The company Crystal Houses has built an attractive boutique for the fashion brand Chanel in Amsterdam, which is made of completely transparent bricks. It is the first transparent facade of its kind, for which architects, engineers and builders put their heads together, who in the process also had to invent a transparent binder that will replace mortar.
Company Crystal Houses is in the Dutch capital in a famous shopping street PC Hooftstraat together with the company Poetry built the first boutique made of translucent bricks in the world. This is part of an existing building, also made from bricks, except of the kind we are used to, i.e. kneaded from clay, sand, water and other impurities and fired.
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In addition to glass bricks and binder, there are also glass window frames and transoms of this 620 square meter Chanel boutique.
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