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Okalux & Glas Trösch

High-tech glass for one of the largest wooden buildings in the world

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The largest wooden building in Europe is located in Munich's Olympic Park. In this building with its high wooden beams, high demands were placed on the facade glass, especially the glass in the roof level. Here you can find out which special glass was used there.

© Iwan Baan
Glass facades for Columbia Business School

BGT Bischoff makes 25,000 square metres of LSG for Columbia University

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For Columbia University in New York, Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed two impressive new buildings with FX Collaborative. The architecture, designed for transparency and communication, is characterised by 25,400 square metres of LSG by BGT Bischoff of the Glas Trösch Group.

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Glass Trösch:

Transparent "Square" building for the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland

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The campus of the University of St. Gallen has recently been adorned with the new Square, a building designed to support interactive and innovative forms of teaching and learning. The facade with special glass from Glas Trösch is also innovative. Here you can find out how the glass is constructed in detail.

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Smart glass:

Glas Trösch presents switchable insulating glass

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Switchable solar control glass keeps the heat out, offers reliable glare protection and saves a lot of energy. With  eyrise s350 Glas Trösch presents a switchable insulating glass in its portfolio.

© Kathrin Severin

Top stories of the week

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A redesigned hotel exterior, a colourful glass sculpture, architectural glass produced with hydrogen and a provider of BIPV solutions given a new lease of life. Here is the week in review:

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Glass Trösch:

Coloured glass sculpture casts beautiful shadows

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One of the largest sculpture exhibitions in Europe, the Bad RagARTz, is drawing visitors to the Swiss spa town of Bad Ragaz until the end of October 2021. The glass sculpture Tri Colore by the artist Kathrin Severin, which is made from glass by Glas Trösch and casts coloured shadows, can also be seen there.

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Glas Trösch:

A colour-neutral facade glass

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Facade trends are changing rapidly from distinctly blue, green or even brown tones to more neutrality. The Glas Trösch Group has already responded to this trend by presenting a much more neutrally-coloured facade glass:

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Dancing by the river: the American Copper Building in New York

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Using facade glass by Glas Trösch, to create a Skybridge 100 metres above the ground has added a striking feature to the New York skyline. It connects two residential towers clad in copper and gives them the look of two people dancing of about to embrace:

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Glas Trösch: Swiss company acquires Scheuten

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Swiss family-enterprise Glas Trösch intends to acquire Scheuten International B.V., based in the Netherlands, from the latter‘s current private-equity investor, Value Enhancement Partners.