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Lincoln Ctr. Theater, Featuring Bendheim Channel Glass, Named Architect Annual Design Review Winner

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Lincoln Center’s new Claire Tow Theater, with its channel glass enclosed elevator, is a winner of Architect Magazine’s 2012 Annual Design Review. The competition celebrates the best of American architecture, selecting winners from projects completed during 2012.
H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture boldly developed the Clare Tow Theater, home to Lincoln Center Theater LCT3 on the roof of the Vivian Beaumont Theater. To create access to the theater, H3 Hardy punched through the roof of the iconic Eero Saarinen-designed structure to create two elevators wrapped in translucent Lamberts channel glass from Bendheim. The unique structural properties of the glass permit 23’ tall spans of glass, inviting volumes of daylight in while providing dramatic glowing images at night.
Close collaboration between H3 Hardy, Bendheim Wall Systems, and the glazier, A-Val Architectural Metal Co., brought the design of maximum glass with minimal frame elements to life. The SGCC-certified tempered and heat-soak tested glass channels have the characteristic strength to span openings 23’ tall and withstand high wind loads. Provided with a low-e coating, the channel glass bolsters the building’s thermal envelope and reduce energy costs.

In evaluating the award contenders, the Annual Design Review jurors recognized the projects striving for clarity of statement regarding their relationships to their surroundings. The LCT3 Theater is an excellent example of how iconic architecture can be changed without damaging its identity.

Design with Color & Light

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Bring a sense of optimism, vitality and comfort to your hospitality, retail, healthcare, educational, and corporate projects with the help of colorfast laminated glass from Bendheim. Our laminated glass meets building safety codes and can be specified for interior or exterior use.

The impervious glass surfaces are ideally suited to high-traffic public areas subject to daily cleaning and sanitizing, and are more resilient to wear and scratches than resin and plastic materials.

Bendheim colored laminated glass is available in several degrees of opacity and a wide range of decorative surface options to accommodate different privacy and aesthetic requirements.
Bendheim can provide vibrant laminated glass in the entire spectrum of color to specification. Please select a color from our online glass catalog or send us a paint swatch for a color match through your local Bendheim representative.

Bendheim Opens New Trade Showroom in Passaic, New Jersey

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Bendheim opens a new showroom in Passaic, N.J., showcasing a comprehensive selection of decorative architectural glasses from the company’s collection of more than 2,000 varieties. The venue is designed as an educational resource enabling architects and designers to increase their knowledge of decorative glass and explore custom design solutions.
Visitors to Bendheim’s Passaic, N.J., showroom will have access to the latest decorative laminated glasses, as well as etched, patterned, back-painted, mirrored, and fine mouth-blown art glasses. Bendheim’s extensive manufacturing capabilities – housed within the production hall next door – allow architects and designers to collaborate with the company experts, creating unique products to suit specific project requirements.
“The most innovative solutions, often resulting in award-winning applications, emerge when design professionals and glass experts work together to solve a challenge,” said Steven Jayson, Vice President of Bendheim. “The showroom is designed for these creative collaborations, with hundreds of inspiring glasses and our experts at hand.”
The showroom is conveniently located near five major highways, including the Garden State Parkway and Route 80, and is easily accessible by train or car. The new space joins Bendheim’s New York City-based architectural glass showroom, serving architects and designers since 1989.

Bendheim Introduces “Jelly Bean” Architectural Glass Collection

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Bendheim introduces its new “Jelly Bean” Collection of architectural glasses to the design/build market. Informed by the latest design trends, the safety-laminated “Jelly Bean” Glass Collection features 14 bright colors bringing a sense of optimism and comfort to hospitality, retail, healthcare, educational, and corporate interiors and exteriors.

“The ‘Jelly Bean’ Collection responds to current design trends favoring combinations of bright colors and daylight to create soothing, uplifting and stimulating environments,” said Donald Jayson, Sr. Vice President of Bendheim. “At the same time, the glass is highly functional and technologically advanced, offering years of UV protection and enhanced thermal control.”
The fire-polished “Jelly Bean” laminated glasses meet building safety codes, are stable, fade-resistant, and easy to maintain. The colored interlayers reduce solar energy transmittance, preventing heat build-up. They screen out up to 99% of damaging UV rays, helping minimize color fading of fabrics and furnishings. Installed in facades, the “Jelly Bean” Glass Collection helps control solar heat gain and reduces cooling loads.
Carefully selected from hundreds of hues, the collection offers a taste of Bendheim’s advanced custom color capabilities. All colors are VOC-free and have undergone vigorous testing to ensure long-term stability. Custom product options include a virtually unlimited number of transparent, translucent (opal), and opaque hues and surface alternatives, including etched, etched patterns, and surface textures.
The “Jelly Bean” Glass Collection can be specified for partitions, stair railings, balustrades, canopies, ceilings, doors, windows, and curtainwalls, or any area requiring safety, security, and durability.
The glass is offered in 5/16” approx. thickness and sheet sizes up to 60” by 120”. For more information and samples, please contact your local Bendheim representative.

