Saw a huge curved glass wall in a Denver hotel lobby and it got me thinking

I was at the new Hyatt downtown last weekend and the whole front is this single, massive curved piece of glass, maybe 20 feet tall. It's beautiful, but all I could think about was the install and the risk of a single point of failure. Is that kind of wow factor worth the potential headache and cost, or are we better off sticking with more standard, reliable setups? Curious what you all think about pushing limits on big commercial jobs.

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hart.charlie23d ago

That glass wall is probably laminated safety glass, maybe an inch thick. It's not like a single pane in a house window. They engineer the heck out of these things for exactly that single point of failure worry. The cost is insane, but for a flagship hotel, that first impression is the whole product. Sometimes you have to push the limits to make a space people remember and talk about, like you just did. The risk is baked into the budget and the design from day one.

the_drew23d ago

Ever notice how everything cool is just managed risk?