To start the year, here’s a heartfelt architectural story. For years the four-story building sat as an empty footstool to The Guardian Building, an art deco masterpiece in the heart of Detroit’s Financial District. The two buildings represented a physical oxymoron. And everyone noticed. Then, along with the rest of the city’s downtown, it was […]

D-E-T-R-O-I-T B-A-S-K-E-T-B-A-L-L! What do Detroit Pistons Dennis Rodman, Isaiah Thomas, Bill Laimbeer, Ben Wallace, Chauncey Billups and Glass and Metal Craft have in common? All are proud contributors to the legacy of the basketball organization. Certainly, none of the G+MC team members can do monster dunks or hit NBA threes. However, our talented team recently […]

How do you grow into being able to deliver more than 150,000 square feet of glass for two adjacent office towers on famed Ottawa Street in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan? Grand Rapids has become a top destination city in the Midwest. It’s graced by beautiful nearby Lake Michigan beaches as well as its growing reputation […]

We all know FOMO – well known internet slang for Fear Of Missing Out – but do you know FOTU? Here’s one less well known (since I just made it up). FOTU. The more glaziers I speak with, the more I’m discovering there’s increasing FOTU as glass becomes an increasingly dominant architectural feature. FOTU stands […]

I recently visited the campus of the University of Texas at Dallas. Great venue! And it’s where the Bioengineering Building features glass and metal guardrails fabricated for Alliance Glazing Technologies. This project speaks loudly as to what you can expect from Glass +Metal Craft when it comes to such systems. First, they are highly engineered. […]

Last week I travelled to the Mid-Atlantic region and heard the same comment from two different glaziers. “You know, we’re only asking Glass + Metal Craft to quote this.” In the case of the first glazier, “this” was a rather elaborate glass guardrail. For the other, “this” was a complicated glass entrance system and structural […]

Whenever I walk by a glass façade, I’m reminded that the glass industry is not perfect. I see the waves of distortion. The color imperfections. Truth be told, quality is a game changer! Every glass fabricator must commit to investing in the continuous improvement of how their glass looks and performs on a building. It […]

I watched the crane lift one of the last units of unitized insulated glass curtain wall into the façade of the new Beaumont Hospital expansion in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The exclamation point on a lot of teamwork! Enclosing the building quickly through a unitized install meant many other parts of the project could leap forward […]

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 […]

The 151 North Franklin building in downtown Chicago is clad inside and out with a continuous feature wall of decorative, laminated glass. There’s no visible custom metal anywhere, and the sheer face of glass is spectacular! However, getting there required Glass + Metal Craft to venture out onto a proverbial limb. Which is why glazier […]

Walk about the chic Ballston Quarter – a $330 million redevelopment in Arlington, Virginia – and you’ll see first-hand how developers view the future of shopping malls. The venue flows inside to out to in, sweeping away the barriers that traditionally separate space. Service Glass Industries Inc. asked Glass + Metal Craft to add to […]