Skylights
Intro to Fakro Skylights
Since its founding in 1991, Fakro has grown to become a global competitor in the skylight market by prioritizing health, safety, security, and environmental impact. 475 High Performance Building Supply...
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Skylights for Every Climate
Extreme weather events are growing in magnitude and frequency as a result of climate change. With longer heat waves, stronger storms, and heavier snow, buildings and their components—including roofing and...
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How to Specify a Lamilux PR-60
Skylights are excellent design tools to bring natural light into a space that might otherwise be reduced to a dark, dismal room. Beyond that, it can enhance the aesthetic of...
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Introduction to Lamilux Skylights
Efficient daylighting is fundamental to high-performance sustainable buildings, and nothing brings daylight into a space as effectively as a skylight. The challenge with skylights in a high-performance building is that...
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Bringing Light into a Historic Toronto Home
This project from Architect Terrell Wong tackles two great green measures right away: as a renovation, it transforms a historic building into a newly updated efficient building (the greenest building...
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Row House Skylights: Replacing Single-Pane Pyramids With Made To Order Triple-Pane LAMILUX FE
Historic row houses in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and many other urban centers used skylights to bring daylight into stairways and bathrooms. The architect and builders knew the...
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Designing with Daylight to Brighten a Photographer’s Studio
Daylight System in Brooklyn Studio Recently, a famous fashion photographer hired architects Loadingdock5 to design a new photo studio in Brooklyn. The studio is uniquely situated in the back of...
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Elevating the Performance of our Brooklyn Headquarters
At 475, we preach that a continuous, airtight, insulated, and thermal bridge free envelope is essential for high performance buildings. While our old, retrofitted Brooklyn garage falls short of the...
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Artwork Sees The Light Of Day In Red Hook, Brooklyn
High performance engineering has landed on the rooftop of the latest art gallery in Red Hook, Brooklyn. 475 was excited to provide these high performance, custom-sized, triple-glazed Lamilux FE skylights...
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Unboxing The PR60 Pyramid Daylight system From LAMILUX
475's partners at Lamilux traveled to Hanover, NH to direct the installation of the LAMILUX PR-60 pyramid skylight in a retrofit of a historic home. This fully-customized roof unit transformed...
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LAMILUX Delivers The Unbeatable Benefits of Roof Daylighting
LAMILUX Delivers The Unbeatable Benefits of Roof Daylighting Pantheon, Rome In the world of high performance and Passive House buildings, roof daylighting has been largely ignored - a victim of...
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Award-Winning Design with LAMILUX Skylight Daylighting
On Pearl Street in the DUMBO neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York, Alloy Development produced five new townhouses which won the SARA NY 2015 Bronze Award of Merit, as well as...
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Lamilux PR-60: The Glass Roof You've Been Waiting For
The benefits of roof daylighting are numerous. Daylight systems increase productivity, stores sell more products, and students perform better. Roof daylighting can be an aesthetically powerful design element. They can...
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Fakro Skylights, Passive House and The New York Times
Fakro Skylights, Passive House and The New York Times Congratulations to Jennifer and Sloan Ritchie on the completion of their gorgeous new home, its Passive House Certification, and a beautiful...
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