The construction of facade curtain wall of the international land-sea center, the tallest building under construction in Chongqing, was officially completed on Wednesday. Located in Yuzhong ...

The building that sits directly behind Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan is one many New Yorkers love to hate – and others hate to admit they love. The Pan Am Building (known as the MetLife ...

Tamworth Council was placed on Arts Council England's at-risk register last year Tamworth Castle in Staffordshire is set to receive £1.7m of grant funding for urgent repairs and improvements.

used by the Normans to subjugate England and Wales in the 11th century. We then look at how castle's became stronger and more sophisticated, with the addition of stone curtain walls, massive keeps ...

Shortly after invading England in 1066 ... gatehouses, and curtain walls. In time, Corfe Castle’s importance waned and Queen Elizabeth I sold it in 1572. Still, it remained a symbol of royalist ...

Historic buildings across the West Midlands and Birmingham are at risk of being lost forever - including a popular and much-loved castle ... of Curtain Walling repairs in 2023 and Historic England ...

Solar cell curtain walls, consisting of glass panels with organic solar cells, are a new trend. These panels charge batteries when raised to face sunlight, a concept known as Building-Integrated ...

Curtain walls are non-load bearing glazing systems which span between multiple connections back to the primary building structure typically at each floor/level. Typically, such glazing systems (i.e., ...

The owner, Mr Kazuhiko Akao, applied for permission to dismantle the curtain wall shortly after the council approved “urgent conservation-led repairs” to the castle. Mr Akao had reported that ...

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) boasts an enviable history of innovation in glass curtain walls. From New York’s Lever House to Chicago’s Inland Steel Building to San Francisco’s One Bush ...