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Need HSW CEU Credit? This THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1pm EST: Interior Glazing Solutions For Optimum Daylighting, Health, Safety + Wellness. Register: Https://Bit.ly/3ngXS88
Join us for a comparison of how five commonly specified light-transmitting interior panel types meet key design objectives such as optimizing daylight, balancing views and privacy, ease of installation, sustainability, and aesthetics.
The benefits of daylighting and views on occupant wellness and productivity are addressed, as well as the increasing role of wellness, sustainability and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) criteria in workplace and business trends – in particular in the design of hybrid work, in business planning and in investor/stakeholder evaluations.

Honeycomb technology is presented with a focus on how it provides unique Health, Safety and Wellness benefits. Daylighting, views, visual privacy/safety and impact resistance/safety are covered.

all the way to 2001 and the project that launched our ClearShade honeycomb glazing unit: the McCormick Tribune Campus Center at IIT. Working with .eu was a dream come true, as was the opportunity to develop Panelite solutions for so many applications in the project: ClearShade honeycomb glazing units for the facade in custom orange with custom fritted graphics by ; interior flat and curved walls of Cast Polymer Panelite enclosing the restroom volumes, and custom furniture throughout...more interior photos next week! Photos 1-4 by Floto+Warner, photo 5 by

: the wonderful pavilion at Grand Central Station, 2003. " StoryCorps is a nationwide initiative to instruct and inspire people to record each other’s stories in sound. StoryCorps will be opening soundproof booths across the country where people can record broadcast-quality oral history interviews. A trained team of rotating on-site facilitators offer guidance and handle the technical aspects of the recording. Participants receive a CD of their recorded interviews, and with their permission a copy is given to the Library of Congress for a national oral history archive. Each StoryBooth will be affiliated with a local public radio station which will broadcast excerpts of these archived interviews. Selected segments will air nationwide on National Public Radio. Conceived by the client Sound Portraits Productions, a non-profit audio documentary organization headed by MacArthur fellow David Isay, StoryCorps hopes to become a movement focused on the virtue of listening and value of sharing. Modeled after the spirit and scope of the Works Progress Administration recordings from the 1930s, StoryCorps’ flagship booth, essentially our self-fabricated prototype, launched at Grand Central Terminal in October 2003." CREDITS: David Isay, Founder, Sound Portraits Productions; David Reville, StoryCorps Project Director; Michael Shuman, MASdesign (Architecture, Engineering, Fabrication); Eric Liftin, MESH Architectures (Architecture); Jake Barton, Local Projects (Interaction Design); David Reinfurt, ORG, inc. (Graphic Design); Greg Ottmar, Interior Renovations (Contractor)

“It is magical, it reveals itself as you experience it, whereas many materials are limited to being single experiences. With Panelite, one isn’t quite sure what it is, if you’re not familiar with it. It has a beautiful ability to look different at different scales. If you’re far away from it, it becomes like a moth to a flame, you know, it draws you in with the great lighting. When you’re close to it, it scales and humanizes a space with its materiality.”

– Margi G. Nothard, Founder, Director of Design, Glavovic Studio

For more images and the full interview, see link in bio!

Project: Magic Leap HQ
Location: Plantation, Florida
Completed: 2018
Architect: Glavovic Studio
Installer: Capital Glass
GC: Butters Construction
Photography: Robin Hill
All drawings and mock-up images courtesy of Glavovic Studio

