Pantone® just released its latest Color of the Year: “Ultra Violet.” We are eager to share some of our work featuring the hip purple hue to demonstrate how Ultra Violet translates into architectural glass.

The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio by Overland Partners features our channel glass facade elements in custom colors inspired by the brand (the hospital’s logo is orange, green, and purple). The vibrant channel glass colors are visible from within the patient rooms, bringing joy and healing to the children:

Color LEDs, in combination with light-diffusing glass textures, are a great technique to apply color to buildings. At Chicago’s historic Navy Pier, a Bendheim glass kiosk by nARCHITECTS is illuminated in a rainbow of purples, pinks, and oranges. The translucent white interlayer and finely fluted texture of the glass help diffuse the colored light:

We have expanded designers’ material palette with a new whimsical pink back-painted glass. Inspired by the recently announced “Ruby” Swiss chocolate, the durable, maintenance-friendly architectural glass lends a sense of comfort and indulgence to building interiors.

The rose color, an uncommon presence in architectural glass, is on trend with the “millennial pink” movement. “Millennial pink” started life in the fashion world as a soft pastel hue, then migrated to interior design and architecture. Over time, the term expanded to include a much richer variety of shades – from classic peach to contemporary magenta – taking on the name “millennial” after the demographic that brought it to the fore. In architectural glass, the color received its debut in our “Vivid Pastels” collection, launched at the beginning of 2017.

The new rosy hue is inspired by Barry Callebaut’s “Ruby” Swiss chocolate. Extracted from a special Ruby cocoa bean, it is the first natural chocolate color to be developed in 80 years.

Our new “Ruby Chocolate” glass allows architects and designers to introduce the on-trend shade to interiors as a naturally hygienic, VOC-free back-painted glass. The shade is available on fire-polished (glossy), semi-matte, and matte Bendheim glass. The anti-glare matte and semi-matte SatinTech™ options are perfect for daylight-friendly wall cladding applications.

In addition to the new “Ruby Chocolate,” we offer a variety of warm pink hues in durable, color-stable architectural glass, including: transparent pink laminated glass and pale pink mirror.

Inspired by the needs of today’s office worker, we are launching this industry-first decorative sound-control glass featuring a delicate brushed aesthetic. Our new +2 Collection is named for its ability to provide combined acoustic + visual privacy. It helps architects create elegant, quiet spaces that promote comfort, wellbeing, and the ability to concentrate.

The +2 laminated safety glass enables A&D professionals to provide an alternative to the “fish bowl” effect – clear glass office fronts and conference rooms that make employees feel on display – by allowing architects to:

• Create peaceful, quiet spaces – visually + acoustically
• Provide a sense of openness as light passes through the translucent glass walls
• Produce a stunning lantern effect at night as the +2 glass walls disperse light from within the spaces

The light-diffusing +2 glass maintains daylight advantages, while controlling unwanted views and noise. It offers outstanding acoustic performance with Sound Transmission Class (STC) 36 or greater. At STC 36, speech becomes unintelligible through the +2 glass. Compare this to the STC 33 of a standard 4.5” thick uninsulated interior stud wall, which cannot mask loud speech nor transmit light.

The appeal of +2 continues with its elegant, organic “brushed fiber” design, giving glass surfaces the appearance of freshly skated ice. +2 combines the obscuring brushed effect with a range of neutral color tints, including several in-demand bronzes and a smoked grey. The +2 acoustic interlayer can also be combined with hundreds of other colors or decorative glass varieties, including Bendheim’s ultra-privacy Houdini^™ micro-fluted glass.

Here is a visual representation of the acoustic advantages of Bendheim’s sound control glass:

The combination of translucent and mirrored +2 glass varieties extends the collection’s aesthetic from partitions to wall surfaces. The glass is available in slim standard thicknesses ranging from approx. ¼” to ½”, in sizes up to 60” by 120”.

We are expanding our collection of precision color-matched architectural glass with Spring-ready “Greenery”– the 2017 Pantone^® Color of the Year. This marks the third year in a row Bendheim demonstrates our advanced custom color capabilities by showcasing glass in the latest design-savvy palettes.

The introduction allows architects and designers to incorporate the on-trend, nature-centric green hue into building interiors and exteriors through durable, maintenance-friendly architectural glass.

The vibrant “Greenery” is now available in several Bendheim glass varieties: from back-painted and colored laminated glass to artisanal mouth-blown glass.

“We obsess over the color process… and achieve tolerances that are among the very best in the industry.”

 

With so many colors vying for designers’ attention, composing a project palette requires time and dedication. Translating each painstakingly selected color into a viable building material becomes key to the design process. Bendheim’s dedicated color experts help building professionals tackle the challenge thorough:

• Spectrometer-assisted color matching
• The purest low-iron glass and mirrors
• Industry-leading color formulations

“We inherited the passion for glass and color from our grandparents, who founded Bendheim as a premier resource for colored glass to the stained glass industry,” said Donald Jayson, third-generation co-owner and Senior Vice President of Bendheim. “Today, architects and designers come to us to produce a variety of custom colors in glass, including special branded hues that require the utmost precision. We obsess over the color process… and achieve tolerances that are among the very best in the industry.”

Bendheim offers endless color possibilities in glass through multiple spectrometer-assisted color techniques, including various types of lamination, fritting, and painting.

Back-painted glass is among our most popular colored glass varieties. It is available in a range of surface finishes, including satin-smooth, anti-glare etch. Back-painted glass offers architects and designers unparalleled color customization, and is one of the first choices for wall cladding applications. Bendheim leads in quality, with our third-party-tested, baked-in color formulations. Our environmentally-friendly, in-house painting process produces 100% VOC-free back-painted glass with quick turnaround.

 

Bendheim has the ability to create Greenery—and hundreds of other shades—as part of our award-winning Glamir™ and Jelly Bean™ laminated glass collections. Using specialty low-iron glass and mirror, these collections allow the true specified colors to be produced. Further customization includes color gradients, proprietary patterns, textures, and more.

 

In the upmarket spectrum, bespoke mouth-blown architectural glass is a true expression of luxury and refinement. Each two-foot-by-three-foot artisanal glass sheet is made by hand. While Bendheim’s stock of nearly 500 mouth-blown glass colors, including over 50 shades of green, offers abundant design possibilities, custom colors can also be formulated to produce glass that is unique in every way – from its varied hand-made surfaces, to its color-determining mineral composition.

 

Bendheim’s consultative-design team brings decades of specialty architectural glass experience to building and design professionals. Architects and designers: please contact us for assistance with your custom architectural glass projects.