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The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio | San Antonio, TX
A major retrofit of The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio features our 504 Rough Cast textured channel glass in customized façade units. The vibrant fritted glass channel rise along the building’s 10 stories and enclose a 2-story-tall lantern cupola. Their striking colors, visibl… Read More
The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio features color-fritted 504 Rough Cast channel glass, installed in our customized, vertically-unitized SF-60S frames.
Visible from within the patient rooms, the multi-colored translucent channel glass brings children and families a sense of comfort and playfulness.
Bendheim’s proprietary attachment mechanism allowed each channel glass unit to be perfectly aligned and secured to the structure in record time. It resulted in substantial labor savings and allowed the team to beat the construction schedule. Photo by Matthew Kraft.
One of the main design challenges was creating tall and light façade units that could sustain high wind loads. The unique geometry of Bendheim’s channel glass allowed it to achieve continuous vertical spans reaching 16 ft. tall. Photo by Matthew Kraft.
Bendheim’s unique channel glass solution for The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio won the prestigious GOOD DESIGN award for its contribution to the patient experience and ingenious installation mechanism.
The vibrant channel glass colors, visible from a distance in the day or night, were inspired by the hospital’s logo and a multi-story art mural gracing one of its facades.
