A glass article which has a water-sheeting coating and a method of applying coatings
to opposed sides of a substrate are described. In one embodiment, a glass sheet
is provided bearing a sputtered water-sheeting coating comprising silica on an
exterior surface and bearing a reflective coating on an interior surface. The interior
surface of a sheet of glass can be coated with a reflective coating by sputtering,
in sequence, at least one dielectric layer, at least one metal layer, and at least
one dielectric layer. The exterior surface of the glass can be coated with a water-sheeting
coating by sputtering silica directly onto the exterior surface of the sheet of
glass. Both the reflective coating and the water-sheeting coating can be applied
during the same pass through the same sputter coating apparatus.