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Bendheim Wall Systems' Channel Glass Projects WIN TOP National Awards

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building
Shaw Center for the Arts

Passaic, NJ - February 20, 2008 - Bendheim Wall Systems worked closely with architectural design teams to provide Lamberts LINIT channel glass, the key exterior design element, for two AIA 2008 National Honor Award winning projects - the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building in Kansas City, Missouri and the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The AIA National Honor Award is the profession's highest recognition of works exemplifying excellence in architecture, interior architecture, and urban design.

Time Magazine chose the Nelson-Atkins Museum as the #1 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvel of 2007.

"These projects show the dynamic possibilities of designing with LINIT channel glass. The five lenses of Steven Holl’s Bloch Building are formed with custom glass channels in a double glazed curtain wall application, while Schwartz/Silver's Shaw Center of the Arts, called the "lantern on the levee," features a single glazed rain screen with its channel glass flanges turned outward" said Robert Jayson, President of S.A. Bendheim, Co., Inc. "Illuminating the channel glass-clad structures was critical to their design, and the installations - by Carter Glass for the Bloch Building and BHN for the Shaw Center - were exemplary."

The Bloch Building and Shaw Center for the Arts join the extensive list of Bendheim Wall Systems' multiple-award winning, high-profile channel glass projects including:

  • Steven Holl and Justin Rüssli's New Residence at the Swiss Embassy - 2007 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) International Award.

  • Polshek Partnership's Sarah Lawrence College Heimbold Visual Arts Center - 2005 AIA/Committee on the Environment (COTE) Green Project of the Year.

  • SMWM's Pier 1/AMB Property Corporation - 2002 AIA/COTE Green Project of the Year, 2001 Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence, and 2001 Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (UK) People's Choice Award and Building of the Year.

For more information on Bendheim Wall Systems and its products, call 1-800-221-7379, or visit www.bendheimwall.com.

Bendheim Wall Systems, Inc. is North America's leading provider of channel glass wall systems and the exclusive distributor of Lamberts channel glass. The company's partnership with Glasfabrik Lamberts, the largest privately held cast glass factory in Europe, spans more than eight decades. Founded in 1927, S.A. Bendheim Co., Inc. is a third-generation, family-owned company that develops, imports, processes, and ships its glass products worldwide. The company, recognized as one of the world's foremost sources of specialty glass products, maintains more than 2,000 varieties of specialty decorative glass in its New Jersey and California facilities. Design professionals are invited to visit Bendheim's extensive showroom in Tribeca, New York City.