Bespoke Glazing Package on Grand Designs: Dunstable 2022 Clayworth Cottage is located in Kensworth, a quiet village in the heart of Bedfordshire where John and wife Helen decided to demolish an old house and build their dream home. The high tech, million pound home was featured on Grand Designs yesterday, documenting the process from start […]
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New Design Trend: Timber Cladding with Architectural Glazing
How to incorporate timber cladding to glass designs in modern architecture. Combining timber cladding with architectural glazing has become an extremely popular trend within architecture, offering the opportunity to use contrasting materials for a completely unique design. Exposed timber beams are often paired with architectural glazing for an authentic finish, or to incorporate traditional elements […]
Design Possibilities with Glass Walls
IQ’s approach to entire walls of glass Walls of frameless glass can be achieved using our in-house developed structural glazing system, Invisio. With no frames or visible fixing details, the only visible details are neat structural silicone joints between panes. For a minimal, timeless effect frameless glass walls are sure to make a design statement. […]
IQ Shortlisted for Don’t Move Improve Awards 2018
One of our projects – Keeling House – has been shortlisted for this years Don’t Move, Improve! awards. The renovation project took an old water tank at the top of a Grade II listed building and converted it into a two floor apartment. Our minimal windows sliding doors as well as bespoke structural glazing helped […]
What To Consider When Specifying Structural Glass
When looking to include structural glass on any project there are various elements of design, logistics and specification that you will need to keep in mind. The design and installation of structural glazing is not a simple process. Each installation has to be painstakingly detailed and designed. The glazing company you choose should have an […]
Warwick Hall named AJ Retrofit of the Year 2017!
The extension and refurbishment of Warwick Hall Community Centre has been awarded the Architects Journal Retrofit of the Year 2017 as well as the Listed Building of the Year under £5 million. The project was designed by Acanthus Clews Architects with all glazing and structural glass design by IQ Glass. Set within the idyllic Cotswolds […]
Silver House Shortlisted for RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize
Silver House by Hyde+Hyde has been shortlisted for yet another architectural award! Silver House features lots of elements of modern architectural glazing from IQ Glass including our minimal windows sliding glass doors along with various elements of bespoke structural glazing. The new build home in Wales has already received recognition from the Royal Society of […]
IQ Glass Projects featured in AJ Architecture Awards
The first five shortlists of the first AJ Architecture Awards were released this week with two projects from IQ Glass being featured. In the House of the Year category the Hidden House project by Coffey Architects has been shortlisted. The compact residential design was built on the site of the former prison vaults in the […]
How to Connect Two Spaces Using Glass Links
A frameless glass link is an excellent way to provide a seamless, minimal, and insulated connection between two different elements of a property. Structural glass links can be designed to be frameless and an almost invisible connection between two structures, minimising the visual impact of the connection and providing shelter and insulation. What is a […]
4 Ways to Create a Disappearing Wall of Glass
Modern architecture is gripped with the notion of connecting the inside and the outside, internal-external living spaces, merging the inside and out. The various ways this design technique is described are almost endless. Glass is one of the most popular ways in which architects and designers try to connect these spaces. Its see-through nature allows […]
