It’s like an age-old riddle: What’s tall and sturdy and something you lean on every day? If you guess a balustrade, you’d be right—but that’s probably not the first thing that came to your mind. The ...
For over 100 years, the bluff balustrade has stood along the western edge of downtown Corpus Christi. It’s one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks, although most of us hardly take notice of it ...
Though you might not know exactly what a balustrade is, you probably encounter one more often than you’d expect. Found lining many staircases and terraces, a balustrade is a row of small columns ...
Researchers from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have created a photovoltaic balustrade for deployment on building rooftop edges. “The system integrates vertical bifacial PV modules directly onto ...
"God is in the details," Mies van der Rohe is supposed to have said. He did not simply mean that building details are important; he meant that they are the very soul of architecture. An easy way to ...
Multiple frameless glass balustrade failures in exposed seaside locations prompt investigation into design flaws, ...
An exhibition of reduction linocut prints has recently opened at the Rick Faries Gallery at Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, with ‘Balustrade Cavalcade’ inspired by the ‘gingerbread’ fretwork ...