David Childs

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David Childs

American architect

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One World Trade Center
…SOM, led by chief designer David Childs, intended to make the facade as seamless and uniform as possible to create the image of a building that was aspirational rather than defensive. The curtain wall features 5-foot- (1.5-meter-) wide insulated glass panels that span the full floor-to-floor height with no intermediate…
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…SOM, led by chief designer David Childs, intended to make the facade as seamless and uniform as possible to create the image of a building that was aspirational rather than defensive. The curtain wall features 5-foot- (1.5-meter-) wide insulated glass panels that span the full floor-to-floor height with no intermediate…
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