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    A curtain wall is an exterior covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, instead serving to protect the interior of the building...
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  • Look up curtain wall or curtainwall in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Curtain wall may refer to: Curtain wall (architecture), the outer skin of a modern...
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    curtain wall is a defensive wall between fortified towers or bastions of a castle, fortress, or town. Evidence for curtain walls or a series of walls...
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    Castle (section Curtain wall)
    great many forms with many different features, although some, such as curtain walls, arrowslits, and portcullises, were commonplace. European-style castles...
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    central section of the wall follows natural cliffs on an escarpment of the Whin Sill rock formation. Although the curtain wall ends near Bowness-on-Solway...
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    Firth of Forth. The last medieval curtain wall castle to be constructed in Scotland, Tantallon comprises a single wall blocking off the headland, with the...
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    sections of the curtain wall have survived mostly intact, with the exception of one fallen segment of the north wall; the south wall, which would have...
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  • Harley business (Harley Curtain Wall) in 1996, operating from home and "offering a limited range of aluminium windows and curtain wall products". In 2002,...
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    frame that supports curtain walls. This idea was invented by Viollet le Duc in his discourses on architecture. These curtain walls either bear on the framework...
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    "east" and "west". The Berlin Wall was also part of this physical barrier. The nations to the east of the Iron Curtain were Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia...
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