What was the process for selecting the glass for Tower 4?
Maki & Associates, the architects for Tower 4, designed the tower façade to achieve a mat metallic quality with a luminous sheen that also changes with the light of day. In selecting the glass for the tower’s curtain wall, we looked for reflectivity and flatness to give a uniform exterior appearance. We also wanted the most transparent glass to accomplish Fumihiko Maki’s intention of “bringing the outside in.” The curtain wall panels for Tower 4 are among the largest anywhere — 10 feet wide by 12 feet wide at the podium level, and 5 feet wide by 13 feet high in the office tower. Each panel has three layers of glass with a built-in air pocket. In total, there will be 10,000 glass panels for the office tower and about 1,000 at the podium level. Last spring, a mockup of the storefront for Tower 4’s office lobby façade was completed at the New Jersey headquarters of metal fabricator MetFab Metals. The mockup stood 50 feet tall by 20 feet wide. It was built-to-scale of the tower’s first th
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