work by andrew moor associates

TECHNOLOGY

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HONG KONG I'NTL AIRPORT,
arrivals & departures

Large scale back-lit glass artwork [MORE]

ST CLARES COLLEGE
oxford

Back-lit enamelled glass feature [MORE]

MIDDLESEX STREET
london E1

Layered Glass [MORE]

ASTANA GARDEN
kazakhstan

Screen printed, slumped glass [MORE]

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, london WC2

Stained Glass window [MORE]

EDEN HOUSE
london, E1

111 dichroic glass fins [MORE]

 

 

JERMYN STREET london SW1

Office entranceway feature in enamelled glass [MORE]

BAKER MCKENZIE HQ
london EC4

Screen-Printed Enamels [MORE]

 

 

1 HEDDON STREET
london, W1

Back-lit office entranceway glass feature [MORE]

 

WHITE & CASE
london, EC1

Corporate art with dichroic glass [MORE]

 

 

BEIT-SALAHEIH HOTEL
Aleppo, syria

Enamel on glass [MORE]

 

 

RADDISON EDWARDIAN HOTEL, LHR, london

Illuminated glass columns and carved dichroic glass shells [MORE]

 

 

ST PANCRAS HOTEL
london N1

Screen-printed glass panels [MORE]


THE VINEYARD HOTEL
newbury

All glass wine rack [MORE]

 

 

MAYFAIR HOTEL BAR
london W1

Curved slumped glass screens and borosilicate glass rods [MORE]

 

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LANCELOT PLACE
Knightsbridge, london, SW3

Glass monolith and glass walls using a range of techniques. [MORE]

 

 

JOHN LEWIS
newbury

Facade [MORE]

 

127 CHARING CROSS ROAD
london, WC2

Thirty Dichroic glass fins [MORE]

 

 

CHAPTER HOUSE
london, SW1

Screen-printed glass canopy [MORE]

 

THE MALL
blackburn

Digitally printed glass and steel artwork [MORE]

 

 

ABBEYWOOD SHOPPING CENTRE, bristol

Digitally printed glass facade and dichroic glass fins [MORE]

ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL
london SW3

Toughened and laminated glass with screen-printed enamels [MORE]

FREIBERG CHURCH
germany

Stained glass and screen-printed enamels [MORE]

 

THE CHURCHILL HOSPITAL
oxford

Glass 'water' feature [MORE]

UK SUPREME COURT
london, W1

Glass features in a variety of techniques [MORE]

ST JOHNS WOOD
london, NW8

Hand carved and resin coloured interior glass artwork [MORE]

 

BELSIZE PARK
london, NW3

Sandblasted and etched toughened glass screen [MORE]

 

HIGHGATE HILL
london, N6

Stained Glass [MORE]

RESIDENCE, CUPBOARD DOORS, mustique

Bespoke hand carved and resin coloured panels [MORE]

BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

Designed by Sir Quentin Blake, 12 colour, screen printed [MORE]

SHEPHERD STREET
london, W1

Screen-printed glass [MORE]


non-clickable:

HORNSBY HOUSE
primary school

Glass Cladding

INCE CORPORATION
london, e1

Fused glass

INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL
london w1

Fused glass

ST MARKS CHURCH
london w1

Leaded glass window

FALKLANDS WINDOW
pangbourne naval academy

Pained etched and leaded glass window

TATE GALLERY
st ives, cornwall

Pained etched and leaded glass window

SMITH KLEIN BEECHAM, harlow

7m x 9m curved glass wall, sandblasted and laminated antique

READING STAIRWELL
uk

Digitally printed opaque enamels, 270sqm glass facade

BODY & SOUL
london

Film on glass in office entrance way

EAGLE HOUSE
jermyn st, london

Backlist film on glass in office entrance

WHITTINGON HOSPITAL
london

Film obscuring hospital partition wall

PRIVATE RESIDENCE

Swimming pool window, carved and painted

MAYFAIR BAR
london

Bonded glass rods creating back lit bar feature

HOSPITAL
bishop stawford

Screen printed transparent enamel with slumped glass

ST MARY'S CHURCH
watford

Etched glass doors for church entrance way

PARK LANE
london

Detail from balustrade for Park Lane residence

technologies - method

stained glass

This technique involves mouth-blown glass, cut into shapes, perhaps painted and fired, and then held together in a mosaic of lead.  The industry is permanently renewed by the need to restore and upkeep so much medieval and victorian stained glass.  As a medium for modern glass art it is still relevant in older buildings but less used in contemporary buildings.


