For Architects, Designers & Builders
The complete technical reference for WiseGlass NY partitions and doors — profiles, glass, hardware, tolerances and openings — written for the people who draw them into buildings. Print it, spec from it, or send us your drawings and let us do the math.
2 profiles · 9 glass types · 3 finishes · 9 configurations
The System
One continuous tempered lite per leaf, held in aluminium we fabricate in Brooklyn. The grid is applied to the face — so the drawing can change without the glass ever being divided.
1/4–1/2in
Safety glass — 3/8″ standard,
custom sizes on request
6063
Architectural aluminium
extrusion, hollow section
1 1/8in
U-channel face — the
slimmest line in the family
135°
Maximum swing
on hydraulic pivots
96in+
Floor-to-ceiling heights,
engineered to the site
Two extrusions, both 6063 architectural aluminium, finished to match — with brass reserved for the U channel. The face is what you see from the front and drives the drawing; the depth is how far the profile projects off the glass and drives the jamb clearance. Sections below are drawn to a common scale.
A channel captures the glass edge on all four sides — no exposed arris, and no silicone bead doing structural work. The signature line on doors and fixed panels alike.
2″ × 2″ square tubing for transoms, structural posts and tall spans — where the glass wall needs its own skeleton.
Nine ways to fill the frame, from invisible to opaque. Whatever the character, the substance never changes — one continuous lite per leaf, in safety glass.
Every lite: 1/4″, 3/8″ or 1/2″ — 3/8″ standard Tempered or laminated safety glass ≈ 4.9 lb per sq ft at 3/8″ One continuous piece per leaf Custom sizes — inquire
Float glass with the faint green edge every clear lite carries. The default, and rightly so.
Iron removed for a truly colourless lite — whites stay white behind it, edges read water-clear.
Vertical ribs bend the view into stripes — shapes pass through, detail doesn't.
Etched to a uniform veil. Total privacy, and almost none of the light lost.
Water rivulets frozen into the surface — a soft sparkle that blurs the view and plays with every light source.
Two lites bonded over a clear interlayer. Holds together if ever broken, and quiets the room on the other side.
A warm smoked cast that flatters wood, leather and brass interiors.
A cool graphite cast — quietly darkens the view without ever obscuring it.
Reflective on the lit side, transparent from the dark side. Reads as mirror in the room, as window from behind.
The barn slider is an obscuring door by definition — it hangs on the room side of the wall, so it is glazed in frosted or reeded only. Every other configuration takes all nine — and if the glass you are drawing is not on this page, inquire; the catalogue is longer than the shortlist.
Every profile, every grid bar and every piece of hardware arrives in the same finish — the assembly reads as one drawn line, not a kit of parts.
Powder coat, stocked. The line that made glass-and-steel interiors a language.
Powder coat, stocked. Disappears into plaster and painted millwork.
Warm, real and quietly lavish. Reserved for the U-channel profile.
Brass is drawn for U-channel profiles only — grid profiles and tubing stay in black matte or off white. Swatches above are screen representations, not colour-matched specifications — the shop works from the finish name. Physical samples are available on request.
In the plans below, black is what exists and dashed red is what moves. Every commission is sized to the opening — measured on site, and built floor to ceiling if the room asks for it.
One leaf on side hinges, swinging one direction.
ActionHinged, one direction, to 110°
Leaves1
Two matched leaves meeting at the centre.
ActionHinged, one direction, to 110°
Leaves2, equal
Hydraulic pivots top and bottom, self-closing.
ActionPivots both directions, to 135°
Leaves1
Top-hung on a wall-mounted track, no floor rail.
ActionSlides, soft-close both ends
Leaves1
Exposed track on the room side. Frosted or reeded only — it hangs proud of the wall, so clear glass would defeat the point.
ActionSlides on exposed rollers
Leaves1
A bypass pair on a shared header.
ActionBypass, soft-close both ends
Leaves2, equal
Leaves nesting behind one another for wide clear openings.
ActionSlides, leaves nest & stack
Leaves2 or more
Hinged pairs folding flat against the jamb.
ActionFolds & slides
Leaves2 or more, paired
No door — a glass wall, floor to ceiling, any width by joining lites.
ActionNone — it just stands there, beautifully
LeavesAs many lites as the span needs
Everything that hangs, pulls, latches or glides — finished to match the frame, so the hand touches the same colour the eye follows. Handle centres sit at 38″ above finished floor unless the drawing says otherwise.
Hanging
A compact hydraulic pivot set concentrated at the hinge side. Self-closing, with hold points — the door drifts shut behind you.
Hanging
A continuous pivot rail spanning the leaf — a cleaner visual line and stronger edge control on heavier swing doors.
Hanging
Side-mounted hinge plates for a traditional hinged layout. Adjustable on three axes after hanging.
Pulls
A back-to-back C pull, mounted through the glass on both sides, positioned by height and inset from the latch edge.
Pulls
A straight ladder pull with two glass standoff points and a clean vertical profile — the default on swing doors.
Pulls
A lever set for latch-style operation instead of a pull. ADA compliant, and available with an integrated lock.
Sliding
A top track guiding the leaf along the opening — top-hung, so no floor rail interrupts the threshold.
Sliding
A slim vertical pull on the leading edge of a sliding leaf — enough to move the door, too little to notice.
Locking
Where a room needs to close properly: four ways, all finished to match the frame.
This is the standard set, not the whole drawer — more custom hardware is available. Inquire to learn more.
Divided-light patterns are drawn with a 7/8″ applied profile, bonded to the face of one continuous lite and finished to match the frame. Bar centres are computed evenly across the leaf height — the spec sheet, the 3D model and the shop drawing all derive them from the same arithmetic.
“The glass is not divided — the drawing is.”
07 — Opening Calculator
Enter the opening. The same arithmetic our shop drawings use returns the leaf sizes, the daylight, the rough opening and the weight — nothing here is a second copy of the math, so nothing here can disagree with the drawing.
Preliminary Data Sheet
Single Swing
Working figures for planning. Site-measured shop drawings govern fabrication; weights exclude hardware.
What the general contractor needs before we arrive, and what happens once we do.
Every commission is laser-measured on site before fabrication. Walls out of plumb and floors out of level are absorbed in the survey, not discovered at install.
Frame the opening 1/4″ larger than the door on each side and 1/2″ taller at the head. The leaf carries a 3/8″ undercut over the finished floor — enough for a rug to breathe, too little to read as a gap.
Sliding doors hang entirely from the head: provide solid blocking at the header line. Heights beyond 96″ are engineered case by case on the Tubing profile.
Plan on roughly 4.9 lb per square foot of 3/8″ glass plus the extrusion — a typical leaf lands between 90 and 160 lb, more in 1/2″. The calculator above returns the figure for your exact opening.
Finished floors down and final paint on before the glass arrives. Glazing is one of the last trades in the room — which is exactly where you want it.
Every commission is quoted with its own lead time after the site survey — ask when you send the drawings. Made-to-order work, brass among it, adds to any schedule.
Fabricated in Brooklyn and installed by our own crews across NYC, Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and the Hamptons.
For the Trade
PDF or DWG, napkin sketch or full CD set — send what you have. We answer with a priced proposal, then site-measured shop drawings for your approval before anything is cut. One fabricator, one installer, one line of responsibility.