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City Winery is Chicago’s newest music venue, restaurant and bar and only fully operational winery. It is located in the heart of Chicago’s thriving restaurant district at 1200 West Randolph Street. The owner, architect and general contractor’s challenge was to transform a nineteenth century refrigerated food warehouse into Chicago’s newest and most exciting venue.
GlassWorks was selected as City Winery’s glazier to engineer, fabricate and install all the glass elements in this facility. Key elements included a three story glass curtain-wall that welcomes clients into the restaurant and venue as well as interior glass that divides the audience area from the working winery. Additionally, we added exterior windows that transformed an existing building while respecting its brick and timber construction.
Call us and arrange for a visit to City Winery today so that we can show you how your project can benefit from our expertise. Be it new construction or remodeling, City Winery is an outstanding example of GlassWorks expertise.
There were two principal unique challenges to City Winery for GlassWorks.
The first was adding exterior and interior glass that showcased the winery and created an open airy atmosphere while respecting the existing building’s beautiful brick and timber construction. We believe we accomplished that with our architectural level attention to detail.
City Winery had a firm grand opening date. We worked weekends and evenings to accomplish our client’s needs in a confined urban site.
City Winery opened on time to outstanding reviews and a VIP Reception including the Mayor of Chicago. Our client recommends us highly for our attention to detail and speed of execution and the building’s architecture will benefit the West Loop for years to come.
If you have a project with a demanding schedule and the need for outstanding architectural glass, contact us today!
Chicago Athletic Clubs has a rich tradition of transforming buildings into highly successful health clubs throughout Chicago and Evanston. The owner’s challenge was to transform the existing shower and toilet areas to provide a contemporary and elegant look.
GlassWorks was selected first at Lincoln Square Athletic Club and then other Chicago Athletic Clubs and finally the Lincoln Park Athletic Club’s to engineer, fabricate and install all the of their shower and toilet enclosures. Key elements included designing and custom fabricating the stainless steel hardware and heat strengthened and laminated glass. As part of our scope, we provided material selection and advice, full shop drawings, fabrication and installation – in many cases overnight to accommodate the health club schedule.
Call us and arrange for a presentation of the products today so that we can show you how your project can benefit from our expertise. Be it new construction or remodeling, GlassWorks relationship with Chicago Athetic Clubs is an outstanding example of GlassWorks expertise.
There were two principal unique challenges to the Chicago Athletic Clubs for GlassWorks.
The first was developing the appropriate products that met the needs of the most successful athletic club in the City of Chicago. We developed numerous samples and designs before settling on a glass and stainless steel combination that met the needs of the client and was fully functional.
Our second challenge was installing the shower and toilet partitions in an extremely popular and busy health club. We accomplished this by developing a detailed project management plan that allowed us to mobilizing our crews between 10:00pm and 4:00am and compress our construction schedule so that each locker room was under construction for less than a week.
Chicago Athletic Clubs shower and toilet enclosures were transformed on time, on budget. We were particularly pleased with the feedback from the Athletic Club staff that most guests didn’t even notice the construction but were completely wowed with the results.
Additionally, these are some of the most successful health clubs. Some of the enclosures are nearing the one year mark and we have had zero call backs for even routine adjustment.
If you have a project with a demanding schedule and the need for outstanding architectural glass, contact us today!
The Moran Group, headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois includes seven business units providing Life Comfort/Life Safety services including fire protection, alarm and security services. GlassWorks was asked to provide the interior glass for its conference rooms including operating glass doors, sandblasted and logo imprinted glass walls.
Its one example of countless interior glass wall systems we engineer, fabricate and install throughout the Chicago Metropolitan area. Each glass wall is unique offering the client endless hardware and glass choices. In Moran Group’s case, we offered an appropriate degree of openness between the conference room and the hallway. This application also included Starphire Low Iron 3/8” glass although we can also handle a wide variety of other glass thicknesses, colors and types.
Finally, we incorporated the Moran Group logo as a sandblasted element to provide the ultimate custom touch!
Due to GlassWorks attention to detail, expertise and reputation, we are Chicagoland’s leading interior glass provider.
If you have a project, small or large, with a demanding schedule and the need for outstanding architectural glass, contact us today!
A private homeowner and architect selected our project management team to create a contemporary home and architectural showpiece on Chicago’s Gold Coast. The resulting home is a four story masterpiece of exterior and interior glass that showcases the client’s sculptures, an interior and exterior courtyard and the thriving neighborhood.
For us, the home shows our full range of architectural glass capabilities including multi story windows, ornamental metalwork, oversized glass, zero sightline glass, complex interior and exterior glass railing systems and the full gamut of decorative glass. All of it was designed, fabricated and then installed in challenging urban site.
Call us and we’ll be glad to show you how we can help you with your architectural glass needs that you or your client will enjoy for decades to come.
The private residence posed a series of challenges for our team generally revolving around creating the ultimate urban contemporary home.
For a home in which the glass is the architectural focal point, every detail has to be meticulously designed and executed. This required our full project team capabilities including on and off site oversight, CAD shop drawing preparation, mockups and management of the entire submittal process.
Once on site, the project required our heavy lift capabilities as well as our full complement of craftsmen.
Our team has created another masterpiece. Each glass element showcases our craftsmanship, attention to detail and vision. Together, the project shows our ability to deliver a major project flawlessly.
If you have a project that requires the attention to detail of a true artist, contact us today!
A private homeowner selected our s
enior project manager, Bob Criz to substantially renovate a contemporary home on Chicago’s North Shore. The home was a single story ranch home by a noted Chicago architect and the plan was to put on a second story, entrance clerestory and various room additions and expansions.
In the process, the home was transformed into a fully updated beautiful residence that reflects its modern architectural heritage while still offering the latest in architectural glass. Glass railing systems, interior and exterior glass transform the home to allow its owner to fully enjoy a sculpture garden and enjoy a updated and refreshed architecturally significant work of art.
Call us and we’ll be glad to show you how we can transform a modern period home into a current work of art you or your client will enjoy for decades to come.
The private residence posed a series of challenges for Bob Criz and his Arcadia Residential team generally revolving around appropriately updating an architecturally significant home to the needs of a current owner.
We worked with the architect, contractor and the interior designer, Daniel DuBay of Daniel DuBay and Associates to appropriately save and reuse some windows and glass while ordering large portions of exterior glass and interior glass that dramatically increased the size and visibility of the home.
Bob worked with his suppliers to recreate the anodized aluminum finishes used on the original construction to tie the residence together.
The residence also allowed us to show the leaps in technology that our industry has offered. Vast stretches of glass are now possible allowing our clients to take in a beautiful sculpture garden comfortably on the coldest winter day.
When I walked the home with Bob and the client, I realized they had successfully created a new home on the vision of a past master architect. The home is a work of art in its own right and is a beautiful showplace for the client’s amazing collection of sculptures and art.
If you have a project that requires the attention to detail of a true artist, contact us today!
