Far from ordinaire
12th July 2016

Nine hundred panels with gold-coloured Guardian SunGuard Solar Gold 20 and Guardian UltraClear glass, help to create a highlight for France’s latest landmark building, La Cité du Vin, a new cultural centre in Bordeaux, France.

The building itself was designed by Anouk Legendre and Nicolas Desmazières of XTU Architects and ‘makes a strong architectural statement thanks to its bold curves and overall shape which are intended to evoke wine’s soul and liquid nature: seamless roundness, intangible and sensual’.

Two types of glass were selected: Guardian SunGuard Solar Gold 20 and Guardian UltraClear. SunGuard Solar Gold 20 is the choice of many architects and designers. Its gold-coloured coating is applied to Guardian ExtraClear float glass.

Compared to traditional glass, Guardian UltraClear low-iron glass offers high light transmission and colour neutrality.
In total around 900 individual glass panels were used, some being screen printed with 20 different patterns. All panels are different with maximum sizes of 5.1m x 1.5m. There are three types of panels: monolithic, laminated and triple laminated. The latter type with SunGuard Solar Gold 20 coating applied. All panels were individually fixed on site and guided into place onto 4500 separate fixing attachments from 50mm to 270mm high. The fixing system had to be programmed using special software, because of the building’s specific geometry. The final glass skin covers 2700 square metres.

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Guardian Glass is exhibiting in hall 10/stand A28 at glasstec (20-23 September 2016) in Düsseldorf, Germany.
For more information, www.guardianglasstec.com