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Glass 101: Specifying Glass

“Specifying” glass refers to the step in the building design process in which you or your team designate your architectural glass selections, often with a specific purpose in mind. It’s important to ...
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Interior Glass Primer

A sought-after material for interior designs, glass lends a modern, sleek aesthetic, bounces daylight deeper into spaces and offers a wide range of colors, styles and textures. Enhancing hygiene, ...
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Glass Distortion and Anisotropy

With both heat-strengthening and tempering, it is possible that glass will develop either optical image distortion or anisotropy, which refers to patterns or visual effects in glass that are not ...
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Four Essential Questions about Tinted Glass in Bird-Friendly Applications

As the interest in bird-safe windows and glazing applications grows, inquiries about tinted glass have become more frequent. Questions have emerged about the effectiveness of tinted windows for bird ...
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Color Rendering Index: How Glass Affects Color Rendering

What Is the Color Rendering Index? The color rendering index (CRI) is a metric that considers how accurately a color is rendered under lighting conditions as compared to its rendering under natural ...
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Designing with Low-Iron Acid-Etched Glass

Editor's note: This article was originally published as Full Surface Acid-Etched Starphire® Glass: The Designer's Choice on the Walker Glass Blog
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Ensuring a True Low-Iron Look

Clear glass is extremely common and is popular in a variety of architectural design applications. However, when specifying glass to achieve a truly transparent aesthetic, design professionals know ...
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Daylighting with Low-Iron Glasses

Well-daylit interiors boast a range of benefits, such as occupant mood and productivity, a sense of connectivity between spaces, decreased use of artificial light and energy bills, stunning views to ...
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Decorative Glass Applications

In recent years, glass fabricators have made significant advances in their technologies, creating a range of decorative glass applications that are increasingly specified by architects who seek ...
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Finding the Right Glass to Eliminate the Green

The Common Uses of Clear Glass Clear glass is extremely common, and is popular in a variety of architectural design applications. From applications ranging from vision glass to spandrel glass, clear ...