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  2. Mesker Brothers - Wikipedia

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    The Meskers marketed their products through catalogs displaying their designs. The catalogs were so successful they expanded print runs from 50,000 to 500,000 one year later. [ 5 ] According to a 1915 catalog, there were Mesker storefronts in every state, including 4,130 in Indiana, 2,915 in Illinois, 2,646 in Kentucky, and even 17 in the ...

  3. Copper in architecture - Wikipedia

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    Today, architectural copper is used in roofing systems, flashings and copings, rain gutters and downspouts, building expansion joints, wall cladding, domes, spires, vaults, and various other design elements. Simultaneously, the metal has evolved from a weather barrier and exterior design element into indoor building environments where it is ...

  4. Architectural metals - Wikipedia

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    Copper belfry of St. Laurentius church, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Metals used for architectural purposes include lead, for water pipes, roofing, and windows; tin, formed into tinplate; zinc, copper and aluminium, in a range of applications including roofing and decoration; and iron, which has structural and other uses in the form of cast iron or wrought iron, or made into steel.

  5. Curtain wall (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    He finally perfected the curtain wall at 900–910 Lake Shore Drive, where the curtain is an autonomous aluminum and glass skin. After 900–910, Mies's curtain wall appeared on all of his subsequent high-rise building designs, including the Seagram Building in New York. The widespread use of aluminium extrusions for mullions began during the ...

  6. ZCMI Cast Iron Front - Wikipedia

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    The ZCMI Cast Iron Front is a historic building façade, currently attached to City Creek Center facing Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.The façade, built of cast iron and stamped sheet metal between 1876 and 1901 (with portions recreated in the 1970s), is a well-preserved example of a metal façade, and a reminder of the city's 19th-century commercial past.

  7. Facadism - Wikipedia

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    Facadism, façadism, or façadomy [1] is the architectural and construction practice where the facade of a building is designed or constructed separately from the rest of a building, or when only the facade of a building is preserved with new buildings erected behind or around it.

  8. Latticework - Wikipedia

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    The design is created by crossing the strips to form a grid or weave. [1] Latticework may be functional – for example, to allow airflow to or through an area; structural, as a truss in a lattice girder ; [ 2 ] used to add privacy, as through a lattice screen; purely decorative ; or some combination of these.

  9. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    1. In a building facade, the space between the top of the window in one story and the sill of the window in the story above. 2. The space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure. Spere The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house. Spire