The red towers at the Gateway provide a striking entrance to the Docklands precinct.

The Red Glass Story - Realizing an Architects vision.

Location: Melbourne Docklands, Spencer St. Melbourne, Australia

Architect: Wood Marsh Pty. Ltd. Architecture

Glass Supplier: Axess Glass Products Australia

Awards: Commendation in Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design; RAIA Award of Merit (Victoria)

The Vision

The realization of the Wood Marsh Architects' vision started when they came to Axess Glass with a strong idea of what they wanted. The towers at the Spencer Street end of the Gateway had to be visually striking. Wood Marsh were looking for a intense transparent red product that would complement the strong colours they had already chosen for other areas of the Gateway.

The Search

After researching many products including, Perspex, transparent films, specialized ceramic coatings and glass. Glass was the only product that could offer the intensity and permanence of colour they were after. The Architects came to Axess Glass to solve their problem. The problem being that the specific glass they wanted had never been produced before.

The Solution

Axess Glass' architectural consultants sourced from it's network of the world's best coloured glass manufacturers the people that could produce the glass and went to work on providing the red glass solution. They flew a production team to the largest of these manufacturers in USA, Spectrum Glass, and produced a unique product that matched the Architects specific vision and created an intensity of coloured light transmission that is truly unique.

Red Glass Specifications

• Unique 4.5mm Red Transparent Glass

• 600mm x 2400mm

• Toughened & Double Laminated between Toughened Clear Glass

• Over 270 individual red glass panels are used in the towers

• Over 700 Sq. Metres of red glass was produced for the project

For more information on coloured glass for architecture contact our Architectural Consultant, Tony Stafrace, today. sales@axessglass.com

Unique red glass being specially manufactured for this project.

Loading the red glass for shipping to Australia

The brilliance of colour transmitted through the red glass is spectacular.