SentryGlas® Expressions™ by Kuraray was used to create a bright red glass façade for the AIDA Entertainment building in Hamburg, Germany.

The AIDA building is a creative think tank for entertainment programmes for AIDA’s cruise ship fleet and was designed by architects, Renner Hainke Wirth of Hamburg.

The glass façade comprises of 500 individual pieced of glass, each with its own design. These glass panes had to be produced and delivered to site in exactly the right sequence as defined by the designers.

SentryGlas® Expressions™ technology enables you to print onto interlayers using specially formulated inks to create an image-carrying safety glass interlayer.

FLACHGLAS Wenberg, a licensee of SentryGlas® Expressions™ produces the safety glass façade for the AIDA Entertainment Building.

Using SentryGlas® Expressions™ technology they produced each piece of class which was made up of two layers of heat strengthened glass in three different thicknesses with high resolution motifs printed onto the PVB interlayer in different shades of red.