All VS1 Projects
New York Red Bulls Training Complex
The Red Bulls’ new training facility in New Jersey will bring the organization’s youth academy and professional programs together in one multi-use complex. VS1 has brought to life another design by the team at Gensler.
More renderings of these Gensler-designed glass walls →
➥ Long Span · Segmented Wall · Slanted Facade
St. Regis Chicago
Designed by Studio Gang, installed by AGW.
At the base of the tower, a 10-story glass cube protrudes from the structure. A unique exoskeletal frustum geometry is achieved by the use of a two-way VS1 jumbo mullion structure with internal star nodes.
Read more about this truly unique glass curtain wall in Chicago→
➥ Complex Geometry · Exterior Mullions · Slanted Mullions
V&A Museum Dundee
This museum was designed by Japanese Architect Kengo Kuma, and VS1 was used by Glass Solutions, a subsidiary of Saint Gobain, for seven facades on the exterior. Due to the building's location on the mouth of the River Tay, the walls were built to withstand large waves.
Key Details: Toggle Fittings · Triple IGU
Read more about this Kengo Kuma–designed building in Scotland
Nippert Stadium at University of Cincinnati
Designed by Heery International, installed by Cupples Intl.
The curved geometry of the building called for a cladding system that responded to the transitional nature of the resulting surface geometry. VS1 solved the conditions.
❍ Read more about this innovative stadium curtain wall design→
➥ Alternate Material Integration · Shading Elements · Slanted Facade & Mullions
Ryan Center at Northwestern University
Designed by Goettsch Partners, installed by Harmon
VS1 was used for two scopes at this music school on Lake Michigan: a fanning atrium wall and an acoustically isolated theater wall.
❍ Read more about this iconic building in Chicago→
➥ Acoustic Isolation · Hybrid Tension Cable · Facade-Skylight Transition
Central Bank of Ireland
Designed by Henry J. Lyons
Two atrium VS1 end walls transition into a glass roof to create a transparent spine to this civic building in Dublin. A dramatic triangular wall curtain wall geometry was developed with the architect.
❍ Read more about this feature atrium glass wall→
➥ Complex geometry · Slanted mullions
Manhattan College Kelly Commons
Designed by Perkins Eastman, installed by Cherry Hill Glass
The feature curtain wall above the north entry to the building is a sloping wall—sill in, head out—with VS1 fittings mounted to steel framing.
❍ Read more about this glass curtain wall in The Bronx→
➥ Slanted Facade
Uva Nestum Pool Enclosure
The Uva Nestum Wine & Spa in Gotse Delchev, Bulgaria features a VS1 pool enclosure. The installation is complex in its geometry, featuring sloping glass roofs and walls, and seamless all-glass transitions from wall to canopy.
❍ Read more about this all-glass pool enclosure in Bulgaria→
➥ Skylight · Slanted Facade
Earl Shapiro Hall at University of Chicago Lab School
Designed by Valerio Dewalt Train, installed by Trainor Glass
Exterior bent aluminum perforated painted fins create a texture based on the Fibonacci sequence to communicate the educational purpose of the building.
Read more about this unique glass building envelope in Chicago →
➥ Shading Elements · Complex geometry · Slanted Mullions