Bendheim Wall Systems Introduces Low-Iron Channel Glass Textures

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Bendheim Wall Systems, an exclusive distributor of channel glass from Germany-based Glasfabrik Lamberts, introduces five new low-iron channel glass textures to the architectural and design market. Low-iron channel glass has an ultra-clear, brilliant quality, displaying only the very slightest green tint when viewed through its edge.
Previously available only in fine-mesh Solar™ texture, low-iron channel glass can now be specified in 504 Rough Cast™, Ice™, Piccolo®, Clarissimo™ and Prismasolar™ textures. The expanded offering provides architects the highly sought-after brilliance and clarity of low-iron glass in six surface textures of increasing obscuration.
“Architects around the world prefer the brilliance of ultra-clear low-iron glasses,” said Michael Tryon, General Manager of Bendheim Wall Systems, Inc. “Examples of outstanding projects featuring our Lamberts low-iron channel glass include Steven Holl’s highly regarded Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO), the new Swiss Embassy Residence (Washington, DC), the split façade of the Nolitan Hotel (New York, NY), and the offices at AMB Property Corp’s Headquarters at Pier 1 (San Francisco, CA), one of Bendheim Wall Systems’ first green projects.”
Lamberts low-iron channel glass is produced from highly specialized raw materials containing ultra-minimal iron oxides. The result is a significant reduction of the characteristic green tint most noticeable in the glass edges. The glass is manufactured in Europe’s first clean-burning oxy-fueled cast glass plant. As with standard glass, low-iron glass channels may be sandblasted, treated with thermal coatings, or colored in a wide range of enamel frits for bright, robust colors.
Lamberts channel glass creates gleaming never-ending façades and interior partitions up to 23 feet tall without the need for intermediate framing. The glass can be installed vertically or horizontally, single glazed or double glazed, in Bendheim Wall Systems’ frames. Textures, coatings, treatments and colors can be combined within a single opening, and enhanced thermal performance can be achieved through the addition of an insulating interlayer with a Low-E or other thermal coating. Lamberts channel glass also offers two exclusive safety advantages: it is a Safety Glazing Certification Council (SGCC) approved tempered glass, and is available with a certified 100% heat soak testing.

Bendheim’s Magnetic Glass Marker Boards Featured in Sunset’s “Smart Homes”

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Bendheim’s Decorative Glass Magnetic Marker Boards provide a sleek alternative to conventional bulletin boards in Sunset Smart Homes, a mixed-use development in Palo Alto, Calif. The safety laminated glass is used as a writable wall cladding and a magnetic pin board in the Idea House, a showcase for energy-efficient, innovative, contemporary homes.

“Bendheim’s Magnetic Marker Boards complement the modern, urban aesthetic of the homes,” said Sarah Gaffney, Home Program Manager at Sunset Magazine. “Our editors loved the ‘idea’ quality of the product, an architectural alternative to corkboard bulletin boards.”
Bendheim’s two-by-three-foot Magnetic Glass Marker Board is featured in the kitchen area. Two additional three-by-six-foot boards are displayed in the home office on the closet sliding doors.
Bendheim’s functional, high-polish writing surfaces provide the benefit of durable, maintenance-friendly glass. Standard dry-erase markers and erasers make cleanup easy without ghosting or permanent staining. Powerful magnets allow a variety of materials, ranging from standard notes to brochures and heavy cards, to be elegantly “pinned” to the boards.
 “We loved how it looked, as did the visitors to the home,” added Gaffney. “They consistently provided the response we were looking for: ‘How cool is this! I’ve never seen this before.’”
Magnetic Marker Boards can be installed in frames for partitions and wall cladding applications; with stand-off hardware attachments; or applied directly to walls or other surfaces using structural silicone. Designers and contractors can select from single- or dual-sided formats of the Magnetic Marker Boards, the latter allowing for a distinct aesthetic on each side of the board, i.e., one side of the glass can be white, the opposite – black. The standard Marker Boards come in white / black colors and feature luminous fire-polished surfaces. Custom colors and decorative imprinted options are available for larger orders, providing design flexibility.
The boards are in 5/16” thickness and are available in sizes up to 60” by 96” to the trade only (architects, interior designers, building contractors).