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Johnson Screens stainless steel screen for Building 7, World Trade Centre


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Land Owner: Port Authority of NY and NJ.
Client: Silverstein Properties, Consolidated Edison Co.
Construction Manager/Contractor: Tishman Construction Corp of NY.
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (NYC).
Design Consultant: James Carpenter Design Associates, Inc.
Cable-net Wall Engineer: Schlaich, Bergermann and Partners.
Lighting Consultant: Cline Bettridge, Bernstein Lighting Design, Inc.
Structural Engineer: Cantor Seinuk Group Land Owner.

The unique ventilation requirement for the Con-Edison transformers established the conception of a podium like design at the base of the building. This stainless steel screen (designed and manufactured by Johnson Screens) was conceived to visually support the crystal like tower. A third element, an internal blue volume, or "locking block," serves to visually and conceptually link the stainless steel podium screen wall and glass volumes into one extruded form.

From a presentation by James Carpenter Design Associates, Inc., Design Consultant.


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