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If you have ever visited a cathedral, synagogue or mosque, you have seen beautiful stained glass windows. The windows vary in size, colors and design, but all have something in common. The stained glass windows beautify and provide a colorful prism that natural light shines through, enhancing the atmosphere of the building. The images on the windows also serve to enlighten and edify the congregants. - Cheryl Waters
Stained glass is arguably one of the most important aspects of Gothic cathedrals. As its popularity rose, mainly during the mid-12th century, the increased presence of stained glass presented major changes to the way the general populace was learning about religion. The windows became illuminated visual sermons of biblical stories, which may have had an even greater impact than the spoken word of the priest
The Development of Stained Glass in Gothic Cathedrals
Elizabeth (Aislin) Reynolds
People tend to consider glass as a commodity. It is not. Glass is a highly sophisticated material. A technology carrier and performance provider. Unlike any other building construction material glass enables transparency. It allows sunlight and solar energy to transmit, at the same time maintaining visual contact between the outside and the inside of a building as well as between rooms inside the building.
Vetrosolar.com
Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania.
The artistic glass façade created a building skin that appears to be made of layers of glazing due to the use of acid etching and silk screening,” says Chris Dolan, director of commercial glass marketing for Guardian Industries. “The project used Guardian SunGuard AG 50 low-E on UltraWhite low-iron glass to help reduce glare and solar heat gain while providing a public space filled with natural light
Hall Winery in St. Helena, California.
"What we really wanted to do with our location was to showcase the spectacular views in all directions from the winery in all directions and integrate the hospitality experience with the outdoor experience" - Reynolds
The structural glazing—the fins—come in and touch the radial walls … so when you’re standing within any point within the hospitality area you feel as though you’re standing out on a balcony. The glass fins are held 8 feet above your head,
There is a strong trend in modern architecture towards transparent structures, which allow natural light to enter buildings and on other hand open up the natural landscape to end-users inside. Glass creates an airiness, provides a sense of space that can only be achieved with larger glass sizes and in lighter support structures.
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The use of glass in public buildings and office complexes has steadily increased over the past few decades, and the trend looks set to continue. Glass is an inexpensive material which offers many superior properties in different applications. It is environmentally friendly and fully recyclable, an increasingly important consideration with the growing emphasis on life-span thinking.
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When it comes to glass offices, there are none better than this. You won’t find bored cubicle workers in this hall, but a meeting of the minds of the future workers of Japan, joining for creative projects and community in one of the greatest glass work spaces in the world. It is huge, monumental even, a piece of architecture whose inner beauty is entirely exposed thanks to a thin glass skin that wraps around its entire exterior.
Kanagawa Institute of Technology Glass Building
Enabling spacial orientation for children using colored glass for natural lighting.
Sports and Leisure Center in Saint-Cloud France
Koz Architects
Glass capsule of creativity in the middle of the forest, the employees are always in tune with their environment.
Selgas Cano Architecture
A modern representation of contemporary art. Next to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Using frosted glass as outside panels and illuminated from within.
Steven Holl Architects
Glass chapel, frosted glass for privacy and a feeling of shelter.
La Estancia Glass Chapel
Bunker Arquitectura
Dome of glass and aluminum, in the National Grand Theater of China. Located not far from Tiananmen Square, Beijing, this glass building houses an opera, a theater and a music hall, combining to seat 5,452 guests at once. The dome is centered within an artificial lake, providing a reflective view of the dome from the street.
Architect Paul Andreu has been a well-known proponent of glass in architecture, and the National Grand Theater is widely considered one of his greatest masterworks.
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NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SOUND AND VISION - HILVERSUM, The Netherlands
Neutelings-Riedijk Architects
Utilized : 2006
The new building for the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision consists of five levels under ground and five levels above ground. In the underground, the national archives of Dutch radio and television recordings are stacked around a deep canyon. Above ground, a staged volume contains the media museum. The third element is the office building of the institute. The three volumes together enclose a large public atrium. The facade of the building is a screen of coloured relief glass that depicts famous images of Dutch television, a composition by graphic designer Jaap Drupsteen.
Glass House Series
Santambrogio Milano
Utilized : Only as concept
the transparent housing concepts are designed to be built almost anywhere around the world and allow the inhabitant to be completely immersed in nature. every component of the dwellings, except for the ground floor, is composed of structural glass pieces. the ‘snow house,’ as the name implies, would be located in colder climates and is constructed of thicker panes capable of withstanding larger loads, namely from the snow, and will help insulate the interior. with the touch of a button, the special glass panels instantly turn matte for privacy, and sliding curtains make it possible to further close off specific rooms. the ‘cliff house’ on the other hand contains thinner lighter glass elements as there are no external forces acting upon the structure. elevated over a thin bed of water, the dwelling lets the owner feel as though floating above the ocean seen in the horizon. not meant for dense urban areas, these residences create somewhat of an invisible enclosure that exposes a 360-degree view of the immediate environment. a strict modular grid of transparent columns and beams allows the houses to become flexible in size accommodating the individual’s needs.