Today in ARCHITECT magazine, .brownell examines recent innovations in architecture and allied fields that have been accelerated and galvanized by the pandemic. Thank you for including our ClearShade honeycomb glazing, pictured here at by .eu : "The Los Angeles–based Panelite, maker of light-transmitting honeycomb composite panels, has recently experienced a burgeoning demand for its ClearShade insulated glazing unit. The company made a splash with the first use of ClearShade IGU at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s McCormick Tribune Campus Center, designed by OMA, for the panel’s novel aesthetic qualities. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, however, clients are increasingly attracted to the product for its ability to maximize daylight while minimizing glare and solar heat gain. “What we see more is the desire to amplify daylight and user well-being in general,” Panelite founder Emmanuelle Bourlier says. The internal honeycomb functions as an array of microsunshades and light shelves, propagating light deeper into a space while filtering the less desirable aspects of sunlight. The result is more luminous interiors that provide the benefits of circadian light to occupants—without the need for shades or blinds to reduce glare. As evidenced by client interest, this kind of innovative façade technology could play a measurable role in improving the overall quality of interior environments—and make the office an inviting destination again." (link in bio!)

Panelite is proud to sponsor this year’s 2x8: Assemblies, the 15th iteration of the annual 2x8 exhibition, presented by and . The exhibition opens THIS SATURDAY, November 6th from 5-8pm. The event is free and open to all (indoor/outdoor, proof of vaccination required). There will be light food, drinks and music, and most importantly, this year's honored student work will be on display and $28,000 in scholarships will be presented! Visit www.ac-la.org for details.

More on the important mission of the ACLA: Architecture for Community Los Angeles (ACLA) was formed to support the efforts of our schools, institutions, and practitioners to inspire, educate, and engage a wider spectrum of society in the design of our built environment. Our mission is to communicate the value of design to all people, including future generations, so that they can participate with us in making our communities better. Our outreach to K-12 students, their families, and others in the community is designed so that everyone can learn to understand and love design.

Sneak peek exhibition photos by ACLA founding board member

" We looked at all kinds of materials, everything from polycarbonates to metals to straightforward drywall...Panelite hit the sweet spot. The lightweight and strength were important. This is a 4-story stair hung off a rod, with no gravity supports, only lateral supports at each floor. So the lightweight nature of the material was very important. And its ability to connect at multiple points. " Our full interview with Terry D. Steelman, FAIA, LEED AP, Senior Principal, Ballinger is at https://bit.ly/3pVr6Ke. (Photo: James Ewing .images / Installer: All Panel Systems)

““The Panelite also has a very tactile nature. That is something I really liked about it. It works from afar, but as you get closer, it works even better. It’s magical close up…perfect at an institutional scale.” Link in bio for our full interview with Terry D. Steelman, FAIA, LEED AP, Senior Principal, Ballinger, on his team’s choice of Panelite for a four-story, light-filled suspended stair enclosure at the University of Rhode Island’s Fascitelli Center. (Photo: James Ewing .images / Installer: All Panel Systems)

This 2009 project is just as relevant today in its focus on issues of tolerance, rights and diversity.

Designed by Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles included a children's multipurpose area with a series of large, backlight, pivoting media walls. The super-graphic wall highlights portraits of pioneers of tolerance, diversity and human rights issues. On the reverse side, quotes from other leaders of these issues are displayed. The pivoting walls allow for a variety of configurations to support the varying size of groups touring the Museum.

The unique structural properties of Panelite’s translucent honeycomb panels enabled the pivoting walls to be very lightweight and movable, to be fully backlit with a minimal amount of visible framing, and elegantly detailed with pre-fabricated mitered corners. More photos at https://bit.ly/39bGA5L (images: , Fotoworks.)

If you need AIA Continuing Education Credits or are simply curious about how honeycomb optimizes wellness and safety, or how different glazing solutions balance the benefits of diffuse daylight with the need to block solar heat, please check out our FREE On Demand CEU Course for (1) HSW Learning Unit, presented by Panelite’s executive team, via . Link in bio! (Image: Raleigh Union Station / ClearScapes architects / Art Howard photo)

Another beautiful example of our high-tech, modern translucent honeycomb panels bringing ample daylight to a classic setting, in this case playing beautifully against marble. Conwert Immobilien in Vienna, Austria, by Buro fur Architektur / Heinz Lutter. Photo Margherita Spiluttini