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Interior Design: FE Moran Conference Room
Project Overview 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 …
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Project Management: Private Residence Chicago
Project Overview 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 …
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North Shore Residence
Project Overview A private homeowner selected our senior 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. …
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Interior Design: Art Gallery Partitions
Project Overview We were asked to create a glass wall for a private gallery in Chicago. The challenge was to create a glass partitions to add contrast to the wood elements throughout the gallery. Our senior project manager worked with the client and architect to select sandblasted ½” glass as a design element along the perimeter of the gallery. Our workmanship, fit and finish needed to be at the highest possible level. Additionally, these are massive pieces of glass measuring, …
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Interior Design: Glass Railings
Project Overview Now that Spring is here, we were asked to create a series of glass railings for a private residence on the North Shore. The project consisted of glass railings around a pool and overlooking Lake Michigan. It is one example of countless exterior glass wall systems we engineer, fabricate and install throughout the Chicago Metropolitan area. In this case, we set an aluminum shoe and then used a dry clamp system to place the glass inside the shoe. …
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Northbrook Court Entrance Canopies
Project Overview Glass EntranceNortbrook Court is one of Chicago’s most successful regional malls. Built in the 1976, the mall anchors Neiman Marcus, Lord & Taylor, Macys and AMC Theaters. It is located in Northbrook, Illinois in Chicago’s North Shore. The owner and contractor’s challenge was to update the four public entrances to the mall with glass canopy cladding and updated signage. GlassWorks was selected as glazier to engineer, fabricate and install all the glass canopy cladding on the four entrances …
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