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New Channel Glass System Wins Prestigious GOOD DESIGN™ Award

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Children's Hospital of San Antonio | Bendheim Channel Glass Project

We are happy to announce that our new Unitized Channel Glass Façade System is the winner of the prestigious GOOD DESIGN™ award for innovation and design from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.

Founded in 1950, GOOD DESIGN™ is the oldest and most respected program for design excellence worldwide. Awarded corporations represent some of the world’s most visionary FORTUNE 500 companies, including 3M Co., Apple, Inc., and Porsche.

“The close collaboration between Overland and Bendheim in the development of the colored glass panel system was key to overcoming the technical challenges.”

 

Bendheim’s award-winning Unitized Channel Glass Façade System can be seen at The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, designed by Overland Partners. Here, it addresses several major design challenges, including:

Children's Hospital of San Antonio | Bendheim Channel Glass Project

Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX by Overland Partners. Photos courtesy of the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio.

 

A project of this complexity required a partner with integrated design knowledge, manufacturing capabilities, and installation experience. Bendheim’s technical design team collaborated with the architects and installers to develop the innovative customized system, ensuring the colorful façade units could be easily hoisted, aligned, and secured into position. This resulted in an exceptionally fast installation with visually striking results, and contributed to winning the Award.

“The close collaboration between Overland and Bendheim in the development of the colored glass panel system was key to overcoming the technical challenges,” said Kris Feldmann of Overland Partners. “The inclusion of color in the façade of the transformed hospital further solidifies it as an important institution to the cultural fabric of downtown San Antonio.”

Children's Hospital of San Antonio | Bendheim Channel Glass Project

Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX by Overland Partners. Photos courtesy of the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio.

 

“Design has a tremendous impact on the human experience,” added Robert Jayson, President of Bendheim. “Our channel glass brings color and light together to positively impact the patients’ experience. This is the power of design innovation.”

For 90 years, Bendheim has built its company on successful collaborations with building professionals, providing unprecedented knowledge and expertise. Bendheim specializes in transforming design challenges into opportunities for creating unique solutions.

New “Vivid Pastels” Color Palette for Architectural Glass

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"Palest Pink" Soft-Etched Back-Painted Glass

Building on hundreds of recent collaborations with architects and interior designers, Bendheim is announcing our first color collection for 2017: back-painted glass in soft pastel hues. The trend-sensitive palette is designed for today’s health and comfort-focused design models. The collection is composed of 12 nature-inspired hues, from “Robin’s Egg Blue” and “Pale Green Tea,” to “Lavender Off-White” and “Palest Pink.”

“Pastels are filling design boards across building types and locations, often undetected because of their ability to gently blend in.”

Bendheim’s consultative design approach to architectural glass results in close relationships with design creatives throughout the country and hundreds of tailored glass solutions produced each week. This allowed our color experts to identify a surge in the demand for pastels in a variety of projects, from restaurants to tech startups.

“Pastels are filling design boards across building types and locations, often undetected because of their ability to gently blend in,” said Steven Jayson, Vice President of Bendheim. “This collection is a direct response to what designers need today.”

Bendheim credits pastels’ popularity to the rise of health and wellness-centered design. The effort to create warmer and more social spaces calls for the use of softer colors and materials. This philosophy guided our design consultants to pair the new pastel palette with our “Soft-Etched” SatinTech™ glass. The resulting back-painted glass feels silky-smooth to the touch, with noticeably muted reflections and subtle dimensionality. The durable, maintenance-friendly glass is also anti-glare and kinder to the eye.

NYC Private Residence | Back-Painted Etched Glass Backsplash

Private Residence, New York, NY. Photo by Michael Gottlieb.

As with all Bendheim back-painted glass, the new collection features our industry-leading, independently-tested paint formulations. They are designed specifically for architectural glass, and are applied to ultra-clear low-iron glass for precise color matching. The colors are ultra-durable: baked-in and UV-stable. The resulting hard-working glass surfaces are 100% VOC-free and naturally hygienic, enhancing occupant health, comfort, and safety.

“We believe we are responsible for developing new, environmentally safe colors and techniques in glass, and we’re thrilled to deliver this on-trend collection,” added Jayson. “From the pastel shades to the soft, satin-smooth surfaces, it is an exciting twist on the back-painted glass architects and designers are accustomed to.”

Bendheim produces the new “Vivid Pastels” back-painted glass in our vertically-integrated plant in New Jersey. Typical lead times are 3-4 weeks. The glass can be specified in sizes up to 60 by 120 inches (1.5 by 3 meters), in standard thicknesses of 1/4” (6 mm) or 3/8″ (10 mm). An ultra-thin 1/8” (3 mm) thickness is also available; it is ideal for laminated glass applications required to meet strict safety codes and weight limitations, such as elevator interiors.

Bendheim Glass Back-Painting Line

Bendheim’s New Jersey glass back-painting line. Bendheim’s proprietary, third-party tested, baked-in pant formulations offer added durability and faster product delivery.

Bendheim Brings Pantone® Color of the Year to Architectural Glass

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Back-Painted Glass Backsplashes

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.

"Avocado Solar” Textured Back-Painted Glass

“Avocado Solar” textured back-painted architectural glass

 

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.

"Jelly Bean Chartreuse” Colored Architectural Glass

“Jelly Bean Chartreuse” laminated colored architectural glass

 

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.

"Pale Green" Mouth-Blown Seeded Glass

“Pale Green” mouth-blown glass wall

 

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.

Glamir™ Garners Multiple Design Industry Honors

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Glamir™ Colored Architectural Mirror CollectionGlamir™, our architectural mirror collection featuring rare pastel and jewel tones, swept up several industry awards for innovation and design. Recent recognitions by Interior Design and Architectural Products magazines point to the collection’s on-trend use of alluring metallic hues and reflectivity to bring luminosity and life to interior surfaces.

