The Shanghai Tower is a super high-rise building under construction in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. It is designed by Marshall Strabalar as Chief Architect and Director of Designs for Gensler. Along with Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center, it is the tallest of a group of three adjacent supertall skyscrapers in Pudong. The Shanghai Tower began constructions in November 2008, the building stands about 632 meters high and has 121 stories. It will be open to the public in 2015. For its simple but elegant outer wall, it uses the reflection glass curtain wall which normally applies to high-rise buildings.
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Reflection glass curtain wall is a fashionable and attractive method to decorate building wall, and it symbolizes the modern high-rise buildings era. The modern high-rise building glass curtain wall uses hollow glass which are made up by mirror glass and common glass, and the interlayer between the two glasses is inflated dry air or inert gases. Hollow glass has two layers and three layers. Two layers of insulating glass consist of two layers of glass adding sealing framework, which forms an interlayer space. Three layers of glass are made up of three layers of glass and form two interlayer space.
Hollow glass has the advantage of sound and thermal insulation, proofing frost and damp and can resist heavy wind pressure etc. It measures when outdoor temperature is minus ten degrees Celsius, the temperature before the single-layer glass window was minus two degrees Celsius, while using three layers hollow glass, the inside temperature could be 13 degrees Celsius. In hot summer, two layers hollow glass can resist about 90% solar radiation. Sunlight can still shine through the hollow glass but people will not feel so hot. It can be fairly mild in winter and rather cool in summer if using the hollow glass curtain wall.
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Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Center
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Annette X.//SMC Editor
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