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Glass Magazine Awards 2023 | Glass Can Do Everything

The seven project and six product award winners represent the full gamut of what glass and metal systems have to offer to the spaces where we live, learn, work and play.

Glass Magazine Awards 2021

Winning projects and products demonstrate multi-functional, innovative solutions that protect, perform and inspire.

The 2024 Glass Magazine Award winners went beyond—beyond code requirements, past achievements and what previously seemed possible. This year’s eight project award winners and seven product award winners demonstrate what glass, and glass industry companies, can aspire to achieve.

Le Visionnaire, Espace François Dalle

The gorgeous glass structure Le Visionnaire, winner of Best Feat of Engineering & Project of the Year, brings the future to meet the past.

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s campus renovation project, winner of Best Specialty Glazing Project, included a new, avant-garde glass façade for the 30,000-square-foot Gundlach Building, as well as a glass bridge connecting the new structure to the original museum.

Baptist Health Care

The 10-story Baptist Health Care at Brent Lane, winner of Best Protective Glazing, showcases the range of glass’ protective powers, not only as impact-tested glazing systems but also as systems designed to provide comfort and healing to patients.

Port of Montréal Tower

The Port of Montréal Tower makes spectacular use of jumbo glass for the best reason: panoramic views.

Make-A-Wish Foundation

It seems fitting that the winning project for this year’s Best Project Team award, which celebrates teamwork and collaboration, should be the new headquarters for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a nonprofit that works toward the benevolent goal of fulfilling the wishes of critically ill children.

Louis Vuitton Store

The stylish new storefront of Louis Vuitton’s store in Lenox Square Mall in Atlanta, Georgia, pays tribute to the brand’s history while upholding its legacy of elegance and luxury.

Vertical Panorama Pavilion

Visitors to the Donum Estate in Sonoma, California, can enjoy wine tasting under the rainbow-colored glass canopy of the outdoor Vertical Panorama Pavilion.

insulbar—Polyamide Pressure Plate

Insulbar's new polyamide pressure plate is a simple and effective solution to meet more stringent building and façade performance requirements.

SunGuard SNX 70+ Coated Glass

SunGuard SNX 70+ Coated Glass was developed by Guardian Glass to help meet today’s requirements for improved energy performance, while still achieving an aesthetic that is transparent and neutral.

Pivot Door

ES pivot doors combine impact resistance with thermal efficiency, offering both style and functionality. Designed to be sleek, with customizable finishes, the door aims for a luxurious aesthetic.

Fallbrook XL NY

The need for aesthetics, as well as sound-suppressing acoustic qualities, drove C.R. Laurence to develop Fallbrook XL NY glass partitions, which offer sound mitigation while also sporting a highly versatile muntin grid system.

FHC G52 Series Glass Door Systems

When Frameless Hardware Co. staff looked at market research to identify customer needs, they found a potential gap in the market for larger, energy-efficient openings that provide unobstructed views and natural light.

Smart Glazier Connect

Smart Glazier Software staff identified a critical need—a digital solution to streamline the glazier-to-fabricator ordering process.

Concealed Interior-Clamped Cable Tension System

The Concealed Interior-Clamped Cable Tension System by W&W Glass was custom-designed to meet the challenge of an all-glass lobby wall at Two Manhattan West, a glass-clad office tower that is part of the Manhattan West development.

Gold for Sustainability at the Paris Games

The Paris games feature one permanent centerpiece—The Paris Olympics Aquatics Centre, a striking example of new sustainable construction, complete with a sweeping timber structure and glass façade.

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David Geffen Hall

Pulp Studio’s polished and carefully etched bent railing and guardrails complement the elegant intimacy of the new performing arts center, home of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and helped it win this year’s “Best Glass Interior” award.

Jefferson Health Honickman Center

A 20-story medical facility located in central Philadelphia, the new Jefferson Health Honickman Center features a rippling façade with curved glass fabricated by Cristacurva. It is this year’s winner in a new category, “Best Curved Glass.”

Center of Developing Entrepreneurs

CODE aims to be LEED Gold certified, and several of nominating company Kawneer’s thermally broken systems helped the project take home the “Best Green Project” award this year.

