The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with steel-frame construction and clad in a contrasting grid of deeply inset black glass and white marble.
Cladding |
In so doing, Lerner Hall features redbrick cladding and proportions that hold the street wall of university buildings along Broadway, but reveals a vast glass wall to the campus fabricated by Eiffel Constructions Metalliques, descendant of the firm that built the Eiffel Tower.
Built using concrete cladding and steel joists, this building was part of the plan to redevelop Birmingham in the 1960s.
The mausoleum was built in 1739–40 by James Gibbs, and restored with added internal cladding in 1839.
The upper two rows of triangles, 4 triangles per side, form a glazed apex; instead of stone cladding the triangles of the apex feature a design of stained glass by Brian Clarke, incorporating doves.
Even a lasting gold colour is possible with copper-alloy cladding, for example Colston Hall in Bristol, or the Novotel at Paddington Central, London.
Whilst reflecting their origin at the end of the modernist architectural period, the use of brick is in strong contrast to the concrete of high-rise, Brutalist architecture that typified social housing in post-war Britain, coupled with a wood-cladding effect popular in the late '60s and '70s.
In building construction, window capping (also referred to as "window cladding" and "window wrapping") refers to the application of one material over another to provide a weather-proof layer, intended to control the infiltration of weather elements.