Dichroic Glass at Charing Cross Road

Following the success of 127 Charing Cross Road, where Andrew Moor created forty eight metre tall glass fins, thirty on the south side opposite Foyles bookshop and ten on the North side, now partially obscured by the enormous on site construction works going on near Tottenham Court Road as part of the Cross Rail project, more projects are coming on stream using this extra ordinary material. Andrew Moor’s first project using dichroic glass was at the Merseyway shopping centre in Stockport in 1996. Two glass logos were created almost four metres in diameter and bonded to the planar glazing on the two main entrances. At the Radisson Edwardian Hotel near Heathrow eleven three metree tall glass columns were created, each having a dichroic element to them. More recently Andrew Moor completed a 6 metre tall glass waterfall at the Churchill Institute in Oxford. Eden House, a new office development in Bishopsgate, has one hundred and eleven dichroic glass fins jutting out from the wall behind the reception desk. So what is dichroic glass. The glass when transparent, which light behind it, shows one colour. When the light is in front of the glass it acts as a mirror, reflecting a totally different colour. As your angle of incidence moves in relation to the glass AND as the location of a light source changes the glass will reveal different colours. The effect can be both dynamic and powerful, or subtle and suggestive depending upon the volume and use of the the glass and the various colours available. Few companies have developed as much experience and expertise as Andrew Moor Associates in the application and the manufacture of glass features using this material.

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