectural Glass (AAG) supplied
32 Wide Spartina texture cast-glass panels, measuring
106" x 47'' each, for two waterfalls in a mausoleum
at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. The
texture of AAG’s 3¼8"-thick Wide Spartina
panels was developed specifically for waterfall applications—the
water runs smoothly from one deep-blue, ribbed-glass
panel to the next, eliminating any splashing or spitting
issues. The project was completed last March by architect
David Grider of Platt Byard Dovell White in New York
City in collaboration with Lynbrook Glass & Architectural
Metals, of Hauppauge, New York.According to Grider,
the waterfall not only relates directly to the shingled-glass
treatment of the facade, but “acts like a prism
to capture and reflect both sunlight from above and
incandescent light from below,” diminishing the
sense that the visitor is several floors below grade.
AAG, Good Hope, Ga. www.artworkinglass.com
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The Hillman Center’s
atrium.
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Glass block links five-story
medical center
The Hillman Cancer Center is the University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center’s flagship cancer treatment and research
facility. The designers of the 350,000-square-foot facility,
IKM Incorporated, were faced with the challenge of creating
a space that would be warm and comforting enough for patient
care while remaining a highly functional research facility.
To accomplish this goal, IKM linked the patient care pavilion
with the research pavilion via an atrium spanning five
stories. The atrium uses Pittsburgh Corning glass block
to create a separation between the research and clinical
wings, allow natural light to penetrate all the floors
and both pavilions, and create appropriate levels of transparency
and privacy for the treatment, laboratory, and office
areas. Pittsburgh Corning Glass Block, Pittsburgh. www.pittsburghcorning.com
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