With dialed-up, unabashed opulence and style coming to the forefront of design trends, Glamir entered the market at the right moment to take advantage of the energized move towards warmer tones and metallic finishes.

Celebrated for its pastel colors, which “enhance the look of interior spaces,” Glamir garnered an award for “Most Unique Hospitality Surfaces” from Architectural Products’ Product Innovation Awards. One judge noted that the collection’s “champagne and pale gold colors are very on trend.”

The foresight of Bendheim’s color analysts was also recognized by Interior Design magazine, which selected Glamir as “Best of Year” finalist in the Material ConneXion: Glass category. Interior Design’s Best of Year awards are voted on by readers of the magazine, including architects, designers, and interior decorators.

"Glamir™ Amber" Colored Architectural Mirror

“Glamir™ Amber” interior mirrored glass wall, viewed from a distance

Additionally, Architizer, the online architecture community, selected Glamir as its “Product of the Day.”

Bendheim’s Glamir collection is produced with ultra-clear low-iron glass, eliminating the typical bluish-green glass tint and allowing the pure, jewel-like colors to shine through. For more information, please visit https://www.bendheim.com/campaign/glamir.

Houdini™ Channel Glass Wins Architectural Record Product Of The Year Award

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Bendheim is pleased to announce that our Houdini™ channel glass is a winner in the prestigious Architectural Record Product of the Year competition. The innovative glass, providing the ultimate balance of daylight and privacy, claims the top spot in the Facades – Glazing category.

Houdini channel glass displays an exceptionally fine micro-fluted surface. The pattern reduces glare and obscures the shapes of people and objects behind it to such an extent, they seem to disappear. Whether used for interiors or exteriors, this unique feature allows architects and designers to deliver the highest levels of privacy, while still allowing maximum daylight.

“The Architectural Record Products of the Year awards represent the best of the best”

 

The unique geometry of the U-shaped Houdini channel glass allows for virtually seamless glass walls, uninterrupted by metal frames. Installed vertically, the glass can span heights up to 23 feet and virtually limitless lengths, a distinct advantage over traditional flat glass. It can also create sweeping curved walls without the need for high-cost custom glass bending.

Started in 2006, Architectural Record’s product competition recognizes excellence in design and utility across a wide variety of architectural products in eight categories.

“The Architectural Record Products of the Year awards represent the best of the best, with the winning items demonstrating high levels of innovation, usefulness, and aesthetics,” says Julie Taraska, products editor of Architectural Record. “Winners are chosen by a jury of practitioners and specifiers—folks who are active in the architecture and design industries and know products inside-out because they use them every day.”

“We are proud of the work that has gone into creating Houdini channel glass and bringing it to market. It is an honor to be recognized by this jury of leading industry professionals,” said Robert Jayson, Bendheim President. “We are continually pushing ourselves to develop new, advanced glass types in our ongoing efforts to aid the architectural and design community.”

Houdini channel glass’ win follows on Bendheim’s accolades for our Oberon Etched Glass, which won the Finishes & Surfacing category in 2015.

Bendheim Glass Rainscreens Win “Money-Saving” Building Product Award

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Farmers' House | Glass Rainscreen FaçadeWe are proud to announce that our Decorative Glass Rainscreen Systems are a 2016 BUILDINGS Money-Saving Products winner. The prize-winning, budget-smart systems offer the building durable protection against costly moisture damage. Individual glass panels can be installed in less than a minute, and panel removal or replacement does not require deglazing surrounding panels, allowing for speedy, cost-saving long-term maintenance.

The 2016 Money-Saving award-winning products were evaluated and selected by BUILDINGS’ editorial staff for the potential savings they offer facility owners and managers. Bendheim’s rainscreen systems joined an elite group of products showcased in the June 2016 issue of BUILDINGS magazine and online at www.BUILDINGS.com.

“Long-term moisture protection is only part of the payback equation.”

 

What Is a Glass Rainscreen?

What Is a Rainscreen

Rainscreen schematic drawing: system components, water drainage and air flow paths

 

Moisture is the most insidious enemy to the structural integrity of buildings. Glass rainscreens envelop the building’s exterior, creating a drained and ventilated cavity between the building and the glass cladding (read more here). They prevent damaging moisture from reaching the building’s façade. Protecting against costly weather damage extends the productive service life of the building and lowers maintenance costs over its lifetime.

Bendheim’s glass rainscreens are an exceptionally fast, cost-effective, and environmentally sound option for retrofit projects. Their unlimited palette of colors and textures can breathe new life into tired old buildings. Installing a glass rainscreen over an existing façade is less costly than traditional demolition, repair, and re-glazing of exterior skins. It can be accomplished without accessing the interior and disrupting occupants, as this video of a recently retrofitted office building in San Jose, CA demonstrates.

3001 Orchard Parkway | Glass Rainscreen Facade

Horizontally oriented glass panels at 3001 Orchard Parkway, California, USA

 

“Long-term moisture protection is only part of the payback equation,” said Michael Tryon, General Manager of Bendheim Wall Systems. “An even more exciting benefit to building owners and developers is our systems’ ability to literally transform a worn-out structure through a new, show-stopping glass skin. An elegant Bendheim glass rainscreen can be the difference between an ‘OK’ building and a sought-after, high-earning property. The potential return on investment is obvious.”

Unique to Bendheim’s rainscreens is the use of highly engineered and tested, patented compression glass fittings that offer easy setup and quick assembly. The system ensures projects are completed on time and on budget, and can be easily maintained post installation, including effortless access to building components and systems located behind the glass cladding. The method does not require costly cut-outs or holes in the glass, affording low fabrication costs combined with superior wall strength.