Glass

//**The use of glass in architecture in Caracas **//**//

//Caracas is developing towards its east side. The city center is already full with old buildings. But there are some municipalities with pulsating construction. El Hatillo is one of them. There are many houses and residential buildings being built. The use of the glass for panoramic windows has been generalized in this area as most of these buildings have great views. Other municipality that has developed a lot in the last 15 years is Chacao. There is a considerable number of business buildings that shows attractive designs. Most of them have huge glass facades, sometimes of many colors. The glass technology used to make them is really complex and there are some Venezuelan companies that have improved their manufacturing capacity and their technology in last years to make these glass facades possible. So Venezuelan architects can say the precise size of panels that they need and get the number they want in just weeks. Glass buildings appear to be elegant, technological and powerful. Glass buildings are seen as a signal of development an so the image of a city could be renewed with glass. One example of this could be the new building of Banco del Caribe in Av Francisco de Miranda. It makes you wonder if you are in the US or other developed country. There are many examples like this in this avenue and in other areas like Altamira or La Castellana. Most of them have in common the use of glass technology to de full. So in Caracas glass has been used to approach high international buildings standards. // //**