A Corner Is Not Just Something That Gets in the Way of the View When designing a highly glazed extension or contemporary home, it is easy to see the corner as an obstruction. Two large areas of glass might offer an uninterrupted view of the garden or landscape, only for a vertical post at their […]
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Why There Is No Single Maximum Glass Size The question of how large a single pane of glass can be appears to invite a simple answer: a maximum width, a maximum height, perhaps a maximum overall area. In architectural glazing, however, those dimensions rarely exist as universal limits. The realistic size of a pane emerges […]
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Why There Is No Single Minimum Sightline At first glance, asking how slim a glazing sightline can be seems as though it should have a straightforward numerical answer. Contemporary glazing systems are often discussed in terms of increasingly narrow profiles, making it natural to compare one dimension with another. The difficulty is that a sightline […]