GALLERY

Alan Magee Scaife Hall

Alan Magee Scaife Hall

The seven-story addition to University of Pittsburgh’s Alan Magee Scaife Hall houses updated lecture halls, labs and classrooms. It also includes team-based learning and small group rooms as well as an entire floor dedicated to medical students. Intended as both an academic building and social hub, Scaife Hall combines several design features that create a sense of openness, including the fire-rat...

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Gaffney Elementary School

Gaffney Elementary School

Improving school safety and security were primary focuses during the retrofit of Gaffney Elementary School in Oregon City. For the 1960s-era building, this included relocating and reconfiguring the main office and entry vestibule as a means of achieving appropriate surveillance and supervision. Receptionists and staff now face frontwards, easily able to keep an eye on students entering and exiting...

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Candy Lane Elementary School

Candy Lane Elementary School

To bolster the safety and security of Candy Lane Elementary School, the front office was relocated and openings added for security glazing. This improved staff surveillance of students and guests, bolstered safety and created a more light and welcoming area for the front office. To extend sightlines while meeting fire-rated building codes, the design team specified Technical Glass Products’ Firefr...

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The Emerald

The Emerald

Rising 40 stories above one of Seattle’s most sought-after locations, The Emerald manages to reframe luxury-living by engaging the Pacific Northwest’s powerful landscape and vibrant city life through natural materials and an elaborate use of daylighting design. To continue pulling daylight from the exterior channel glass system into areas of egress on the third floor, the residential tower incorpo...

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Fairleigh Dickinson University Animation Lab

Fairleigh Dickinson University Animation Lab

With a focus on blending art and technology, the Animation Lab at Farleigh Dickinson University, located in Florham Park and Madison, New Jersey, is home to innovative and artistic animation students. So, when the time came to renovate the lab, campus leaders and project architects agreed that designing a multifunctional, open space to inspire creativity and foster collaboration was top priority. ...

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Tower 333

Tower 333

Pairing a sense of shared openness with critical fire resistance, the second-floor atrium of a retrofitted corporate tower in Bellevue, Washington, is enclosed by a sleek fire-rated, butt-glazed wall system. With large, clear lites of fire-rated glass, narrow butt-glazed joints and a heat-resistive perimeter frame, the Fireframes ClearView® System from Technical Glass Products provides a continuou...

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Angel’s Envy Distillery

Angel’s Envy Distillery

A beautifully renovated distillery now stands out in the historic downtown of Louisville, Kentucky. To make the revitalized Angel’s Envy Distillery an enjoyable stop along the popular Kentucky Bourbon Trail®, architects from Joseph & Joseph focused on keeping the old structural beauty intact, while drawing more light into the interior. To marry these goals in areas with strict fire-rated criteria,...

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Middletown High School

Middletown High School

During the renovation of New York’s Middletown High School, one of the main features was a central innovation lab that fit into the existing, underused interior courtyard space. KG+D Architects selected Technical Glass Product’s award-winning Fireframes ClearView® System for the interior walls of the center’s new state-of-the-art computer lab. The 60-minute fire-rated system is made of butt-glazed...

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The University of Kansas – Earth, Energy & Environment Center (EEEC)

The University of Kansas – Earth, Energy & Environment Center (EEEC)

The design team for the EEEC selected Fireframes ClearView® System from Technical Glass Products to create a seamless glass aesthetic and provide critical fire resistance in the main entrance and second-floor corridor overlooking the main stairway. The 60-minute fire-rated butt-glazed system features nearly colorless transitions between adjoining pieces of low-iron Pilkington Pyrostop® glass and p...

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University Center at the New School

University Center at the New School

In The New School University Center in New York, designed by SOM, fire-rated glazing helps turn a frequently traversed fire-rated stairwell into a central design element. SOM used Technical Glass Products’ (TGP) Pilkington Pyrostop® fire-resistive-rated glass and Fireframes® Heat Barrier Series fire-rated frames with custom corners and angles to mirror the stairwell’s elevations and diagonal traje...

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New York Fire Department, Engine Co. 239 Firehouse

New York Fire Department, Engine Co. 239 Firehouse

While renovating the historic New York Fire Department Engine Co. 239 Firehouse, Beyhan Karahan desired to keep the main staircase open as in the original house, yet needed to meet strict fire and life safety codes. They also wanted to maintain visibility. They found their solution in Pilkington Pyrostop® fire-rated glass and Fireframes® Heat Barrier Series frames from Technical Glass Products to ...

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The Morgan Library & Museum

The Morgan Library & Museum

The historic Morgan Library and Museum in New York City outgrew its campus to house their art collections, various educational activities and concerts. The Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Bleyer Blinder Bell successfully combined the historic building with a beautiful modern glass-filled atrium, expanded galleries and a performance hall.  The design team utilized fire-rated systems from Technic...

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Madison Dearborn Partners

Madison Dearborn Partners

Madison Dearborn Partners is a large, private equity firm located in Chicago, IL. When the company decided to build a new headquarters they chose Gary Lee Partners to develop a simple, minimal aesthetic to reflect their corporate identity. The architects chose Fireframes® Heat Barriers series frames and Pilkington Pyrostop® fire-rated glass to allow light to permeate from the exterior wall, thr...

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Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum IMAX Theater

Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum IMAX Theater

To provide sweeping views of the interior and preserve the expansive feel of the space in two open staircases, Scott/Edwards used Pilkington Pyrostop® fire-rated glass and Fireframes® Curtainwall Series fire-rated frames from Technical Glass Products at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum IMAX Theater. The glass looks like ordinary window glass and provides a clear view in and out of the stairs....

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Discovery World Pilot House

Discovery World Pilot House

Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc., utlized Pilkington Pyrostop® fire-rated glass and Fireframes® Heat Barrier Series frames from Technical Glass Products (TGP) in Milwaukee's Discovery World Pilot House. The system provides an open configuration elevator core, allowing views of the lake and city skyline from the elevator. The European-designed frames are sleek and slender, and the system offers ...

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Millenium Park Bicycle Station

Millenium Park Bicycle Station

Keeping the interior spaces open and full of light was a challenge in the below grade space of the Millenium Park Bicycle Station. The design firm wanted to leave the staircase open so the light would flow through, but the city required that it be enclosed for safety reasons. To address both concerns, Muller and Muller chose as a glass fire wall system: Pilkington Pyrostop® fire and impact safety...

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Washington State Legislative Building

Washington State Legislative Building

To provide light and a sense of openness in the stairwells of the historic Washington State Legislative Building, while meeting the requirements of fire safety, SRG Partnership and Einhorn Yaffee Prescott selected Fireframes® Heat Barrier Series glass doors with Pilkington Pyrostop® fire-rated glass from Technical Glass Products for the building's renovation. The fire-rated doors were bronze-clad ...

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