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Collaboration
A Rubik’s Cube
of complex design
and engineering
feats packages
big building in
small site for
DIA’s new
Westin Hotel
and Transit
Center
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ack-painted architectural glass,
which continues to rise in
global popularity for commer-
cial and residential use, clear-
ly demonstrates a dramatic
union between function and
fashion. It’s not only durable, versatile
and eco-embracing, it’s simply striking.
“It’s a functioning product with a pur-
pose,” said Vick Channel, national sales
manager for Englewood’s Summit Glass
Coatings LLC. “It also brings the ‘wow ef-
fect’.”
Glass has been used for centuries to
create beautiful spaces. Now, as architec-
tural and design trends place increas-
ing emphasis on brilliant and versatile
usefulness, it’s expected that glass will
continue to be among
the
most favored
building materials for future internal
and external environments. Coupled
with the cachet of a sustainable product,
glass delivers high-performing solutions
for energy efficiency, lighting, spatial di-
vision, sound and even health-related
design and building considerations.
Back-painted glass, which allows vivid
color options through the use of low-iron
glass, brings the pizzazz. Summit Glass
Coating’s fabrications, featuring a vig-
orously tested adhesion promoter that
bonds the color coat and glass surface,
are available in an array of standard and
WORDS:
Stephanie Darling
The design
future is clear for
stunning and
sustainable
back-painted
glass
