Skylights

Intro to Fakro Skylights

Intro to Fakro Skylights

Since its founding in 1991, Fakro has grown to become a global competitor in the skylight market by prioritizing health, safety, security, and environmental impact. 475 High Performance Building Supply...

Read More
Skylights for Every Climate

Skylights for Every Climate

Extreme weather events are growing in magnitude and frequency as a result of climate change. With longer heat waves, stronger storms, and heavier snow, buildings and their components—including roofing and...

Read More
How to Specify a Lamilux PR-60

How to Specify a Lamilux PR-60

Skylights are excellent design tools to bring natural light into a space that might otherwise be reduced to a dark, dismal room. Beyond that, it can enhance the aesthetic of...

Read More
Introduction to Lamilux Skylights

Introduction to Lamilux Skylights

Efficient daylighting is fundamental to high-performance sustainable buildings, and nothing brings daylight into a space as effectively as a skylight. The challenge with skylights in a high-performance building is that...

Read More
Bringing Light into a Historic Toronto Home

Bringing Light into a Historic Toronto Home

This project from Architect Terrell Wong tackles two great green measures right away: as a renovation, it transforms a historic building into a newly updated efficient building (the greenest building...

Read More
Row House Skylights: Replacing Single-Pane Pyramids With Made To Order Triple-Pane LAMILUX FE

Row House Skylights: Replacing Single-Pane Pyramids With Made To Order Triple-Pane LAMILUX FE

Historic row houses in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and many other urban centers used skylights to bring daylight into stairways and bathrooms. The architect and builders knew the...

Read More
Designing with Daylight to Brighten a Photographer’s Studio

Designing with Daylight to Brighten a Photographer’s Studio

Daylight System in Brooklyn Studio Recently, a famous fashion photographer hired architects Loadingdock5 to design a new photo studio in Brooklyn. The studio is uniquely situated in the back of...

Read More
Elevating the Performance of our Brooklyn Headquarters

Elevating the Performance of our Brooklyn Headquarters

At 475, we preach that a continuous, airtight, insulated, and thermal bridge free envelope is essential for high performance buildings. While our old, retrofitted Brooklyn garage falls short of the...

Read More
Artwork Sees The Light Of Day In Red Hook, Brooklyn

Artwork Sees The Light Of Day In Red Hook, Brooklyn

Artwork Sees The Light Of Day In Red Hook, Brooklyn High performance engineering has landed on the rooftop of the latest art gallery in Red Hook, Brooklyn. 475 was excited...

Read More
Unboxing The PR60 Pyramid Daylight system From LAMILUX

Unboxing The PR60 Pyramid Daylight system From LAMILUX

475's partners at Lamilux traveled to Hanover, NH to direct the installation of the LAMILUX PR-60 pyramid skylight in a retrofit of a historic home. This fully-customized roof unit transformed...

Read More
LAMILUX Delivers The Unbeatable Benefits of Roof Daylighting

LAMILUX Delivers The Unbeatable Benefits of Roof Daylighting

LAMILUX Delivers The Unbeatable Benefits of Roof Daylighting Pantheon, Rome In the world of high performance and Passive House buildings, roof daylighting has been largely ignored - a victim of...

Read More
Award-Winning Design with LAMILUX Skylight Daylighting

Award-Winning Design with LAMILUX Skylight Daylighting

On Pearl Street in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, Alloy Development produced five new townhouses which won the SARA NY 2015 Bronze Award of Merit, as well as...

Read More
Lamilux PR-60: The Glass Roof You've Been Waiting For

Lamilux PR-60: The Glass Roof You've Been Waiting For

The benefits of roof daylighting are numerous. Daylight systems increase productivity, stores sell more products, and students perform better. Roof daylighting can be an aesthetically powerful design element. They can...

Read More
Fakro Skylights, Passive House and The New York Times

Fakro Skylights, Passive House and The New York Times

Fakro Skylights, Passive House and The New York Times Congratulations to Jennifer and Sloan Ritchie on the completion of their gorgeous new home, its Passive House Certification, and a beautiful...

Read More