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Safeway Bethesda site construction photo August 22, 2011
Earlier posts on the Washington Glass School Blog featured the design and fabrication of Safeway supermaket’s first public art project – located here in Bethesda and created by the Washington Glass Studio.
Installation of the public artwork has begun. The cast glass panels were made from recycled glass taken from the original supermarket during the demolition phase, and the salvaged glass was cast in a bas-relief method to create translucent panels that referenced fresh herbs – perfect for a new LEED Certified building that would house the trendy Safeway supermarket.
Erwin Timmers installs the cast glass & steel panels.
Evan Morgan affixes the glass panels to the steel framework.
Interior view of the artwork – looking out towards Bradley Ave. Bethesda, MD.
The concept of the panels was to have the artwork allow openings to allow the interior and exterior blur – approx 25% of each building bay is open to allow air flow.
Hardware still-life.
Roche Constructors are the builders of the project – and they have a Safeway webcam. Click on the link and at the top is a time-lapse feature that allows one to see the project’s demo-to-current construction status. Click HERE to jump to the Roche webcam site.
UPDATE: Click HERE to jump to finished project images.
>Can't be beat – I've been sending the blog link around to everybody I know in Bethesda.