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520 West 20th Street

The upper tier features floor-to-ceiling glass panels. As obvious as that transparency seems, it didn’t come without a knotty complication: The extreme proximity to neighboring buildings mandated two-hour-rated firewalls on the building’s flanks. Spanning the new addition with an 11-foot-tall glass ribbon seemed like a dim possibility.
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