The Construction Specifier
Vandalia Tower in St. Paul, Minnesota, recently completed a renovation to meet the modern needs of its commercial, nonprofit and artistic tenants, and the approval of the State Historic Preservation Officer and National Park Service.
To maintain the 1920s, industrial, brick building’s architectural heritage, the property owner sought to replace the broken and missing windows with ones that replicated the look of the original, large, steel-framed, divided lite appearance with new units that would improve energy savings.
Helping meet both the project’s aesthetic and performance requirements, Linetec finished 290 aluminum-framed replacement windows manufactured by St. Cloud Window. NewStudio Architecture specified these products with a durable 70 percent polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) resin-based finish in black to resemble the color of old steel windows.
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