Glass Canopies | Bellapart

Bellapart is specialized in personalized steel and glass structures, façades, domes, safe entrances, and complex building envelopes, building innovative and complex architectural solutions. With a very high knowledge of glass, lightweight structures, composites and all kinds of high-tech materials.

The following are 2 examples of Bellapart's bespoke canopy solutions for innovative architecture.

Torre Europa Glass Box

Located at the heart of Madrid's business district, the 120-meter-high Torre Europa is one of the most emblematic and tallest buildings in Madrid's skyline. Glass plays a major part in the new look for this iconic building. The open and transparent new entrance hall, designed by CallisonRTKL, has been built using the very latest glass construction techniques.

The structurally independent roof of the cube is composed of solar control insulating glass panes supported by extra-narrow glass beams with a length of 12 meters in order to preserve maximum transparency. At the same time, the north façade's self-supporting revolving doors 5.5 meters high allow maximum vision and minimal obstruction to the entrance.

The Berkeley Hotel

Construction of a bespoke canopy at the entrance of the Hotel Berkeley, located in London’s Knightsbridge neighborhood. This bespoke canopy is composed of a 28m x 10m glass ceiling and a roof that covers both the entrance zone and the Blue Bar and Sala Carmelo wings.

All the ceilings and lateral wall coverings are composed of honeycomb sandwich glass panels specially developed for this project, while the walls are covered with insulating glass. The glass panels are supported by a simple isostatic structure, formed by beams and columns.

Bellapart won with this project The Outstanding Façade Innovation 2017 of the International awards in the category of Facade Engineering Excellence.