2012 Trade Show Calendar

Visit us at the upcoming trade shows:

NeoCon
June 11-13, 2012 | Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL

Healthcare Design Conference
November 3-6, 2012 | Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, AZ

NeoCon East
TBA
 

Restoring a Legacy

"Restoring a Legacy"
The Atlanta-based architectural firm Lord, Aeck & Sargent recently renovated the city's Great Depression-era Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building, preserving historic elements while creating a modern new workplace for the GSA. LA&S worked with Skyline to create stunning graphic displays on glass to honor the building’s historic legacy.

Originally designed in 1933 by architect A. Ten Eyck Brown as the main U.S. Post Office for Atlanta, the 78-year-old building is considered one of the best examples of federal architecture from the Great Depression era. Yet, despite its distinguished history, the building had endured years of additions and modifications, leaving its interior a collection of dark, confined, and disparate spaces—not the type of place GSA staffers envisioned for their future regional headquarters.

Fortunately, an inspired partnership between the GSA and LA&S resulted in a bright and beautiful restoration, with homage to the building’s origins and namesake, while targeting LEED Silver certification to position it for the future.

The impressive fusion of old and new features a dramatic restoration of the building's original two-story lobby, where a large-scale portrait of King now memorializes the civil rights leader and the movement he created, featuring Skyline's AST process on a back-lit glass wall panel. Drawing inspiration from the building's original use as a postal facility, the team also selected colors and graphics from 1920s-1930s era postage stamps, displaying the art on custom glass panels.

With improved lighting, materials, furnishings, and graphics, a modern open floor-plan, and preserved original design features, the new workplace for the GSA is truly an inspired blend of old and new.

To see photos, and to read the full story (pgs 60-67), click here.

Photo: Jonathan Hillyer

Holiday Wish List features Fotoglas

Give a gift that will last! Fotoglas, Skyline's original process for reproducing photographic images on glass, is a unique, durable solution for interior finishes, recently featured in Gresham, Smith and Partners "Furniture, Fixtures, and Finishes Holiday Wish."

Skyilne's Fotoglas technology creates a photorealistic display by etching large photographic images on glass to achieve a dynamic exhibit with permanency and translucency. Images may be etched on one or two sides and may also be combined with Vitracolor paint coatings for enhanced opacity.

So, what tops your wish list this year? Let us know! Contact us to learn more about Fotoglas, as well as our other architectural glass, magnetic markerglass, and mirror products.

All the best to you and yours this holiday season. 

Skyline Ranks First

Skyline Ranks First Among Contract Magazine Readers
Skyline Design has been ranked in the November/December issue of Contract magazine as the number one brand in architectural glass for 2011. It’s a special honor to be selected, not by the editors, but by the readers—the many architects and designers who answered an open-ended survey via e-mail. This past year we’ve done a lot to communicate our brand—from creating binders for your libraries to refreshing our website. We’re thrilled to be chosen by our customers as the preferred brand in our industry for the year. Thank you for this tribute.

Digital Edition (pgs. 96-97)

5+ Collection for Healthcare

5+ Collection for Healthcare
The 5+ Collection by world-renowned architect and product designer Michael Graves, FAIA, features modern abstractions of familiar materials, places, and patterns. The new architectural glass collection presents five initial designs to connect and enclose healthcare spaces to enhance the patient experience. 

Paralyzed from the waist down in 2003, Michael Graves quickly identified a lack of beauty and accessibility in healthcare design. The 5+ Collection features patterns reminiscent of the stones and bricks from walkways and piazzas, available in both transparent and semi-transparent options to accommodate a range of aesthetics and privacy needs. Create light, beauty and privacy, and inspire healing with the 5+ Collection by Michael Graves for Skyline Design.

Read the Contract Design Magazine Product Focus for more.   

Urban Sanctuary

"Urban Sanctuary"
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York recognized the stress involved with chemotherapy and the infusion process, and created the spa-like Brooklyn Infusion Center to eliminate waiting time while providing patients personalized care close to home.

The inviting facility features 12 unique treatment rooms, referred to as "pods," situated along the edges of a light-filled "Central Garden" lounge space. "We spent a lot of time with the idea of sanctuary," explains Jan Willemse, partner at ZGF. "New York is intense, as is therapy, so we created a variety of spaces that allow patients to choose whether to interact and be social or to remain more private."

ZGF chose a custom version of Skyline's Organics Asian Grass glass pattern for the sliding doors surrounding each treatment "pod." The pattern "provides some privacy, but maintains a visual connection."

Wendy Perchick, chief of strategic planning and innovation at MSKCC says, "A patient told me that he felt the healing intensified here because he was so relaxed."

For more of the story, and to view photos, click here.  
"Urban Sanctuary: Brooklyn Infusion Center in New York, designed by ZGF Architects." October 12, 2011. Contract Design Magazine. Bernard, Murrye.
 

Skyline Select for Demountable Walls

Skyline Select for Demountable Walls
For the last few years, Skyline has offered Skyline Select for Glass ASAP, a collection of twelve glass patterns with quick lead times and affordable prices.

Now Skyline Select is expanding to meet emerging needs with some simple collections that offer popular patterns at great pricing and lead times. Skyline Select for Demountable Walls features twelve glass patterns to create beauty and privacy in any demountable wall system with the craftsmanship of Skyline glass.

Skyline Design founder, Charles Rizzo, says, “What’s special about this program is the quality of the designs we can offer. These are high-volume best sellers, which is why we can give great pricing and lead times. We’re offering designers like Michael Graves and Suzanne Tick, and best sellers like Sateen and Vitracolor. It’s all simplified so dealers can easily carry the lines.

There are three basic price grades. Entry level offers one-sided patterns created with Skyline’s proprietary Eco-etch application, as well as Vitracolor, a vibrant, back-painted, low-iron glass that can transform walls into magnetic marker surfaces. The next levels include two-sided patterns applied with Eco-etch and texture. All patterns are manufactured with tempered safety glass.

View the Collection

Magnetic Markerglass

Magnetic Markerglass
Vibrant back-painted Markerglass and Magnetic Markerglass promote beauty with functionality by letting you write, draw, and post on the sustainable material. Ideal for wall cladding, marker boards, work stations and table tops, Skyline's Magnetic Markerglass products facilitate creativity and communication in corporate, healthcare, retail, government, and hospitality environments. Standard and custom colors and patterns available. Contact sales@skydesign.com for more.

Healthcare Magnetic Markerglass
Kids Glass
Organize Magnetic Markerglass
Skyline Select for Magnetic Markerglass
Vitracolor Magnetic Markerglass

Greenplay Sustainable Design

Designers Amelia Battaglio and Roger Sorcio selected Greenplay and Skyline Kids Glass as top sustainable design products. Lots of pictures to take in! Check it out: Greenplay, Environments Matter.

Greenplay's NBC debut

Greenplay makes its broadcast debut on NBC's "George to the Rescue." Greenplay's colorful, eco-friendly furnishings supported an interior redesign project at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital in Paterson, NJ. Greenplay helped to promote healing and recuperation from children's intensive medical treatments.

Greenplay's VIP Table + Chair Set and are featured in Part 5 of the show. The furnishings appear approximately 1 min. 20 sec. into the video, and are shown intermittently throughout the 5 minute video. A big thanks to NBC, George Oliphant and everyone who took part in this inspiring project!

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/open-house/George_To_The_Rescue__St__Joseph_s_Children_s_Hospital_Part_5_All__National_-105570083.html