Curtain Walls: Recent Developments By Cesar Pelli & Associates PDF
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CURTAIN WALLS MICHAEL J. CROSBIE CU RTA I N WA LLS RECENT DEVELOPMENTS BY CESAR PELLI & ASSOCIATES BIRKHÄUSER – PUBLISHERS FOR ARCHITECTURE BASEL·BERLIN·BOSTON We would like to express our appreciation to Design: envision+ the architects and designers of Cesar Pelli & www.envisionplus.com Associates and to our consultants whose creative work appears in this book. The making A CIP catalogue record for this book is of this book has been a collaborative process available from the Library of Congress, with contributions from many. Mike Crosbie Washington D.C., USA coherently and clearly describes a highly tech- nical subject matter. Mig Halpine and Ben Bibliographic information published by Charney coordinated project documentation, Die Deutsche Bibliothek photography, and illustrations. Pablo Lopez Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication produced many of the architectural in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed drawings. Special thanks to Ria Stein for her bibliographic data is available in the internet guidance and attention to detail throughout the at http://dnb.ddb.de. design and production of this book. We would This work is subject to copyright. All rights are also like to recognize Esther Mildenberger and reserved, whether the whole or part of the Brian Switzer of envision+ for the design and material is concerned, specifically the rights of layout of the book. translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on Cesar Pelli, Fred Clarke and Rafael Pelli microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. For any kind of use, permission of the copyright owner must be obtained. 2005 Birkhäuser – Publishers for Architecture, P.O. Box 133, CH-4010 Basel, Switzerland Part of Springer Science+Business Media Printed on acid-free paper produced from chlorine-free pulp. TCF ∞ Printed in Germany ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-7083-1 ISBN-10: 3-7643-7083-1 www.birkhauser.ch 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS 18 The Art and Craft of Cesar Pelli’s Curtain Walls 28 GLASS 30 Torre BankBoston, Buenos Aires 36 Cheung Kong Center, Hong Kong 42 1500 Louisiana, Houston 48 International Finance Centre, Hong Kong 56 Overture Center, Madison 64 National Museum of Art, Osaka 72 Schuster Performing Arts Center, Dayton 78 Cira Centre, Philadelphia 84 Central Library, Minneapolis 90 Torre de Cristal, Madrid 94 Citigroup Tower, London 100 METAL 102 One Canada Square Tower, London 108 JP Morgan Chase, San Francisco 114 731 Lexington Avenue, New York 122 Edificio República, Buenos Aires 128 Mori Office Tower, Tokyo 134 NTT Headquarters, Tokyo 140 Plaza Tower, Costa Mesa 146 Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur 152 STONE 154 Forest Residential Tower, Tokyo 160 1900 K Street, Washington 166 40 Bank Street, London 172 Nakanoshima Mitsui Building, Osaka 184 Illustration Credits 6| 731 Lexington Avenue, New York | Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur 8| 40 Bank Street, London| National Museum of Art, Osaka 10| Cheung Kong Center, Hong Kong | Cira Centre, Philadelphia 12| Schuster Performing Arts Center, Dayton | 1500 Lousiana, Houston
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