Historic preservation in the United States has often been cast in absolute terms: Structures and monuments are either subject to campaigns of complete restoration (which may entail partial ...

A glass walkway suspended hundreds of feet above the ground. Cylindrical aquarium viewing walls made of glass and holding back tons of water. Glass staircases that appear to float in midair. If you're ...

In 1993, W&W Glass LLC joined with the American distributor for the U.K.-based Pilkington glass manufacturing firm’s patented planar system, working exclusively in North America on highly engineered ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As Pilkington Architectural halts production of the Pilkington Planar™ system in St. Helens, United Kingdom as of December 31, 2021, W&W Glass, LLC will continue its history ...

At the Denver Art Museum Welcome Center, Machado Silvetti and Fentress Architects deployed scalloped structural glass panels vertically supported by triple-laminated low-iron glass. (Eric ...

In its day, it was the head of the glass. Structural pigmented glass, known as Vitrolite and by other trade names, was an architectural darling of the 1920s and '30s. Storefronts and home interiors ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Vitrolite, a form of pigmented structural glass made only in West Virginia, had a sensational run while it lasted. Its production began in 1908 in Vienna, Wood County, in a ...

Advances in glazing materials and glass building systems offer a seemingly unlimited horizon for not only glass performance, but also for the size and extent of these light, transparent forms. Both ...