sash window
Synonym:
single or double hung window,
hung window,
Sash windows open and close by moving two or more sashes vertically on rails or grooves set in the window frame. There are two types: one with two operating sashes that move up and down, and another one with a single operating sash. Sash windows evolved mainly in Britain where homes were built of stone, but these days they are also frequently used in the United States.
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Talk Event Report: Swiss Window Journeys Speakers: Momoyo Kaijima, Chie Konno, Fumiko Takahama, Mio Tsuneyama
…nisced about windows in Switzerland, where double-sash windows were the standard, introducing photos of the windows in the flat she lived at in Basel. She also introduced recent works such as the NODE…
26 Sep 2024
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The Ingot Coffee Shop: Building as a Mass of Glass
Tomo Inoue, a building construction expert engaged in efforts to digitally reconstruct Shoei Yoh’s works using 3D scanners, explains the novelty of the Ingot Coffee Shop, an early work of architecture…
04 Oct 2024
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The Windows of the Diffendorfer Memorial Hall and University Chapel at the International Christian University (ICU): Preserving, Passing On, And…
The International Christian University’s campus plan was originally designed by W. M. Vories & Co. and later developed by Antonin Raymond. The Diffendorfer Memorial Hall and University Chapel, whi…
28 Aug 2024
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Issue 12: A Small Church for the Indigenous (Taitung)
It’s said that Christians now constitute around 7% of Taiwan’s population, a rather high proportion compared to Japan’s stated rate of around 1%. Though neighboring countries, their …
20 Jun 2024
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The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness
The Awazu House, designed by Hiroshi Hara, now searches for a path toward continuity. A number of masterpieces have been created here at this home and atelier of world-famous graphic designer Kiyoshi …
26 Apr 2024
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The Windows of the Komai House by W. M. Vories & Co.
…features variously sized arched windows and large sash windows on its cream-colored textured plaster walls. ,,The project owner was Dr. Taku Komai, who became an assistant professor at the Kyoto Imper…
15 Jan 2024
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Windows of the Aichi University of the Artsby Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura:The Concrete Science of Living with Nature
…inated from two sides by uniformly sized aluminum sash windows running along the length of the east and west walls. On the outside, prestressed concrete louvers, rotated to block the southern light, l…
19 Jan 2024
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Issue 10: The Billowing School—Chen Ren-He, Wave Building, San Sin High School of Commerce and Home Economics (Kaohsiung)
When talking about the first generation of post-war Taiwanese architects, there are famous individuals such as Wang Da-Hong, who studied under Walter Gropius and were involved in many state projects s…
10 Jan 2024
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Stacked awning windows
,Stacked awning windows are composed of a vertical arrangement of sashes that swing up and outwards all at once with the use of a handle. They allow one to control the amount of airflow by adjusting t…
08 Mar 2024
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The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows
The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 1982 was designed by Kiyoshi Seike. Seike is known as the architect of a number of Prince hotels locations, with Karuizawa being the …
12 Oct 2023
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Issue 8: The Town of Floating Pigeon Lofts
…n these and observe the outdoors through aluminum sash windows built on all four sides. A balcony area is also required, as keepers devote themselves to the pigeons’ flight training by waving re…
17 Aug 2023
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Terunobu Fujimori│005: The Katōmado of the Shizutani School Auditorium: An Un-Japanese Japanese Window
In this series, architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intriguing windows fo…
05 Jul 2023
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The Experimental Design of the KATONO House in Sapporo
Known as an experimental work of modern architecture tailored for Hokkaido’s climate, the KATONO House (Personal Residence) in Sapporo designed by renowned Hokkaido architect Tetsu Katono (1924–2009) …
12 Apr 2023
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The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass
When we face the presence of towering walls, massive mountains, or solid architectural volumes, we feel both fear and affection. The nature of a solid wall seems to suggest something divine or sublime…
13 Feb 2023
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Arne JacobsenBoll House
This Jacobsen’s early residential work is in the suburbs of Copenhagen. This is a bay window with a semi-regular hexagonal plane protruding from a traditional yellow brick wall, and a radiator i…
10 Feb 2023
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Windows in the Tokunoshima, Amami Region: Boma Shimaguchi Dialect
…ere built on the island, and eventually, aluminum sash windows and shutters also came to be used. The once-common board shutters and hanmado can now only be found on buildings such as barns and wareho…
