What do you really know about Curtain Wall? Probably never heard of it before ayy? Neither did I hear of it before until I came across this industry. The reason being why I decided to do a blog on this is that we see it around us everyday, yet some of us might have no idea what we are looking at. Basically it is associated with Building and Construction and plays a vital role in the appearance of buildings and Skyscrapers. Read further on and find out more about Curtain Wall.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Curtain Wall Construction Examples

7 South Dearborn, by Skidmore Owings and Merrill, at Chicago, Illinois, 2000.
88 Wood Street, by Richard Rogers, at London, England, 1993 to 2001.
Academic Bookshop, by Alvar Aalto, at Helsinki, Finland, 1962 to 1969.
Adult Learning Lab, by Romaldo Giurgola, at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1972.
Bank of China Tower, by I. M. Pei, at Hong Kong, 1982 to 1990.
Boots Pharmaceutical Factory, by Sir Owen Williams, at Beeston, in Nottinghamshire, England, 1930 to 1932.
Broward County Library, by Robert Gatje, at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1980 to 1984.
Equitable Building, by Pietro Belluschi, at Portland, Oregon, 1944 to 1948.
Hallidie Building, by Willis Polk, at San Francisco, California, 1918.
Hancock Place, by I. M. Pei, at Boston, Massachusetts, 1977.
L'Institut du Monde Arabe, by Jean Nouvel, at Paris, France, 1987 to 1988.
Lever House, by Gordon Bunshaft/ SOM, at New York, New York, 1950 to 1952.
Lloyds Building, by Richard Rogers, at London, England, 1979 to 1984.
McCormick Place, by C. F. Murphy Associates, at Chicago, Illinois, 1968 to 1971.
Museo Oscar Niemeyer, by Oscar Niemeyer, at Curitiba, ParanĂ¡, Brazil, 2002.
Museum of Modern Art, by Philip S. Goodwin and Edward D. Stone, at New York, New York, 1938 to 1939.
Palazzo del Lavoro, by Pier Luigi Nervi, at Turin, Italy, 1959 to 1961.
Pennzoil Place, by Johnson/Burgee, at Houston, Texas, 1976.
Power Center, by Roche-Dinkeloo, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1965 to 1971.
Seagram Building, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, at New York, New York, 1954 to 1958.
Sears Tower, by Bruce Graham/ SOM, at Chicago, Illinois, 1974 to 1976.
Tokyo International Forum, by Rafael Vinoly, at Tokyo, Japan, 1989 competition, completed 1996..
United Nations Headquarters, by Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, Sir Howard Robertson, et al. with Harrison and Abramovitz, at New York, New York, 1947, finished 1953.
University Art Center, by Louis I. Kahn, at New Haven, Connecticut, 1951 to 1954.

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