Boley Elementary School

The new daylit and colorful interior of Boley Elementary School complements the heart-warming story of this project, winner of the “Best Project Team” award.

Orlando International Airport, Terminal C

The Best Protective Glazing Project represents a $2.8 billion investment with its attention to hurricane resistance and impact ratings. Judges also recognized the project’s sustainability strategies, including water-reduction features, solar panels, responsive lighting, and the use of nontoxic and…

The Audrey Irmas Pavilion

The winner of Best Decorative Glass Application and Project of the Year Runner Up, the Audrey Irmas Pavilion is a glowing green glass trapezoidal terrace recessed into the side of Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s historic Erika J. Glazer Family Campus in Los Angeles.

1550 Alberni Street

Asymmetry meets style in the new 43-story, mixed-use tower that makes a striking addition to the Vancouver skyline and is the winner of the Project of the Year and Best Feat of Engineering.

950SG Series Therml=Block Window Wall system

Tubelite's 950SG Series Therml=Block Window Wall system, this year’s winner for “Best Framing System or Component,” offers a four-side, structural sealant glazed window wall that provides a thermally broken, aluminum framing solution for between-slab horizontal spans on commercial buildings.

Achieve FGR Frameless Glass Railing Systems

FHC’s new Achieve FGR frameless glass railing systems significantly streamline the installation process, making it an understandable win for this year’s “Best Innovation for Installers.”

SunGuard SuperNeutral SNR 35

Guardian Glass’ SunGuard SuperNeutral SNR 35 coated glass, this year’s winner for “Best Glass or Glass Component,” combines aesthetics and performance, the pinnacle of achievement for any new architectural glass.

A+W iShape

A+W Software’s iShape application, this year’s “Best Innovation for the Factory” winner, aims to speed up the templating process with a template-digitizing software solution.

Ocula Frameless Windscreen

In Sightline Commercial Solutions’ Ocula Frameless Windscreen, this year’s winner for “Best Hardware Product or System,” hardware is minimal but crucial.

DraftingMarketplace.com

This year’s “R&D Award” winner has a unique origin story. The online platform is designed to make sourcing quality shop drawings faster and easier.

2023 Glass Magazine Awards: Voting Opens for the Products Competition

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Glass Magazine Awards 2022

Glass industry companies continue to push the envelope, materially and figuratively, innovating high-performance products for tomorrow’s built environment.

R&D Award

Fenex’s new Oversized Flood Window, a flood-resistant and floating debris impact-resistant product, was designed to meet the challenge of extreme weather.

Best Innovation for the Factory

Integrated Automation Systems’ AutoRack 1 speaks to the industry’s need for machinery that reduces the need for labor, while still providing quality and speed.

Best Innovation for Installers

Architectural Grilles & Sunshades offers three models of its most popular sunshades—the Kilkenny, Hercules, and Wexford series—kept in stock, with only a 4- to 5-week lead time.

Best Hardware Product or System

Frameless Hardware Co.’s line of high-security handles, Steincraft ML100 Magnalink Electromagnetic Egress Handles, aims to address security concerns while still maintaining aesthetics.

Best Glass or Glass Component

SunGuard SNR 50 offers architects attractive exteriors, while also creating bright and comfortable interiors.

Best Framing System or Component

The 8010 series single blade sunshade system by C.R. Laurence delivers two key qualities for the façade; controlling solar exposure, and allowing design flexibility.

Best Protective Glazing Project

When it opens later this year, San Francisco’s busy Union Square Station will feature a decorative glass walkable floor/roof system that welcomes commuters into the hub and provides 2-hour, fire-resistive glass courtesy of Safti First Fire Rated Glazing Systems.

Best Project Team

When project glazier Architectural Wall Systems and other stakeholders were approached to construct the Hubbard Center for Children's new patient tower, this year’s winner of Best Project Team, they recognized the the need for a design-assist, integrated project delivery method.