laminated antique glass

This technique involves genuine mouth-blown glass, which has a rich colour, texture and beauty unmatched by more contemporary methods, bonded to large sheets of float glass.  The antique glass has to be cut accurately to create a tight mosiac.  The technique enables the overall panels to be large, and creates a more fluid aesthetic without the required black outlines of lead.


transparent enamels

These can be screen-printed, airbrushed or painted onto glass and then fired.  The glass can be transparent or etched.  The colours can be very rich and deep, though some specific colours cannot be achieved with these enamels.  There is something mysterious and alchemical about transparent enamels – they can be unpredictable when mixed and even show subtle changes in colour depending on whether you print on the tin side of glass or not!  Printing can be done one colour at a time, on one surface of a piece of glass only.

The enamelled glass is fired in the toughening plant, thus the emerging product can be of any thickness and can conform to all building regulations.


opaque enamels (fritted glass)

These are much more widely used commercially, the result frequently being referred to as ‘fritted glass’.  The opaque enamels are more predictable than transparent enamels, and can achieve almost any colour.   They show up equally from the interior or the exterior.  But, they are not same as transparent colours and, in my view, can seldom match them in subtlety and beauty. See also here (Word doc. 26kb)


digital opaque enamels

These are essentially the same medium but, instead of being screen-printed onto the glass one colour at a time, they pass through an ink-jet system.  Thus a multicolour image can be created in a single process.  After printing the enamels are fired in the normal way making them completely permanent.  The process, as so often with the latest technology, is produced at much lower cost.


digitally printed interlayers

This process is a digitally printed film laminated between two panels of glass. The laminate material on either side of the glass provides a substantial, but not 100%, protection against degradation of the printed colours from daylight.


digitally printed film

The advantage of digitally printed film which is bonded onto glass is that it is impermanent. This means that images can be replaced when required, which in many contexts is an essential requirement.  The technique is widely used in the retail business and in office partitioning, where its impermanence and low cost is an asset.


resin painted glass

This is a technique not widely used, but that has applications in certain contexts. Optimally the shapes are carved into glass with a sandblaster. This creates a perfect bonding surface for the resin as well as defined shapes for the colours. The colour is then poured or painted onto the surface of the glass. This resin brings the glass back to transparent, which makes the colours very striking. The colours can be very rich and can be mixed to create striking effects.


slumped glass

Glass is heated over a mould to a temperature that allows the glass to slowly sag into a mould. Moulds can be created from many different materials giving many different effects. The availability of computer controlled kilns, that can heat and cool glass at controlled speeds, transformed this process from something complex and time consuming to something that can almost be done at the push of a button. The range of shapes, textures is infinite. The glass can be toughened. The technique creates a glass that is very textural and organic and works very well in older buildings as well as new.


fused glass

This is a process where layers of glass are heated to quite high temperatures so that they fuse together. This can be done with coloured glass, powdered colours, layers of float glass, creating different shapes etc.


etched glass

Etching glass refers to both acid-etching and sand-blasting, both of which remove the transparency from glass by changing the surface. Acid etching is less used now as there are ceramic enamels which almost perfectly mimic the effect of acid etching. This means that repeated patterns can be created at very low cost, and a the effect is much more durable and scratch resistant than acid etching. Sandblasting is mainly a way of carving into glass and thus creating relief patterns.


dichroic glass

This is just one of many different types of glass on the market. Dichroic glass has a coating which means it is sometimes transparent and sometimes reflective and each mode reveals a different colour. Mostly the glass will be somewhere between these two extremes so the glass can reveal many different mixtures of colours. - or for short film here.


bonded glass

Bonding glass together can be done using UV or silicone joints or other lamination techniques. Because it is impractical to make glass in very thick sheets it becomes economical to bond sheets together to create sculptural forms. This creates articulated transparent surfaces with an architectural aesthetic.