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Houdini™ Privacy Texture Now Available in Channel Glass

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"Houdini" Channel Glass

Watch: “Houdini” channel glass texture in action

Following the success of Houdini™ flat glass, the award-winning Houdini texture is now the latest addition to our channel glass lineup. This specialty architectural glass is available to the trade exclusively from Bendheim. It allows architects and designers to deliver the highest levels of privacy, while still allowing maximum daylight.

Introduced in 2012, Houdini is an ultra-clear, low iron flat glass with a finely micro-fluted surface. This unique pattern reduces glare and obscures the shapes of people and objects behind it to such an extent, it is as if they disappear. This video demonstrates the impressive light-bending properties of the glass. Since its introduction, Houdini architectural glass has garnered several design awards and recognitions, including:

  • ADEX 2014 Platinum Award for Design Excellence
  • Architectural Record 2013 Product Report Awards: Top Material
  • Architectural Products PIA’13 Product Innovation Award

Having succeeded in offering architects and designers the utmost in privacy glass, the Houdini texture was a logical addition to Bendheim’s channel glass portfolio.

Channel glass is translucent, U-shaped, machine-rolled (“cast”) glass, available in face widths ranging from 9 to 19 inches, lengths up to 23 feet, and thickness of approx. ¼ inches. Channel glass’ unique geometry allows for virtually seamless glass walls uninterrupted by metal frames. Installed vertically, the glass can span heights up to 23 ft. and limitless lengths – hundreds of feet or more – a distinct advantage over traditional flat glass. It can also create sweeping curved walls without the need for high-cost custom glass bending. The glass channels can be laid out vertically or horizontally, in single or double-glazed configurations.

Houdini channel glass is produced from regular clear glass featuring a high percentage of post-consumer recycled content (up to 40%), or low-iron (ultra-clear) glass. Bendheim’s low-iron channel glass has an ultra-brilliant quality, displaying only the very slightest greenish-blue tint when viewed on edge. It provides a high degree of light transmission, up to 85%.

Bendheim’s Channel Glass Becomes First To Receive Bird-Friendly Certification

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University of Houston Blaffer Art Museum | Bendheim Channel Glass Project

We are pleased to announce that our Lamberts® glass is the first channel glass tested and certified as bird-friendly by the American Bird Conservancy (ABC), the preeminent authority on avian-friendly architecture. The announcement highlights the rising awareness and need for sustainable bird-friendly glass in architecture. Bendheim’s new Bird-Smart certification, the first for any channel glass, confirms our Lamberts® glass is visible to birds, helping them avoid collisions. It provides architects with a newly tested, safe glass choice for building facades.

Bird strike is a real and common hazard for today’s visually stunning, glass-enclosed buildings, and a potentially jarring experience for building occupants. It is estimated that up to a billion birds are killed each year in the U.S. alone, due to collisions with glass in built structures.

“Everyone has seen or heard a bird hit a window, but few realize how common it is – adding up to hundreds of millions of birds each year in the U.S. alone.”

 

The enormity of the ecological impact is enough that municipalities, including San Francisco, Oakland and Palo Alto (California), Highland Park and parts of Cook County (Illinois), Toronto (Ontario), as well as the state of Minnesota, have in recent years mandated or promoted bird-friendly architecture for new construction. Additional regulations aiming to reduce avian fatalities are being considered throughout North America.

Bendheim submitted our channel glass to the American Bird Conservancy for testing and Bird-Smart certification in order to assist architects designing buildings in locales requiring the use of bird-friendly glass, as well as those looking to avian-friendly architecture for its ecological and humanitarian benefits. Testing was carried out at the Pennsylvania Powdermill Nature Reserve flight tunnel facility, one of only three in the world, in conjunction with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. No birds were harmed during testing; please see this video for more information.

“Everyone has seen or heard a bird hit a window, but few realize how common it is – adding up to hundreds of millions of birds each year in the U.S. alone,” said Dr. Christine Sheppard, American Bird Conservancy’s Bird Collisions Campaign Manager. “By working with companies like Bendheim to evaluate their glass products, we are able to proactively reduce future collisions and prevent thousands of avoidable bird fatalities.”

Bloch Building - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | Bendheim Channel Glass Project

Bloch Building – Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO by Steven Holl Architects and BNIM Architects. Photo by Roland Halbe.

