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ARCHITECTURE OF STEEL, GLASS & METAL CLADDING

Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong, 1986, Norman Foster & Associates
skyscraper commercial office tower, bank headquarters, steel frame , aluminium cladding and glass, tropical, urban

Various buildings by Norman Foster throughout the years, using steel, glass & cladding

Willis Faber Dumas, England

Chep Lap Kok Airport, Hong Kong, 1996

London City Hall, London, 2002

Re Office Building, London,

The Empire State Building, New York, 1931, Gregory Johnson


Cherished symbol of New York,

The Chrysler Building, Manhattan, New York,


Erected: 1930 (Chrysler); 1951 (Kent), William Van Alen

(Chrysler); Reinhard, Hofmeister & Walquist (Kent)

Seagram Building, New York, 1958, Mies van der Rohe.


Sleek, 37-story bronzeand-glass unornamented glass-and-steel skyscrapers were influential and skyscrapers around the world are modelled after it.

Frank Gehry , criticised as auto-plagiarist", referring to the similarity in style nearly all of his buildings share.
Steel frame and metal cladding. Titanium at Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 1997.

The Experience Music Project, Seattle, 2000

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 2003

Garden Pavillion, Wiltshire, England, 2005, I.M. Pei

Roofed with a delicate steel and glass structure

Wisma Selangor Dredging, Kuala Lumpur, 1991


Steel frame, curtain wall

KLCC, steel frame?

Menara Mesiniaga, steel frame?

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