Wrightstyle is this month celebrating its twentieth anniversary. Over the past two decades, the Devizes-based company has supplied its advanced systems to virtually every part of the world. Going from the Americas to Australasia, and from Europe to the Middle East and Asia. This clearly underlines the highly specialist nature of its systems ranges. Wrightstyle […]
glass in buildings
Glass recycling
Denis Wright, the company’s chairman, says that glass is the most sustainable of building materials. Wrightstyle takes a look at glass recycling. Glass In Everything Glass is ubiquitous. In commercial buildings, it can form a major part of the external envelope. And for all buildings, as Le Corbusier remarked, the history of architecture is the […]
Light and glass in modern architecture
Light and glass go hand in hand. Most building materials have weight and mass, whether concrete, a brick or a length of structural steel. There is, however, one building material that has neither weight nor mass. Light in Architecture The Greeks called it Helios, the Romans Sol and, despite forming over 98% of the solar […]
Globalisation, Nation Brands & Advanced Glass
Jane Embury, the company’s marketing director, looks at some of the influences facing the glass industry in these times of globalisation. International Rankings The economic impact of globalisation affects us all, whether as businesses trading internationally or consumers buying locally, with corporate success and individual purchasing decisions heavily influenced by nothing more than perception. At […]
Retail Safety – shopping centres and malls
Retail safety – a new perspective In light of heightened secuity worries, we take a look at retail safety in our modern shopping centres and malls. The retail sector has changed out of all recognition, with large shopping centres becoming mixed-use destinations offering everything you could possibly want to buy, eat, drink, or be entertained […]