The use of glazed facades in modern buildings is increasingly popular. These facades are exposed daily to direct solar radiation, which consists of heat and light energy. This study is crucial as it addresses an issue that may have been overlooked by many designers and architects around the world. It aims to raise industry awareness about the relationship between glass thermal characteristics and global warming. This research is trying to find out how solar radiation absorbed and reflected by a glazed facade increases the atmospheric temperature, hence contributing to climate change. A pilot case study was selected in Auckland, New Zealand, to be investigated using thermal imaging. The chosen case study is fully glazed, and the thermal images were taken using a Testo 883 thermal camera with a super-resolution of 640 × 480 pixels. The initial results showed that the temperature of some glass panels reached 168 ℃, accordingly, the heat will be transferred to the adjacent air atoms according to the heat transfer theories discussed later, leading to a significant rise in the surrounding atmospheric temperature. This study recommends the use of innovative solutions for the construction industry to mitigate the issues resulting from the reflection of solar radiation.