Set against Sierra Leone’s tropical coastline, Freetown International Airport relies on Şişecam’s Duosol T 50 glazing to balance solar control, thermal performance, and visual clarity in one of West Africa’s most demanding climates.
At Senegal’s Blaise Diagne International Airport, a combination of Şişecam’s high-performance Solar Low-E glazing and advanced laminated safety glass mitigate intense climatic conditions, while also ensuring high levels of transparency, comfort and security.
High-performance glass from Şişecam delivers energy efficiency, acoustic comfort and safety, across one of the world’s largest transport hubs.
Join our online panel discussion in June with experts from Arup, Eckersley O’Callaghan, WSP, Kuraray, Building Sciences and Alpha Consulting as we discuss the dangers of unsafe and counterfeit structural glass, and how you can avoid risk to specify structural glass with confidence.
Watch the AT CPD webinar, in partnership with Sto Ltd, exploring how to correctly design and specify glass rainscreen facades for public spaces.
An AT CPD webinar, in partnership with Sto, on how to correctly design and specify glass rainscreen facades for public spaces is taking place on Thursday 28th July.
Heatherwick Studio has designed a pyramidal glasshouse with unfolding "sepals" for Woolbeding Gardens in West Sussex.
Eric Parry Architects’ One Chamberlain Square is the latest in a series of office buildings designed by the practice over 30 years. Parry and Tom Emerson discuss the project’s urban ambitions, material character and design development.
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Ferrier Marchetti Studio's facade for a new development next to the Gare Saint-Lazare is softly coloured to recall Monet’s paintings of the station
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Glass panels designed by UNStudio mimic billowing cloth at a clothing store in Amsterdam
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Biomimetic research in architecture at the University of Stuttgart is behind the glass- and carbon-fibre structure of a pavilion
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BIG’s refurbishment of an Art Deco bank in Paris for Galeries Lafayette glitters with light, glass and polished metals
