Oct 17, 2025

The M1 Bank renovation embodies a progressive approach to design, merging old and new while paving the way for a sustainable, low-impact future. VS1 is the ideal curtain wall system for preserving our architectural heritage with minimal environmental impact.

Oct 17, 2025

Jul 29, 2025

By applying rational thought and analysis to various wall conditions on buildings and developing appropriate details to accommodate the dynamic nature of building components and their performance, elegant, high performing façade solutions result that maximize value for owners and contribute to achieving excellent architecture.

Jul 29, 2025

May 14, 2025

In the end, everything in life comes down to details: the phrase at the start of a speech that becomes legendary, the perfect transition in a melody, the shape of a tree trunk to allow it to sway without falling… It is said that “God is in the details” and the person to whom this phrase is attributed is German-American modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

May 14, 2025

Hybrid Point-Supported Facade Technology

Apr 17, 2025

Quietly since 2006, a new curtain wall solution strategy has entered the built environment to offer better solutions to modern building envelope requirements: Hybrid Point-Supported.

Apr 17, 2025

Feb 29, 2024

Innovation Glass offers renovation services with our entire suite of curtain wall technology. VS1 is extremely well suited for building rehab projects as it is responsive to existing structural conditions and able to accommodate significant in-plane movements and large vertical live loads.

Feb 29, 2024

May 18, 2023

A newly launched custom projects page on the website, a sustainability workshop in NYC, VS1-g installations, and recently completed projects! Read more about all the latest VS1 news.

Read our Spring 2023 project roundup→

May 18, 2023

VS1 Detail Feature: Faceted and Folded Walls

Mar 26, 2023

The many design freedoms VS1 offers designers includes the creation of multi-faceted facades: an exterior building surface with 3-dimensional texture created by multiple fold lines in the exterior skin. The results can lead to bespoke architecture as seen below whilst still achieving excellent value for the owner by using the VS1 technology.

Mar 26, 2023

Nov 21, 2022

A merit award for a dual wall at Dartmouth College, a sustainability workshop in San Francisco, and project updates! Read all the latest VS1 news!

Read our Autumn 2022 projects and news roundup→

Nov 21, 2022

Nov 3, 2022

Among the many attributes of VS1 is the ability to create segmented walls. A segmented wall utilizes incremental flat glass segments to achieve a curved, stepped, or sawtooth aesthetic. For curved walls flat glass panels are possible in lieu of costly hot bent glass.

Nov 3, 2022

Reducing Operational Carbon in Facade Design

Jul 19, 2021

Our team works hard to decrease the "operational carbon" of buildings—the energy required to heat, cool, ventilate, and light a space—through smarter facade design.

Jul 19, 2021

Reducing Embodied Carbon in Facade Design

Jul 15, 2021

While many sustainability efforts have focused on the "operational" carbon footprint of buildings—energy used for heating, cooling, and lighting—our industry is now also focusing on "embodied carbon," the carbon footprint of building materials themselves.

Jul 15, 2021

VS1, a Tribute to the Classic Kit of Parts: LEGO

Dec 12, 2020

Influenced by many years of collecting and building LEGO®, Innovation Glass CEO Franz Safford invented a uniform kit of parts to allow for standardization of a new building methodology while also encouraging design freedom for the architect.

Dec 12, 2020

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