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Depending on whom you talk to about the newest crown jewel building of New York City’s “NoMad” neighborhood, the label is either “The Prism Tower” or sometimes “the fortress of glassitude”.
New York City’s iconic skyline today is dramatically different than in previous decades, as many glass skyscrapers have shot up among the classic towers.
“It’s a building that tends to disappear,” said architect Rene Gonzalez, leaning over the seventh-floor balcony of 120 Ocean Drive, an 18-story residential tower that recently came to completion in South Beach.
The skyline of Ho Chi Minh City is getting a new focal point, as the tallest building in Vietnam will soon be sited in the Asian metropolis.
Wrightstyle the advanced steel and aluminium glazing company, has helped to transform a tired London 1960s high-rise block, building in new and improved levels of fire safety.
The Torre Agbar is a reflection of Barcelona scarcely seen in its glorious past – bold, vibrant, and contemporary.
Leading building envelope and major façade specialist the Lakesmere Group has secured a new £13.3m appointment from main contractor Carillion to deliver a striking vertical envelope package for two new high-rise residential tower blocks in the Royal…
Heated sun reflections from the yet-to-be-completed, 38-storey glass tower at 20 Fenchurch Street had melted part of a car parked on a nearby street and even been the source of several fires in the area.
A unique opportunity for glass department heads, faculty members, instructors, and students to discuss with their peers the changing fine-art landscape in academia, best practices in the lecture hall and studio, as well as practical issues.
Damaged in the 9/11 attacks, CUNY’s new Fiterman Hall features Wausau’s high-performance curtainwall
The City University of New York's (CUNY's) Borough of Manhattan Community College's opened the Miles and Shirley Fiterman Hall at the beginning of the 2012-13 academic year.
Wausau Window and Wall Systems teamed with long-time customer, J.R. Butler, Inc., to create the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) new inpatient tower’s high-performance, serpentine curtainwall with sun shades.
The turnover at One Beacon Court, the glassy spike of condominiums anchored by the Bloomberg L.P. headquarters on the site of the former Alexander’s department store, has continued unabated, and so has the escalation of prices, making the $13.575…
Gregg Tassone joins Wausau Window and Wall Systems as its architectural sales representative working closely with the building owners, architects, general contractors and glazing contractors in New York City and northern New Jersey.
An Austrian glass company has been commissioned to provide special glass for part of the construction taking place on Ground Zero in New York.
MIDLAND — Silicone construction sealant manufactured by Dow Corning Corp. helped create the most inclined, and one of the most unique, towers in the world.
Strainoptics Inc. has announced the appointment of Scott Eric Slavin as director of product development.
Diamon-Fusion International, Inc. (DFI Nanotechnology), global developer and exclusive licensor of patented hydrophobic nanotechnologies, along with its partner, New York Poly Steel, announce the completion of the large-scale coating project for the…
Glass Expo Northeast 2011 is set to take place March 17-18, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Long Island at Wind Watch Hotel & Golf Club in Long Island (Hauppauge), New York.
Tubelite Inc. has named The Metcalf Group Ltd. as a manufacturer’s representative for the company’s architectural aluminum products in northern New Jersey and in the five boroughs and Long Island in New York.
NEW YORK, NY November 25, 2009 —The old Meatpacking District will soon be home to a new 10-story glass, mixed-use, retail and commercial building. The structure received the green light from the city to go 24 percent higher than current zoning…
One of the world's most famous skyscrapers - the Empire State building in New York - is going green. A project is underway to reduce the amount of energy used in the building by more than a third, saving millions of dollars a year.
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J.E. Berkowitz, L.P. (JEB) of Pedricktown, New Jersey will be fabricating the insulating units on the new $450-million, 32-story Bank of America Tower in Charlotte, North Carolina.