In a general sense, the term “curtain wall” refers to an exterior wall that does not support loads other than its own weight. Curtain walls are therefore nonstructural, and serve solely to protect the ...

The building’s facade will rise to 857 feet and was fully designed, fabricated and assembled at New Hudson Facades' facility just outside Philadelphia. The bay window units are engineered with ...

With the continued advancement of glass curtain wall technology, the popularity of these systems has skyrocketed to an all-time high. Punched-window buildings have become passé as more designers ...

Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and Rockwell Group’s first skyscraper, 15 Hudson Yards, is now complete after four years of construction. The 88-story residential tower fuses the largest cold-warped ...

Few of the architectural principles developed in the 20th century have been as widely accepted as the curtain wall, with the technology going from an implied feature of Le Corbusier's Five Points of ...