The 'Glance' Sculpture: Safety Lamination for Architectural Cast Glass

André Chaszar, O-Design Research and Consulting
Joseph Jaroff, Mison Concepts Inc.

Architectural glass designers these days are increasingly seeking unique forms and optical effects in contrast to the past few decades, when choices of color and reflectivity seemed sufficient. Many of the most sophisticated and unusual visual effects achievable in glass are found in the area of ‘art glass,’ but the techniques used to produce them have not heretofore seemed feasible for architectural applications . The following presents a project in which cast art glass has been designed and engineered for a large-scale, exterior application, suggesting that art glass may soon be more widely available to be used in architecture.

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