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“Over Houston” tells a story of air travel and illuminates the unique natural and urban landscape of Houston as seen from above. According to the announcement, this installation becomes a powerful art experience for travelers, encountering it as they move from one part of the airport to another, via the people mover or wide walkway.

Unique art glass techniques including sandblasting, carving, enameling, fusing and laminating were used to fabricate the 48 individual brightly colored panels that were sealed into insulating hurricane and tempered glass units.

Once the composition for each panel was completed, the components were laminated onto a bed of silicone over hurricane glass and sealed into insulating tempered glass units. The art glass panels were then shipped to Houston and installed into the existing glazing system of the connector bridge at the airport during the night to avoid interference with normal operations of the airport.

This public art commission was awarded in 2003 and installed in December of 2009. More than 4,000 hours of studio time were required to complete the project.

“The combined efforts of our integrated sales and operations teams have further reinforced the Hartung Glass enterprise as a world class leader in the decorative glass product arena,” says Nick Sciola, president and owner of Hartung Glass Industries. “This brand launch is very exciting to the staff of Hartung Glass Industries and is consistent with our corporate vision of being a solutions provider to our customers and the glass industry.”

In order to kickoff the launch, the company has developed a brand new website and eight-page color brochure highlighting Hartung Studio’s products and applications including IMPRESSIONS ceramic frit, SURESTEP stair treads and flooring, Viewcol high resolution film and TOTAL vision frameless entrances, doors and showers.

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When Tisch Mills artist Mike Morris finishes one of his etched glass creations, it definitely falls into the latter category.

When one Green Bay homeowner wanted to add an individualized touch to a large, newly installed six-piece wrap-around shower enclosure, he contacted Morris, who etched the gray-tinted half-inch tempered glass panels with a floral design.

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“Since our company’s inception in 1999, our products, capabilities and expertise have expanded tremendously,” says Kevin Moore, president of EFI. “The change to EFI stays true to our heritage, yet it reflects the evolving breadth of what we offer our discerning customers—the latest European designs and state-of-the-art American production and distribution.”

The company’s products include: aluminum framed doors, glass doors, shelving, European cabinet fronts, room dividers, architectural glass, LED lighting, and other custom design solutions for contemporary interior spaces, including hotels, offices and private residences.

“With insight, innovation and influence at the heart of our business, we are dedicated to earning our clients’ trust and partnership with inspired solutions, unparalleled quality and responsive service,” adds Brent Moore, vice president of EFI.

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The budget for the piece includes more than $1 million for glass, light fixtures and fabrication of “lanterns” with stainless steel. Along with administrative and design costs and a contingency fund, $100,000 goes toward an artist fee.

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The installation was designed and fabricated by Jill Reynolds and Daniel Spitzer, a team of glass artists from Beacon, N.Y. Artists from across the United States submitted ideas for the $75,000 lighting commission and out of 28 applications, a panel of jurors selected Reynolds and Spitzer’s design early in 2009 based on the concept, quality and meaningful narrative.

The installation uses approximately 1,300 blown glass forms to illustrate Pittsburgh’s three rivers in three ways:

•The overhead installation depicting Pittsburgh’s three rivers – the Allegheny, the Monongahela and the Ohio – covers an estimated 1,500 square feet and is oriented in the direction of and parallel to the actual riverfront. The suspended glass globes hang from steel cables two feet from the ceiling.

•It includes approximately 1,300 individually hand blown glass forms modeled on high-speed images of water droplets. Working in collaboration with Bo Gehring, a 3-D computer modeler, an alphabet of 26 varying 3-D water droplet forms in eight shades and intensities of blue were designed. The forms were blown at Pittsburgh Glass Center and then suspended from the ceiling at 11 Stanwix in groups of threes and fours.

•The suspended glass forms are hung to create an undulating wave that represents a segment of a sound wave from the song “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue” by Pittsburgh jazz legend Billy Strayhorn. A segment of the sound wave was stretched on a computer with Gehring’s assistance to fit within the lobby space and filled with the vocabulary of glass elements that were designed. The forms create a four-foot thick undulating wave formation, rising and falling within a range of seven feet from the top of the wave to the bottom of the wave trough.

When it planned to update the building, RexxHall Realty LLC partnered with architecture firm EDGE Studio and Pittsburgh Glass Center to launch this project in fall

2008.

“The modern architecture of the building and the open expansive lobby seemed to demand that it contain beautiful art pieces,” says Aaron Stauber, president of RexxHall Realty. “We believe it was the intent of the architects to create an area that would showcase publicly accessible art. At the same time, we hoped it would enhance the work experience for our tenants. We were fortunate to have the Pittsburgh Glass

Center to assist us in bringing our vision into a reality.”

In September, an assistant of Spurlock’s came across the stained glass work of Joseph Cavalieri online, and she called him that the same day to arrange an interview.

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