1. The rule is to look beyond the window A window can look elegant in a showroom and awkward once placed in a house. Its frame may be well made, its glass carefully specified and its dimensions entirely ordinary. What fails is the relationship between that rectangle and the building around it. Proportion is often […]
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1. Begin with the building, not a product image A photograph of a glazed wall can be persuasive because it presents a complete scene: light, landscape and furniture arranged around the opening. The same doors may behave quite differently in another house. Before looking for a product, establish what the proposed glazing must do in […]
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1. What role should the glazing play in the architecture? Before asking whether anyone can tell steel from steel-look glazing, it helps to ask what the glazing is meant to do. A new screen between a kitchen and sitting room may need to give the space a fine, dark outline. A replacement window in a […]