This is the new headquarter of the editor of the newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore”. The challenge was to fix the external sun shading to little vertical wings made of tempered glass. The issue was to avoid the breaking of the glass due to the different thermal expansion of glass and metal and absorb the shocks in the contact points between glass and sun shading metal supports.
Milan Italy
RPBW Architects Renzo Piano
Vertical roller blind
Screen