Statue of Liberty Museum
Installer: Josloff Glass
Americas
Completed · 2019
Entry, gallery facades; elevator enclosure
Standard VS1 with all-glass corners
The new Statue of Liberty Museum, which opened in 2019, features two VS1 walls and a VS1 all-glass elevator enclosure. The new museum was designed by FXCOLLABORATIVE, with whom Innovation Glass has worked on previous projects.
Concept sketch by FXCOLLABORATIVE
HOW
• Entry wall with all-glass balance doors and revolving doors
• Feature walls with extreme angle corners
• All-glass elevator enclosure at the green roof
FROM THE ARCHITECT FXCOLLABORATIVE
The Statue of Liberty project has two separate VS1 walls. The first is an entry wall with all glass balance doors and revolving doors. The second wall is the feature wall, featuring three elevations and two all glass corners. The corners are unique in that they are not 90 degrees, but rather extremely acute and obtuse: they are approximately 25 degrees and 130 degrees, respectively. Both walls are two-story walls with sloping head conditions, and the feature wall in the torch gallery has one elevation that is sloping at the sill.
The project utilizes a toggle system in lieu of the standard VS1 pinch cap. Finally, there is an all glass elevator enclosure at the green roof that is fully self-supported from the sill. The walls include the same glass used on the project while the roof has a metal panel integrated into it. The support structure for the elevator enclosure is the VS1 10” standard mullion that forms a horseshoe along both perpendicular axis with 90 degree miters and fully concealed splice plates.
FROM THE ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION
That powerful, unimpaired view of the iconic Statue of Liberty is made possible by VS1.
The New Colossus
by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.
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