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  2. Curtain wall (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Glass curtain wall of Bauhaus Dessau, 1926. Historically, buildings were constructed of timber, masonry, or a combination of both. Their exterior walls were load-bearing, supporting much or all of the load of the entire structure. The nature of the materials resulted in inherent limits to a building's height and the maximum size of window openings.

  3. Glass brick - Wikipedia

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    Glass block walls are constrained based on the framing in which they are set. If a masonry or steel frame exists, the maximum area of the wall can be 144 square feet (13.4 m 2), whereas the maximum area without a frame is 100 square feet (9.3 m 2). [5] The William Lescaze House and Office at 211 East 48th Street in New York City, built in 1934 ...

  4. Shoji - Wikipedia

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    Shoji are valued for not setting a sharp barrier between the interior and the exterior; outside influences such as the swaying silhouettes of trees, or the chorus of frogs, can be appreciated from inside the house. [9] As exterior walls, shoji diffuse sunlight into the house; as interior partitions between rooms, they allow natural light deep ...

  5. Exterior insulation finishing system - Wikipedia

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    Exterior insulation and finish system (EIFS) is a general class of non-load bearing building cladding systems that provides exterior walls with an insulated, water-resistant, finished surface in an integrated composite material system. EIFS has been in use since the 1960s in North America and was first used on masonry buildings.

  6. Wall - Wikipedia

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    Walls in buildings that form a fundamental part of the superstructure or separate interior rooms, sometimes for fire safety; Glass walls in which the primary structure is made of glass; does not include openings within walls that have glass coverings as these are windows; Walls that protect from oceans or rivers

  7. Bottle wall - Wikipedia

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    This is a building construction style which usually uses glass bottles (although mason jars, glass jugs, and other glass containers may be used also) as masonry units and binds them using adobe, sand, cement, stucco, clay, plaster, mortar or any other joint compound. This results in an intriguing stained-glass like wall.

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  9. Mid-century modern - Wikipedia

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    Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1970 during the United States's post-World War II period.