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Ice™ Channel Glass: Cool Choice for Structural Glazing

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Sparkling and frosty in appearance, Ice™ is an organic, image-obscuring texture, providing both daylighting and privacy whether installed as a single- or double-glazed wall. Ice™ can be designed to form up to 23’-tall gleaming façades and interior partitions of unlimited width.

Ice™ is the most obscuring organic channel glass texture currently available, and complements Bendheim Wall Systems’ extensive channel glass line now featuring six decorative textures, specialty thermal coatings, low-iron, and hundreds of enameled colors. Ice™ combines outstanding aesthetics with significant sustainability benefits. Like all Lamberts channel glass, Ice™ is manufactured with 40% post-consumer recycled content in Europe’s only clean-burning, oxygen-fired cast glass plant. A Sustainable Industries Top 10 Green Building Product of 2008, Lamberts channel glass offers two exclusive safety elements: Safety Glazing Certification Council-approved tempered glass and certified 100% heat soak testing.

Two Bendheim Wall Systems’ Channel Glass Projects Win 2008 American Architecture Awards

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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure in California, two projects featuring Lamberts channel glass provided by Bendheim Wall Systems Inc., have received 2008 American Architecture Awards for the best new building design in the United States.

The American Architecture Awards honor the most outstanding accomplishments for new architecture and urban planning projects designed and built in this country. This year’s jury conferred in Athens, Greece, and selected winners from hundreds of submissions from American architects and international firms practicing in the U.S.

“We are extremely pleased that the American Architecture Awards program has recognized these two projects featuring Bendheim Wall System’s channel glass,” said Robert Jayson, President of Bendheim. “Both (projects) are strong examples of the dynamic design possibilities that can result when channel glass is used.”

Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art features five lenses of custom glass channels in a double glazed curtain wall application. Earlier this year, the project received the AIA National Honor Award and was selected as the # 1 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvel of 2007 by Time Magazine. The Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure, designed by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects, is the first LEED-certified parking structure in the United States. Bendheim’s tempered, back-painted Lamberts Prismasolar® texture channel glass set in a custom frame system earned the project a 2007 “Design in Glass” Award from the Glass Association of North America.

Established more than 10 years ago, the American Architecture Awards is a prestigious awards program for the public recognition of Excellence in Architecture in the United States both among national and international firms. The Awards identify cutting-edge design direction, urban philosophy, design approach, style, and intellectual substance in American architecture today. They are awarded by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd.

Bendheim Wall Systems’ Lamberts® Channel Glass – Top 10 Green Building Product

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The award-winning business magazine Sustainable Industries announced Bendheim Wall Systems’ LINIT Channel Glass by Lamberts as one of its 2008 Top 10 Green Building Products winners. Sustainable Industries’ Top 10 Green Building Products guide is an annual publication profiling industry-leading green building products selected by a panel of expert judges and the Sustainable Industries editorial team. This year’s Top 10 Green Building Products guide is the first-ever digital publication to contain 3-D images of green building products that can be manipulated by the viewer and plugged directly into actual design sketches.

Lamberts Channel Glass was selected based on its environmental performance, scalability/market impact, innovativeness, design aesthetic, value and compatibility with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.

Profiled in the guide with accompanying 3-D images, the winners were announced today in a Sustainable Industries Webinar featuring judges from the expert panel.

“In the years Sustainable Industries has produced this trusted and popular independent guide, green building has advanced from cutting-edge to mainstream,” says Brian Back, Founding Editor and Publisher of Sustainable Industries. “But not all products with eco-monikers are as high-performing and innovative as builders and their well-intentioned clients demand. We’re confident the Top 10 Green Building Products guide provides a snapshot of some of the most innovative building materials on the market today.”
Christoph Lamberts, Co-Owner of Glasfabrik Lamberts stated, “For over 20 years Lamberts has focused its efforts on environmentally conscious production methods. As the first to use oxygen-fired furnaces we have greatly reduced the nitrogen oxide emissions by a factor of five; our advanced filtering system further reduces particulates in waste gasses. Lamberts has long focused its efforts on maximizing the use of production and post-consumer recycled glass.”
“Bendheim has long endorsed environmentally friendly production, both in our own processes and in our supplier partners,” stated Robert Jayson, President of S.A. Bendheim and Bendheim Wall Systems. “Lamberts has been one of the most progressive producers of glass for decades and we are proud to have them as our partner.”

Bendheim Project Receives Award from the Glass Association of North America (GANA)

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The Glass Association of North America recognizes this parking project for outstanding architectural use of glass, both functional and aesthetic.

Lamberts channel glass provided by Bendheim Wall Systems, Inc. for the Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure in California recently earned it the 2007 “Design in Glass” Award from the Glass Association of North America (GANA). The award recognizes excellence in the use of glass in architectural design.

The Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure is the first LEED-certified garage in the United States. Designed by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects, the building features tempered, back-painted Lamberts Prismasolar® texture channel glass set in a custom frame system. The colored channel glass pieces are angled to act as a rain screen and provide proper ventilation while adding intricacy and light to the six-story pre-cast concrete parking structure.
Colors include blues and greens reflecting the ocean toward the west, and orange and red reflecting the sunrise toward the east; neon lights installed behind every tenth channel create a glowing façade at night. Cantilevered glass canopies near the lower level project colors onto the ground surface and photovoltaic roof panels provide energy.
“We are honored to have GANA recognize Bendheim Wall Systems’ channel glass for its contribution to good architectural design,” said Robert Jayson, President of Bendheim.  “This award is a compliment to a project showcasing energy efficiency, sustainability and the first-time usage of colored channel glass in the U.S.”

Bendheim Wall Systems’ Channel Glass Projects Win Top National Awards

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Two high-profile architectural installations featuring Bendheim Wall Systems Lamberts channel glass receive prestigious AIA National Honor awards.
Bendheim Wall Systems worked closely with architectural design teams to provide Lamberts channel glass, the key exterior design element, for two AIA 2008 National Honor Award winning projects – the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building in Kansas City, Missouri and the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The AIA National Honor Award is the profession’s highest recognition of works exemplifying excellence in architecture, interior architecture, and urban design.

“These projects show the dynamic possibilities of designing with LINIT channel glass. The five lenses of Steven Holl’s Bloch Building are formed with custom glass channels in a double glazed curtain wall application, while Schwartz/Silver’s Shaw Center of the Arts, called the “lantern on the levee,” features a single glazed rain screen with its channel glass flanges turned outward” said Robert Jayson, President of S.A. Bendheim, Co., Inc. “Illuminating the channel glass-clad structures was critical to their design, and the installations – by Carter Glass for the Bloch Building and BHN for the Shaw Center – were exemplary.”
The Bloch Building and Shaw Center for the Arts join the extensive list of Bendheim Wall Systems’ multiple-award winning, high-profile channel glass projects including:

Bendheim Wall Systems’ Lamberts® Channel Glass – Ideal Choice for Sarah Lawrence Visual Arts Center

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The new, stunning Heimbold Visual Arts Center at Sarah Lawrence College showcases Bendheim’s LINIT Channel Glass system. So remarkable are the results that the new building’s glass façade now graces the front cover of Sarah Lawrence’s Autumn admissions brochure.

The Heimbold Visual Arts Center, designed by Polshek Partnership Architects, is prominently situated on the Bronxville, NY campus of this prestigious liberal arts college. Recently honored by the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) by receiving a Top Ten Green Project Award, the Heimbold Center provides a grand view from the President’s House.

 

In selecting the building’s primary materials – fieldstone, cedar, channel glass, and zinc – the design team found inspiration in the campus’s rich landscape and historic architecture. Quarrying the stone nearby continued the College’s history of utilizing local fieldstone in the construction of its buildings. Materials were selected to reduce contaminants that impact indoor air quality and to lessen the environmental impacts of material manufacture and procurement.

 

As Susan Rodriquez, project architect explained, “the building utilizes a perfect balance of natural materials and offers a veiled, layered feel – there’s a sense of mystery as you look from the outside to the interior of the structure. The textural quality of Bendheim’s LINIT Channel Glass pebble pattern provides a pleasing quality that contributed tremendously to the overall design. The channel glass is very durable, and doesn’t need to be cleaned often, so tape on interior studio walls is OK.”

 

“Challenges included inserting the building on campus not only adjacent to the president’s home, but also near a bedroom that looks out to the Arts Center. In addition, the painting studios needed to face north and provide maximum light into the interior of the structure. The technical challenges were well satisfied on a previous project (Lycée Francais, New York, NY) so we were very comfortable using Bendheim’s LINIT Channel Glass for this project.”

 

This high profile project, installed by W&W Glass, LLC, is the first application of Bendheim Wall Systems’ LINIT channel glass in a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified structure.

 

As Scott Haber, Vice President of W&W Glass noted, “the installation went smoothly and was relatively easy for us because we had completed several installations using Bendheim’s LINIT Channel Glass prior to the Sarah Lawrence project. We really understand Bendheim’s wall system installation requirements. Bendheim also made sure that the materials were delivered prior to the start of the installation. The challenge was to insert transparent operable units inside the curtain wall for ventilation.”

 

Recent projects awarded to Bendheim Wall Systems, Inc. include the Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Steven Holl / Rogers Marvel-designed Pratt Institute Higgins Hall in New York.

The Bendheim LINIT channel glass system eliminates the need for most vertical and intermediate horizontal framing members. The translucent, structural glazing system meets or exceeds most project design criteria, providing light, function, and aesthetics.