 

Bendheim’s Lamberts® channel glass is used to create sweeping, virtually seamless glass walls exhibiting minimal framing. It can achieve facades of limitless widths and heights, including glass-to-glass corners and curves. The glass is produced in eight decorative textures, from the nearly transparent Clarissimo™ to the heavily obscuring Ice™ and Piccolo®. Lamberts® channel glass contains up to 60 percent recycled glass, including up to 40 percent post-consumer content.  It is the only channel glass manufactured in an environmentally friendly, oxygen-fired furnace.

New Glamir™ Architectural Mirrors in Rare Pastel and Jewel Tones

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"Glamir™ Pale Gold" Colored Architectural Mirror Wall

Watch: Glamir’s sense of openness and rare colors enhance interior spaces

We have introduced our Glamir™ architectural glass collection, providing design professionals several original mirror colors to brilliantly enhance the look and feel of interior spaces. These rare mirrors create a sense of openness, seemingly expanding spaces as they improve the quality and quantity of interior light, as demonstrated in this YouTube video.

Our new Glamir collection is produced with specialty low-iron glass, eliminating the typical bluish-green glass tint and allowing the pure, jewel-like colors to show through. The collection begins with the two most difficult hues to achieve: Champagne and Pale Gold. The two mirrors, delicate and warm, lend an atmosphere of timeless elegance and a new energy to almost any space, from a private residence to a fitness center. The collection also offers mirrors in vivid Gold and Amber colors. Creating luminous design elements – from impressive feature walls to decorative accents – they exude warmth and sophistication, finding applications in a variety of hospitality, retail, commercial, and residential settings.

“By perfecting the Champagne and Pale Gold mirrors, we bring to the design community two vital hues that have never been seen before in architectural mirror”

 

Glamir™ Colored Architectural Mirror Collection

Glamir™ – a Bendheim collection of rare colored architectural mirrors

 

The new Glamir colored mirror collection continues to set Bendheim apart in the market. The refined pastel shades expand the architect and designer’s palette with a broad range of previously unavailable hues, including custom colors.

“These new colors have been in development for quite some time. We chose to work with this unique range of pastel metallics, knowing they would be a challenge to achieve. By perfecting the Champagne and Pale Gold mirrors, we bring to the design community two vital hues that have never been seen before in architectural mirror. They further represent our ability to match any custom color,” said Steven Jayson, Vice President of Bendheim.

Glamir is available to the trade in customizable sizes, up to 47” x 120” (1.19m x 3.05m).

Bendheim Introduces Architectural Glass in Sought-After Off-White Color Palette

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"Foam" Off-White Back-Painted Glass Table Top

“Foam Off-White” back-painted glass table top

In the spirit of the recently-announced slate of tinted whites as “color of the year” for 2016, we have introduced a new collection of delicate off-white back-painted architectural glass. Applications include floor-to-ceiling wall cladding, grout-free backsplashes, counter- and table-tops.

“As an interior design element, the beauty of color coated glass makes an elegant, sophisticated statement”

Our back-painted glass is produced in an almost infinite range of precision-matched hues. A combination of proprietary color formulations and processes achieves the fine tonal shifts necessary for color matching – especially for this refined new collection of white and off-white shades. These versatile colors – and many more – can be applied to Bendheim glass to complement, contrast, or match any design palette. Our proprietary manufacturing process bakes the color coatings onto the glass, resulting in an exceptionally durable product. The environmentally friendly painting process creates a 100% VOC-free product.

“As an interior design element, the beauty of color coated glass makes an elegant, sophisticated statement. The thickness of the glass adds a sense of depth, and the polished surfaces play with light and reflection,” says Donald Jayson, Co-owner and Senior Vice President of Bendheim.

"Bleached Linen" Off-White Back-Painted Glass

“Bleached Linen” interior back-painted glass wall, viewed from a distance.

 

Bendheim’s exclusive color coatings are UV-resistant and stable – formulated and applied to last for many years – while the naturally hygienic, non-porous glass surfaces are exceptionally maintenance-friendly. Back-painted glass can be tempered or laminated for additional safety. It is available in thicknesses ranging from 1/4 to 3/4 inches, and in sizes up to 60 by 120 inches.

Bendheim Taps Into Modern Kitchen Trends With New Cabinet Glass Selections

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Bendheim Cabinet Glass

New additions to the Bendheim Cabinet Glass line

We are pleased to announce 25 new specialty glass additions to our Cabinet Glass line, now available direct to consumers. These 25 decorative glass inserts were previously sold exclusively to the trade. Cabinet glass inserts, in solid colors, acid-etched opacities, and designer textiles, bring a refreshing openness to a kitchen; accentuating its style, while obscuring cabinet contents and enhancing the cabinet’s usefulness.

As the spot where friends gather to laugh over a few drinks and parents connect with children to discuss their day, the kitchen is more than just a room in the house. It is the heart of the home, where food and sharing brings everyone together.

Kitchens have come to reflect their families who imbue them with their life and rhythm. Some are rustic and country, full of hot biscuits overflowing with honey, others are buttoned-up and prim, more tea and crackers, while others are luxurious and sophisticated, redolent of rich wine and soft cheeses. Each of those kitchens has a different look and feel. With Bendheim’s expanded selection of over 150 cabinet glass varieties, incorporating fine glass inserts into kitchen doors and cabinets can make a calibrated design statement to express the homeowner’s style. The glass can transform the entire space, bringing a sense of light and spaciousness.

Our 25 new cabinet glass varieties incorporate four distinctive collections, including:

  1. VintageWire™ glass
  2. Designer Series glass
  3. Etched glass
  4. White glass

The VintageWire™ glass is available in two varieties: authentic wavy chicken wire, with real chicken wire laminated within the glass, and the retro True Wired glass that brings ”old-school cool”—hearkening back to beloved, ubiquitous elementary school windows.

"Champagne Glitterati™" Decorative Cabinet Glass

Champagne Glitterati™ cabinet glass

The Designer Series features rich textiles embedded in safety laminated glass that livens up kitchen cabinets, making them a conversation piece. Champagne Glitterati attracts attention with its glints and sparkles, veiling the contents of a cabinet while adding an almost tactile appearance. A more open pattern is displayed in the White Muslin glass, with soft threads of fabric laminated into the glass.

In addition to textiles and wire, Bendheim offers acid-etched glass, in various opacities, colors, and patterns. The newest is the Limited Edition Vintage Dot, a timeless acid-etched design graced with delicate polka dots. The strong, variegated lines of the Italian Satin Barcode bring an art-deco feel, with mid-century modern undertones. For those more contemporary kitchen cabinets, Italian Satin Gossamer evokes tall birch groves, lending a natural touch while remaining undeniably 21st-century.

To round out the new glass collection, Bendheim introduces five new white and off-white cabinet glass varieties. These vary in opacity from the gentle fog of the Feather White, through Opal White and up to completely Opaque White. Also included are Dense White and the shimmering, textured winter white of the Pure Glacial Ice Opal. These last two are best suited to hide clutter and views.

Bendheim Introduces New Educational Website on Architectural Rainscreen Claddings

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In the United States, water damage is the second most frequently filed property insurance claim, accounting for $11 billion in damages annually. Water damage from moisture and condensation is one of the leading causes of facade failure, and can ultimately lead to the deterioration of building structures, damage to finishes, mold and mildew growth, and a decline in interior air-quality. However, this type of destruction is preventable with the use of a rainscreen. The over-cladding system stands off from a building’s weather-resistant barrier, effectively cloaking and protecting it from water ingress, while controlling moisture drainage and evaporation.
Bendheim’s new website on rainscreen claddings is positioned as the most comprehensive resource on the technology and its benefits. Designed to help educate building owners, occupants, and design professionals, the site identifies the advantages of this architectural over-cladding method in a single, visual, and easy-to-understand way, complete with:
  • Illustrated explanation of the rainscreen principle
  • Case studies
  • Installation & maintenance information
With a rise in demand for high-quality, durable, and healthy buildings, rainscreen systems provide a clear advantage. They offer tested, long-term moisture protection to new buildings and allow the rehabilitation and reuse of old ones, with minimal or no disruption to occupants. Bendheim’s new website illustrates how a rainscreen successfully protects buildings for posterity, as well as how flexible and easy-to-install rainscreens can be for both retrofit and new building applications.
The website includes clear, illustrated explanations of rainscreen system technology, a history of the rainscreen principle, target applications, case studies, installation videos, and a curated list of industry-leading resources for additional information. To learn more, visit www.rainscreeninfo.com.