A double-skin facade was designed for the new building ... the architects considered using fiber cement or ceramic rods for the tower, however, aluminum was ultimately chosen for its durability ...

Double-skin facades are also increasingly being used ... would be the first time in the United States that an entire office tower was to be wrapped in a new glass facade. This could be a terrific ...

Double-skin office towers are more unusual ... especially where Young designed his glass facade to peel away from the top of the Celebrezze tower, or to extend like a skirt below the lower edge ...

Its state-of-the-art double-skin facade, solar chimney ... The project team also tested the tower’s cooling, lighting and facade systems. One Best Projects judge said, “Not all of these ...

According to its designers, the tower is the first in North America to employ a double skin in combination with a solar chimney to passively bring in fresh air. This facade has several additional ...

mechanical and electrical systems of University of Calgary’s MacKimmie Complex were dismantled and recycled to install a state-of-the-art double-skin glass facade on a library tower built in 1966.

The double-skin curtain wall'an enclosure system that consists of two facades separated by a cavity'has long been ... under construction now is Gensler's tapering and twisting Shanghai Tower. At 121 ...

Shanghai Tower is organized as nine cylindrical buildings stacked one atop the other. The inner layer of the double-skin façade encloses the stacked buildings, while the exterior façade creates ...

The principal facades, of double-glazed fixed lights in birch frames, stainless-steel panels and Cor-Ten panels, are enclosed in an outer glass skin supported by a delicate framework of Cor-Ten ...

The tower also incorporates a double skin curtain wall on the northern and southern facing facades – which is essentially a pair of glass “skins” separated by an internally ventilated eight ...

The tallest building in China, the design of Shanghai Tower drew from the concept ... located between layers of the building’s double skin facade. The jury also lauded the building for its ...