History of the Building Envelope

Fair Store

Larkin R/S/T Warehouse
Lockwood, Greene and Co.
Buffalo, NY 1911

Larkin R/S/T Warehouse

Larkin R/S/T Warehouse

Larking R/S/T Warehouse

Reliance Building
Daniel Burnham
Chicago, 1890

Reliance Building

Monadnock Building
Burnham & Root
Chicago, 1889

Monadnock Building
plans

Home Insurance Building
William Jenney
Chicago, 1845

Fair Store
Structural Systems

Pacific Coast Borax

Pacific Coast Borax

Friedrichstrasse
Mies van der Rohe
Berlin, 1921

860 Lakeshore Drive
Mies van der Rohe
Chicago, 1958

860 Lakeshore Drive
Construction

United Nations
Wallace Harrison
New York, 1949

Starrett-Lehigh
Cory & Cory
New York, 1931

Starrett-Lehigh Interior View

Starrett-Lehigh Wall Section

Starrett-Lehigh
detail of sash

Curtain Wall
diagram

Curtain Wall
Free Body Diagram

Times Square
Johnson/Burgee

Times Square
Johnson/Burgee

860 Lakeshore Drive

860 Lakeshore Drive

860 Lakeshore Drive

Precast

British Pavillion
Norman Grishaw
Seville Expo, 1992

Renaissance Center
John Portman
Detroit, 1988

Fair Store

Electro-magnet

Fair Store

Olivetti Factory
Marco Zanuso
hollow tubular girder ends

Olivetti Factory
Marco Zanuso

Glass Pavilion
Bruno Taut

Bank Brussels Lambert
Bunshaft (SOM)

Bank Brussels Lambert
Bunshaft (SOM)