architectural glazing
project profile:
color
New Hotel Gives New York City a Splash of Color
Think Colored Glass
PROJECT FACTS
PROJECT
Hotel Gansevoort, Meatpacking District, New York City
GLASS LAMINATOR
Standard Bent Glass Corp., Butler, Pennsylvania
GLAZING CONTRACTOR
Enterprise Architectural, New York City
INTERLAYER MANUFACTURER
Solutia Inc., St. Louis, Missouri
ARCHITECT
Stephen B. Jacobs, New York City
PROJECT COMPLETION
April 2004
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P R I M A R I LY F O R I T S H I S T O R I C A N D C O M M E R C I A L
H E R I TA G E , H A S B E C O M E A N AT T R A C T I O N F O R
T R E N DY R E S TA U R A N T S A N D D E S I G N E R B O U T I Q U E S .
COMPLEMENTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S DIVERSE
M I X O F M E AT WA R E H O U S E S A N D R E T R O F I T S T O R E F R O N T S , H O T E L G A N S E V O O R T F E AT U R E S U N I Q U E
DESIGN ELEMENTS.
Light and space is the theme throughout the hotel,
and glass plays a key role in achieving this. The
hotel's entrance features 18-foot internally illuminated
glass columns and a 14-foot-high revolving door. The
guest rooms feature extraordinary glass-sheathed balconies, projecting bay windows, as well as dramatic
sheets of backlit translucent laminated glass in muted
colors made of Solutia® Inc.'s Vanceva®, Advanced
Solutions for Glass™. Branded color interlayers, that
replace conventional closets and bathroom doors, give
every room a warm, colorful personality.
“Every line of rooms has different colored laminated
glass closets and bathroom doors with lights shining
through them,” says John Sternchos, president of
Enterprise Architectural, the project’s glazier. “When
guests walk into their room, they are greeted by the
soft glow created by these illuminated glass features.”
Six Vanceva colored interlayers were
used in the closet and bathroom doors
throughout the hotel's 187 guest
rooms. “The architect and interior
designer had specific colors and shades
they wanted to use. The Vanceva
product enabled us to come up with
matching colors,” added Sternchos.
The striking color palette includes
green, pink, blue, purple, brown and
violet.
The Vanceva product's interlayer can be produced in a
broad spectrum of colors and moods that are unachievable
using stock glass. “Vanceva interlayers can be combined to
produce over 1,000 transparent, translucent or opaque
color options to enable architects and designers to create
the perfect tone and intensity,” says Robert Spozarski,
North American market development manager at Solutia.
Solutia's Vanceva interlayers also give architects and
designers the proven performance benefits of laminated
glass, which they have come to expect from Solutia's interlayer products. In addition, they now have more creative
freedom with glass than ever before possible.
and conference rooms. The Vanceva interlayers are made
with heat- and light-stable pigments, instead of dyes, to
produce colors that resist fading. When subjected to vigorous testing conditions, the Vanceva interlayer retains its
colorfast properties and structural stability. The colors are
layered between two pieces of glass, so they are maintenance free..
Since its opening, Hotel Gansevoort has proved to be one
of New York City's high-class hotels and certainly one of
the most colorful. “We are excited our product was used
in this innovative New York project,” added Spozarski.
“This is an ideal application for this revolutionary
glass product.”
Laminated glass with Vanceva's colored interlayers can
also be used in curtain walls, atriums, skylights, partitions
® Vanceva is a Registered Trademark of Solutia Inc.
C O N TA C T T H E S O LU T I A A R C H I T EC T U R A L G L A Z I N G S U P P O R T T E A M AT O N E O F T H E W O R L D W I D E
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