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

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Most curtain wall glazing is fixed, meaning there is no access to the exterior of the building except through doors. However, windows or vents can be glazed into the curtain wall system as well, to provide required ventilation or operable windows. Nearly any window type can be made to fit into a curtain wall system. Seismic loads in curtain wall system are limited to the interstory drift induced on the building during an earthquake. In most situations, the curtain wall is able to naturally withstand seismic and wind induced building sway because of the space provided between the glazing infill and the mullion. In tests, standard curtain wall systems are typically able to withstand up to three inches (76mm) of relative floor movement without glass breakage or water leakage.

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I also discovered early how the iron curtain had inspired writers. From tense cold war thrillers to passionately argued treatises blaming one side or the other for the stalemate, from historians trying to make sense of how Europe became so riven to memoirists committing their own, often tragic tales to print: the iron curtain has been the source of some amazing books.I learned that by the time the regime fell in the early 1990s, the Sigurimi had files on one million of the country’s 2.8 million citizens, the majority of the adult population – a rate that even exceeded East Germany’s Stasi. Much of the material was collated here [at the former HQ of the Sigurimi]. 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. An insane apparatus of suspicion, decoupled from any real assessment of risk, blanketed the country for all Hoxha’s time in charge. I loved the whole atmosphere of the Oxford Literary Festival. From breakfast, alongside some of the attendees, who were talking books with each other a mile a minute, to the public event at The Sheldonian where everyone was lively and engaged – I felt I had arrived in a kind of literary heaven.

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Depending on the color, it can make the room bigger or smaller and even make it darker or brighter and more accommodating. The curtain wall systems now possess structural importance equivalent to that gained by other structural elements of the building. 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. be conducted to determine resistance to water penetration, including joints and interfaces which are intended to be permanently closed and watertight Every literary festival stays in an author’s mind for slightly individual reasons. I shall remember the Oxford festival for:Curry, Anne; Hughes, Michael, eds. (1999), Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War (illustrated, reprint, reviseded.), Boydell & Brewer, p. 134, ISBN 9780851157559 Viola di Grado Interviewed by Suzi Feay Blue Hunger Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event Dead load is defined as the weight of structural elements and the permanent features on the structure. [5] In the case of curtain walls, this load is made up of the weight of the mullions, anchors and other structural components of the curtain wall, as well as the weight of the infill material. Additional dead loads imposed on the curtain wall may include sunshades or signage attached to the curtain wall. Greta Scacchi Interviewed by Peter Guttridge An audience with Greta Scacchi Sheldonian Theatre 6:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event What have they left in their wake?In a major new book, Timothy Phillips travels the route of the Iron Curtain from deep inside the Arctic Circle to the meeting point of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey.