Construction Photo Gallery
CounterweightsNovember 2000 - June 2001
| Under The Kimmel Center's distinctive barrel-vault roof are two, 12,000-square-foot gable-end walls of unprecedented construction. Designed to withstand winds reaching 80 miles per hour, each end wall functions like a pendulum suspended in mid air. Attached with stainless steel cables less than one inch in diameter to cast-steel weights weighing up to 24 tons, the soaring glass walls are able to sway when weather dictates as much as two and one-half feet in either direction. |
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