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- Oct 15, 2023
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I always loved The Shard mirror tower from the game Mirror's Edge. Glass buildings always seem sleek and futuristic to me.
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It's for both aesthetic and practical reasons:
Aesthetically it looks stylish, and allows for a lot of options for colors and tinting. It also makes the offices inside more desirable when they have big windows with nice views and lots of natural light.
Practically glass is lighter and easier to install and maintain than a lot of other cladding materials. Glass isn't always windows. It makes a much better cladding for a building than the marble/granite facades of early skyscrapers. Easier maintenance (it's a pain to tuck-point a tall concrete/stone building). Skyscrapers also almost always carry their weight on internal support beams so structural strength isn't a big concern for the exterior walls. Skyscrapers are usually steel-framed: Steel and concrete is mainly because structural and seismic (and to less extent fire) codes. Usually the interior walls are all partisans. The columns are structural.
People like views from their offices and will pay more for a view than without.
What do you think? Do you like this design? There is a distinct bronze-colored glass tower in the neighboring city.
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It's for both aesthetic and practical reasons:
Aesthetically it looks stylish, and allows for a lot of options for colors and tinting. It also makes the offices inside more desirable when they have big windows with nice views and lots of natural light.
Practically glass is lighter and easier to install and maintain than a lot of other cladding materials. Glass isn't always windows. It makes a much better cladding for a building than the marble/granite facades of early skyscrapers. Easier maintenance (it's a pain to tuck-point a tall concrete/stone building). Skyscrapers also almost always carry their weight on internal support beams so structural strength isn't a big concern for the exterior walls. Skyscrapers are usually steel-framed: Steel and concrete is mainly because structural and seismic (and to less extent fire) codes. Usually the interior walls are all partisans. The columns are structural.
People like views from their offices and will pay more for a view than without.
What do you think? Do you like this design? There is a distinct bronze-colored glass tower in the neighboring city.