Project: Flush Glazed Mirror Door
Contemporary Glass Structures were selected to manufacture and install a flush glazed mirror door into a 4th-floor terrace glass façade as part of extensive renovations of a commercial office building in the heart of Manchester’s professional district.
The main contractor approached Contemporary which specialises in frameless structural glass products to see if they could produce this type of door.
Andy Howells of Contemporary commented “The client wanted the door to almost disappear within the glass façade externally. The contractor’s curtain wall supplier could only do a standard framed door, not what the architect and client wanted.”
Drawing on their experience in the fenestration industry Contemporary offered a bespoke solution and specified the Kestrel Aluminium residential door system as the base for the project.
The geometry of the door hinges gave the best external glass to glass gap at the hinge position without the glass on the door leaf clashing with the glass which is silicone bonded to the outside of the outer frame. Also, the slim minimalistic design of the hinges worked well with the aesthetics of the design, meaning they sat in line or just behind the outer glass surface line.
