The Use of Glass in Restoration

Michel van der Heijden, Arno Schut & Martin Smit, Inbo Architects, Advisers and Urban Planners, The Netherlands

The use of glass in architecture is usually considered to be a high tech adventure, limited to high tech buildings. Being restoration specialists, we discovered that glass can be a wonderful material when dealing with renewal projects. Its transparency makes it possible to ‘open up’ existing monumental buildings and make daylight and transparency a core value in the design to create a high quality environment.

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