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Summer has just about arrived, and like many folks, we have beaches on the brain. Care to join us in a round of beach bound daydreaming?

This dazzling abode featuring floor to ceiling opening glass walls is a serious overachiever where our cero^® product is concerned, but you don’t have to take our word for it. Let’s have a look around, shall we?

Okay, so what is STC, and why should you care?

STC is an acronym for sound transmission class. Sound transmission class is a rating assigned to a particular material or product based on its ability to attenuate sound. It’s a rough reflection of a material or product’s ability to reduce the decibels of surrounding noise.

People may not always realize it, but the truth is, NanaWall is basically an unstoppable force. If we say that we are going to get something done, we do.

Spring has sprung, and summer is well on its way! What better way to celebrate than to refresh your tired pool house? Kickstart your summer prep by ensuring that your backyard cabana opens to the outdoors.

We may have mentioned this before, but when it comes to glazing, there’s a lot to know. Even a single pane of glass is more than simply a pane of glass – depending on where it was made it is likely to have a different mineral makeup, and potentially color, than if it had been made elsewhere.

Of the many ways our systems can be customized, perhaps the most fun, is art glass. All of our opening glass wall systems are compatible with art glass, and can be customized with any design of your choosing.

By now you may be familiar with PrivaSEE, our frameless single track sliding system specifically designed for enhanced acoustic isolation. PrivaSEE has always been an innovative product, but now we’re taking it one step farther with open corners.

Welcome back to Architect Spotlight! Today we celebrate the illustrious career of I.M. Pei, an architect born on this very day (April 26^th), 101 years ago (1917).

At NanaWall we are very proud of the work we do and the products we create. Our products PERFORM, and we are not shy about saying so.

One of the capabilities that our products have that we are particularly proud of, is a feature called RemoteSTACK.

In this week’s edition of Designing an Office That Works, we will be meditating upon the issue of privacy.

Privacy like collaboration is essential for better workplace engagement, innovation, and advancement.

When many people look at a pane of glass, they think of it as simply that – glass, without requiring further distinction. However, here at NanaWall Systems, we know that the type of glass makes all the difference.

In today’s Architect Spotlight we are celebrating the life and work of Norma Merrick Sklarek. Norma Merrick was born on April 15, 1926, in Harlem, New York.

Opening glass walls are a complex work of architectural engineering, so sometimes when people speak of them there is a lot of jargon that flies around. A jargon-y term we are particularly fond of is “pure openings.” A pure opening is a completely unobstructed aperture created by an operable glass wall whose panels park outside the plane of the opening in a remote location.

Offices present many design challenges, not the least of which is controlling for sound. An office designed without sound mitigation in mind is likely to be a distracting place to be.

We love our floor tracks, but masters of innovation that we are, we also really love it when our systems can operate without them entirely.

Moving forward from our post last week on Office Design, today we’re going to talk about flexibility.

In the context of an office, flexibility refers to the adaptability of a space.

Today is the birthday of the great architect Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. Mies (as he was called) was born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies in Germany on March 27, 1886.

There are many factors that go into designing a productive office environment. As a manufacturer of several interior-focused products, we’ve put a lot of thought into what makes an office work.

This is Black Box II. Prior to its renovation, this little abode was just another brick townhouse, typical of its Montreal neighborhood.