doug
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dichronic glass
Is that like the persistent use of diseased green glass in Toronto?
A dichroic coating would look awesome though.
dichronic glass
Is that like the persistent use of diseased green glass in Toronto?
A dichroic coating would look awesome though.
Probably just romanticizing on the prewar architecture and not even noticing the lack of colour. Sure a lot of junk has gone up in this era but, I don't think future generations looking back on what was accomplished during this "glass" age will look at it with such negativity.
Nope, I am thinking more on ultra-low iron white glass. There are some, but not a lot of examples of use as cladding - e.g. http://chameleonlab.nl/portfolio-item/new-conservatorium/
AoD
....and you linked to a site that sells dichroic coatings for glass facades.
Because they have examples of architectural use of dichroic, and not because I am trying to advertise for them.
I suspect you don't understand what dichroic coatings do. They don't make ultra-clear white glass.
They make pretty colours, I suggested in an earlier post that dichroic coatings on a glass facade would look awesome.
you had suggested "dichronic" ....which doesn't really exist, I made a joke about it, which apparently flew over your head.
There's a lot of good stuff going up in Toronto too, it's just that i don't know that it registers as 'romantic'. Certainly it doesn't for me. There's warmth, texture and detailing in the natural materials used in NYC and Chicago - and in older areas of Toronto for that matter - that glass and spandrel just don't have. Anyway, i only suggest that this why some feel the city is lacking for colour in its new architecture.
As to the physics of the coating, well, we can get into interference by nanometer scaled layer another time.
THE ONE will have multiple storeys of light-filled retail and commercial spaces - “jewel boxes” with walls of glass that are uninterrupted by supporting columns.
something like this might be cool - the Trutec building in South Korea