Glass

Spandrel glass.

Opaque glass, in the color you choose.

Ceramic-painted glass that lets the window grid carry on across the parts of a facade where there is nothing to see out of: the floor slabs, the mechanical zones, the blank walls. The black column here is spandrel; the windows either side are clear.

The colors ›Where it goes ›Find your glass ›

A brick facade with a column of black opaque spandrel glass between columns of clear windows

What it is

Color fired into the glass.

A ceramic coating is painted onto one face of tempered glass and fired, so the color is baked into the surface. It is completely opaque. Nothing behind it shows, from the street or at night.

Because the color is on glass rather than metal, a spandrel panel sits in the wall with the same depth, flatness and reflection as the windows around it. It arrives as a full insulating unit, built to the same thickness as the vision glass, in the same frames, on the same delivery. It is part of the window package, not a separate trade.

GlassTempered, ceramic-painted · laminated on request, for large panels or where the code calls for it

UnitInsulating unit, the same thickness as the vision glass beside it

SpacerWarm edge · a dark spacer on request for a dark panel, so no bright line shows

ColorAny RAL, chosen per project; usually matched to the frames or the cladding

Color of recordThe RAL on the signed order

Colors

Six colors we have fired.

Any RAL can be fired, with no minimum quantity and no color restriction. These six have been delivered and installed on Vistaza buildings, so you can go and see them.

RAL 9005Jet black — The most chosen

RAL 7016Anthracite gray

RAL 7012Basalt gray

RAL 7009Green gray — The largest single order

RAL 7031Blue gray

RAL 9006White aluminum

The swatches are RAL screen colors, not fired samples. A physical sample is available on request.

Where it goes

Wherever the grid has to continue.

On Vistaza buildings it has gone in all of these places:

A band at every floor line, filling the slab edge between one row of windows and the next, so a bay reads as one tall panel from the street.
The fixed lower or upper lite of a window unit, above or below the vision glass.
The head and foot of a two-story glazed commercial base.
Panels behind balcony guards and inside recessed reveals.
Ground-floor panels where a wall, a stair or a service room sits behind the glass line.

Linden ›Atlantic ›Colors ›

Close on the column: black spandrel glass in the same frames as the clear windows either side of it — Linden, Brooklyn: the black spandrel column between two columns of clear windows.

Five windows in a pale stucco wall: clear glass above the transom, black spandrel glass in the lower lite of every window

A column of black spandrel glass between clear windows on a brick facade

Atlantic: spandrel as the lower lite of each window, under the clear glass. Linden: spandrel as a column between the windows.

Spandrel on the elevations?

Mark the opaque panels on the drawings and name the RAL. We build them into the window package.

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