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What (who) is curtain wall - definition
Curtain wall (architecture)
![[[Condensation]] forms on the glass curtain wall](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/-124wiki.jpg?width=200 "[[Condensation]] forms on the glass curtain wall")
![[[16 Cook Street]], Liverpool, 1866. Extensive use is made of floor-to-ceiling glass, enabling light to penetrate deeper into the building, thus maximizing floor space.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/16 Cook Street 256.jpg?width=200 "[[16 Cook Street]], Liverpool, 1866. Extensive use is made of floor-to-ceiling glass, enabling light to penetrate deeper into the building, thus maximizing floor space.")
![Glass curtain wall of the [[Bauhaus]] [[Dessau]], 1926](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bauhaus-Dessau Werkstätten.jpg?width=200 "Glass curtain wall of the [[Bauhaus]] [[Dessau]], 1926")
![rockwool]] without topcaulking.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Curtain wall backpan styrofoam.jpg?width=200 "rockwool]] without topcaulking.")
![Built in 1864, [[Oriel Chambers]], Liverpool, England, the first building featuring a metal-framed glass curtain wall](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oriel Chambers, Liverpool 2018.jpg?width=200 "Built in 1864, [[Oriel Chambers]], Liverpool, England, the first building featuring a metal-framed glass curtain wall")
OUTER NON-STRUCTURAL WALLS OF A BUILDING
Glass curtain wall; Unitized curtain wall
A curtain wall is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, utilized only to keep the weather out and the occupants in. Since the curtain wall is non-structural, it can be made of lightweight materials, such as glass, thereby potentially reducing construction costs.
curtain wall
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Curtainwall; Curtain walls; Curtain-wall; Curtain wall (disambiguation)
¦ noun
1. a fortified wall around a medieval castle, typically one linking towers together.
2. a wall which encloses the space within a building but does not support the roof.
Curtain wall (fortification)
![Two sections of the 16th-century curtain wall around [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]], at the eastern end of the [[Anglo-Scottish border]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Berwick-upon-Tweed.jpg?width=200 "Two sections of the 16th-century curtain wall around [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]], at the eastern end of the [[Anglo-Scottish border]].")
![The 12th-century curtain wall of the [[Château de Fougères]] in [[Brittany]] in northern France, showing the battlements, arrowslits and overhanging [[machicolation]]s.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Castle of Fougères 13.JPG?width=200 "The 12th-century curtain wall of the [[Château de Fougères]] in [[Brittany]] in northern France, showing the battlements, arrowslits and overhanging [[machicolation]]s.")
![Reconstruction of the 9th-century BC defensive walls around ancient [[Tel Lachish]] in modern [[Israel]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/General view of Lachish,Tell ed Duweir, looking east Wellcome L0005979.jpg?width=200 "Reconstruction of the 9th-century BC defensive walls around ancient [[Tel Lachish]] in modern [[Israel]].")
DEFENSIVE WALL BETWEEN TWO TOWERS OF A CASTLE, FORTRESS OR TOWN
Castle walls; Ring wall; Curtain wall (castle)
A curtain wall is a defensive wall between two fortified towers or bastions of a castle, fortress, or town.
