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501 KME Tecu. (Product Review).


Designed by architect Goncalo Sousa Byrne, the new Harbour Control Tower in Lisbon, Portugal, leans slightly out over the River Tejo, clad CLAD

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 with red-brown copper sheets of Tecu-Classic. The nine-storey tower monitors and controls shipping traffic and contains seminar rooms and offices. The ground floor is walled with light-coloured stone to anchor the building in its site. The floors above are clad with copper sheets with horizontal double seams. The three top floors are clad with a glass curtain wall curtain wall

Nonbearing wall of glass, metal, or masonry attached to a building's exterior structural frame. After World War II, low energy costs gave impetus to the concept of the tall building as a glass prism, an idea originally put forth by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies
 set behind a framework of copper slats. The copper cladding The plastic or glass sheath that is fused to and surrounds the core of an optical fiber. The cladding's mirror-like coating keeps the light waves reflected inside the core. The cladding is covered with a protective outer jacket. See fiber optics glossary.  has already formed an oxide oxide, chemical compound containing oxygen and one other chemical element. Oxides are widely and abundantly distributed in nature. Water is the oxide of hydrogen. Silicon dioxide is the major component of sand and quartz.  layer which stabilizes it, protecting it from exposure to the atmosphere.

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Title Annotation:Harbor Control Tower, Lisbon, Portugal
Publication:The Architectural Review
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUPR
Date:Feb 1, 2002
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