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Three new office buildings at Brindleyplace Brindleyplace (often written erroneously as Brindley Place, the name of the street (in turn named after the 18th century canal engineer James Brindley) around which it is built[1] , Birmingham Birmingham, cities, United States
Birmingham (bûr`mĭnghăm')

1 City (1990 pop. 265,968), seat of Jefferson co., N central Ala., in the Jones Valley near the southern end of the Appalachian system; founded and inc.
, have been linked to form a new core building for the Royal Bank of Scotland
This article deals with the retail bank. "Royal Bank of Scotland" can also refer to its holding company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group."


The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc (Scottish Gaelic: Banca Rìoghail na h-Alba
. A combination of Kawneer products has been used, including the 1202 zone drained 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
 system for ground and first floor levels on 7 Brindleyplace, with 501 sidehung vents and fixed lights above. The 1202 curtain wall system, with 505 doors, will link the three buildings. For cost and environmental reasons, a significant number of Kawneer windows which were used on the original elevations have been reused in the new facades.

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Publication:The Architectural Review
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Date:Apr 1, 2003
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