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The ICEBERG is located at the heart of the busiest commercial district, Tsim Sha Tsui, in Hong Kong. The building was intended for “Ginza” type F&B retail use. The architect’s aim was to achieve an iconic building that stands out from the aged surrounding buildings, taking aesthetic inspiration from the forms of glacier snow-white peaks.

The project was printed by Glaspedia, a South Star Glass brand, and designed by ARK Associates.

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Completed: 2019


Printed area: 2000 sqm


Number of panels: 700 panels


Architect: ARK Associates

Digitally-printed white ceramic ink was used to create vertical triangles that echo the horizontal triangular terrace and setbacks. Small triangular cut-outs in different sizes form larger gradient triangular patterns. These patterns could only be achieved by digital printing as every single panel has a different pattern. Using Dip-Tech’s Extra Durable White Ink (part of Dip-Tech’s Digital Side1 Series) made it possible to achieve the desired design of the project.

During the daytime, the building looks like a snow-white Iceberg with triangular lines. In the evening, the Iceberg is transformed to a colourful and lively architecture.

The project participated in and won several awards:

2021  |  World Architecture Festival Finalist

2020  |  A&D Awards Silver Award

2019  |  Asia Pacific Property Award Five Stars Award

 

“We are always pleased to work with Dip-Tech not only for their excellent digital printing machine performance, but also for their advanced technology, printed product innovation and strong marketing support. Since we installed our first Dip-Tech printer in 2015, we have been helping designers, architects and their clients achieve their design ideas through innovative ceramic printing. As a company that focus a lot on bringing customers innovative glass products, we truly appreciate Dip-Tech’s support – no matter it is super jumbo size printing, bird friendly glass, front surface frit, hi-speed appliances glass printing and more. Through different generations of equipment upgrades and marketing support from Dip-Tech, we are always a step ahead of our competitions.”   Patrick Wong, Marketing Director at South Star Glass Limited

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Commercial building facade, digitally printed with Dip-Tech's Extra Durable White Ink

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Architecture Competition Winner
The building of Saint-Laurent Sports Complex of approximately 14,500 square meters, located on the Boulevard Thimens municipal axis and linked to the Émile-Legault pavilion of École secondaire Saint-Laurent, part of the Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys.

A few years ago The Saucier + Perrotte Architectes and Hughes Condon Marler Architects with SNC Lavalin team won the architecture competition for the future sports complex in Saint-Laurent, a former city on the island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. 

The success of their proposal was due by the quality of architectural gesture, the concept simplicity, beautiful urban design and wayfinding strategy, its adherence to the surface areas of the facilities, the effectiveness of its sustainable creation strategies and its potential for change. 

The project was finished in 2017. The modern design of the facade consisting of a gradient of dots was printed by the Laurier company using Dip-Tech digital printing and was the only technically possible to print glass with the sizes and shapes specified on the project.

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Glass Specifications


Number of panels: 400


Overall square meters~ 1100


Average glass panel size: 32 sf Mostly parallelogram


Type of glass and thickness: 6mm ultra clear with digital print on Side 2


Type of glass coating: SN68 on face 3


Graphic content / design concept: Gradient of dots


Colors / Ink type used: White

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Façade printed in a building in Ville St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada - Architecture Competition Winner

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Columbia College

Bird-safe printed façade in Georgia, United States

The historic building at 600 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago has undergone significant urban renewal and restoration in the past century. In 2006, Columbia College purchased the building and did extensive renovations to the interior. Then, primarily for safety reasons, in 2010 the exterior façade needed to be redone.

Because the building is located in the Historic Michigan Boulevard Chicago Landmark District, the design of the new façade had to meet the approval of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks. Columbia College explored many façade replacements options, including replicating the original terra cotta. However, costs associated with that approach far exceeded what the college could afford. Instead, Columbia, under the design leadership of Gensler, created a revolutionary solution, which turned a mandatory maintenance project into an artistic endeavor.

The team went through a rigorous process of developing and testing a series of pattern typologies. It was critical that the pattern be readable at multiple scales and offer multiple meanings. Looking closely, observers will notice that the image of the original terra cotta façade is created from a dot-matrix pattern with “dots” that are small graphics of a bird.

The façade serves the joint purpose of a subtle reference to the building’s location along a major migratory path for birds, as well as a protective screen to prevent birds from colliding with the glass.

The American Bird Association helped Gensler to certify their pattern and fortunately, it helped reduce bird collisions by more than 80%.

 ARCHITECT

Gensler

GLASS PROCESSOR

Oldcastle

BuildingEnvelope ®

PRINTED AREA

1000 sqm

10,764 sqf

NUMBER OF PANELS

374

TYPE OF GLASS

Low E Double Glazed

PHOTOGRAPHS

Gensler

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Bird-safe printed façade in Georgia, United States

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Christchurch's original Cathedral was severely damaged in an earthquake in 2010, and the second earthquake in 2011 destroyed the original stained-glass rose window.

The Transitional Cathedral, designed by Shigeru Ban, was built nearby in 2013. It is nicknamed the "Cardboard Cathedral" due to its extensive use of cardboard tubes in its construction. Christchurch's original Cathedral was severely damaged in an earthquake in 2010, and the second earthquake in 2011 destroyed the original stained-glass rose window. The Transitional Cathedral, designed by Shigeru Ban, was built nearby in 2013. It is nicknamed the "Cardboard Cathedral" due to its extensive use of cardboard tubes in its construction.

Metro Performance Glass was approached to process the 12 meter high, glass facade. The original design called for colored triangles until Metro Performance Glass showed they could do so much more with digital printing on glass. Using photographs of the original rose window, the images were lifted and printed directly onto the glass.

Additionally, the ability to easily adjust the transparency levels gives the glass a stained glass appearance. The new window pays homage to the past through the use of modern glass printing technology.

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ARCHITECT: Shigeru Ban 

GLASS PRINTING: Metro Performance Glass

PRINTED AREA: 

126 sqm

1,256 sqf

NUMBER OF PANELS: 49

TYPE OF GLASS: 5mm double-glazed

COMPLETION: 2013

PHOTOGRAPHS:

Bridgit Andreson & MPG

 

 

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Christchurch, New Zealand

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The glass artwork called “The Beacon of Ezinge”, designed by Driessen + Van Deijne is right in the heart of the Educational Park Ezing, designed by Atelier Pro Architects. This part of the building is meant to hold the teaching of fine arts, design, music and theatre. Creativity and imagination play a key role in the vision on education within the school community of Ezinge.

The designers combined graphical concepts, all related to visual perception. Rorschach spots, the ink pattern that sometimes is used to analyze the psyche and which call for the visual interpretation capacity, were, together with the mechanical Spirograph patterns formed the basis of the image. Finally, they were photographed through a kaleidoscope filter to get abstract crystalline forms. To realize the strongly reflecting effects Driessen + Van Deijne sought partnership with the company Si-X, a specialist in special glass solutions.

ARCHITECT

ATELIER PRO

ARTIST

Driessen + Van Deijne

GLASS PROCESSOR

Thiele Glas

PRINTED AREA

600 sqm

NUMBER OF PANELS

Front: 55

back: 33

Total: 88

PHOTOGRAPHS

Maarten Noordijk

Jean Paul Mioulet

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 Printed façade in a School in the Netherlands