The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border

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Portions of the Iron Wall remain, as Phillips notes there were many more than just the one well known Berlin Wall. These were another Hoxha insurance policy, conceived in the late 1960s and pursued rapidly for the next fifteen years. In a third room a laboratory is preserved where every item of overseas correspondence was tested as it entered Albania, in case it included chemical or biological weapons. ensure thermal bridging is controlled so that no part of the curtain wall is more at risk from surface condensation than the glazing. Incidentally, this slot also accounts for live load deflection and creep in the floor slabs of the building structure.

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Timothy Phillips, a collection of travel essays that trace the ”Iron Curtain” that divided east from west for almost 50 years in the past century. Since the curtain wall is at the exterior of the building, it becomes the first line of defense in a bomb attack.In these fortifications, the height of the curtain walls was reduced, and beyond the ditch, additional outworks such as ravelins and tenailles were added to protect the curtain walls from direct cannonading. Rather, they are designed to limit deflection of the glass (which may break under excessive deflection), and to ensure that the glass does not come out of its pocket in the mullion. I'm currently (late 2018) working on a new book idea and will reveal more about it in the near future. Curtainwall anchors must be designed to allow differential movement between the building structure and the curtainwall. Also, if deflection of a wall is quite noticeable, public perception may raise undue concern that the wall is not strong enough.

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But remember that correcting problems caused by water constantly permeating window walls can also be a financial issue and something to be looked after.Oriel Chambers (1864) and 16 Cook Street (1866), both built in Liverpool, England, by local architect and civil engineer Peter Ellis, are characterised by their extensive use of glass in their facades. I was in Sarandë as part of a journey across the entire length of the old Iron Curtain, from Norway to Azerbaijan. These narratives, by turns harrowing and heartening, paint a vivid portrait of the new Europe that emerged from the ruins.

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When the pressure is equal across this gasket, water cannot be drawn through joints or defects in the gasket. More often treated separately, in Von Tunzelmann’s hands the twin crises regain their full geopolitical force.

Across 3,000 miles and over eight decades, this epic new people's history of the Cold War makes eye-opening sense of a defining 20th-century conflict—and how it continues to shape our world today. As it has a higher exposure to exterior atmosphere, it has to be properly designed, installed and maintained keeping in mind the functionality and sustainability. Relative to other building components, aluminum has a high heat transfer coefficient, meaning that aluminum is a very good conductor of heat. While these curtainwall systems are more energy efficient than older, single glazed versions, they are still significantly less efficient than opaque (solid) wall construction. To reduce weight and improve strength, the natural stone may be attached to an aluminum honeycomb backing.