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Bending glass to shape: multi-curved architectural glass and a Zaha Hadid megaproject
Bob Zhang showed how far curved architectural glass has come, from a Cartier flagship where every panel carries multiple radii, to Zaha Hadid’s OPPO headquarters with more than 20,000 uniquely shaped curved panels, and h...
Vancouver
Curved glass quality is an optical problem, not just a geometry problem
Bob Zhang shows how multi-curved architectural glass has moved beyond basic form-making into a demanding quality-control discipline. As panels become larger and more geometrically complex, distortion, anisotropy and repe...
Phoenix
The world’s most complex façades: hanging glass and structural trusses
Andreas Geyer, the German specialist behind Chadstone’s grid shell in Melbourne, the Brisbane performing arts venue and Prada in Singapore, walked through how the most ambitious façades actually get built: curved glass t...
Melbourne
Lower-carbon glass is a design variable
Hilal Ucar links glass performance to embodied carbon, showing that product selection can reduce emissions at the insulating-glass-unit level while still meeting solar and thermal targets. The key is to consider carbon a...
Rotterdam
Structural glass needs honest load paths
Erwin ten Brincke focuses on the engineering that allows glass to move from transparent infill toward structural participation. Curvature, laminates, supports and redundancy determine whether a visually minimal system ca...
Rotterdam
