{"id":151,"date":"2012-02-03T20:13:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T20:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facadesign.us\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2012-02-03T20:13:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T20:13:16","slug":"facade-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facadesign.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/facade-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Facade Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use” Steve Jobs, Apple <\/a>CEO, recently said this sentence during the speech regarding the new Apple Headquarters in Cupertino (California, USA).<\/p>\n

Facade units get bigger and bigger every year. Some colleagues engineers have thought that cladding world has gone mad, but it is not true. Innovations are moving ahead. The market demands it.<\/p>\n

Architecture is demanding larger pieces, such as Apple Store in Shanghai<\/a>, where the height of every glass facade is approximately 12 meters.<\/p>\n

The main benefits (among others) can be noticed immediately:<\/p>\n

-Reduction of glass joints, improving watertightness and increasing light transmission.<\/p>\n

-Reduction of supporting claddings.<\/p>\n

-Improved load carriage behaviour.<\/p>\n

Certainly, Apple has innovated using largest glass panes in their own worldwide stores.<\/p>\n

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Apple Store in Sydney, glass panes height goes from the floor to the facade hill<\/div>\n

Recently, it has been published<\/a> that Apple is going to renovate the Cube store on Fifth Avenue in New York, removing the 90 glass panes by using just 15 larger ones.<\/p>\n

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Apple has revealed its plans for the cube with a new informational sign posted on the barrier surrounding the plaza<\/div>\n

Another clue concerning this architectural trend was found in the last Glasstech D\u00fcsseldorf in October 2010, you could see a huge insulated glass panel of 18 meters x 3,3 meters, manufactured by Henze-Glas<\/a> from H\u00f6rden, Germany.<\/p>\n

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Henze-Glas DGU in the factory, before shipping to Glasstec 2010. Employers are sitting on top of the 18m long glass unit.<\/div>\n
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Source: renatocilento.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

repost from www.renatocilento.com<\/p>\n

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