The Burj Dubai’s curtain wall is to be made of stainless steel, aluminum and glass. The tower’s structural frame is expected to top the current world’s tallest building, the 1,671-foot ...

A new tower is set to make a major impact on the skyline in Toronto, Canada. Named One Bloor West, the building is nearing completion and has officially surpassed 300 m (984 ft), making it the country ...

The nearly 1,200-foot combination condo and hotel skyscraper will use six distinct shades of glass for most of its exterior curtain wall. The coloration will incrementally shift by floor from ...

Curtain wall is becoming an increasingly sophisticated building envelope system. A current and continuing trend, according to Kirt Osgood, vice president and principal of Dallas-based Curtain Wall ...

The Indigo Building's curtain wall on SW 13th Ave. (Damon Johnstun) Walk-by architecture Portland is a great city to see architectural elements. We take glass skyscrapers for granted, but it wasn ...

Depending on the complexity of the curtain wall system, the building design, and building location, three additional tests may be incorporated in the mockup testing: cycled temperature testing, ...

Standing on the just-released-for-rent upper floors in New York by Gehry has a profound effect on the human mind and body. Your ears pop on the way up to the top. The views from the under-construct… ...

Snøhetta’s proposal to update the postmodern office building at 550 Madison Avenue designed by Philip Johnson with a two-story glass curtain wall at its base, announced on Monday, has ignited ...

The city Buildings Department issued a partial stop-work order Monday at 111 W. 57th St., after a glass curtain wall panel dropped 56 stories onto the street below just before 9 p.m. Sunday ...

“It is assumed to be the middle floor of a high-rise glass curtain wall building with dimensions of 2.7 m in height, 4.0 m in depth, and 3.0 m in width,” the researchers stated.