Unsurprisingly, the main purpose of the glass is to open the interior visually to the outdoors. To maximize transparency, SANAA specified low-iron glass, thin stainless-steel sash, and silicon joints ...

Define terms relevant to glass and glazing selection, such as VLT, U-value, and solar heat gain coefficient. Discuss how architects like SANAA and Foster + Partners have overcome the detailing ...

The Louvre Lens, an new outpost of the Musée du Louvre by SANAA and Imrey Culbert, opens to the public in Lens, France. ... where curved glass rooms contain a bookshop, a cafe and other facilities.

The façade features 343 panels of curved glass, each varying in size and shape, with weights ranging from 600 to 1250 kg. ... achieving the sleek and minimal profile desired by SANAA.

Wide, curved glass walls enclose the rooms. ... My first instinct was to compare the Cloud House to SANAA’s elegant Toledo Glass Museum–both share a bubbly plan and curving glass walls.

Curved forms clad in perforated metal wrap green courtyards at this new campus for Bocconi University in Milan, designed by Japanese practice SANAA.

The first Sanaa project in the United States was a glass pavilion for the Toledo Museum of Art, completed in 2006. It holds the museum’s collection of glass artworks, reflecting that city’s ...

Already home to Philip Johnson’s The Glass House and other breathtaking icons by Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes and Landis Gores, the township welcomed a new addition over the weekend – the SANAA-designed ...