Curtain wall

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One last curtain-wall building photo from downtown…

The famous Miesian Mile High Tower, part of the Mile High
Plaza
designed 1956 by I.M. Pei and Henry Cobb. The plaza
is now incorporated into Philip Johnson’s Norwest Plaza.

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One Response to “Curtain wall”

Tom Lundin July 27th, 2010 at 9:26 am

My drawing (currently to the right) seems to be one column of windows short, but actually is a depiction of the side of the building, which has only five columns of windows. I love the interweave design of this curtain wall!

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