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  2. Portable partition - Wikipedia

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    Portable walls are not generally anchored to a floor or ceiling, unlike suspended accordion room dividers, and drapes, pipe and drape. They are different from traditional office cubicles in that portable walls often serve a temporary function rather than a permanent workspace, such as use for art exhibits, classrooms, triage areas, trade show ...

  3. Brise soleil - Wikipedia

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    Brise-soleil can comprise a variety of permanent sun-shading structures, ranging from the simple patterned concrete walls popularized by Le Corbusier in the Palace of Assembly [3] to the elaborate wing-like mechanism devised by Santiago Calatrava for the Milwaukee Art Museum [4] or the mechanical, pattern-creating devices of the Institut du Monde Arabe by Jean Nouvel.

  4. Eurasia (skyscraper) - Wikipedia

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    The unitized curtain wall allows the transition from the office floors of fixed windows to operable windows on the residential floors. The overall architectural form is developed as a pure glass, curving, curtain wall tower with its broad faces versus its tripartite ends sitting on a multi-volume podium.

  5. Home Wall Primer: Part 1—Planning and Construction - AOL

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    A home wall is a lot of work and money, but TOTALLY worth it, especially for busy parents or climbers who don't live near the rock gym--or who have a specific training agenda that's hard to meet ...

  6. Curtain wall (architecture) - Wikipedia

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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 from the elements. Because the curtain wall façade carries no structural load beyond its own dead load weight, it can be made of lightweight materials.

  7. ISO base media file format - Wikipedia

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    The MP4 file format known as "version 1" was published in 2001 as ISO/IEC 14496-1:2001, as revision of the MPEG-4 Part 1: Systems. [14] [15] [16] In 2003, the first version of the MP4 file format was revised and replaced by MPEG-4 Part 14: MP4 file format (ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003), commonly known as MPEG-4 file format "version 2". [17]

  8. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    An overhanging, wall-mounted turret projecting from the walls, usually at the corners, of medieval fortifications or churches. Basement Usually the lowest, subordinate storey of building, generally either entirely or partially below ground level; the lowest part of classical elevation, below the piano nobile. Basilica

  9. Vicor Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Vicor Corporation, incorporated in 1981 in Andover, Massachusetts, [2] designs, manufactures, and markets modular power components and complete power systems. These are used in electronic products to convert power from a primary power source (typically either alternating current from a mains outlet or direct current from a battery, rectifier or High-voltage direct current power distribution ...