Sweet Spot.

OFFICE buildings; EXTERIOR walls; REAL property; STRUCTURAL engineering; CURTAIN walls; MASONRY; MULTIPURPOSE buildings

Instead, PAU opted for an approach that carefully gutted the internal structure, with massive steel braces keeping the now 141-year-old brick walls in check as construction of the office tower commenced within them. DEPARTMENTS IN 2004, Brooklyn's Domino Sugar refinery complex shuttered its doors after more than a century in operation, heralding yet another death blow to the formerly industrial Williamsburg waterfront. Clearspanning steel girders run from the perimeter columns of the steel superstructure to the building cores to maximize unobstructed floor space. [Extracted from the article]

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