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Tulsa Central Library
When the City of Tulsa set out to renovate its 50-year-old Central Library building – one of its best-loved landmarks – it wanted to bring it up to date in every respect, aesthetically, energy-performance-wise and in terms of the visitor experience it offers.
The brief was to moderniz… Read More
To deliver the frameless “jewel box” cubes for the Tulsa Central Library, Pilkington Planar™ structural glass system was spec'd using glass fins and sidewalls to support the glass roofs without any need for non-transparent structural elements breaking up the views afforded to users.
The most striking design addition to the Tulsa Central Library is a series of glazed reading rooms on the second floor, which take the form of protruding glass boxes. As well as creating new areas of well-lit indoor space that can be used all year round, these also let light flood into the whole int… Read More