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The shiny metal taunted me. Slowly, I bent to pour the pieces out of their chintzy box, the kind big factories make out of dusty, recycled paper, too flimsy to hold the weight of the light aluminum inside of them. The poles clinked together as they bounced on the flowered pattern of our queen bed’s quilt. At least we share a bed, not like some couples who after a spell together take to separate rooms entirely, content to dither away their time separately, as if they were alone, as if they had never met anyone or shared a bed at all. I didn’t know why I had bought that old shower caddy in the first place. Nothing would please him. He’d somehow gotten it into his head that he wanted a full-range receptacle that hung from the neck of the shower head itself. I hadn’t the heart to tell him it didn’t exist. For weeks, that summer, I trolleyed about, looking for the pretend caddy. Finally, it was enough. I just bought this standing thing. We’d had one growing up, and I don’t remember it be...

In a general sense, the term “curtain wall” refers to an exterior wall that does not support loads other than its own weight. Curtain walls are therefore nonstructural, and serve solely to protect the building from the elements. Seismic and wind forces on a curtain wall are transferred to the supporting structure at anchorage points, where the curtain wall frame is attached to the building, generally at floors or columns. Although curtain wall systems may incorporate a variety of materials, we will focus on the type that is so ubiquitous, it has effectively become synonymous with the words “curtain wall”: the glazed curtain wall system . Glazed curtain walls usually consist of a metal frame, often aluminum, with infills of vision and spandrel glass . Other materials may be interposed between glazing units, including brick veneer , precast concrete, metal panels, and thin stone. The hallmark of these systems is a focus on large expanses of glass, which shrouds the building in a seemi...

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