26 Sep 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)
…nd-down window”; i.e. vertical sliding window, or sash window]. Giyōfū architecture began its evolution from half-timber-style giyōfū, which incorporated namakokabe, reached its peak with the plaster-…
24 Aug 2022
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The Windows of the Migishi Atelier: Inheritance and Change
In October of last year (2021), the Migishi Atelier (Kamisaginomiya, Nakano, Tokyo) was opened to the public after the architecture collective GROUP completed a partial renovation of its interior wall…
01 Apr 2022
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Windows of the Prouvé House｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
The Prouvé House is an intriguing example of a building that was made by piecing together leftover parts from past projects. In the second article of this series, Shin Yokoo examines how Prouvé incorp…
22 Oct 2021
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Issue 1: Windows Visited by Spirits: Pingdong
After his experience on a journey through villages and folk houses in 11 Asian and Middle Eastern countries, Ryuki Taguma now lives in Yilan, located in northeast Taiwan, while practicing architectura…
14 Sep 2021
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Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details
Jean Prouvé was originally a metalworker by trade, but he became a leading modernist architect himself through collaborating with progressive architects such as Le Corbusier. He is particularly known …
04 Aug 2021
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Final Issue: Asia, Traveled through a Window
…Tibet is a modern example. The countless aluminum sash windows glimmering inside the monks’ self-built log cabins was a striking sight. On the other hand, there was the first home in Wuzhen, Chi…
07 Jul 2021
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The Smile Sealed Inside a Bubble—Natsume Soseki’s Inside Glass Doors
…ail, which, when viewed through the Western-style sash window to the left of his desk, makes for a colonial atmosphere vaguely reminiscent of the South Sea Islands. Though hard to make out from the ph…
16 Mar 2021
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Muto Dyeing/Window of the Drying Tower
A dyeing factory in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The plant has a tower-shaped drying area remarkable even among nearby plants, with a ceiling of approximately 9.5 m high. The fabrics dyed on t…
02 Dec 2020
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Rei Naito: Mirror Creation
Rei Naito is an artist who creates works that converse with the environments that surround them, posing the question “Isn’t simply existing on the earth a blessing in itself?” In the case of Mirror Cr…
02 Nov 2020
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Shifted Windows: Masuleh, Iran
,There is a small village in the valleys of Iran known as Masuleh that has stood there for over a thousand years. Its tiered homes are built along the mountain’s steep face, and it seems to also…
03 Dec 2019
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Sash Window
,A window that opens and closes by moving two or more parallel panels vertically over two or more grooves or rails is called a double sliding window, where both the top and bottom panels move. These s…
12 Jun 2019
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Goddards
The windows in the dining room of a house designed by Edwin Lutyens in the London suburb of Surrey. Bay windows are repeated across the façade, creating a large aperture for the room, in which a long …
05 Jun 2017
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Breeders Stallion Station/Window of Stables
…e fitted at the top with outward-opening aluminum sash windows. These exterior doors keep the stables well ventilated, preventing the horses’ hooves from rotting in the straw bedding that covers the f…
09 Jan 2019
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Windows: Openings and devices
Laurent Stalder, a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), has researched various threshold devices in architecture, and published about the topic under the title “Thr…
12 Dec 2018
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Houses beyond the Places of Scenic Beauty (1)
,We arrive at the town of Wuzhen in northern Zhejiang after a two-hour bus ride from Shanghai. This is an area famous for its beautiful riverside district. Wuzhen is located near the Yangtze River Del…
05 Oct 2016
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Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma,” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it in Chinese architecture, then? This is a study on the as o…
05 Dec 2018
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 3
Vatican Pavilion (Holy See Pavilion) Andrew Berman Curators: Francesco Dal Co (Architectural Historian, Professor at Istituto Universitario di Architettura Venezia, and Editor-in-Chief of CASABELLA), …
20 Nov 2018
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 2
The Arsenale Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura For Mexico-based architect Rozana Montiel, freespace indicates freeing space and actions, or a space for the act of placemaking. She describes archi…
04 Nov 2018
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 1
The 16th Venice Architecture Biennale is currently open from Saturday, May 26 to Sunday, November 25, 2018 in Venice, Italy. Appointed Directors Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, who head Grafton A…
07 Sep 2018
