The hotel Thompson Nashville is a relatively new addition to the city's skyline. Located in an area known as the Gulch, the 12-story building presents an intriguing use of glass envelope. The Thompson's facade is curved to follow the severe curve of 11th Avenue, the street on which the hotel sits.
The curved glass window wall isn't only visually enticing; it's high performing. The 60,000 square feet of material used on the hotel's envelope is solar control low-emissivity glass – ideal in a place like Nashville, where air-conditioning costs are often of concern.
"We Migo Glass moving toward as high-performance glass as possible and highest visible light as possible at the same time. Commonly used in bending hot-bending glass are aquarium glass and counter glass. The biggest technical difficulty of bending glass is that the straight side is curved, and the corner is prone to mold defects.
