After an immense period of anticipation Phoenix Glass is excited to share that one of their very own projects was the winner of the 8th Annual A+Awards! Founded on the premise of democratizing architecture, the A+Awards is the Architectural industry\u2019s largest and most international awards program honoring the best architecture, spaces and products from across the globe. This year the 2020 popular choice award was given to CPC – Central Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n
Central Presbyterian Church is a new mixed-use building for a vital community organization that has served Vancouver\u2019s West End for 90 years. A 14,000 ft\u00b2 fa\u00e7ade treatment wraps the first three floors of the building with ceramic-fritted glass of red, blue and green crosses. From the second-floor sanctuary\u2019s interior, the small crosses create a three-dimensional, shadowed \u201cpointillism\u201d effect: as natural light passes through the fa\u00e7ade and into the space, thousands of the cross symbol are refracted onto the floors, walls and ceilings of the 300-seat, wood-finished sanctuary. Titled RGB, the artist Michael Lin selected the fa\u00e7ade\u2019s 3 colours because their combination creates \u201cspiritual\u201d white light, achieving a client request for a sacred space of natural light, \u201ctranscendence\u201d and \u201cimmanence.\u201d The worship space also preserves and relocates the stained-glass cross from the CPC\u2019s former sanctuary, symbolizing the church\u2019s continuity and identity. Featuring thousands of small crosses, the fa\u00e7ade treatment is perceived as three solid colours when viewed from the building\u2019s exterior. The glass transparency also reduces the architecture\u2019s monumentality and integrates the building into its contextual surroundings.<\/p>\n
Phoenix Glass would like to congratulate\u00a0Henriquez Partners Architects, Bosa Properties and our dedicated Phoenix Glass team for all the hard work they put into creating this award winning masterpiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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