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Sashu Chuzosho/Window of the Ironware Foundry
This is a Nanbu tekki (ironware) foundry in Oshu, Iwate, that mainly produces iron kettles. The various work areas are positioned along the windows, while the center of the space is normally left clea…
27 Jun 2018
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Pousadas Santa Maria do Bruno
A window in the corridor of an old monastery renovated as a hotel, in Bouro, Braga. It was designed by Souto de Moura. The slender steel sash of the single casement window contrasts with the thickness…
31 May 2016
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Into the Depth of the Window
…nt in manufacturing processes of glass plates and sash windows in the 1680s. ,,,Hence, the difference between these two polemic concepts of light and space played a great role in defining the architec…
08 Mar 2016
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Exhibition “Present State(ment)”
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016, one of the world’s largest modern architecture festivals. How are …
27 May 2016
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Boundary Window
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016, one of the world’s largest modern architecture festivals. How are …
27 May 2016
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Sunny Loggia House
Chie Konno(t e c o)”Sunny Loggia House” The 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016 “En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th Intern…
27 May 2016
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The Red Earthenware Bowl: Eastern Tibet, Ser thar, Part 2
…re handmade. Each was painted red, their aluminum sash windows glimmering and drawing one’s attention amidst the mishmash. It seems windows cannot be easily made by hand. Almost every one of the house…
07 Dec 2017
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Spinnery Restaurant
A window in a restaurant in Bowness on Winderemere, which is famous for its lakes. A bench is built-in to the semi-circular window, called a bow window, in front of which are placed round tables. Stee…
26 May 2015
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Blackwell
A window in the Main Hall of a house designed by Baillie Scott in Bowness on Windermere. The bay window is built next to the fireplace, complete with a built-in bench facing the fire. The lintel and s…
11 May 2015
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Terunobu Fujimori “Holes”
…ge fixed glass window flanked by narrow open-able sash windows, that was designed to provide both light and natural ventilation, became popular. It was later called the “Chicago Window.” ,,Terunobu F…
15 Jun 2021
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Steel House
…a large window by joining double sliding aluminum sash windows. When a house closes itself to the city with a wall, it means that there is no connection with the community. Meanwhile, having large and…
27 May 2016
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House at Komazawa Park
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016, one of the world’s largest modern architecture festivals. How are …
27 May 2016
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Giving Color to Windows
Textile coordinator/designer Yoko Ando has been directing how textiles are used around windows in the work of many architects both young and old. Spaces can be enriched by adding color to their window…
18 Mar 2015
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Cats, Fashion, and Windows
Madoka Hattori is the director of ilove.cat, an online magazine themed on cats and creators, and a freelance editor for honeyee.com and .fatale, two prominent online fashion magazines that define Toky…
25 Nov 2014
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Hiroshi Nakamura Windows and Affection
The following interview was held with architect Hiroshi Nakamura, who has been gaining recognition for the numerous projects that he has designed with the theme of creating a sense of affection. We as…
19 Aug 2013
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Vol. 1: Windows in Japanese
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. Volume 1 in t…
24 Apr 2018
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Vol. 6 : Window Culture Studies—Towards Further Linguistic Explorations
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. In this final…
18 Dec 2018
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House of Itakura as a Core-House
Window Research Institute interviewed with Mr. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, representative of Atelier Bow-Wow about “House of Itakura” as a Core-House which is proposed as a minimal regional rehabilitation ho…
24 May 2013
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Window and Sharing (Second Half)
Interviewed are now widely noted architects, Yuri Naruse and Jun Inokuma, who are well known for their project on the theme of “sharing.” The talk is centered on the role and enchantment as well as a …
24 May 2013
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Window and Sharing (First Half)
Interviewed are now widely noted architects, Yuri Naruse and Jun Inokuma, who are well known for their project on the theme of “sharing.” The talk is centered on the role and enchantment as well as a …
24 May 2013
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Experimenting with Windows
The following is an interview with architect Sou Fujimoto, who has designed many internationally recognized projects and continues to propose new possibilities for architecture. We asked him about the…
14 Jan 2014