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2. Copper in architecture - Wikipedia

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   Architectural copper is generally used in sheet and strip. Strip is 60 cm (24 inches) or less in width, while sheet is over 60 cm (24 inches) in width, up to 120 cm (48 inches) in width by 240 or 300 cm (96 or 120 inches) in length, plus in coil form.

3. Curtain wall (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Curtain walls may be designed as "systems" integrating frame, wall panel, and weatherproofing materials. Steel frames have largely given way to aluminum extrusions. Glass is typically used for infill because it can reduce construction costs, provide an architecturally pleasing look, and allow natural light to penetrate deeper within the ...

4. Curtain - Wikipedia

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   Panel Pair Curtains are also known as double panel curtains. They refer to two curtain panels hanging on either side of the window. This is the most common style. Tab top curtains are made with narrow straps, that loop or tie at the top edge and hung from the curtain pole. [14]

5. Shoji - Wikipedia

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   Literally, shoji means "small obstructing thing" (障子; it might be translated as "screen"), and though this use is now obsolete, [4] shoji was originally used for a variety of sight-obstructing panels, screens, or curtains, [4] many portable, [94] either free-standing or hung from lintels, [95] used to divide the interior space of buildings ...

6. Robie House - Wikipedia

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   There are 175 art glass panels throughout the house, [55] [168] [210] [f] arranged in 29 patterns. [199] These panels have intricate, vertically-oriented geometric motifs. [209] View of the house from the northern property line. The main entrance leads to the first floor [201] [211] and is recessed significantly from the western facade on ...

7. Focal-plane shutter - Wikipedia

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   Focal-plane shutters may also produce image distortion of very fast-moving objects or when panned rapidly, as described in the Rolling shutter article. A large relative difference between a slow wipe speed and a narrow curtain slit results in distortion because one side of the frame is exposed at a noticeably later instant than the other and the object's interim movement is imaged.