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This project is titled "Stained Glass Cross for the Millennium". The design
criteria for the project called for a 24' x 24' window as a focal point over
the entrance to the hospital. The design features a large cross rendered in
hand blown glass with beveled glass prisms that can be seen as a beacon to
the community when lit from inside. The installation is on one side of a
large atrium inside the entrance. There are several vantage points inside,
from below at the reception area level or from a balcony where there is a
seating area next to the window. Special attention was taken so that the
design is well integrated into the architecture. From the exterior there are
horizontal details in the building that are continued across the mullions of
the framing for the window. There is also a vertical notch in the
architecture that continues down becoming the aluminum clad structural steel
verticals in the framing. The palette of colors, hand blown glass combined
with different densities of gray plate glass, were selected to integrate with
the interior design color scheme. A custom aluminum framing system with
integral steel bracing and exterior protective glazing was built and
powdercoat painted to match architectural details elsewhere in the building.
The artist considers this project his best integration of art and
architecture to date.
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