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Glass is a popular cladding material for modern buildings. The trend for steel-framed, glass-clad buildings instead of those using traditional materials such as brick and concrete has inherent problems. These include, for example, the performance of architectural glass in extreme climatic events such as windstorms and heavy snow loads and also during earthquakes. This book reviews the state-of-the-art in glass and glazing technology to resist failure due to these natural events.Building code seismic requirements for architectural glass in the United States are considered first of all,

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Glass construction --- Vision --- Glass --- Vision in literature. --- Glass in literature. --- Russian literature --- Social aspects --- History and criticism.

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There are two things everybody knows about glass: it is transparent, and it breaks! These are also the properties that constitute the challenge of glass as an architectural and structural material.This book presents papers from the third Challenging Glass Conference (CGC3), held at the Technical University (TU) Delft, the Netherlands, in June 2012. The conference brings together glass engineering, research and design specialists. Papers are grouped under seven topic headings: project and case studies; joints, fixings and adhesives; strength, stability and safety (a category which includes a quarter of all the papers presented at the conference); laminates and composite design; curved and bended glass; architectural design and lighting and finally, glass in facades.Glass remains one of the most exciting materials available to designers and architects today. This book will be of interest to all those involved in working with glass in an architectural and structural context.

Glass construction --- Architecture, Modern --- Architectural glass --- Modern architecture --- Glass architecture --- Glass as structural material --- Glass in architecture --- Building --- Building materials --- Glass --- 2000 - 2099

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"Built in 1853 in New York's Bryant Park and immediately pronounced the most beautiful structure in America, the Crystal Palace was intended not simply to emulate but rival the famous Victorian landmark in London's Hyde Park. As with its English counterpart, however, its beauty was ephemeral. It caught fire, and on October 5, 1858, "great waves of lurid light" overtook spectators and those rushing to save it. Within thirty minutes, the beloved dome was nothing but a heap of smoldering debris. In his latest book, Edwin G. Burrows, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History and co-author of GOTHAM: A History of New York to 1898, offers a memorable and elegiac look at the Crystal Palace. While it didn't match in dimension Robert Paxton's London original--the scale of which was truly colossal--the New York version became a beloved landmark almost from the instant of its creation. Centerpiece of the 1853 World's Fair, it was home to numerous exhibitions and became a showplace for displaying the growing industrial might of the nation. Walt Whitman rhapsodized about it as "Earth's modern wonder, History's Seven outstripping." Its sudden loss provoked intense mourning-matched only perhaps by the razing of the old Penn Station a century later-and then gradually it slipped from memory. The Finest Building in America will evoke the Crystal Palace's life and times, replete with beautiful period images. The first book-length account of the building's short but glorious life, Burrows book aims to restore it in the minds and hearts of New Yorkers and New York aficionados and fans everywhere"--

Glass construction --- Lost architecture --- Crystal Palace (New York, N.Y.) --- New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations --- New York (N.Y.) --- Buildings, structures, etc.

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Der Glasbau ist eines der innovativsten und abwechslungsreichsten Gebiete der Baukonstruktion. Glas verbindet Außen- und Innenräume - gleichzeitig schützt es den Innenraum vor der Außenwelt. Die konstruktiven Möglichkeiten des Materials reichen weit über klassische Fensterkonstruktionen hinaus. So verfügen spezielle Gläser über erstaunliche physikalische Eigenschaften und lassen sich so vielfältig und kreativ einsetzen.Themen: Baustoff Glas Verarbeitung und Veredelung Anwendungsbereiche Konstruktionsarten Anschlüsse / Befestigungen Glass construction is one of the most varied and innovative areas of structural design. Glass connects exterior and interior spaces; at the same time, it protects the interior space from the outside world. Its constructional possibilities go far beyond classical window constructions. Special glasses possess astonishing physical characteristics and can thus be used in varied and creative ways.Topics: Glass as building material Processing and finishing Applications Construction types Connections / Mountings

Glasconstructies ; basishandboeken --- 691.6 Glass. Window glass. Plate glass. Enamel etc. --- Glass. Window glass. Plate glass. Enamel etc. --- Bouwmaterialen ; glas, vensterglas, spiegelglas --- Glass construction. --- Glasbau. --- Glass architecture --- Glass as structural material --- Glass in architecture --- Building --- Glass construction --- 691.6 --- Glass. Window glass. Plate glass. Enamel etc --- Construction en verre --- Construction en verre.