Best Jumbo Glass Project

Garibaldi Glass brought the clean and future-forward look to life at 402 Dunsmuir, a nine-story, 152,000-square-foot glass building located in Vancouver, British Columbia, that was built to attract North America’s top tech and entrepreneurial talent.

Best Green Project

The owner of 915 Broadway Street, a 4-story multi-tenant commercial office building, constructed in 1979, featured 6,000 square feet of single-pane windows which offered little insulation from exterior temperatures. Alpen High Performance Products delivered a cost-effective retrofit solution…

Best Decorative Glass Application

Members of the general public in Los Angeles using three of LAX Transit’s new transit stations will be able to appreciate glass art installations at each location, installed by Giroux Glass Inc.

Project of the Year Runner Up and Best Feat of Engineering

Employees at Expedia’s new Headquarters in Seattle can gaze out onto the surrounding Olympic mountains, Seattle skyline and Elliott Bay, thanks to the building’s glass cable net walls, designed by Sentech Architectural Systems.

Project of the Year and Best Glass Interior

Located at the peak of a skyscraper, Transcendence I is part of the experiential suite of immersive rooms at Summit One Vanderbilt. The project combines otherworldly glass and mirror, fabricated by Cristacurva, with outstanding views of Midtown New York City.

Project of the Year and Best Feat of Engineering

The grand steel and glass dome of the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures captured two prizes in the 2021 Glass Magazine Awards. The impressive dome covers about 30,000 square feet of terrace space with a spherical gridshell, providing rain and solar protection for the special exhibition and…

Project of the Year Runner Up

The almost other-worldly exterior of the new Kinder Building, part of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, is wrapped with laminated, translucent glass tubes.

Best Protective Glazing Project

The new VA Ambulatory Care Center features an eye-catching glass façade, combining creative geometries and blast resistance.

Best Jumbo Glass Project

In addition to the large lites being used effectively, glass is used throughout the lobby, providing a clean and welcoming aesthetic.

Best Project Team

The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences is Lubbock, Texas’s newest landmark. The 220,000-square-foot campus required careful coordination and cooperation for the project team, which manufactured and supplied the metal systems.

Best Green Project

Basecamp Lyngby is a private student and senior residence near Copenhagen in Denmark offering 786 apartments. Recyclable materials, modular construction, and even the organic structure of the façade underline the green design intent of the project.

Best Glass Interior

Pendry West Hollywood, Hotel and Residences is a luxury boutique hotel and condominium complex located on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.

Best Decorative Glass Application

The ascending glass spiral of the new Hurricane Maria Memorial in New York City symbolizes the devastating hurricane which struck Puerto Rico in 2017, while simultaneously representing protection against those destructive forces.

Best Innovation for the Factory

A coating machine that applies protective coating onto both sides of the glass through a proprietary chemical vapor deposition process, transforming glass into a high-performing, water-repellent surface

Best Innovation for Installers

An all-glass entrance system solution that significantly improves on what is perhaps the most-specified rail system on the market.

Best Hardware Product or System

Bi-folding and sliding door and wall systems offer grand scale and minimal hardware for unobstructed views, along with acoustical and thermal benefits.

Best Glass or Glass Component

HMI’s C.10 with Microban is a protective glass coating that incorporates antimicrobial technology. Any glass shower enclosure manufactured by the company can be coated with the product.

Best Framing System or Component

The greater system depth, combined with three thermal performance options and two glass plane options, makes this a highly versatile framing system, bridging the gap between traditional framing systems and low-rise curtain walls.

R&D Award

This development combines architectural style seen in other regions with the windborne debris resistance required in hurricane zones.

Vote in the Glass Magazine Awards Products Competition

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Innovation During Crisis | Special Recognition Program

The Glass Magazine Awards program recognizes the best and brightest innovations in glass industry products and projects. This year’s special recognition program highlights how the industry innovated in response to the demands and dangers created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Innovations in Glass

Glass Magazine thanks GGI for sponsoring this year’s Glass Magazine Awards. This year’s Glass Magazine Award winners are innovators, blazing trails in the industry with complex façades, sophisticated manufacturing and design technologies, and multi-faceted high-performance products.…