CURTAIN WALL

CITIGROUP TOWER LONDON

submitted by = Shivani Verma
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INTRODUCTION

Type
Commercial

Architect
CGC1: Foster and Partners
CGC2: Pelli Clarke Pelli

Location
Canary wharf London, E14
United Kingdom

Built in
1998-2001
CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM
Curtain Wall Components:

 The choice of materials for the curtain wall responds

to the context of the earlier buildings. In comparison
to the earlier tower, Citigroup’s curtain wall is more
open and transparent.
 The 10-meter structural grid is expressed by wide
column covers in a brushed-finished stainless steel
that accentuate the tower’s height.
 The elements contain the tracks for the window-
washing mechanism. This module is halved by a
narrower stainless steel column cover with a curved
surface that splits the bay into two window openings.

 Wide stainless steel spandrel panels populate the lower

third of the tower, banding it at every third floor.
 The curtain wall then shifts gears and the spandrel
panels become narrower and alternate with shadow
box spandrels.
 Thin rods of brushed stainless steel overlay the
windows’ vertical mullions and provide another layer of
highlights.
 At the very top of the tower, a glassier curtain wall
emerges from the core, with stainless steel spandrel
and column covers that are thinner than those seen in
the building’s lower floors.
 The curtain wall design also contributes to the reading of the building as
lighter and less solid, thanks to the glass corners on each floor where the
tower is recessed (recalling a similar recess on Canary Wharf Tower). This
detail, along with the spandrel glass line at the very top of the building,
suggests a thin skin, as it appears to wrap the tower’s form.

EAST ELEVATION
SCALE -1: 1000
PLAN DETAIL OF CURTAIN WALL

1. DOUBLE GLAZING UNIT, VISION

GLASS AREA : OUTER LITE OF 8MM
ANNEALED GLASS ; 12MM AIR FILLED
CAVITY ; INNER LITE OF 10MM TWO-PLY
LAMINATED CLEAR CLASS.
2. 2.5MM STAINLESS STEEL ROD
3. 50MM DIAMETER STAINLESS STEEL
ROD , BRUSHED FINISH.
4. PAINTED ALUMINIUM EXTRUSION ,
POWER COAT.
5. 1.5MM ALUMINIUM SHEET, MILL FINISH
6. STAINLESS STEEL ANGLE CLEAT
7. RIGID INSULATION
8. 1.2MM STAINLESS STEEL COVER
9. HORIZONTAL MULLION CAPIN
PROJECTION BELOW
10. 1.2MM STAINLESS STEEL BENT SHEET
COVER.
11. 0.5MM STAINLESS STEEL SHEET ,
BRUSHED FINISH.
SECTION DETAIL OF CURTAIN WALL
1. DOUBLE GLAZING UNIT, VISION
GLASS AREA .
2. DOUBLE GALZING UNIT , SHADOW BOX
AREA.
3. CURTAIN WALL ANCHOR.
4. WATER TIGHT SEAL EVERY FIVE
FLOORS.
5. FIRESMOKE STOP.
6. 3MM PAINTED ALUMINIUM SHEET,
POWER COAT.
7. RIGID INSULATION
8. 1.5MM BACKING STEEL SHEET.
9. PAINTED ALUMINIUM EXTRUSION ,
POWER COAT.
10. 1.2MM BENT STAINLESS STEEL SHEET
COVER , LINEN FINISH
11. OFFICE CEILING .
12. OFFICE FLOOR.
13. 0.5MM STEEL SHEET
14. CONCRETE SLAB.
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