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Nelson Atkins Museum of Art | Kansas City, MO
Bendheim’s double-glazed, Solar textured channel glass is used to create the iconic addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art by Steven Holl Architects. The custom 16”-wide, low-iron glass channels are tempered, sandblasted, and utilize Okapane thermal insulation to improve the thermal… Read More
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art introduced Bendheim’s Lamberts® channel glass to North America. It is the key design element of Steven Holl’s Bloch Building addition. Photo by Roland Halbe.
The glass channels reach continuous heights up to 23 feet, forming 5 glass “lenses” that float over the landscape. The U-shape of the glass planks is unique and lends strength to the glass, allowing it to create relatively lightweight facades of grand proportions, with minimal horizontal framing and… Read More
Bendheim’s channel glass is available in a range of light-diffusing surface options, seen here in our ultra-colorless, low-iron “Solar” fine-mesh texture. Sandblasting and a translucent white insulation material, inserted in the cavity of the channel glass wall, create building structures that react… Read More
During the day, Bendheim’s double-glazed channel glass facades, featuring low-iron textured and sand-blasted glass and translucent white insulation inserts, can appear solid and brilliant white or blend into the sky.
Nighttime turns the five lenses of Bendheim channel glass into ghostly illuminated forms that become a signature sculptural presence on the museum’s grounds.
Bendheim’s technical design team often collaborates with clients to create unique framing solutions. At the Nelson-Atkins museum, the horizontal channel glass frames are purposefully staggered to reaffirm the overall asymmetric theme of the design.
Photo by Roland Halbe.
The first of the five Bendheim channel glass “lenses” forms a bright and transparent lobby, with café, art library and bookstore, inviting the public into the museum and encouraging movement via ramps toward the galleries as they progress downward into the garden.
Photo By: Roland-Halbe
At night, the Nelson-Atkins museum’s sculpture garden glows with the channel glass lenses’ internal light. The glass is continuously reacting with the light to create unpredictable phenomena: diffusion, diffraction, refraction, reflection, and absorption, creating a myriad of kinetic vis… Read More
