At Glass + Metal Craft, we’re particularly proud of our glass and metal guardrails and windscreens. Our customers often tell us they add that final touch that pulls a space together. Makes sense!
We do them all in-house. Our Fulcrum Architectural Design Assist Division designs these systems to meet the architect’s vision. It then fully engineers them so we can deliver each with stamped drawings. Talk about being an outlier.
Our Cuda Metals Division hand-crafts the metal. Cutting, drilling, welding, and polishing stainless steel and more into unique fixtures that add as much beauty to the final look as the glass itself.
Our Glass + Mirror Craft Division fabricates the glass. Moreover, many of our designs take advantage of our artisan team members’ skills in fritting, etching, laminating, and painting glass.
Last month, we decided to take another leap beyond the traditional services of a glass fabricator. We will soon announce our first architectural system product available off-the-shelf. It can be installed as is, or further customized, with the benefit of significant time and cost savings. Either way, it’s a product line that just makes sense.
We decided to start our product line with glass windscreens. They uplift any design and lend themselves to modularity. Install one section or 100, from a few to several feet high.
The final product will feature elements of four of our recent windscreen projects: The Angie Fowler Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Institute in Cleveland; the Eskenazi Hospital Sky Farm in Indianapolis (pictured); Renaissance Hotel in Chicago;The and a rather spectacular guardrail (could easily be a windscreen) we are just completing in West Michigan.
The benefit of such a product to the architect is that its value added to their design vision that’s easily spec’d. For the general contractor, it’s that you’re not starting from scratch – install it right out of the shipping crate, or save weeks on any desired customization. And for the glazier: it’s no surprises – it’s been done before, and it’s kitted to speed flow.
We’re excited, and are already planning several other such products in the months ahead. Look here for more.
